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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
Best tv shows and movies like Match of the Day 2 (2004):
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Women's International Football (2010)
Plot Summary:
BBC coverage of the home nations women's national football teams as they play in qualifying matches and international friendlies.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Sport
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: non fiction
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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
Plot tags:
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Saturday Night's Main Event (2006)
Plot Summary:
A professional wrestling television program produced by the World Wrestling Federation banner on NBC airing in place of Saturday Night Live. The series was made up entirely of star vs. star bouts in a time when weekly programming consisted primarily of established stars dominating enhancement talent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, non fiction
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The Women's Football Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Football series looking at the biggest issues in the women's game.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: non fiction
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WWE ECW (2006)
Plot Summary:
ECW was a professional wrestling television program for WWE, based on the independent Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion that lasted from 1992 to 2001. The show's name also referred to the ECW brand, in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform, complementary to WWE's other brands, Raw and SmackDown. It debuted on June 13, 2006 on Sci Fi in the United States and ran for close to four years until it aired its final episode on February 16, 2010 on the rebranded Syfy. It was replaced the following week with WWE NXT.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Jamie Johnson (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jamie Johnson is a boy with a dream. A boy who lives and breathes football. Join Jamie with his struggle to settle into a new school, search for his absent father and make the all-important football team.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hot Shot (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hot Shot is a Taiwanese drama starring Jerry Yan, Show Luo, and Wu Chun of Fahrenheit. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Lin He Long. It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air China Television from 27 July 2008 to 9 November 2008, on Sundays at 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 2 August 2008 to 15 November 2008, every Saturday at 21:30 to 23:00. This show was also broadcast in Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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Las Bravas F.C. (2022)
Plot Summary:
A former soccer player who was once the best in the world becomes the new coach of his town's women's soccer team and promises to make them champions in order to avoid going to jail.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Boys Soccer Club (2009)
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
Plot tags:
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Soccer Aid (2006)
Plot Summary:
Soccer Aid is a biennial British charity event that has raised £6.5 million in aid of UNICEF UK through ticket sales and donations. The event is a football match between two teams of celebrities and former professional players, representing England and the Rest of the World. Television coverage began on ITV on 22 May 2006 in a show presented by Ant & Dec. Soccer Aid was initiated by Robbie Williams and Jonathan Wilkes. The event returned on 7 September 2008 and again on 6 June 2010. England beat Rest of the World in 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Sport
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Messi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers fight the odds to make their fathers dream come true and they lose much more in the bargain. The film is on street soccer where every kid dreams to be a Messi and to live the dream they are willing to go beyond the distance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Sport
Country: India, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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89 (2017)
Plot Summary:
89 tells the incredible story of one of football’s greatest triumphs: when against all odds Arsenal snatched the Championship title from Liverpool at Anfield in the last minute of the last game of the 1988/89 season. It’s a universal tale of a band of brothers who, led by a charismatic and deeply respected manager, came together to defy the odds and create history.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, sentimental, light, sincere, captivating, factual
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Football Dreams (2013)
Plot Summary:
A story, between reality and fiction, that recreates everything Carlos 'El Pibe' Valderrama (Edgar Vittorino), Freddy Rincón (Antonio Jiménez), José René Higuita (Jhon Alex Castillo) and Faustino Hernán Asprilla (Omar Murillo) had to go through. . Learn through the lives of these historical and emblematic characters and players, the history of the best Colombian team of all time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Club de Cuervos (2015)
Plot Summary:
When the patriarch of a prominent family dies, his heirs battle to determine who will gain control of his beloved soccer team: The Cuervos of Nuevo Toledo.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, cynical, hispanic
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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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Once (2017)
Plot Summary:
The series revolves around Gabo, a soccer-loving teenager who, upon receiving a scholarship from the prestigious Sports Academic Institute (IAD) of Buenos Aires, will see his dream of playing at Los Halcones Dorados, the renowned amateur team of the school, and also his longing to become a professional footballer.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: Argentina
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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The Kicks (2015)
Plot Summary:
Devin Burke and her family have moved cross-country to California and now must adjust to a new life and a new soccer team. The Kentville Kicks don't quite play up to the standard that Devin is used to, so she must establish herself as a leader while also trying to make friends in a strange place.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, teen comedy
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NBC Sunday Night Football (2006)
Plot Summary:
NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color commentator and Michele Tafoya as the sideline reporter. Fred Gaudelli and Drew Esocoff, the lead producer and director respectively, carry over their duties from ABC's telecasts of Monday Night Football. John Madden, the color commentator for the first three years of the program, retired prior to the 2009 season; Collinsworth succeeded him. ESPN, which aired Sunday night games from the 1987 through 2005 NFL seasons, took over Monday Night Football from sister network ABC starting in 2006. In the 2011–12 season, it was named the highest rated, most watched TV program in Nielsen ratings. In second place was American Idol, a show that had previously held the title of most watched TV program for eight consecutive seasons and eight straight years. Starting in 2012, under the new NFL television contract, a Spanish-language simulcast will eventually air on sister network Telemundo; currently like all networks with NFL television contracts, NBC's SAP channel features Spanish-language audio, though promoted by NBC as "provided by Telemundo".
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, non fiction
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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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30 for 30: Soccer Stories (2014)
Plot Summary:
ESPN Films, creators of the critically-acclaimed 30 for 30 film series, will premiere a new series in April surrounding the 2014 FIFA World Cup on ESPN. 30 for 30: Soccer Stories will include a mix of standalone feature-length and 30-minute-long documentary films from an award winning group of filmmakers telling compelling narratives from around the international soccer landscape.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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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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Home Ground (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a newly promoted football club lose their trainer just before the start of the league season, a female, Helena Mikkelsen, gets the historic chance to coach the team, even before an ambitious retired professional.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, inspirational, captivating
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Training Dad (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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The First Team (2020)
Plot Summary:
The misadventures of three young football players Mattie, Jack and Benji, at a fictional Premier League club with terrifying team hard-man Petey, mercurial Italian manager Cesare and eccentric chairman Mark Crane.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Go!Goal!Fighting! (2016)
Plot Summary:
The play tells the story of a group of high school football teenagers who struggle all the way through the school football league under the guidance of "underdog coach" mooch.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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Ted Lasso (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 323000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 1453 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, sitcom, sincere, captivating, uplifting
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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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Mike Bassett: Manager (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mike Bassett: Manager is a British TV comedy series, which began transmitting from 29 September 2005 on ITV. It is a follow-up to the film Mike Bassett: England Manager, and stars Ricky Tomlinson in the title role, Steve Edge as his assistant, and Amanda Redman as his long-suffering wife, Karine. Neil Maskell, known from the Football Factory film, appears as a clubzine reporter. The series picks up some time after Mike took England to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup. The side's attempt at qualifying for the 2004 European Championships ended in disaster, resulting in Mike being sacked. Since then, a spell at Newcastle ended in similar fashion after getting them relegated two seasons in a row, while his returns to former clubs Norwich and then Colchester fared little better. Mike decides to retire, but at the last minute is offered the manager's job at Wirral County F.C., for whom his father was a player. They seem doomed to be relegated to the Football Conference. Not helping his job is the fact that the chairman is senile, the chief executive is eagerly awaiting relegation so that he can sell their ground and Karine isn't pleased with the idea of retiring in Ellesmere Port rather than Spain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic