Bunt 2007

Bunt 2007

Bunt 2007

Bunt 2007
Nal-a-ra Heo-dong-goo (original title)
1h 36m | Drama, Family | 26 April 2007 (South Korea)

Storyline:

11-year-old Dong-ku, who is retarded, is the school’s water boy until, that is, the school installed a water purifier system. Disappointed, Dong-ku soon learns the school’s baseball team needs a water boy and so he decides to join the team.

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Boys Klub 2001

Boys Klub 2001

Boys Klub 2001

Boys Klub 2001
1h 36m | Comedy, Family | June 2001 (USA)

Storyline:

Mario is a boy in his early teens who has been looking forward to spending the summer on a camping trip with his father. But when dad lands a new job just as school lets out in June, their plans are put on the back burner.

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Lessons of a Dream 2011

Lessons of a Dream 2011

Lessons of a Dream 2011

Lessons of a Dream 2011
Der ganz große Traum (original title)
1h 53m | Drama, Sport | 24 February 2011 (Germany)

Storyline:

An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.

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Cheer Boys 2019

Cheers Boys 2019

Cheers Boys 2019

Cheer Boys 2019
Chia danshi!! (original title)
1h 58m | Sport | 10 May 2019 (Japan)

Storyline:

After suffering from a shoulder injury, shy first-year university student Haruki Bandou gladly takes the opportunity to give up judo, failing to find happiness in the sport regardless of his family owning a dojo. However, he did not expect that his best friend Kazuma Hashimoto would also decide to leave their university’s judo club at the same time as him. Despite Haruki’s protests, Kazuma already has plans for a new and revolutionary activity: a cheerleading team made up of only men. Although heavily reluctant, Haruki ends up helping his friend set up the team. Through sheer determination, and with support from their newfound club members, Haruki and Kazuma persist in founding the Breakers, the first-ever all-male cheerleading team of Meishiin University, slowly making history in spite of the feminine tag attached to the sport of cheerleading and the prejudices, physical challenges, and self-doubts that inevitably follow.

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Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018

Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018

Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018

Run! T High School Basketball Club 2018
Hashire! T-kô Basket bu (original title)
1h 55m | Drama, Sport | 3 November 2018 (Japan)

Storyline:

Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi to a new high school and basketball team. Expectedly, the basketball team is not the best. The team will have to soon play against the team from the school Yoichi was in before.

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Long Time No Sea 2018

Long Time No Sea 2018

Long Time No Sea 2018

Long Time No Sea 2018
1h 36m | Drama, Family, Musical | 15 June 2018 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

“The wind came, the ocean stayed, yet I am still here without you.” Raised by his grandma, Ma Na Wei has lived a frugal life on Lanyu (Orchid Island). At the Tao tribe community’s elementary school, a newly qualified teacher, Yu Zhongxun, sees the tiny island as a backward and boring place. He desperately wants to get back to his former colorful metropolitan life. Yu saw an opportunity to get a decent performance evaluation by having the students participate in the annual Aboriginal Dance Competition. As the students and teachers work to prepare for the competition, they explore their potentials and reclaim their lost pride and courage.

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