Movies and TV shows like Home Ground

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Home Ground (2018)
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Home Ground (2018)
Original name: Heimebane
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, psychological, inspirational, captivating
Plot: football, coach, soccer, new job, mother daughter relationship, sexism, small town, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team, chance, religion, soccer coach, equality, emancipation, female protagonist, athlete and trainer, female boss
Keyword: sport, norway, norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, psychological and serious films and TV series with plots about sport team, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, football, rivalry and soccer mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Home Ground: Ted Lasso (2020), Friday Night Lights (2006), Mike Bassett: Manager (2005), Playmakers (2003), A Shot at Glory (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ted Lasso (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 1453 min.
TV show
Story: 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?
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, sitcom, sincere ...
Plot: soccer, soccer coach, american abroad, male male relationship, football team, football player, football, closeted gay, ex husband ex wife relationship, professional sports, career change, coach ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: england, london
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80%
Friday Night Lights (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Friday Night Lights is an American drama television series based around a high school football team situated in Texas. The series takes place in the fictional town of Dillon: a small, close-knit community in rural Texas. Particular focus is given to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, football, athlete and trainer, american football, coach, sport team, friendship, contests and competitions, cheerleader, small town, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, hawaii, southern usa, usa
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100%
Mike Bassett: Manager (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: soccer, athlete and trainer, ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team, manager, football, underdog, couple relations, friends, hypnosis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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44%
 8.4
 1K
Playmakers (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 491 min.
TV show
Story: Playmakers is an American television series that aired on ESPN from August 26, 2003 to November 11, 2003. It depicted the lives of the Cougars, a fictional professional football team in an unidentified city. The show starred Omar Gooding, Marcello ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, rough
Plot: american football, deal, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ego clash, coach, slick ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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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40%
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Side Games (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: The series focuses on businessman Mariano Hidalgo, who takes charge of the management of the modest Club Deportivo Leones. This second division team is in decline and Hidalgo will try to avoid his descent. This challenge serves to bring to light the ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: soccer, football, businessman, ambition, problem, sport team, direction and purpose, aspiration, ambitious, football team, soccer coach, football player ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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A Season With (2015)
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story: From the classroom to the locker room to the kick-off each week, viewers are transported behind-the-scenes, beyond the field and into the lives of these student athletes as they compete throughout the season. Go deep inside the world of a Division ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: american football, college football, sport team, athlete and trainer, american football player, rugby player, rugby, soccer coach, ambition, direction and purpose, athlete's life, playing football ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Final Score (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Colombia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The complicated relationship of several of the Colombian national team players with drug trafficking, one that culminated in the own goal and murder of one of the most beloved defenders in the world.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: soccer, drug crime, drug, football player, football team, soccer coach, football, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, drug use, sport team, drug traffic ...
Time: year 1994, year 1987, 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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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38%
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Believe (2013)
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: boy, sport team, contests and competitions, hopes, follow your dream, rivalry, human spirit, ambition, orphan, athlete and trainer, coming of age, football ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: england
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38%
The Hockey Girls (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The passionate members of a girls' roller hockey team chase down victories in the rink while striving to make time for school, family and romance.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, dramatic, motivational
Plot: coach, ice hockey, lesbian, team, contests and competitions, female athlete, sport team, against the odds, hockey, friends, ambition, female protagonist ...
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38%
Mothers of Champions (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
TV show
Style: captivating
Plot: athlete's life, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, multiple perspectives, professional rivalry, coach, family relations, parents and children, world championship wrestling, mother son relationship, point of view, swimming ...
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37%
A Season on the Brink (2002)
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, rivalry, athlete's life, sport team, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, hopes, athlete, power relations, college ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Stove League (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although ...
Style: dorama, intellectual, witty, inspirational, clever ...
Plot: sport team, teamwork, baseball, manager, target, success, rise to the top, determination, hopes, rivalry, friendship, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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21 Thunder (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the Montreal Thunder U21 (under-21) team, following the team's star players on and off the field. A story of love, crime, race, sex and athletic glory, at its core the series is about how a group of players and coaches unite as ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sexy
Plot: soccer, direction and purpose, athlete's life, football team, ambition, ambitious, football player, desire for fame, problem, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, sport team ...
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36%
NBC Sunday Night Football (2006)
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, non fiction
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american football, contests and competitions, ex athlete, football, coach, sport team, rivalry, expert, championship, talk show, nfl, reporter ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
30 for 30: Soccer Stories (2014)
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, rising to stardom, sport team, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rise and fall, society, world spanning ...
Time: 20th century
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Blinder (2013)
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, uplifting, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ambition, human spirit, against the odds, homecoming, sport team, rivalry, haunted by the past, hopes, friendship, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Long Slow Exhale (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the competitive world of women's college basketball, this series follows the successful head coach of a championship team who finds herself embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal that threatens to destroy everything she's built. As she ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: affair, athlete's life, sport team, college, women, basketball, basketball coach, career, basketball team, female protagonist, problem, relationship vs career ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Aim for the Ace! (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hiromi Oka decides to join the high school tennis club from the moment she saw the star player Reika's (Matsumoto) excellent and smashing play. However, once the tennis lesson began, Hiromi finds herself bored in the succession of simple ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic
Plot: tennis, love interest, tennis player, sport team, athlete and trainer, fall in love, relationships, male female relationship, ambitious woman, professional rivalry, in love, love story ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Prize Fighter (2003)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a life of hard knocks and wrong turns, boxer Ed Jones gets a second chance at fulfilling his life long dream of a World Boxing Championship. With the help of veteran promoter, Arliss King and the guidance of a former champ, Ed embarks on the ...
Style: realistic, captivating, exciting, psychological, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, athlete and trainer, hopes, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, boxer, championship, contests and competitions, self destructing, death of wife, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Forever (2023)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Mila and Kia, a pair of teenage best friends and aspiring football professionals. When the girls get a new demanding football coach Lollo, they slowly start to drift apart.
Style: touching, dramatic, serious, captivating, exciting
Plot: coach, dream, football, soccer, friendship, life, football player, soccer coach, adolescent girl, athlete and trainer, friends, female friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Bronx Is Burning (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 9, 2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahler's best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning. ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, clever ...
Plot: major league, self involved, athlete and trainer, rising to stardom, contests and competitions, ambition, athlete's life, coach, manager, championship, campaign, sport team ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Las Bravas F.C. (2022)
Genre: Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing
Plot: soccer, competition, athlete's life, football player, lifestyle, soccer coach, football, sports injury, lifestyle change, athlete and trainer, getting home
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35%
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The Gymnasts (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
TV show
Story: Teenage obsessions clash with the brutal pressures of competitive training, when a team of young gymnasts compete in an elite tournament. Friendships are tested, rivalries flare, and some will do anything to win.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: gymnastics, team, athlete's life, gymnast, sport team, competitor, rivalry, women, adolescence, female protagonist, teenage life, professional rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Montevideo, God Bless You! (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: This is a story about Yugoslavian national football team and their journey to the first world championship in Montevideo.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: football, soccer, championship, lifestyle, problem, ambition, football player, satire, sport team, football team, athlete's life, martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Men In Blazers Show (2014)
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A celebration of the Premier League, the world's greatest sporting telenovela, with Roger Bennett and Michael Davies.
Style: entertaining, captivating
Plot: soccer, sports fan, soccer fan, football, football player, sport team, soccer match
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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