20 movies like The Pride of the Yankees, ordered by similarity : The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg(1999), 42(2013), The Winning Team(1952), The Stratton Story(1949), The Pride of St. Louis(1952), Fear Strikes Out(1957), The Jackie Robinson Story(1950), Professor Marston & the Wonder Women(2017), The Babe(1992), A League of Their Own(1992), Tommy's Honour(2016), Cobb(1994) ...
Biography
USA
1942
127 Minutes
Gary Cooper Teresa Wright Walter Brennan Dan Duryea Ludwig Stossel Addison Richards Hardie Albright
lou gehrig babe ruth baseball player wife reporter emotional inspiring moving touching new york city baseball field aspirations baseball illness discovery rise love 1940s
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
Biography, Documentary
USA
1999
89 Minutes
baseball fan baseball player jew friend rival inspiring emotional detroit michigan new york city baseball field baseball fame judaism anti-semitism family hank greenberg discovery rise rivalry
The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2013
128 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Harrison Ford Nicole Beharie Christopher Meloni Ryan Merriman Lucas Black Andre Holland Alan Tudyk Hamish Linklater T.R. Knight John C. McGinley
baseball catcher baseball manager critic baseball fan family member baseball player touching uplifting positive tense gripping inspiring brooklyn, n.y. baseball field stadium office bus locker room jackie robinson historical events
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.
Biography, Romance, Drama
USA
1952
98 Minutes
Doris Day Ronald Reagan Frank Lovejoy Eve Miller James Millican Russ Tamblyn Gordon Jones Hugh Sanders Frank Ferguson Walter Baldwin
baseball pitcher wife father doctor manager baseball player inspiring gripping uplifting nebraska farm baseball field hospital bar locker room grover cleveland alexander baseball ambition marriage illness
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
Biography
1949
106 Minutes
James Stewart June Allyson Frank Morgan Agnes Moorehead Bill Williams Bruce Cowling Cliff Clark
pitcher wife mother baseball player inspiring touching texas wilderness baseball field chicago disability comeback baseball rise transformation quest underdog 1940s
Inspired by his wife (June Allyson) and son, Chicago White Soxer Monty Stratton (James Stewart) pitches with an artificial leg.
Biography
USA
1952
93 Minutes
Dan Dailey Joanne Dru Richard Crenna Richard Hylton Hugh Sanders James Brown Leo T. Cleary Kenny Williams John McKee Stuart Randall William Frambes
brother baseball pitcher wife manager baseball fan radio personality endearing inspiring arkansas texas baseball field st. louis chicago radio station baseball male bonding injury marital problems gambling radio
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
USA
1957
100 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Karl Malden Norma Moore Adam Williams Perry Wilson Peter Votrian Dennis McMullen Gail Land Brian G. Hutton Bart Burns
father son baseball player reporter psychiatrist doctor tense disturbing emotional engaging dark connecticut baseball field boston father/son relationship emotional abuse baseball mental illness obsession pursuit
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Biography
USA
1950
76 Minutes
Ruby Dee Minor Watson Louise Beavers Richard Lane Harry Shannon Ben Lessy Billy Wayne Joel Fluellen Bernie Hamilton Kenny Washington Pat Flaherty
baseball player jackie robinson mother wife coach bigot emotional heartwarming rousing powerful america montreal stadium new york city brooklyn, n.y. baseball american dream race relations family rise
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Drama, History, Biography
USA
2017
108 Minutes
Luke Evans Rebecca Hall Bella Heathcote Connie Britton Monica Giordano JJ Feild Chris Conroy Oliver Platt Maggie Castle Alexa Havins Sharon Kubo
professor writer inventor lover wife emotional sultry powerful passionate intricate inspiring harvard university massachusetts house stage classroom womanhood comic books threesome marriage
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Biography
USA
1992
115 Minutes
John Goodman Kelly McGillis Trini Alvarado Bruce Boxleitner Peter Donat James Cromwell J.C. Quinn Joe Ragno Bernard Kates Michael McGrady Andy Voils
baseball player wife teacher team owner teammate lou gehrig fascinating rousing unrestrained baltimore boston new york city yankee stadium babe ruth baseball troubled childhood bad behavior fame rise fall
Babe Ruth becomes a baseball legend but is unheroic to those who know him.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1992
126 Minutes
Tom Hanks Geena Davis Madonna Lori Petty Jon Lovitz David Strathairn Garry Marshall Megan Cavanagh Rosie O'Donnell Renée Coleman Ann Cusack
baseball catcher baseball pitcher baseball player baseball team owner baseball fan coach amusing lighthearted oregon illinois baseball field family home baseball family world war ii women in sports rivalry transformation rise 1940s
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2016
112 Minutes
Peter Mullan Jack Lowden Ophelia Lovibond Sam Neill Max Deacon Peter Ferdinando Seylan Baxter Paul Reid
father son golfer country boy parent lover moving inspiring touching scotland england united kingdom countryside golf course golf sports love parent/child relationship growing up wealth
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour - an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Biography
1994
128 Minutes
Tommy Lee Jones Robert Wuhl Lolita Davidovich Lou Myers Stephen Mendillo Will Utay J. Kenneth Campbell Rhoda Griffis Allan Malamud
baseball player reporter disheartening frenetic reno, nev. united states biography baseball discovery 21st century
Baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) pressures biographer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to whitewash the sordid details of his life.
