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The Merger (2018)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot:
football team, football, community, friendship, career, redemption, camaraderie, coach, rivalry, contests and competitions, society, passion, refugee, country club, football player, hospital, humanism, compassion, friend, grandfather grandson relationship, xenophobia, empathy, young adult, rural setting, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Most similar movies to The Merger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, feel good and light films with plots about friendship, football, soccer, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition and football team mostly in Sport, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Merger: Going for Gold (2018), We Are the Champions (2005), Girls Got Game (2021), Varsity Punks (2017), Next Goal Wins (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, sincere
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
cheerleading, gymnastics, cheerleader, gymnast, father daughter relationship, father, champion, female protagonist, daughter, rivalry, friendship, believe in yourself ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Divorced father without custody Torben, a former pro soccer player, concentrates on his talented son David's juniors poorly performing team. When the coach suddenly accepts another position, Torben gets his change 'for the time ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining
Audience:
kids
Plot:
football, coach, single father, father son relationship, punishment, loyalty, father figure, champion, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
30%
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, light, humorous, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
football player, football team, sport team, ambitious woman, contests and competitions, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, football, soccer, friends, direction and purpose, lifestyle, soccer match ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When star high school quarterback AJ Montoya breaks his hand his only hope is to team up with his longtime rivals, the cross country team--a group of nerds and misfits with potential for high school glory.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, exciting, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
coming of age, football, youth, misfit, punk rock, soccer, school, high school, young man, football player, cross country, teamwork ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, feel good, informative
Plot:
soccer, football, coach, training, transgender, career, football player, football team, team, soccer coach, playing football, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2011, year 2001, 21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
At the iconic Hackney Marshes in East London, Lea Valley Rangers take to the field in a game they must-win against Forest Road Athletic. If they can pull it off, they'll win the league, their first opportunity in living memory.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense, inspirational
Plot:
soccer, football, game, passion, ambition, football team, football player, ambitious, soccer match, playing football, determination, realism ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 40 min.
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Story:
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.
Style:
humorous, cynical, captivating, light, hispanic ...
Plot:
football team, soccer, corruption, rivalry, family relations, death, friendship, society, couples, football, bare breasts, brazilian abroad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, south america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.
Style:
captivating, humorous, sincere, light, feel good
Plot:
asperger's syndrome, uncle nephew relationship, coach, doctor, family relations, friendship, football, child care, chess, supermarket, football team, female doctor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football ...
Style:
light, humorous, sincere, feel good
Plot:
elderly woman, football, football team, soccer coach, coach, small town, nothing goes right, female protagonist, feminism, nordic, dream, cleaning ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
soccer, satire, sports man, football, football team, coach, athlete and trainer, absurd humor, soccer coach, football player, sporting event, humour ...
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
23%
547
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Despite cricket fever running wild, there are two people in India who dislike its influence over their lives. The first is Dr. Satyajit Chavan, who will not permit anyone in his home nor the hospital to view nor hear anything related to it; and the ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
cricket, hospital, immigrant, obsession, couples, society, airport, sports fan, marriage, multiple storylines, rivalry, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, england, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, Ireland, Finland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
Style:
light, humorous, captivating, feel good, indie film
Plot:
hedonism, women, friendship, adulthood, family relations, society, love and romance, woman, alcoholism, beer, best friend, vice ...
Place:
england, dublin ireland, britain, australia, manchester ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, not serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Plot:
hockey, friendship, rivalry, ice hockey, ambition, athlete and trainer, buddies, contests and competitions, underdog, small town, team, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, light, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, vacation, friends, contests and competitions, rivalry, friendship, youth, ping pong, society, summer, game, table tennis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
usa, maryland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club and prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise ...
Style:
witty, light, semi serious, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
sarcasm, greed, crime gone awry, culture clash, poker, rivalry, workplace romance, workplace intrigue, satire, contests and competitions, battles, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, new jersey, new zealand ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film, f word
Plot:
football, football team, stoner, exodus, mother child relationship, sex crime, sport team, politics, power relations, high school life, against the odds, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Leading up to their 500th match, the late twenty-something members of a Dutch amateur soccer team have their intimate bond put to the test as they each find themselves facing increasing responsibilities off the pitch.
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
closeted homosexual, football, soccer, friendship, football team, lgbt, male friendship, cheating, silly humor, ambition, buddies, contests and competitions ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, netherlands
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Francisco and his closest friends play on a soccer team that has reached its lowest point. They’ve got to win one of the next three games to keep the school from cutting their team altogether. A series of strange events take place in the first two ...
Style:
light, humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
football, referee, contests and competitions, sport team, teamwork, teenager, youth, rivalry, friendship, hopes, follow your dream, ambition ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
21%
312
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach the coach. His girlfriend, Nastya, shares his dream, but street football is Kostya’s life, and the ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, tense, humorous, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
football, fight, athlete's life, ambition, adaptation, rivalry, contests and competitions, couples, athlete and trainer, friendship, youth, society ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The engaging story of an over-the-hill professional wrestler who's afraid of conflict in real life, but agrees to face "The Darkness" in the ring in an attempt to regain his former glory in the eyes of his one remaining fan - an eight ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, ambition, friendship, hopes, wrestler, redemption, professional wrestling, society, wrestling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Carlitos is a heartfelt story about one young boy's fight for his right to play soccer, while keeping his very essence intact.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
football, prodigy, mischievous children, follow your dream, orphan, against the rules, best friend, disorder, rebellion, youth, boarding school life, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park -- a deadly arena in competitive dance-fight video game "Beat-Beat Revolution."
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
contests and competitions, rivalry, fight for supremacy, hip hop, post apocalypse, friendship, society, badass, distopia, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, urban ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
237
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A former jockey who became blind after losing his wife in an accident gets a second chance with the help of his daughter and an injured horse.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
contests and competitions, family relations, chases and races, animal training, one last chance, against the odds, rivalry, hopes, parents and children, down on your luck, ambition, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jeju island, asia, korea
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
Style:
feel good, intercultural, comedy drama, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, humanity, language barrier, football, community, small town, empathy, identity, village life, recovery, underdog, tradition ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nigeria, africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and ...
Style:
feel good, lighthearted, uplifting, inspirational
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disability, soccer, team building, football, friendship, light comedy, heart, perseverance, heartwarming, workplace, community, small town ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a young soccer fan and his idol forge an unexpected friendship, the connection teaches them both lessons about life and their love of the game.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, sincere, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
soccer, football team, football, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, football player, teenage life, follow your dream, career, sport team, teenager, soccer coach ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a fit of anger leads to a serious injury, a sidelined soccer star returns to his hometown and reluctantly agrees to train the local youth.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, emotional, humorous
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
soccer, football team, football, coach, father son relationship, underdog, redemption, second chance, heartwarming, reconciliation, mentor, small town ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
soccer, misfit, working class, follow your dream, against the odds, teenage life, bullying, sport team, underdog, rivalry, contests and competitions, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
manchester, europe, england
Similarity:
19%
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