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Tour de Force (2013)
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Original name: La Grande Boucle
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Family man François Nouel (Clovis Cornillac) is the number one fan of the Tour de France – an obsession that costs him his wife and his job. At a loose end, François meets a former sports manager, Rémi (Bouli Lanners) who encourages him to take the plunge and do the Tour himself. With nothing to lose, François sets off, always one day ahead of the race, attracting fellow amateurs, media coverage and cheering crowds. As obstacle after obstacle is thrown his way, and his family comes back on the scene, François discovers what is really most important in his life.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, inspirational, road movie, mockumentary, touching, semi serious
Plot:
cycling, ambition, contests and competitions, tour de france, human spirit, rivalry, escapades, hopes, underdog, race, motivation, competition, determination, perseverance, unlikely hero, french countryside, satire, media frenzy, publicity, celebrity culture, character study, heartwarming, obsession, realism, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, hopes, underdog, lifestyle and friends mostly in Comedy, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Tour de Force: Save Your Legs! (2012), Soccer Mom (2008), Paper Lion (1968), Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001), The Dream Team (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot:
ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, society, hopes, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
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slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, football, writers, coach, talent show, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, ego clash, journalism, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
detroit, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, fast paced
Plot:
cycling, farm, against the odds, lifestyle, hopes, contests and competitions, underdog, bicycle, bike, farm hand, victory, television reporter ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, belgium
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, touching, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, sport team, ambition, working class, contests and competitions, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, down on your luck, social relations, athlete and trainer, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation. When she discovers that Mickaël is crazy about ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
women's wrestling, wrestling, contests and competitions, best friend, family problems, friends, parents and children, hopes, estrangement, redemption, rivalry, partner ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
contests and competitions, follow your dream, couple relations, family relations, lifestyle, against the odds, rivalry, ambition, parents and children, hopes, small town, beauty pageant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
867
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Die-hard fans of the 1980s, Vincent and Antoine run a company that supplies doubles of faded stars throughout the whole of France. What starts out as a promising business venture ends up as a calamity when Vincent and Antoine have over forty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot:
ambition, performer's life, artists and showbiz, obsessive quest, follow your dream, against the odds, lifestyle, buddies, escapades, showbiz, partner, once promising ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the first prize and fulfill his dreams.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, captivating, realistic
Plot:
follow your dream, friends, love and romance, fall in love, rivalry, buddies, misfit partners, redemption, contests and competitions, hopes, disorder, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Place:
france, algeria, cote d'azur, provence
Similarity:
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525
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, partner, uninhibited rivalry, hopes, human spirit, underdog ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jimmy Price is a reckless man-child on the last leg of his career as a doubles tennis player. When his latest partner drops him, he realizes he's officially burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. He decides to make one last ditch effort ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Thirty-year-old Camilla, born a bitch, realizes that she doesn't have the life she deserves and decides that the only destiny worthy of her is that of a royal princess.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, not serious ...
Plot:
escapades, disorder, ambition, satire, goofy hero, social climbing, hidden camera, silly humor, obsessive quest, misfit, blind ambition, frenchwoman ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, london, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
Style:
feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, inventor, rivalry, invention, inventions and discoveries, contests and competitions, found footage, rivals, multiple contestants, humour, gadget, competition ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, sport team, social relations, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, road movie, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
baseball, blaxploitation, baseball coach, baseball player, black, urban, african, sport team, power relations, racism, on the road, interracial relations ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, humorous, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
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Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A boxer from berlin gets involved in several schemes. When trouble mounts, he relocates to Turkey.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
boxing, boxer, ambition, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, humour, contests and competitions, social problems, male protagonist, comeback ...
Place:
turkey, berlin germany, germany, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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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%
458
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, captivating, touching, light, feel good ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
athlete's life, journalism, lifestyle, human spirit, farce, rivalry, nothing goes right, hopes, buddies, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, odd couple ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
basketball, friends, sport team, athlete's life, hotshot hero, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog ...
Time:
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Place:
california, venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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547
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot:
gambling, friends, ambition, partner, buddies, misfit partners, contests and competitions, disorder, rivalry, horse race, racehorse, chance ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
against the odds, culture clash, rabbi, sport team, rivalry, society, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, religions or cults, hopes, baseball ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This is the story of daredevil stuntman Randy Cambell and his quest to follow in his late father's footsteps and become New Zealand's greatest daredevil stuntman by performing the ultimate daredevil stunt: jumping across Cook Strait in a ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, action comedy ...
Plot:
ambition, trick, stuntman, escapades, contests and competitions, rivalry, danger, ego clash, daredevil, fall in love, male protagonist, recklessness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
soccer, children, follow your dream, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, disorder, family relations, experiment gone awry, parents and children, against the odds ...
Place:
europe, scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Destiny, captain of three-time national champions "The Rebels," is challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team called "The Truth," the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, light, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, dancing, teenager, contests and competitions, youth, rivalry, female protagonist, friendship, society, lifestyle, woman in short shorts ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tommy Braxxton's father went away to war and never returned leaving Tommy faced with the daunting journey of becoming a man and the responsibility of supporting his single mom and sister. Along the way Tommy finds an unusual friend - a ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family relations, starting over, hopes, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, farm, grownups, love, friendship, youth, battles ...
Time:
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100%
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