Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "motivational"

1. Gran Turismo (2023)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs - a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec - who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world.

Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Takehiro Hira

Votes: 100,110

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne

Votes: 1,078,325 | Gross: $34.40M

3. The Truman Show (1998)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

Votes: 1,196,939 | Gross: $125.62M

4. Inside Out (I) (2015)

PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

Directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen | Stars: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling

Votes: 785,744 | Gross: $356.46M

5. The Pianist (2002)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music

During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Votes: 912,638 | Gross: $32.57M

6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.

Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor

Votes: 877,962 | Gross: $141.32M

7. Lion (2016)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama

A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Director: Garth Davis | Stars: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar

Votes: 251,232 | Gross: $51.74M

8. Into the Wild (2007)

R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 658,302 | Gross: $18.35M

9. The Impossible (2012)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast

Votes: 244,143 | Gross: $19.02M

10. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

PG | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When both he and a colleague are about to lose their job, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he ever imagined.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly, Kathryn Hahn

Votes: 341,018 | Gross: $58.24M

11. Jerry Maguire (1996)

R | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston

Votes: 287,104 | Gross: $153.95M

12. Life of Pi (2012)

PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu

Votes: 666,989 | Gross: $124.99M

13. The Terminal (2004)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 495,399 | Gross: $77.87M

14. Awakenings (1990)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson

Votes: 158,809 | Gross: $52.10M

15. Coach Carter (2005)

PG-13 | 136 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown

Votes: 172,168 | Gross: $67.26M

16. Adaptation. (2002)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Votes: 203,084 | Gross: $22.25M

17. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

Votes: 372,324 | Gross: $23.53M

18. Cinderella Man (2005)

PG-13 | 144 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The true story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer, who returned to the spotlight to win the heavyweight championship of the world.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 198,369 | Gross: $61.65M

19. Babe (1995)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him?

Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes

Votes: 134,151 | Gross: $66.60M

20. The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

In the 1913 U.S. Open, twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 U.S. Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.

Director: Bill Paxton | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Elias Koteas, James Paxton

Votes: 33,484 | Gross: $15.33M

21. Like Stars on Earth (2007)

PG | 162 min | Drama, Family

An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.

Directors: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte | Stars: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma

Votes: 206,763 | Gross: $1.22M

22. Grizzly Man (2005)

R | 103 min | Documentary, Biography

A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog, Carol Dexter

Votes: 61,903 | Gross: $3.17M

23. Reign Over Me (2007)

R | 124 min | Drama

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

Director: Mike Binder | Stars: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler

Votes: 99,615 | Gross: $19.66M

24. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

R | 169 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn

Votes: 69,156 | Gross: $0.26M

25. Tigerland (2000)

R | 101 min | Drama, War

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry

Votes: 43,361 | Gross: $0.14M

26. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

PG | 96 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush

Votes: 85,220 | Gross: $23.81M

27. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)

G | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The young apprentice of a magical, eccentric toy store owner learns to believe in herself, and in her friends, upon learning some grave news about the future.

Director: Zach Helm | Stars: Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Bateman, Ted Ludzik

Votes: 47,685 | Gross: $32.06M

28. Overcomer (2019)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Family, Sport

A high-school basketball coach is asked to take over the cross-country program, where he encounters a troubled teen.

Director: Alex Kendrick | Stars: Alex Kendrick, Priscilla C. Shirer, Cameron Arnett, Shari Rigby

Votes: 5,696 | Gross: $26.25M

29. I Kill Giants (2017)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.

Director: Anders Walter | Stars: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Sydney Wade

Votes: 33,008

30. Instinct (1999)

R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell, who left society to live in the jungle, is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder to get through to him.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney

Votes: 34,295 | Gross: $34.10M

31. Flash of Genius (2008)

PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama

Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.

Director: Marc Abraham | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda, Tim Eddis

Votes: 17,822 | Gross: $4.23M

32. Tholvi F.C. (2023)

120 min | Comedy, Family

The Kurivila family is a bunch of failures in life. Career, money, love, life. They can't seem to win at anything. 'Tholvi FC' is a warm and funny story of a dysfunctional family try to not fail at life. And maybe even win.

Director: George Kora | Stars: Sharafudheen, Johny Antony, George Kora, Asha Madathil Sreekanth

Votes: 477

33. Coat (2023)

122 min | Drama, Family

Madho and his father are pig farmers, of a low caste are not respected by the other villagers. One day he sees a foreigner being respected and because of his expensive coat. Determined Madho tries to acquire a coat that he cannot afford.

Directors: Akshay Ditti, Kumar Abhishek, Rahul Kamboj | Stars: Sanjay Mishra, Vivaan Shah, Badal Rajpoot, Sonal Jha

Votes: 36

34. Regardless (2023)

116 min | Drama

"Your scar becomes who you are."

Director: Erdal Murat Aktas | Stars: Robert Maaser, Aslihan Malbora, Nihan Büyükagaç, Erkan Petekkaya

Votes: 139

35. Om Jai Jagadish (2002)

Not Rated | 172 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The story of a mother and her three sons. Om has deep-rooted values, Jai is an ambitious car designer, and Jagdish is a carefree youngster.

