Top Competitor Movies & TV Shows

March Comes In Like a Lion (2016) TV Show

8.0 141 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 44

Audience: TV-PG

Story: This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

Plot: competition, depression, child prodigy, sports, high school, bullying, slice of life, dysfunctional family, ...

Ace of the Diamond (2013) TV Show

7.9 75 votes

Genre: Animation

Country: Japan

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 191

Audience: TV-14

Story: Scouted for his potential, brash left-handed pitcher Eijun Sawamura joins baseball powerhouse Seido High to become the undisputed ace of the team.

Plot: competition, baseball, training, sports, high school sports, tournament, bromance, based on manga, ...

Cast

Xu Kai

Cheng Xiao

Zhai Xiaowen

Yao Chi

Falling Into Your Smile (2021) TV Show

7.9 105 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: China

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 31

Story: After joining an all-male e-sports team, an amateur gamer tests her skills and leads her team to the world championships.

Plot: competition, based on novel or book, romance, bromance, esports, online gaming, teamwork

Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Kaede Hondo

Asami Tano

Risa Taneda

ZOMBIE LAND SAGA (2018) TV Show

7.9 196 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all share one wish: "We want to live." These girls will struggle through this saga, in order to achieve a miracle.

Plot: competition, dance performance, training, concert, parody, undead, zombie, art, ...

Cast

Gong Li

He Saifei

Cao Cuifen

Kong Lin

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

7.9 804 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

Plot: competition, marriage, romantic rivalry, polygamy, concubine, tragedy, wealth, period drama, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Vachirawit Chivaaree

Metawin Opas-iamkajorn

Chinnarat Siriphongchawalit

Jirakit Kuariyakul

2gether: The Series (2020) TV Show

7.8 110 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-MA

Story: To evade an admirer, a college student plays up a relationship with a pretend boyfriend until the act turns to reality.

Plot: competition, love at first sight, based on novel or book, bangkok, thailand, musician, concert, friendship, ...

Run with the Wind (2018) TV Show

7.8 70 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-14

Story: Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old apartment "Chikuseisou" where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter Hakone Ekiden Marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.

Plot: competition, based on novel or book, training, dormitory, sports, rivalry, tournament, track and field, ...

Cast

Shugo Nakamura

Jun Kasama

Kenta Miyake

Shinichiro Kamio

The First Slam Dunk (2022)

7.8 543 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. In his second year of high school, Ryota plays with the Shohoku High School basketball team along with Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui as they take the stage at the Inter-High School National Championship. And now, they are on the brink of challenging the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.

Style: inspiring

Plot: high school, competition, basketball, rivalry, high school sports, romance, tournament, based on manga, ...

Cast

Motoko Kumai

Kiyu Morita

Daisuke Namikawa

Urara Takano

Beyblade (2001) TV Show

7.7 240 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 154

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Thirteen-year-old Takao Kinomiya (Tyson Granger), along with his fellow teammates, Kai Hiwatari, Max Mizuhura (Max Tate), and Rei Kon (Ray Kon), strive to become the greatest Beybladers in the world. With the technical help of the team's resident genius, Kyoujyu (Kenny), and with the powerful strength of their BitBeasts, the Bladebreakers armed with their Beys attempt to reach their goal.

Plot: competition, based on toy, tournament, shounen, anime, proxy battle, beyblade, spinning-tops

Aoashi (2022) TV Show

7.7 64 votes

Genre: Animation

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 48

Audience: TV-14

Story: Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?

Plot: competition, sports, slice of life, school, tournament, football (soccer), based on manga, seinen, ...

Cast

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Jung Hyun-gyu

Lee Seung-hyun

Choi Hyun-joon

The Devil's Plan (2023) TV Show

7.7 109 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: It's the ultimate showdown of wits, brains, strategy, and alliances for a chance to win 500 million won.

Plot: competition, spy, intelligence, game show, contest, prize money, strategy game, alliance

Welcome to the Ballroom (2017) TV Show

7.6 97 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Tatara is an average middle school student with no particular dreams until an unexpected incident draws him into the fascinating world of ballroom dancing. “If I can just find one thing to be passionate about...” He dives into the world of dance, believing it's his opportunity to change. “Dance is a passion!”

Plot: competition, dance, sports, high school, romance, slice of life, dance competition, ballroom dancing, ...

Iwa Kakeru! Sport Climbing Girls (2020) TV Show

7.6 190 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Sport climbing is a sport that makes use of both the body and the brain to climb walls. Kasahara Konomi, a master at puzzles, just happens to discover her school’s climbing wall, and it looks almost like a colorful sort of puzzle in her eyes. This fateful encounter brings big changes to Konomi’s life! With her teammates in the Hanamiya Girls’ High School Climbing Club, Konomi races for the top in this passionate climbing story!

Plot: competition, slice of life, based on manga, school life, ecchi, sport climbing, anime

Cast

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Kang So-yeon

Lee Hyun-jin

Lee Jae-yoon

Physical: 100 (2023) TV Show

7.6 186 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-14

Story: One hundred contestants in top physical shape compete in a series of grueling challenges to claim the honor — and cash reward — as the last one standing.

Plot: competition, game show, wrestling, fitness, survival show, reality show, exciting

Cast

Asami Seto

Mamoru Miyano

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Chihayafuru (2011) TV Show

7.6 67 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 74

Audience: TV-14

Story: Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

Plot: competition, card game, strong woman, training, high school, growing up, romance, slice of life, ...

Cast

Nick Cannon

Robin Thicke

Jenny McCarthy

Ken Jeong

The Masked Singer (2019) TV Show

7.5 122 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: United States of America, South Korea

Seasons: 14

Episodes: 185

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Celebrities compete in a singing competition with one major twist: each singer is shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costume, complete with full face mask to conceal his or her identity. One singer will be eliminated each week, ultimately revealing his or her true identity.

Plot: competition, game show, celebrity, singing competition, hidden identity, celebrity panel, celebrity competition

Total Drama Island (2007) TV Show

7.5 284 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: Canada

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 27

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Total Drama Island focuses on twenty-two teenagers' arrival at Camp Wawanakwa to compete on a reality television show. The contestants are divided into two teams and must compete in challenges every three days. While the winning team earns invincibility, the losing team has to vote off one of their own players. Whoever is voted off must walk the Dock of Shame to the Boat of Losers and leave the island. The teams eventually dissolve and the elimination process continues until the last contestant standing wins a grand prize of $100,000.

Plot: competition, island, summer camp, parody, reality spoof, fictional reality tv, hotgwen, cheerful

Cast

Mel Giedroyc

Sue Perkins

Mary Berry

Paul Hollywood

The Great British Bake Off (2010) TV Show

7.5 101 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 89

Audience: TV-PG

Story: This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone on to start a career based on baking.

Plot: competition, food, baking, baking competition

Cast

Fahadh Faasil

Indrajith Sukumaran

Kalabhavan Mani

Swathi Reddy

Amen (2013)

7.5 35 votes

Genre: Fantasy, Music, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 165 min.

Story: Solomon, who belongs to a band, is in love with Soshanna, who hails from an upper class family. The story spells how Solomon manages to win over all the obstacles to marry Soshanna.

Plot: musician, competition, love, church

Cast

RuPaul

Michelle Visage

RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) TV Show

7.5 285 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: United States of America, Canada

Seasons: 18

Episodes: 255

Audience: TV-14

Story: Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and eliminations while helping guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge.

Plot: competition, drag queen, clothing, cross dressing, fashion, lgbt, impersonation, burlesque, ...

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