Movies and TvShows featuring "athletic-scholarship" theme.

Katie Price, a 17-year-old girl with a rare genetic condition called xeroderma pigmentosum, is confined to her home during the day due to her extreme sensitivity to sunlight. During the night, she spends her time playing the guitar and composing songs. One evening, while she is playing her guitar at the train station, she meets Charlie, a boy she has been watching from her bedroom window for years. As their relationship develops, Katie faces the challenge of trying to live a normal life while battling her illness and risking her life for love.

In the small town of West Canaan, Texas, football is everything. The high school football team, led by quarterback Jonathan Moxon, is under immense pressure to win. However, they soon realize that their coach, Bud Kilmer, is more interested in his own glory than the well-being of the players. As tensions rise and personal relationships are tested, the team must come together and find the strength to stand up against Kilmer and play the game on their own terms.

Set in the 1980s, a college freshman joins a baseball team and navigates through the ups and downs of college life, exploring themes of masculinity, male friendship, and coming-of-age.

Higher Learning is a movie that explores the lives of diverse students at a fictional university. It delves into topics such as racism, date-rape, black militant groups, school shootings, and interracial relationships. The film portrays the experiences of a naive young woman, struggling with the realities of college life and the complexity of race politics.

A high school football player living in a small town dreams of escaping and making it big. He faces challenges such as a suspension from the football team and struggles with his relationships. With ambition and determination, he sets out to prove himself and pursue his dreams.

Blue Chips is a 1994 drama film that explores the corruption in college basketball. It follows a college basketball coach who is under pressure to win games and secure top players for his team. The film delves into the ethical dilemmas faced by the coach as he must make compromises in order to meet the demands of boosters, agents, and players. In the end, the coach must decide whether to continue participating in the corrupt system or stand up for what he believes is right.

Hoop Dreams is a powerful and moving documentary that follows the lives of two African-American high school students, William Gates and Arthur Agee, as they navigate the challenges of growing up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing projects and pursue their dreams of becoming professional basketball players. The film explores themes of race, poverty, and the impact of sports on the lives of young athletes.

In Coin Heist, a group of unlikely friends at a high school plot an elaborate scheme to rob the US Mint in order to save their school from closure. With backgrounds in engineering, hacking, and counterfeiting, the group must navigate the challenges of making fake identification, outsmarting security measures, and staying one step ahead of the authorities. As the heist unfolds, they form unexpected bonds and discover the power of friendship and teamwork.

Across the Tracks is a drama film about two brothers who have a strained relationship. One is a high school track star while the other is a troublemaker. They must learn to put aside their differences and support each other as they both pursue their dreams.

A college basketball player deals with corruption, relationships, and the challenges of being a student-athlete in a small town. He faces pressure from his coach, the allure of athletic scholarships, and the naivety of the college experience. Along the way, he experiences love, betrayal, and the harsh realities of the sports world.

Jocks is a comedy movie about a group of college jocks who travel to Las Vegas and get into various misadventures involving tennis, gambling, drag queens, and more. The film explores themes of college life, sports, and the wild antics that can occur in Las Vegas.

Wanda Pratt works tirelessly to raise three children, including future NBA basketball player Kevin Durant.

A couple faces several challenges including job offers, arguments, and estrangement, but ultimately find love and reconciliation.

A group of friends gathers at a house party, where they become the target of a deranged killer. As the night progresses, they must find a way to stay alive and escape the killer's clutches.

Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas’ beautiful Ozark Mountains. War Eagle, Arkansas poses important questions that face all young people in rural America. The answers we find could touch us all.

Childhood friends, Nonoy and Jenny, embark on their freshman year at a prestigious university together. However, bad company leads Nonoy astray. As he nearly loses everything, he works his way back to his path.

Leo Leone has been wrestling since he was seven years old. As the only son of wrestling coach (and ex-state champion) Edward Leone, Leo's dedication to the sport was tied up in his love for his father. Now Leo is seventeen. His life has been an endless cycle of training, sacrifice, and starving to make weight -- a process that is becoming ever more difficult during adolescence. He's tired of denying himself everything, and is feeling the lure of a world beyond the mat. Living paycheck to paycheck, working a dead-end job in the mines while coaching for no money, Leo's father Ed sees a wrestling scholarship as his son's only chance to escape the treadmill of life in a small Pennsylvania town. But though his motives are good, Ed is pushing his son too hard

Set mainly in present day Dallas, Texas and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, this film features three main characters at three different stages of the same process. Supported by a nonprofit, these extremely tall teenagers come to the United States from Haiti using basketball as means to get an education and help their own country change.

Examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, collude in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes.