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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
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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
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Everything's the Wrong Way (1982)
Plot Summary:
A story about a guy and a girl who decided to get married.They want to have their own place and live without parents. They search for apartment to live together because they can't live without each other, they're seriously falling in love, but parents are getting tougher to deal with and they forbid her to see him. He comes up with a plan to sneak into her house pretending to be her English girl-teacher named Olga with two long braids and funny voice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Time Out (1998)
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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I Had Fun (2015)
Plot Summary:
Did the date go well? Bad? She liked your Facebook picture but hasn't responded to your text. How Chad solves these modern day dating mysteries is explored as he tries to win back the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, fun
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Finding Lenny (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Everything happens for a reason" - on his 50th birthday, Lenny Vincent is fired from his job as a sports writer for a daily newspaper, his wife of 19 years leaves him for a much younger man and he and his best friend Dave are caught in a gang heist at a restaurant. He ends up being hi-jacked by the gang and dumped in a rural village. Here he befriends the local chief and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime; helping to reunite the chief's warring sons, fighting a money grabbing property company from turning the chief's land into a golf course, coaching the village soccer team and ultimately.. finding himself!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
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Golden Shoes (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Dog Years (2021)
Plot Summary:
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not much time left to live and pens a bucket list of all the things she would like to achieve before she dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Lady Football (1983)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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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Struck by Lightning (1990)
Plot Summary:
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
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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One Night in Istanbul (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash. It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, tense, melancholic, light, captivating, suspenseful
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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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Romeo and Juliet Get Married (2005)
Plot Summary:
The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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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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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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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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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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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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Cupid's Balls (2011)
Plot Summary:
Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a sparring partner, Lukas hatches a plan for winning Susanne's heart. But Susanne has a boyfriend, and Lucas soon comes to realize that the road to love may be paved with lies and animosity. Cupid's Balls is packed with humour, romantic summer nights and fervent conflicts both off an on the soccer field.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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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