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1) The way back
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Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...
2) Air
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From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...
3) Semi-pro
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1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up with bizarre marketing stunts to draw in an audience. His...
4) "O"
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A provacative tale of jealousy, seduction and betrayal. A controversial modern-day version of Shakespeare's classic "Othello". "O" is the schools' best basketball player and NBA hopeful. He is adored by all including his coach and a beautiful classmate. "O" has a troubled friend, who is the coaches' son and he is deeply resentful of his fathers preference to "O" on and off the court. The seeds of mistrust are sown and it sets into motion a disturbing...
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"Jim Carroll [is] a high school basketball hero headed for trouble. Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, Jim seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school begin to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart. A riveting story of one boy's life on the edge"--Container.
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Kyle Lee Watson is an inner-city high school basketball star torn between college and the lure of the streets. During an important championship play-off game, Kyle grandstands to catch the attention of a Georgetown college scout. Instead, he impresses Birdie, a powerful gang leader who is assembling a team to compete in the neighborhood Shoot-Out contest, a high-stakes street basketball tournament for the bragging rights of the city.
7) Wolves
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An eighteen-year-old basketball star who is being recruited by Cornell University seems to have it all figured out: captain of his team, a good student, has a longtime girlfriend and some good friends. But at home he's struggling with his troubled father who has a gambling addiction. His mother tries to keep the family afloat but does so with great emotional and financial sacrifice.
8) He got game
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A prisoner is granted a furlough in hopes of persuading his estranged son, the country's top high school basketball player, to attend the governor's alma mater.
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Every 23 years for 23 days he comes to feast. On the 23rd day a bus becomes stranded on the dreaded East 9 Highway while returning home from winning the championship game. The passengers, a group of basketball players, cheerleaders, and coaches, quickly realize that there's more to fear than a broken down bus when The Creeper descends mercilessly upon them. As his feeding frenzy draws to a close, The Creeper needs the sort of nourishment only a vital...
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Jeepers creepers: Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a dementd tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims. Jeepers creepers 2: Every 23 years for 23 days he comes to feast. On the 23rd day a bus becomes stranded on the...
11) Baseketball
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Unemployed losers Joe Cooper and Doug Remer are pitted against two basketball jocks in a game of two-on-two at an upscale party. In self-defense, they create a new game that mixes up baseball and basketball and make up the rules as they play. When the game becomes a driveway sensation, sports entrepreneur Ted Denslow approaches the boys to buy the game and Cooper and Remer become involved in the high stakes world of sports business.
12) A brother's kiss
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Depicts the complex relationship between the brothers. With hopes of a professional basketball career, young streetwise Lex vows never to let the streets pull him under.
13) Semi-pro
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1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up with bizarre marketing stunts to draw in an audience. His...
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Eight men out: Based on the real-life Chicago White Sox scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.
Hoosiers: Based on the real-life story of a small-town basketball team in 1951 Indiana and its inspiring coach who led them to victory over much larger adversaries.
Raging bull: A biographical film widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s,...
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On Chicago's South Side, too many kids get their one shot at life at the wrong end of a gun. Byron Harper is determined to change that with basketball. His hottest player, Truth, has a chance to turn pro, but first Harper has to tackle two major obstacles: Truth's drug problem and his ambitious crooked, sports agent.
17) Rock the paint
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When Josh is forced to move his senior year, he's afraid his basketball dreams will be forgotten, until he meets Antwon. Together they try to win the high school state championship. Will their friendship survive a situation that threatens to divide them?
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Jeepers creepers: Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a demented tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims.
Jeepers creepers 2: Every 23 years for 23 days he comes to feast. On the 23rd day a bus becomes stranded on the...
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