Movies like Football Stories
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Football Stories (1997)
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Original name: Historias de fútbol
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Chile
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, anthology
Plot:
soccer, football, age-gap relationship, obsession, friends, rivalry, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, underdog, athlete's life, sex, teenager, children, island, friendship, football player, sex scene, billiards, coach, hospital, boy, male nudity, single mother, boat ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chile, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about sport, ambition, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life, contests and competitions and athlete and trainer mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Football Stories: When Saturday Comes (1996), A Shot at Glory (2000), Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016), Believe (2013), The Kid (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
soccer, friendship, football, women, male nudity, beer, heroes, ambition, self discovery, underdog, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
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Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
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realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, feel good ...
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teens
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sport, soccer, follow your dream, human spirit, athlete's life, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, friendship, sport team, rivalry ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, serious, factual, uplifting ...
Plot:
sport, following a dream, athlete's life, soccer, rags to riches, football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, prodigy, ambition, rivalry, youth ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, africa, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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74%
891
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, captivating, inspirational, serious ...
Plot:
sport, ambition, hopes, human spirit, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, sport team, orphan, athlete and trainer, coming of age, football player ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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188
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
boxing, youth, family relations, human spirit, athlete's life, lifestyle, hopes, rise to the top, underdog, aging, athlete and trainer, supportive spouse ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, basketball, vulgarity ...
Time:
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Place:
indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
oxford, university, power relations, sport team, hopes, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, underdog, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, feel good, realistic, serious
Plot:
soccer, sport, working class, pow, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, society ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
budapest, europe, west germany, germany, hungary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, sport, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, hopes, athlete's life, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, tense
Plot:
boxing, athlete's life, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, tough heroes, ego clash, relationship vs career, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, touching, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
running, sport, follow your dream, contests and competitions, sport team, society, lifestyle, ambition, friendship, athlete's life, ego clash, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
exciting, captivating, uplifting, entertaining, motivational
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
football player, soccer coach, football, coach, football team, athlete and trainer, playing football, professional sports, sport, athlete, soccer match, sporting event ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, sincere, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
runner, interracial relations, obsession, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, society, sport, running, track and field ...
Time:
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Place:
south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Goal is the story of bunch of ordinary village children who challenge the impossible with the help of a teacher who refuses to see them fail.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
soccer, sport team, interracial friendship, underdog, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, hopes, sport, contests and competitions, rivalry, football ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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sentimental, uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lex 'El Animal' Vargas is a promising Portorican boxer in Queens, but lacks ambition to aim for the big career. That changes after his brother Paulie is accidentally shot dead by a teenager in an amateur hold-up on their late dad's ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, small town, hopes, ambition, prodigy, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, youth, against the odds, sport team ...
Time:
60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, realistic, feel good, serious
Plot:
sport, dedicated educator, human spirit, boarding school, ambition, youth, teachers and students, sport team, hopes, power relations, boarding school life, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, melancholic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, college, coach, young lovers, ambition, follow your dream, sport, youth, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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uplifting, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
disturbing, captivating
Plot:
football, rise and fall, sport team, football team, ambitious, professional sports, soccer coach, athlete's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, football player, teamwork ...
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45%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, touching, sincere
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, human spirit, athlete's life, leadership, teenage life, against the odds, lifestyle, sport, society, rivalry ...
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, uplifting, serious, touching, inspirational
Plot:
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43%
507
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex footballer embroiled in a scandal returns hometown clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
athlete and trainer, sport, sport team, homecoming, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes, small town, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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