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Plot Summary:
A 12 year old boy dreams of becoming a goalkeeper for the national Brazilian soccer team, but first he has to overcome his own fears to convince his team boys club and his father who is against competition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
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Fimpen (1974)
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Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
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Shoot Paragon! (1970)
Plot Summary:
A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min
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The Dream of Ivan (2011)
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In "The Dream of Ivan" we will see for the first time in history a worldwide selection of soccer stars, a team that brings millions of people watching television, playing against a worldwide selection of ... children! Why? To raise funds to help victims of a terrible earthquake in Africa. This happens many times: that professional teams, or football stars, organize charity matches. What had never happened before is that the game is played by children. The proposal has been an initiative of UNICEF and FIFA.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
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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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Beitar Provence (2002)
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The story of a little town, Givat Zurim, and its lowest-ranked soccer team. The lot for the quarterfinal of the national championship set Beitar Givat Zurim to host no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of the best teams around. Those ten days until the game, and the historical arrival of Maccabi's players, will not be easily forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min
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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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Offside (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Golden Shoes (2015)
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With his father MIA at war and his mother critical in hospital, a young boy consoles himself with dreams of playing in the youth soccer league. To do so, he must overcome the adult deception, the bullying and his solitude.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Goal (2018)
Plot Summary:
Goal is the story of bunch of ordinary village children who challenge the impossible with the help of a teacher who refuses to see them fail.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, sinhala, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Unpredictable Guy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to light the oven. Later Nestor can't fix a broken lamp, but his son soon sorts it out. Nestor wants to act and invent money raising schemes whereas Sebastian yearns for a dad with a steady job. Nestor gets a role in an ad and pursues acting work. He seeks backing to market ping pong balls with world cup logos though the event has passed. The essence of the story revolves around how these conflicting aspirations can be reconciled.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min
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Marinette (2023)
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Based on the biography Ne jamais rien lâcher, the script traces the career of Marinette Pichon over three decades. Born in 1975, she was the pioneer of French women's football and one of the greatest stars of that sport in the world. A prodigy discovered at the age of five, she went on to become the first French player to make a career in the United States (men/women combined) and the record holder for the number of goals and selections for the French team (men/women combined). From her childhood, ravaged by an alcoholic and violent father, to the American dream (she was crowned best player and best scorer in the prestigious US league in 2002 and 2003 and "Most Valuable Player" in 2003), via her career with the French team, Marinette paints the portrait of a kid from a working-class background who was not destined for such an extraordinary career path.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Forever (2023)
Plot Summary:
Mila and Kia, a pair of teenage best friends and aspiring football professionals. When the girls get a new demanding football coach Lollo, they slowly start to drift apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
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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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Renford Rejects (1998)
Plot Summary:
Renford Rejects was a teen sitcom produced and broadcast by Nickelodeon UK between 1997 and 2001. The show briefly aired in the United States on Nick GaS. The show concerned a five-a-side school football team, made up of aspiring players who had been turned down by their school's main team. They were named "Renford Rejects" when a rival player sabotaged their league entry form, but decided to stick with the name as it suited their "outcast" nature.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom
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Captain Majid (2009)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Match of the Day 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
A light-hearted look at the United Kingdom's Premier League action, rounding-up the weekend's football action.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, non fiction
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Football Stories (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Chile
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anthology, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Champs (2018)
Plot Summary:
A professional coach has under his wing the team that is expected to qualify and play the FIFA U-17 World Cup. A fictionalized drama inspired by the story of Jesús Ramírez, the mexican coach.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Coach (2018)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, captivating, motivational, entertaining
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Brother (2010)
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Two brothers fight to escape a violent and poor neighborhood in Caracas by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to play professionally while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the Caracas Football Club. The boys' mother dies in a shootout forcing each brother to decide what it is more important to them:family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, realistic, serious, sincere
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Will (2011)
Plot Summary:
Will is an 2012 British sports drama directed by Ellen Perry and starring Damian Lewis, Jane March and Bob Hoskins. .At the start of the film, eleven year-old Liverpool fan Will Brennan is at a boarding school in the south of England, due to his father Gareth's (Lewis) inability to look after him following the death of his mother. Gareth arrives one day out of the blue, with two tickets to see Liverpool play AC Milan in the 2005 Champions' League Final in Istanbul. Unfortunately, before they can go, Gareth dies suddenly. Will is determined to go and honour his father's memory. He runs away and makes it as far as France. He then meets Alek, a former Yugoslavian footballer who stopped playing during his country's civil war. Despite Alek's initial reluctance to get involved, he is inspired by Will's determination and tries to help him to fulfil his dream. After many trials and tribulations, Will gets his wish and has a better experience at the match than he could ever have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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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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Match (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Next Goal Wins (2023)
Plot Summary:
Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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I Am Zlatan (2021)
Plot Summary:
Coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle biopic of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including depictions of his difficult debut as a player, his deep rifts with some of his coaches, his triumph over injuries and personal discovery of Buddism.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating
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The Midfielder (2014)
Plot Summary:
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
Duration: 100 min
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
Plot tags:
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Goal III: Taking on the World (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the third installment of the football drama trilogy Goal!, Kuno Becker returns as Mexican footballer Santiago Muñez, who, along with his best friends and England national team players Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams (JJ Feild), are selected for their respective national teams at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental
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Believe (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: uplifting, realistic, captivating, inspirational, sentimental, touching, feel good, serious