Underdogs
  • Lion's Den picture
    Movies

    Lion's Den (2009)

    An incarcerated woman struggles to raise her son from prison.

  • The Bad News Bears picture
    Movies

    The Bad News Bears (1976)

    The beer-drinking manager (Walter Matthau) of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal) to...

  • A Knight's Tale picture
    Movies

    A Knight's Tale (2001)

    An English commoner (Heath Ledger) dons the armor of a dead jouster and, with the help of friends...

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    Movies

    Accepted (2006)

    After trying and failing to get into college, a high-school senior (Justin Long) and his friends...

  • Bang the Drum Slowly picture
    Movies

    Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

    A top major-league pitcher (Michael Moriarty) devotes himself to a simple-minded catcher (Robert De...

  • The Full Monty picture
    Movies

    The Full Monty (1997)

    A jobless steelworker (Robert Carlyle) in need of quick cash persuades his unbuff buddies (Tom...

  • Babe picture
    Movies

    Babe (1995)

    An Australian farmer (James Cromwell) adopts a piglet that becomes a champion herder of sheep. Live...

  • Without Limits picture
    Movies

    Without Limits (1998)

    Long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine (Billy Crudup) trains rigorously with coach Bill Bowerman...

  • Blindsight picture
    Movies

    Blindsight (2008)

    Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind...

  • The Legend of Bagger Vance picture
    Movies

    The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

    A golf caddy (Will Smith) shows a disillusioned young war veteran (Matt Damon) how to master...

  • The Mighty Ducks picture
    Movies

    The Mighty Ducks (1992)

    To get out of trouble, a hotshot lawyer (Emilio Estevez) opts for community service coaching rowdies...

  • The Hudsucker Proxy picture
    Movies

    The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

    A scheming executive (Paul Newman) promotes a mailroom worker (Tim Robbins) to company president in...

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    Movies

    Gracie (2007)

    After the death of her older brother, a teenager (Carly Schroeder) petitions her high school for the...

  • Rocky IV picture
    Movies

    Rocky IV (1985)

    Champ Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) trains in Siberia for a bout against a lab-tested Soviet...

  • Electra Glide in Blue picture
    Movies

    Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

    A motorcycle cop (Robert Blake) with a Harley-Davidson ties hippies to a murder in the Arizona...

  • Renaissance Man picture
    Movies

    Renaissance Man (1994)

    An unemployed advertising executive takes a job teaching Shakespeare to a group of underachieving...

  • The Right Stuff picture
    Movies

    The Right Stuff (1983)

    The selection and training of the first U.S. astronauts take place amid political maneuvering and...

  • The Ringer picture
    Movies

    The Ringer (2005)

    Special Olympians train a man (Johnny Knoxville), who is pretending to be mentally impaired, to go...

  • Comrades in Dreams picture
    Movies

    Comrades in Dreams

    Filmmaker Uli Gaulke interviews cineastes who run movie theaters in various areas of the world.

  • The Great Dictator picture
    Movies

    The Great Dictator (1941)

    A Jewish barber looks like Adenoid Hynkel (Charles Chaplin), dictator of Tomania, who meets Benzino...

  • Step Up 2 The Streets picture
    Movies

    Step Up 2 The Streets (2008)

    A street dancer (Briana Evigan) enrolls at Maryland School of the Arts and teams up with a talented...

  • Flash of Genius picture
    Movies

    Flash of Genius (2008)

    Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) fights the auto industry, claiming that the intermittent windshield...

  • The New Guy picture
    Movies

    The New Guy (2002)

    In jail, a teenager (D. J. Qualls) meets another inmate who shows him how to act cool at his high...

  • Only the Lonely picture
    Movies

    Only the Lonely (1991)

    A Chicago policeman (John Candy) wants to marry a mortuary cosmetician (Ally Sheedy), but his feisty...

  • Music of the Heart picture
    Movies

    Music of the Heart (1999)

    After her husband leaves abruptly, a woman (Meryl Streep) becomes a teacher in an East Harlem school...

  • Rocky picture
    Movies

    Rocky (1976)

    Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed gives Philadelphia club fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) a...

  • Calendar Girls picture
    Movies

    Calendar Girls (2003)

    When older women pose nude for a calendar to raise money for a Yorkshire hospital, the results are a...

  • Good Will Hunting picture
    Movies

    Good Will Hunting (1997)

    A therapist (Robin Williams), a mathematician and working-class roughs vie for the soul of a janitor...

  • 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up picture
    Movies

    3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995)

    Three boys stop a polluter's (Charles Napier) henchmen with martial arts learned from their Asian...

  • Rocky II picture
    Movies

    Rocky II (1979)

    Underdog Philadelphia fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) gets another shot at heavyweight...