Director: Anupam Kher | Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Abhishek Bachchan

Votes: 2,144

36. Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)

Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Music

A documentary about freestyling--the improvised, on-the-spot rhymes that demonstrate the skills of hip-hop MCs.

Director: Kevin Fitzgerald | Stars: Chali 2na, Muhammad Ali, Planet Asia, Bahamadia

Votes: 626 | Gross: $0.01M

37. Hakkunde (2017)

99 min | Comedy, Drama

HAKKUNDE IS AN INTRIGUING STORY OF A YOUNG GRADUATE WHO BATTLES EVERYTHING ON HIS JOURNEY TO SELF DISCOVERY AND ACTUALIZATION. The story is characterized by actions and reactions that ... See full summary »

Director: Oluseyi Asurf | Stars: Frank Donga, Rahama Sadau, Maryam Booth, Ibrahim Daddy

Votes: 52

38. Dar-Badar

45 min | Drama | Completed

Dar-Badar is a human story of displacement, refuge, dreams, reality, success, failure, resilience, challenges, co-incidences and life altering experiences. Dar-Badar is a Farsi and Urdu ... See full summary »

Director: Rohit Khaitan | Stars: Chandan Roy Sanyal, Madhur Bhandarkar, Nidhi Joshi, Shoaib Lodin

39. Leave It on the Track (2013)

80 min | Documentary, Action, Comedy

From the league that sparked the reemergence of Roller Derby comes an all-new documentary feature that focuses on the women involved in one of the greatest championship bouts the sport has ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Pascoe | Stars: Valeri Abrego-Liszewski, Adam Anderson, Melissa Arcaro, Samantha Armbruster

Votes: 14

40. Motivation 3: The Next Generation (2017)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Action, Sport

There is a contest each year that can change a young skater's life. There are no pros with million dollar endorsement deals here, just real kids with real lives and everything on the line. ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Bhala Lough | Stars: Lucas Alves, Ryan DeCenzo, Aurelien Giraud, Felipe Gustavo

Votes: 157

41. Soultribe (2023)

111 min | Adventure, Drama, Music

Three families struggle to find their true selves and their soulmates in a world full of expectations, pressure and obstacles. Inspired by real events, this film shows how they pursue their dreams and potential without losing themselves.

Directors: Stefan Rainer, Maik Burghardt | Stars: Stefan Rainer, Jenny Rainer, Maik Burghardt, Dunja Burghardt

42. Breakin' in the USA: Break Dancing and Electric Boogie Taught by the Pros (1984 Video)

50 min | Documentary, Sport

Breakdancing techniques are demonstrated by a group of dancers including a teenage Vin Diesel.

Director: James L. Percelay | Stars: David 'Mr. Fantastik' Breaux, Vin Diesel, David 'Fresh Jome' Robinson

Votes: 13

43. Believe (II) (2018)

Short, Drama

A short motivational film featuring epic moments from the best films including "Moneyball", "The Blind Side" and "The Pursuit Of Happiness". Assembled in a truly unique and original way, ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Scheerens

44. Landis: Just Watch Me (2022)

95 min | Documentary

In partnership with Challenged Athletes Foundation, comes the inspiring true story of Landis Sims, a 15-year old baseball player born with quad-congenital limb deficiency, which means he is... See full summary »

Director: Eric Cochran | Stars: Bob Babbitt, Stephanie Bratcher, Eric Byrnes, Joe Decker

Votes: 6

45. Tu Star Chhe (2022)

134 min | Comedy, Drama

It's an inspiring story and aspiring youngsters in the comedy genre. This film has a message for the people who are not winners, who are not successful, who are not happy or No.1 in their respective exams.

Director: K.R. Devmani | Stars: Bhatt Bhushan, Denisha Ghumra, Jakir Khan, Kamlesh Parmar

Votes: 69

46. Chase Your Greatness (2018)

25 min | Short, Action

After releasing several moving and inspirational short films including "Redemption", "Vision", "Inspire", "Determination" and much more, visionary director Simon Scheerens sets his stamp on... See full summary »

Director: Simon Scheerens

Votes: 11

47. Beyond the Ropes (2012 Video)

28 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Beyond the Ropes (2012) is a sports thriller film, about a boxing manager Chad Figurido and his fighter David Fichtenmayer. In life, there are many battles, but for a boxing team the biggest test is outside the ropes.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Chad Figurido, Zhou Guo, Lyle Kanouse

Votes: 41

48. Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story (2015)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Sport

Shot over the course of a year in San Diego, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and China, Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story is the story of a man that earned his place as an innovator, motivator ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Bhala Lough | Stars: Tom Asta, Edmund Bacon, Chris Cole, Rob Dyrdek

Votes: 480

49. Boxer (2016)

4 min | Short, Action

Boxer is a motivational video. This video tells you the story about a boxer who is fighting for his dream. With all his ups and downs, but will he reach his goal?

Director: Bob Lemm | Stars: Xavier Tjong-a-Hung, Gideon Amelo, Charlie Stevens

Votes: 6

50. Better World with Yuval David (2018– )

We all have a duty to make this world a better place. There is so much we can do to improve our surroundings, communities, nation, environment, and world. This series, "Better World," ... See full summary »

Star: Yuval David