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Goal III: Taking on the World (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany, USA, UK
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), are selected for their respective national teams at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
soccer, sport team, football player, soccer match, wedding ceremony, athlete's life, friends, love and romance, rivalry, contests and competitions, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, love affair, ambition, football, sports fan, sports star, soccer coach, soccer fan, best man, father daughter relationship, nightclub, funeral, little girl ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to Goal III: Taking on the World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and feel good films with plots about rivalry, football, sport team, ambition, soccer, contests and competitions and underdog mostly in Sport, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Goal III: Taking on the World: The Program (1993), Home of the Giants (2007), Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010), Goal II: Living the Dream (2007), A Shot at Glory (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Style:
talky, intense, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
american football, football, football team, underdog, college football, justice, college life, lone hero, sport team, lifestyle, hopes, love triangle ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
usa, texas, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a High School journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the teams' main "Star" Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, cheerleader, basketball, friendship, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, love and romance, lifestyle, danger, rivalry, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Style:
captivating, sincere, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
soccer, follow your dream, hopes, young lovers, football, love and romance, rivalry, ambition, talented, championship, fan, post war ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, balkan, uruguay, serbia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to ...
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
soccer, football, hopes, latinos, athlete's life, dream come true, follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, underdog, professional athlete, temptation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain, madrid
Similarity:
100%
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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, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, friendship, against the odds, football, sport team, athlete and trainer, society ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, disturbing, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing
Plot:
soccer coach, football player, football team, obstacle, unrequited love, human spirit, sport competition, professional sports, male protagonist, ambition, sport team, sports star ...
Place:
ussr
Similarity:
100%
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:
feel good, sentimental, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, working class, pow, human spirit, follow your dream, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions, boy, football, society ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
west germany, budapest, europe, germany, hungary ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, sincere, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, social relations, ambition, youth, buddies, gain trust, village, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
american football, sport team, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, football, cancer, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, sentimental, romantic, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, soccer, world war two, forbidden love, hopes, holocaust, human spirit, family disapproval, love affair, ambition, sport team, rivalry ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, europe, bulgaria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
human spirit, rivalry, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition, relationship vs career, friendship, lifestyle, ego clash, contests and competitions, rising to stardom, racing ...
Time:
year 2005
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Friends Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are on the same soccer team in their coastal Australian town. But to local racists, they're a world apart: Gary is white and Dumby is an Aborigine. This becomes an issue when one ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, youth, rivalry, society, lifestyle, hopes, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, battle of the sexes, male friendship, couple relations, buddies, contests and competitions, sport team, strong female character, friendship between men, soccer coach, football, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, southern germany
Similarity:
100%
535
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
athlete and trainer, sport team, against the odds, human spirit, homecoming, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
68K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer...However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him ...
Style:
inspirational, harsh, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
soccer, football, athlete's life, coach, lifestyle, dream come true, sport team, career, cheerleader, follow your dream, human spirit, against the odds ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, england, europe, london, mexico ...
Similarity:
67%
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, interracial friendship, sport team, underdog, football, human spirit, against the odds, contests and competitions, rivalry, hopes, friendship, soccer match ...
Time:
year 2005, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1950
Place:
brazil, missouri, usa, washington d.c., rio de janeiro ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina
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Story:
This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.
Style:
exciting, inspirational, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, football player, football, soccer coach, sport team, football team, sporting event, playing football, rise to the top, professional sports, prodigy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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:
anthology, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
soccer, football, age-gap relationship, athlete's life, underdog, ambition, rivalry, obsession, contests and competitions, sport team, friends, billiards ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of young immigrants from Soviet Union live in a provincial Israeli town. In their new homeland the only person who follows them closely is the local policeman, family ties are wearing out day by day, and they do everything to mess their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, captivating
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rivalry, kids in trouble, buddies, youth, sport team, society, contests and competitions, immigrant, family crisis, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, soviet union, russia, ukraine, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous ...
Style:
inspirational, tense, factual, sexy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
soccer, football, discipline, soccer coach, biopic, football team, friendship, football player, ambition, mentor, training, rivalry ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century, year 2009, 60s
Place:
england, northern england, europe, mallorca, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, feel good, uplifting
Plot:
boys' school, soccer, dedicated educator, boarding school, human spirit, ambition, youth, hopes, rivalry, sport team, boarding school life, teachers and students ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues', an under funded, badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
football, lesbian, football team, soccer, sport team, friendship, women's football (soccer), strong female presence, couples, scout, social relations, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe, northern england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
soccer, teacher, fan, soccer fan, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, ambition, opposites attract, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES is a David Vs. Goliath set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup. It tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot:
soccer, hopes, ambition, rivalry, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, family relations, parents and children, soccer fan, football, underdog ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
ireland, belfast, brazil, northern ireland, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, ambition, couple relations, athlete's life, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, inspirational, serious, touching ...
Plot:
football player, boy, child protagonist, sport team, rivalry, follow your dream, hopes, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, orphan, coming of age, football ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
14K
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, loss of friend, football, air disaster, sport team, friends, human spirit, athlete and trainer, athlete, historical event, sports history, hospital ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1958, 50s
Place:
england, europe, munich germany
Similarity:
100%
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:
basketball, athlete's life, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, athlete, basketball coach, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
100%
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, bleak, gloomy, sincere
Plot:
soccer, male bonding, football, friendship, male nudity, beer, women, family relations, heroes, hopes, society, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Advocates to end homelessness, organize an annual tournament for Homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, sincere, inspirational
Plot:
football player, football team, football, soccer match, homelessness, world cup, soccer coach, homeless, homeless man, contest, team, professional sports ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, london, south africa, rome italy, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
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