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Plot Summary:
A group of eleven women organize a soccer team, as a manifesto against sexism.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema
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Streaker (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the hope of solving his financial difficulties, Balz Näf (53) a German teacher, living in the town of Baden (Switzerland), comes up with the idea to use streakers for sport-betting. Although he and his team help streaking achieve a new trend-sport status, his financial situation remains unchanged. On the contrary. He falls in love with the agent who has been hired to stop him. In the end there is only one way out: He has to be a man’s man and get on the field himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dames 4 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The immature Wyne (32) starts a football team to rebel against all her friends who's lives have become dull and boring since either giving birth or becoming pregnant. However, she threatens to lose everything through unexpected events.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Football Crazy (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity because and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way--especially the women--now.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
Plot Summary:
1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. Sexual girls are digging a tunnel towards.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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National Adultery (1982)
Plot Summary:
A man falls in love with his friend's wife and plots the different ways to get rid of his current wife and also his friend so he can have his new found love all to himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Confessions of a Male Escort (1971)
Plot Summary:
The high-powered Gigolo Johnny gets a lucrative offer: He shall receive 100.000 DM for a penis transplantation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: crying, sex comedy
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Nurses Report (1972)
Plot Summary:
Reporters reveal intolerable conditions in Munich's St. Martin Hospital. The nurses are underpaid and overworked, and have sex with doctors and patients.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Techniques of Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
A pseudo-documentary story about what happens behind dance school walls.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, fake documentary
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Group Therapy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Main character starts group therapy after feeling uncomfortable following string of random sexual encounters. In therapy he meets people with various emotional problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, gay cinema
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Hot Times (1974)
Plot Summary:
Wild sex romp loosely based on Archie Comics characters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, independent film, sex comedy
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Happy High School (1986)
Plot Summary:
The plot involves the school director bringing in a female inspector to clean up the school. The students decide to kidnap her and replace her with the sexy stripper "aunt" of one of the girls (who is naturally sleeping with several of the guys). The real director meanwhile falls madly in lust with one of her male captors. Meanwhile a goody-good student and her hypocrite father begin to suspect the ruse . . . So will there be a lot of crazy hijinks? Will everything work out happily in the end? Will the entire female cast (and an unfortunate amount of the male cast) find some excuse to get naked?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, psychotronic, teen comedy
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La Dream Team (2016)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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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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The Shiny Shrimps (2019)
Plot Summary:
Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia where the hottest international LGBT athletes compete. It's the start of a bumpy and joyful ride - Faster, Higher, Stronger.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, captivating, lgbt cinema, crying, freeze frame, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Guys & Balls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one day with an all-gay team that will grind the heteros into the dust, so he sets off to find his “dream team.” With the help of his nurse sister, Ecki scours local gay bars and eventually assembles a hilariously motley but endearing crew of misfits that includes a leather-daddy threesome, a femme Turk with Beckham fantasies, a secret straight guy in love with the sister, and a seriously cute nurse eager for some private play-time with the goalie. Ecki now has two problems – turning this bunch into a team, and facing his own fears regarding his first romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Drive, He Said (1971)
Plot Summary:
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Bubbles Galore (1996)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Cynthia Roberts.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Peephole of Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Innocent girl starts working as a secretary in an office. Soon she finds out a hole in the wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Cheerleaders (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, teen sex comedy, erotic, grindhouse, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Young Seducers (1971)
Plot Summary:
The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, anthology, freeze frame, sexploitation film
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Bajkeri (2017)
Plot Summary:
Insufficient brothers Jakub and David, along with friend Sasa, spend most of their time in the social networking world. Relationships for them are chat with virtual girls they have never seen, living a fake fashion show in which they pretend something that is not the biggest life problem, then a discharged cell phone or a broken wifi. The pressure of parents is forced to go under the leadership of David's charming "stepmother" Tereza on a twenty-kilometer bicycle trip, surprisingly finding out there is a real world out there in which life means more than facebook status, real girls look a little better than cartoon action heroes of virtual games and love also include sex.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, contemplative, low brow humor, teen comedy
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...aber Jonny! (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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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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Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
Plot Summary:
Der Bewegte Mann is a German comedy about a heterosexual man, Axel, who is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexual, homoerotic, realistic, semi serious, tense, funny, light, road movie, rough
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976)
Plot Summary:
There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot sequel to The Cheerleaders. Rainbeaux Smith (from the first film) is back ... and pregnant!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sexy, sensual, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, sex comedy, independent film
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Sexy Soccer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Down on his luck soccer coach Rolando is having a hard time scoring; in more ways than one! In debt to a loan shark; he really needs to improve his game. Desperately in need of a big win, he comes up with the perfect plan: a beautiful all girls soccer team. It's a good thing that these girls don't play by the rules! Using more than just fancy footwork; they distract the competition and aim for their goal. With the help of his irresistible new team. Rolando starts to score both on and off the field.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, independent film
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The Comebacks (2007)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, spoof, funny, melancholic, not serious, hilarious, slapstick, satirical, realistic
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Wildcats (1986)
Plot Summary:
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, inspirational, entertaining, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, entertaining, satirical, not serious, realistic, inspirational, clever, enigmatic
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Fired Up! (2009)
Plot Summary:
2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen, light, humorous, funny, romantic, entertaining, absurd, feel good, not serious