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Match (2012)
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Match (2012)
Original name: Матч
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: football, world war two, soccer match, sport team, contests and competitions, football player, football team, rivals, showdown, professional rivalry, life is a bitch, rivalry, social problems, athlete's life, soccer, nazi occupation, jousting
Time: year 1942
Place: soviet union, ukraine, ussr
Keyword: sport, russian, ukrainian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, disturbing and serious films with plots about football, sport team, soccer, football player, football team, soccer coach and athlete's life mostly in Sport, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Match: Champs (2018), Three Seconds (2017), Eleven Silent Men (2022), The Coach (2018), Under the Stadium Lights (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Champs (2018)
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, sport team, rise and fall, football player, soccer coach, football team, aspiration, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, teamwork, ambitious ...
Place: mexico
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The Match (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport, War
Country: Croatia, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
Style: tense, suspense, historical drama
Plot: world war two, football, concentration camp, soccer, sport team, soccer match, prisoner of war camp, nazi, prisoners of war, military, football team, football player ...
Time: year 1944
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100%
Three Seconds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play ...
Style: atmospheric, inspirational, captivating, motivational
Plot: basketball, sport team, basketball player, olympics, terror, kgb, handicapped, coach, athlete, disability, reputation, stubbornness ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, year 1972
Place: eastern europe, lithuania, munich germany, moscow russia
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100%
Eleven Silent Men (2022)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Tells about the events of November 1945 when the first Post War championship of the USSR winners, Dynamo-Moscow, went on the historic tour of Britain. Soviet football players won not only on the football fields of England. They managed to win the ...
Style: period piece, captivating, exciting, witty
Plot: russian abroad, sport team, football, professional athlete, sports man, football team, sports fan, sporting event, football player, playing football, soccer match, professional sports ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Coach (2018)
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: uplifting, exciting, captivating, motivational
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: football player, soccer coach, coach, football, football team, athlete and trainer, playing football, professional sports, soccer match, athlete, sporting event, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: moscow russia, russia
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Under the Stadium Lights (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: high school football, athlete and trainer, football team, sport team, athlete's life, soccer, football player, competitor, desire for fame, playing football, school club, direction and purpose ...
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25%
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Dream (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot: soccer, football team, soccer coach, football, football player, coach, athlete and trainer, sport team, satire, athlete's life, ambition, playing football ...
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24%
A Shot at Glory (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, athlete's life, human spirit, underdog, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, against the odds, football, sport team, society ...
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Goal (2018)
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: sinhala, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: soccer, children, football player, football, teacher, school, soccer match, soccer coach, football team, teenager, friends, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sri lanka
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24%
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The Match (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: football, ambition, soccer match, sport team, athlete's life, changing lives, football team, intrigue, soccer coach, cheating, conspiracy
Place: rome italy
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24%
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Girls Got Game (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A local female football team works together to get through hard times and overcome sexual prejudice. Their strength is tested when they lose not only the games, but also their beloved coach who was the core of their team. But they work together to ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: football player, soccer, sport team, contests and competitions, ambitious woman, football, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, soccer match, female protagonist, direction and purpose, ambition, lifestyle ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Fix (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story: Lured by a world where money buys everything, a star footballer falls into the world of corruption and match fixing.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: fixed match, athlete's life, football player, sport team, changing lives, football team, soccer match, lifestyle change, soccer, frame up, conspiracy, athlete and trainer ...
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22%
United Passions (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: soccer, world cup, ambition, follow your dream, contests and competitions, football, economist, workplace, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, sponsor, leadership ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place: europe
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22%
The Game of Their Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no US team has yet won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, sentimental, independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: soccer, sport team, interracial friendship, underdog, football, human spirit, against the odds, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, friendship, soccer match ...
Time: year 2005, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1950
Place: brazil, missouri, usa, washington d.c., new york ...
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21%
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The Referee (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An ambitious soccer referee ends up handling a crucial match between two small Sardinian teams
Style: captivating, disturbing, black and white
Plot: football, soccer, referee, athlete's life, football team, sport team, football player, team, rivalry, frame up, playing football, injustice ...
