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Plot Summary:
The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Spain, Italy, Colombia
Duration: 105 min
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Mr. Fifteen Balls (1998)
Plot Summary:
Francesco Di Narnali is a world champion billiards Italian and American, with a particular talent for spectacular performances, in particular to be able to pit fifteen balls to the pool with a broom instead of a stick; hence the nickname "Mr. Quindicipalle".One day, Francesco went to the cemetery by his father and, attempting to steal the flowers to the graves he meets a woman named Sissi, who turns out to be a prostitute. Francis, having told relatives that he knew a certain Margaret, for one million and five hundred thousand lire, invites her to lunch at her home, calling her by the name of Margaret.Sissi alias Margaret then tries to get rid of Francis, but it so happens that they meet again just to one of the performances of Francis, and they begin dating. He, more and more in love, even dedicates a new blow to the specialty five pins: un'ottavina nine banks, which he calls "Ottavina Princess Sissi".Francis continues to practice at the pool to take part in a major tournament, but.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
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The Game (2008)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy about the Russian footfall team and their adventures during the World Cup.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Honeybun (1988)
Plot Summary:
A nun escapes the convent to discover the real world outside. Her parents however believe that she's kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Velvet Hands (1979)
Plot Summary:
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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My Love or My Passion (2017)
Plot Summary:
A sports fan loses everything for being addicted to his team and soccer. He then starts a quest to find a cure and recover his wife's love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Dream (2023)
Plot Summary:
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)
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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The Icelandic Dream (2000)
Plot Summary:
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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Flying Pigs (2010)
Plot Summary:
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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United (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kåre is a youth coach with aspirations to become the greatest football player ever like his idol, Bryan Robson. However, his dreams are starting to take a toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Anna.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Dog in the Manger (1996)
Plot Summary:
Diana, the Countess of Belflor, is an intelligent, impulsive woman in love with her secretary, Teodoro. He is engaged to Marcela, one of the countess's ladies in waiting. When the countess finds out about the engagement, driven by jealousy, she does everything possible to separate the lovers. Film adaptation of the play by Lope de Vega that respects the text in verse.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, manga, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, biting, suspense
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The Cup (1999)
Plot Summary:
While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen who desperately seeks a TV to watch the final.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Bhutan, Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, witty, thinking, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, light, inspirational
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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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Trainer on the Beach (1984)
Plot Summary:
Trainer Oronzo Canà is called to manage Longobarda, the team of a small town of Northern Italy, when it's promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to go back to the Second Division, but even the team's owner plays against Longobarda since the First Division is too expensive, and the young Brazilian player bought for the team is affected by deep 'saudade'. Written by Alessio F. Bragadini.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, realistic, not serious, surprise ending, cult film
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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
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Training Dad (2015)
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Widowed and in a professional decline, the legendary soccer player "Spider Salazar" lives lost in his own depression. His only inspiration is his daughter Tania, who can not stand to see her father in this state. With a lot of ingenuity and perseverance, Tania will help his father return to the field in order to restore his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, sexy, inspirational, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, romantic comedy
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Kicking & Screaming (2005)
Plot Summary:
Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But with becoming the coach of The Soccers, an already successful soccer team, everything changes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, intense, feel good, not serious, realistic, slapstick comedy, inspirational, unusual plot structure
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Trainer at the ball 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Coach (2010)
Plot Summary:
A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic, feel good, realistic, independent film, romantic drama
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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Match (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Footballest (2018)
Plot Summary:
Francisco and his closest friends play on a soccer team that has reached its lowest point. They’ve got to win one of the next three games to keep the school from cutting their team altogether. A series of strange events take place in the first two games. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Francisco and his friends decide to create The Footballest, an investigative team that will get them into all kinds of adventures, where their ingenuity and their friendships will be put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, exciting, captivating, semi serious
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All the Freckles in the World (2019)
Plot Summary:
Teen comedy set in the school-year of 1994. José is the new kid on high-school, falling immediately for the popular and freckled Christina. Trying to impress her, he's going to unsuccessfully join the soccer try-outs. Is he shooting way out of his league?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Lucky Trouble (2011)
Plot Summary:
Who said you have to win to be a champion? Slava Kolotiloff, a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of "Fingers" comes to conquer Moscow with the manuscript to his first novel in hand. But instead, quite by accident, he conquers the heart of a beauty named Nadia (Milla Jovovich). As their wedding approaches, Slava needs only to quit his job and tie up loose ends back in "Fingers" before returning to Moscow to start a new life with his new bride. But due to a number of bizarre circumstances he is unable to leave and back in the big city, the wedding goes on regardless as Nadia has to fend off the attentions of her ex-boyfriend Danya, who seems ready to do whatever it takes to win her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, light, touching, exciting
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Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
Plot Summary:
Mike Bassett: England Manager is an hilarious British Comedy that stars Ricky Thomlinson. Featuring Cameos from Barry Venison, Gabby Yorath, Atomic Kitten and Pele.When the England manager has a heart attack, footballs' top brass turn to Mike Bassett (basically no one else wanted the job). England lose Mike's first two games in charge. His team struggles to a goal-less draw in the final qualifying match but, thanks to a fluke result elsewhere, England qualify for the finals in Brazil.In South America things go from bad to worse. Pressure is mounting for Mike. An embarrassing drunken performance caught by a new photographer seals his fate as the most unpopular Englishman ever.However, Mike makes an impassioned plea for the country to get behind him - fans, press, players.... even his wife. Can Mike turn the tide and bring football home ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, mockumentary, parody, funny, cult classic
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FC Venus (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
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FC Venus (2005)
Plot Summary:
Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in Germany. Anna is not excited about Pete's plan to leave her alone for the summer. Therefore Anna decides to present a challenge to Pete: She will form a team from the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, and then the women's team (FC Venus) would play against FC HeMan. If the women's team wins, the men will have to give up football, and if the men's team wins, the women will never complain about their hobby.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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She's the Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
Viola Johnson is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, teen, romantic comedy, cute, humorous, relaxing, epic, scenic
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Fever Pitch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, witty, talky