Movies like Babe
If Babe's mix of sports, olympic games and golf stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Babe's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005 · Directed by Bill Paxton · 120 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sports, golf
A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
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Race
2016 · Directed by Stephen Hopkins · 134 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sports, olympic games
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's…
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Eddie the Eagle
2016 · Directed by Dexter Fletcher · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sports, olympic games
The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out.
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Gran Turismo
2023 · Directed by Neill Blomkamp · 135 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: sports
The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
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Rudy
1993 · Directed by David Anspaugh · 114 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sports
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems.
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Queen of Katwe
2016 · Directed by Mira Nair · 124 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sports
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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Full Out
2015 · Directed by Sean Cisterna · 94 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sports
Based on the true life story of California gymnast Ariana Berlin. As she zoned in on her Olympic goals, 14 year old Ariana Berlin's life took a sharp turn when she was involved in a debilitating car accident.
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The Express
2008 · Directed by Gary Fleder · 130 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: sports
Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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We Are Marshall
2006 · Directed by McG · 131 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: sports
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
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The Program
2015 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: sports
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances.
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Upstream Color
2013 · Directed by Shane Carruth · 96 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: romance
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.