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21%
Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal. Lanky, with ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: football, goalkeeper, football team, sport team, football player, skill, triumph, athlete's life, popularity, world cup, professional athlete, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Heleno (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 116 min.
Story: José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, stylized, black and white ...
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, lifestyle, rise and fall, couples, womanizer, life is a bitch, rivalry, bad attitude, drug abuse, troublemaker, sport team ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Goal III: Taking on the World (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the third installment of the football drama trilogy Goal!, Kuno Becker returns as Mexican footballer Santiago Muñez, who, along with his best friends and England national team players Charlie Braithwaite (Leo Gregory) and Liam Adams (JJ Feild), ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: soccer, sport team, soccer match, athlete's life, wedding ceremony, lifestyle, buddies, love and romance, rivalry, contests and competitions, friends, against the odds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Messi (2017)
Genre: Sport
Country: India, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 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.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: soccer, soccer fan, direction and purpose, aspiration, rivalry, desire for fame, teenager, athlete and trainer, ambitious, teenage life, bigger dreams, athlete's life ...
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21%
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White Snow (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An inspiring biopic about the legendary skier Elena Vyalbe. Born in a small town in the north of Russia, she had the courage and dedication to overcome a slew of obstacles on her way to becoming the very best in her sport. The film captures a ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, motivational
Plot: skiing, contests and competitions, direction and purpose, rivalry, multiple contestants, rivals, champion, championship, professional rivalry, aspiration, athlete's life, motivation ...
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21%
A Life for Football (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Story: The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: soccer, football player, racial slur, friendship, sports history, football team, german history, loss of family, holocaust survivor, soccer match, nazi germany, marriage proposal ...
Time: post world war two, year 1943, year 1947, year 1932
Place: germany, bavaria, munich germany
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21%
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Tigers (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Italy, Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Super-talented footballing prodigy Martin is bought by top club Inter Milan, aged just 16. It’s the chance of a lifetime – but at what price?
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: soccer, football, depression, football player, playing football, price of fame, professional sports, athlete's life, adulthood, soccer coach, self sacrifice, football team ...
Place: milan italy, italy, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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On The Edge (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin ...
Style: motivational, serious, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: fencing, swordsman, athlete's life, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, professional rivalry, rivalry, rivals, professional sports, ambition, hopes, olympics ...
Place: russia, eastern europe, moscow russia
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21%
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The Third Half (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
Style: uplifting, captivating, sentimental, romantic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: soccer, world war two, true love, holocaust, ambition, forbidden love, family disapproval, human spirit, love affair, contests and competitions, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, bulgaria
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20%
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Soccer Killer (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Song Dynasty, a group of patriots play soccer against the traitor with a team of foreign enemies, royal pro-nobles, bandits, martial arts masters and embrace the country hatred to compete for the first time in the history of China ...
Style: captivating, exciting, funny, entertaining, humorous
Plot: soccer, martial arts, sporting event, sport competition, playing football, football, soccer match, football player, football team, sport team, wuxia
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20%
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Soccer Aid (2006)
Genre: Sport
Country: UK
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining
Plot: soccer, football, charity, soccer match, playing football, football team, professional athlete, contest, rivalry, professional sports, sport team, football player ...
Place: england, manchester
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20%
Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: baseball, juvenile delinquent, athlete and trainer, teamwork, aspiration, high school life, social problems, contests and competitions, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, direction and purpose, professional sports ...
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20%
Summer of '92 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.
Style: captivating, sincere, humorous, tense, feel good
Plot: football, soccer coach, football player, soccer, male objectification, sport team, football team, tournament, drunkenness, party, sick child, cancer patient ...
Time: year 1990, year 1992, 90s
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
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United (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, stylized ...
Plot: soccer, football, loss of friend, air disaster, sport team, friends, human spirit, athlete and trainer, athlete, real life, racing, post war ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1958, 50s
Place: england, europe, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Miracle of Bern (2003)
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: serious, realistic, exciting, feel good, sentimental
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, working class, pow, follow your dream, human spirit, against the odds, contests and competitions, football, hopes, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: west germany, budapest, europe, germany, hungary ...
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