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Plot Summary:
C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a charming and resolute student girl Oona (Elena Leeve) is coming to work in same courier company.Eetu falls in love to Oona. K is annoyed about this, because Oona interferes with their training.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 93 min
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Coxless Pair (2008)
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The film tells the story of the friendship between Johann and Ludwig as they strive for the ultimate “buddy” relationship. Going beyond, well beyond, what would be considered good and healthy, the pair attempt to become the ideal twins, driving their relationship based on their partnership in competitive rowing (coxless pairs) to the ultimate, to perfect harmony in mind, word, thought and deed. But their symbiotic relationship is thrown out of balance: Ludwig strives to tighten the bonds ever closer, but Johann discovers happiness in the form of love for Ludwig’s sister, Vera. But because Ludwig hates her, the couple keep their relationship secret. But secrets have a way of coming out and Ludwig is wounded to the core. As the finals of the rowing competition draw closer, Ludwig has already set his sights on a greater goal: to preserve their friendship forever, no longer in life but in death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Passages (2023)
Plot Summary:
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, bilingual, interesting, gay cinema
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When Almonds Blossomed (1972)
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Zura, a son of a rich businessman, steals a car of his father’s friend to amuse his classmates. When informed about it, the school principal discards him from the bike tournament. Nevertheless, Zura’s father manages to persuade her to allow his son to participate and even succeeds in bribing his championship. Zura’s classmates know that he became a champion undeservedly but can’t do anything about it. Only Khatuna, his alleged girlfriend, and Lexo, Zura’s friend, dare to protest against it. Their lack of loyalty enrages Zura and in the rush of the blood he crashes his father’s car. The accident takes Laxo’s life. Zura’s father does his best to save his son from deserved punishment but the first one against his decision is Zura himself.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Romance, Sport
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
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Aurora (2019)
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One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland, a commitment-phobic party animal, Aurora, meets Iranian Darian. Darian suddenly asks her to marry him. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. Aurora turns him down, as she is busy working as a nail technician and plans to move to Norway, away from her shit life. However, after meeting his sweet daughter, Aurora agrees to help him. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close. When the perfect wife candidate comes along, Darian and Aurora are faced with a difficult choice: pretend to be happy or to finally stop running.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min
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Trouble with Sex (2005)
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A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer with a smart apartment overlooking the Liffey, but dissatisfied in her relationship with a doctor (Declan Conlon). Conor (Aidan Gillen) is lonely and unattached, dutifully running the traditional Dublin pub owned by his hard drinking father (Eamon Morrissey). Late one night, Michelle bursts into the bar and orders a triple vodka. The consequences are explored and developed with an honesty and credibility as these disparate characters tentatively draw closer to each other. They become lovers. There is a strong sexual attraction. But there are complications along the way and the path to love can be rocky. Something's got to give. And what's the trouble with sex? You'll see.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min
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Gilles (2005)
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De 12-jarige Gilles droomt ervan om profvoetballer te worden en als Rode Duivel in het Koning Boudewijnstadion te spelen. Vader Bert steunt Gilles door dik en dun: hij is niet alleen Gilles' trouwste supporter, maar ook zijn persoonlijke trainer. Maar dan, totaal onverwacht, sterft Bert en het leven van Gilles stort in elkaar. Niet alleen verliest hij zijn vader, zijn vriend, zijn supporter en zijn trainer, er komen ook nogal wat financiële lijken uit de kast vallen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sport
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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City Without Baseball (2008)
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The actual members of the Hong Kong Baseball Team all prove themselves to be natural actors by playing themselves in this fictional youth drama set in 2004. In a city where baseball culture is non-existent, these baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality. It also enables them to find the will to live in the face of death and the strength to conquer losing in a spectatorless sport.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: intellectual, realistic, witty, disturbing
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Spetters (1980)
Plot Summary:
A Dutch film, post-Saturday Night Fever, which follows the lives of three young men who are amateur dirt-bike motorcycle racers. They each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, sells French fries and hot dogs at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. She wants out of the business and away from her brother. The motocross racers want to make their marks as professional racers, like their hero, played by Rutger Hauer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, cult classic, art house, raunchy, tense, rough, clever, serious, realistic
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Aspen Extreme (1993)
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T.J. and his friend Dexter quit their jobs in Detroit to become ski-instructors in Aspen. While T.J. advances to the most popular instructor of the school during the season, he has to take care for Dexter, who's future is less bright and who's eventually thinking about jobbing as drug courier - bringing their friendship to a test. Meanwhile the rich business woman Brice supports T.J. in his writing ambitions and invites him to live at her home. But in her absence he falls in love with the stunningly beautiful blond radio moderator Robin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: melancholic, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, light, inspirational, romantic, sexy, feel good
