Drama
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team in the 1960's. Eventually events like these signaled the pivotal turn in the games' history leading to the integration in today's sport. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), these basketball players didn't just make shots, they made history.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Driving Miss Daisy
Martin Luther, Heretic
The Vord
The Night of the Iguana
Love & Basketball
Freedom Writers
Remember the Titans
Maddalena
The Basketball Diaries
Forget Paris
In the Heat of the Night
Basketball Girlfriends
The Order
The Good Shepherd
Metamorphosis
Oasis
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Glory Road
He Got Game
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Crime of Padre Amaro
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2002
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.Driving Miss Daisy
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1989
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.Martin Luther, Heretic
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1983
Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.The Vord
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
An ancient Nordic entity known as The Shadow in the modern world and Ivar in the old world corrupts a priest to secure the coveted soul of a woman so he may deliver her as a gift to The Old One and thereby secure redemption.The Night of the Iguana
IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 1964
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.Love & Basketball
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2000
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.Freedom Writers
IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 2007
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.Remember the Titans
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2000
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.Maddalena
IMDB 5.6 | Nov , 1971
The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.The Basketball Diaries
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1995
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.Forget Paris
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1995
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.In the Heat of the Night
IMDB 7.7 | Aug , 1967
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.Basketball Girlfriends
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2014
Tyron is one of the top college basketball stars in the country and is expected to be a top NBA draft pick, but as the pressure to perform well in school threatens his ability to perform on the court, things start to fall apart. Then, when his brother, Blak, is released from prison, he is pressured to rejoin the family business hustling drugs on the street. In a last ditch effort to save his star player, Tyron's coach introduces him to Carmen, a tutor who Tyron falls deeply in love with.The Order
IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 2003
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.The Good Shepherd
IMDB 5.1 | Mar , 2004
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.Metamorphosis
IMDB 4.4 | Jan , 2007
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women.Oasis
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 2017
A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.The Exorcism of Emily Rose
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2005
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.Glory Road
IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 2006
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.He Got Game
IMDB 6.8 | May , 1998
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.