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Plot Summary:
While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpeuch and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport, War
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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Wrota Europy (1999)
Plot Summary:
War drama directed by Jerzy Wojcik.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min
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The Girl and the General (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
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Diamantino (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt imagine a famous football player absolutely everybody lusts after. An outlandish, ingenuous and funny comedy on the world of football and gigantic long-haired dogs that portrays the nation in dire need of heroes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, experimental, absurd, avant garde, surreal, queer cinema
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Garrincha: Lonely Star (2003)
Plot Summary:
The life of Brazilian soccer player, Garrincha, considered to be one of the greatest players of all time, with his uniquely original style. He had arched legs, a passion for women and booze. Also had a much talked extramarital affair with singer Elza Soares and died in relative decadence. The movie focuses on his zenith, from 1953 until the World Championship and the Rio Regional Championship, in 1962.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 106 min
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Porca vacca (1982)
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When a stage artist is send to Fight he met a lovely girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: entertaining, low brow humor
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The Striker with Number 9 (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of a talented yet self-destructive soccer player in Greece.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Greece
Duration: 121 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
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King of Hearts (1966)
Plot Summary:
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, educational, thinking, cult classic, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, historical drama, fairy tale
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Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery (2023)
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A psychological war drama inspired by true events of Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, an inexperienced soldier goes through an incredible journey that eventually cements his name among the legendary Gurkha warriors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, historical drama
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Lady Football (1983)
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In Italy in the early 1980s, a Brazilian football ace is afflicted by nostalgia for his country and for his beautiful girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Dream (2023)
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A top football player Hong-dae gets involved in an assault case and winds up being appointed as the coach for the national football team. This team will compete in the ‘Homeless World Cup’. A documentary producer So-min films their story while Hong-dae struggles to coach the homeless because of his misconceptions about them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: comedy drama
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La Dream Team (2016)
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When a fit of anger leads to a serious injury, a sidelined soccer star returns to his hometown and reluctantly agrees to train the local youth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Captain Majid (2009)
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Majid fights his own coach for Faiza's heart and the dream of playing international football.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Chad, USA
Duration: 94 min
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The Icelandic Dream (2000)
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A business man and weekend dad is getting worn down by family trouble, business failure and the continuous loss of his favorite football team. He decides to start importing Bulgarian energy cigarettes in a last ditch attempt at success ... his best friend soon advises that suicide might be his best option.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Iceland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Struck by Lightning (1990)
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This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 105 min
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Flying Pigs (2010)
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A wealthy guy hires Oscar to cheer for his team which happens to be arch rival of the team he previously supported along with his brother. Oscar accepts the offer and fight kicks off between him and his brother along with other supporters. The fight costs a arm fracture for Oscar, wile his wife is leaving him because of his hooligan nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: inspirational
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Hothead (1979)
Plot Summary:
Delightful French comedy about a talented soccer player whose foul temper causes him to be cut from the team, lose his job and even be banned from his favorite bar.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Offside (2006)
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Since women are banned from soccer matches, Iranian females masquerade as males so they can slip into Tehran's stadium to see the game between Iran and Bahrain. The ones who are caught and arrested are taken to a holding area and guarded by soldiers. One sympathetic soldier agrees to watch the game through a peephole and recount the action to the impatient fans.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min
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Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
Plot Summary:
To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organized between the Germans and prisoners of war.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, black and white
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See You Up There (2017)
Plot Summary:
November 1918. A few days before the Armistice, Édouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. These two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims' corpses, Albert and Édouard mount a monumental scam with the bereaved families' commemoration and with a nation's hero worship.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, tense, captivating, disturbing, fairy tale, dark, black comedy, period piece, dark comedy, visual
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Black and White in Color (1976)
Plot Summary:
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, intercultural, suspense, period drama, inter cultural
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The Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young soldier testifies of his thoughts about the first world war, between disillusion, fear and hate, following his path through the letters he sends to his lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, rough, exciting
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For Ever Mozart (1996)
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For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. Director Jean-Luc Godard presents stories about this troop to ask how one can make art while slaughters like the one in Bosnia are taking place, and he throws in a strong critique of the European Union. For Ever Mozart is one of Godard's most disjointed and difficult films. Its stories sometimes seem to form a whole and at other times the links among them are unclear. One gets the impression that in each episode Godard attempts to start a film only to come to the conclusion that it is impossible to continue. It features some of the most beautiful shots of tanks in the cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: experimental, serious, realistic, contemplative, avant garde
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The Midfielder (2014)
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After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, France, Netherlands
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Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Montevideo, God Bless You! (2012)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about Yugoslavian national football team and their journey to the first world championship in Montevideo.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 50 min
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All Stars (1997)
Plot Summary:
Leading up to their 500th match, the late twenty-something members of a Dutch amateur soccer team have their intimate bond put to the test as they each find themselves facing increasing responsibilities off the pitch.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Captain Conan (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, warrior and wolf, leads a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, where Conan tries to keep them out of trouble, defends them when they behave as warriors, and finds he's unsuited for peacetime. His friendship with Norbert, a teacher turned lieutenant, is tested when Norbert accepts a job as court-martial prosecutor because he's learned that Conan will be facing charges and he wants to protect his friend. When they are sent to the Russian border to fight Bolsheviks, Conan is back in his element and Norbert is off the hook.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense
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Victory (1981)
Plot Summary:
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: inspirational, exciting, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, juvenile, realistic, independent film, light, sexy
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The Trench (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, freeze frame
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, offbeat, captivating, gloomy, semi serious