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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016)
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Summer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, factual, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, touching, poetic, documentary filmmaking
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2 Seconds (1998)
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Laurie, a professional downhill racer gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility. She returns to Montreal where she is welcomed by her geeky but cute brother. She meets Lorenzo, a cranky, ex-racer who owns a bike shop. The two become friends. Laurie gets a job with a local bicycle courier company, but a member of the group is intent on shutting her out of their circles, making her life difficult and sad. After a bonding truth-revealing discussion between Laurie and Lorenzo, Laurie begins to see what she has to do to make things better for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, serious, realistic
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Eleven Men Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Iceland, Finland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying
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Gas in the Veins (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
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The Flying Scotsman (2006)
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Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational, extraordinary
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Supercross (2005)
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Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film, saga
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One Love (2011)
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A summer vacation in the 70s. Lalo and Bruno are teenagers doing nothing on days full of nothing. But on a hot and humid afternoon, and without asking for permission, Lisa arrives smashing more than the letargy of the town. Thirty years later Lisa comes again to interfere in the lives of these two adults.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, emotional, psychological, captivating, touching, serious
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Youngblood (1986)
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A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, retro, spiritual, epic, sex comedy, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized
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Restless (2000)
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An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina (Laura Malmivaara), something unexpected happens - he falls in love. For the first time, Ari finds himself pursuing a long-term relationship, and he makes a genuine effort to remain faithful to her. But old habits die hard; Tiina introduces Ari to her circle of friends and temptation arises as he encounters Hanna-Riikka, a theology student, and Ilona, who is soon to be married. Despite Ari's feelings for Tiina, he begins having affairs with both Hanna-Riikka and Ilona, leading to an unpleasant revelation on the day of Ilona's nuptials. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sexual, touching, humorous, sexy, erotic, romantic, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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Newcastle (2008)
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17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor's failure to become surfing's Next Big Thing. Even when he's in his natural habitat of magnificent surf breaks, his blue-collar future is brought home by the coal barges that constantly line his horizon. Jesse has the natural skills to surf his way out of this reality and onto the international circuit but can he overcome his equally natural ability to sabotage himself? A momentous weekend away with his mates that includes first love and tragedy leads him to discover what's really important, and also to the performance of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, light, sexy, erotic, feel good, sexual, independent film, queer cinema
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Boys (2014)
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BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, lgbt cinema, captivating, disturbing, sexy, independent film, sexual, cute
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When Saturday Comes (1996)
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Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy
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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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Blinder (2013)
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An ex footballer embroiled in a scandal returns hometown clear his name and reignite an old flame.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
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American Flyers (1985)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sad, sincere, uplifting, serious, realistic, exciting, light, inspirational
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Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, fast paced
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Blue Crush (2002)
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Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene - until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, intense, entertaining, teen, serious, romantic, cult classic, erotic, freeze frame, realistic
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The Man I Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last.".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, sexual, allegory, emotional, sexy, gay cinema
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Love in Thoughts (2004)
Plot Summary:
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, stylized, rough, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy, vintage
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Peaceful Warrior (2006)
Plot Summary:
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: inspirational, philosophical, spiritual, thought provoking, sincere, psychological, motivational, intellectual, existential, compassionate
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Student of the Year (2012)
Plot Summary:
Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, funny, romantic