Biography
1996
119 Minutes
Matthew Broderick Patricia Arquette Peter Riegert Dori Brenner Peter Michael Goetz Zeljko Ivanek James LeGros Jeffrey Force
physicist sick wife husband mother father moving tender passionate new mexico princeton, n.j. college mit love science tuberculosis nuclear weapons husband/wife relationship love discovery 1940s
Physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick) falls in love with a schoolmate (Patricia Arquette) and works on the Manhattan Project.
Biography
Ireland|UK
1989
103 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Ray McAnally Brenda Fricker Ruth McCabe Fiona Shaw Eanna Macliam Alison Whelan Declan Croghan Hugh O'Conor Cyril Cusack
bricklayer housewife doctor sibling writer inspiring touching dublin household pub banquet hall street christy brown cerebral palsy illness debauchery rise underdog love transformation
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2015
123 Minutes
Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Bradley Whitford David Krumholtz Cherry Jones Maddie Hasson Wes Langlois Wrenn Schmidt
singer country singer singer-songwriter womanizer american musician guitarist love interest wife child boy george girl hank williams jr. disheartening emotional engaging gripping sad united states alabama
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Biography
USA
1953
116 Minutes
James Stewart June Allyson Charles Drake George Tobias Harry Morgan Katharine Warren Marion Ross Irving Bacon Barton MacLane Sig Ruman Phil Garris
musician band leader wife soldier uplifting melodramatic moving new york city europe english channel stage music world war ii glenn miller success rise love 1940s
Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
93 Minutes
Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra Esther Williams Betty Garrett Edward Arnold Jules Munshin Richard Lane Tom Dugan Murray Alper Wilton Graff Mack Gray
baseball team owner baseball player entertainer gambler teammate girlfriend cheery madcap rousing baseball field locker room house theater gambling big break baseball love interest vaudeville song and dance rivalry
Two turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.
Biography
USA
1943
124 Minutes
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Henry Travers Albert Basserman Robert Walker C. Aubrey Smith
marie curie pierre curie scientist professor husband wife fascinating inspiring moving paris university laboratory scientific experiments marriage honor research partnership discovery love rise
Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Hungary|Italy|Romania
2017
105 Minutes
Mateus Ward Jamie McShane Alexandra Bard Casey Bond Ben Reed Michael Monks Richard Riehle James Morrison
love interest convict murderer chaplain reformer prison guard emotional brutal intense inspiring touching prison courtroom texas crime scene field reform religious beliefs religious awakening violence
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be ... See full summary »
Romance, Biography, Drama, History
Czech Republic|UK|France|USA
2016
111 Minutes
David Oyelowo Rosamund Pike Jack Davenport Tom Felton Laura Carmichael Charlotte Hope Jack Lowden Nicholas Lyndhurst Jessica Oyelowo Arnold Oceng Anastasia Hille
prince african white woman british woman citizen president charming moving emotional engaging inspiring powerful botswana africa united kingdom embassy village street love forbidden love
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.