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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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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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Holly's Heroes (2005)
Plot Summary:
Holly's Heroes is a children's drama series produced as a collaboration between the Nine Network in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand. It was produced as a series of 26 episodes and first screened in 2005.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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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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Le.Gen.D (2021)
Plot Summary:
According to the plot, because of his narcissism and selfishness, the undefeated MMA fighter does not notice how he is betrayed by the closest people. Now professional sports are closed to him. It could destroy another, but for the Legend it is only an excuse to accelerate and jump even higher.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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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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Match of the Day 2 (2004)
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
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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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Brother (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers fight to escape a violent and poor neighborhood in Caracas by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to play professionally while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the Caracas Football Club. The boys' mother dies in a shootout forcing each brother to decide what it is more important to them:family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, realistic, serious, sincere
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Under the Stadium Lights (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it takes the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father figure for the players to realize what they can achieve when they stand united.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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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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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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Lanky Girls (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mikhail Kovalev, the protagonist, is a talented and successful coach of a Super League men's volleyball team. He is pretty short but compensates it with bad temper and aggressive behavior. He lives large and often drops his girlfriends whom he treats like sex objects. After his another escapade he is confronted by the new president of the Volleyball Federation, who is a woman. As a result, he is fired from the big sports. Now to have a chance to return, he has to make a university women's team the winner of a tournament in his provincial hometown. Such is a condition his mother set to him, a despotic and autocratic woman who used to be a famous volleyball player and the first coach of the current president of the Volleyball Federation. Mikhail has to change and learn to respect girls, accept their problems and stop treating them as sexual objects.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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Home Team (1998)
Plot Summary:
Henry Butler (Steve Guttenberg) is a professional athlete with a little Pete Rose in him. His athletic interests go beyond the playing field and into the gambling dens. Convicted for his addiction, the soccer player is assigned to community service at a children's home as a condition of his parole. The home attempts to exploit his soccer skills by forming a team. Butler takes no interest, though, until the home burns down and the team begins playing for their homes instead of personal pride or a payoff.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, family comedy
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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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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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Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (2019)
Plot Summary:
This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, touching, motivational
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Soccer Dog: European Cup (2004)
Plot Summary:
Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been brought to Scotland after the death of his mother to be reunited with the father he never knew, Brian (Nick Moran). After a bumpy introduction, father and son eventually connect by playing soccer together, and when the unusually nimble Kimble storms onto the field one day, their lives change forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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The Big Green (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As they work overtime, the pair help kids build their self-esteem and also get involved in solving family squabbles.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, inspirational, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, epic
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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