Movies like Tour de Force

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Tour de Force (2013)
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Tour de Force (2013)
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: humorous, feel good, realistic, light, captivating, touching, semi serious
Plot: cycling, contests and competitions, human spirit, rivalry, ambition, escapades, hopes, bicycle, tour de france, lifestyle, underdog, obsessive quest, love, riding a bicycle
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france
Keyword: sport

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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: Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001), Fastlife (2014), Wrestling Queens (2013), The Dream Team (2012), Save Your Legs! (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (2017)
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: semi serious, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, dancing, teenager, cheerleading, contests and competitions, female protagonist, youth, rivalry, friendship, lifestyle, society, social media ...
Time: 2010s
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100%
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
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, ambition, hopes, contests and competitions, underdog, bicycle, bike, victory, farm hand ...
Time: 70s
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fastlife (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot: against the odds, ambition, obsessive quest, hopes, contests and competitions, blind ambition, escapades, adolescence vs adulthood, desire for fame, megalomaniac, ambitious man, life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Wrestling Queens (2013)
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: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot: women's wrestling, wrestling, contests and competitions, best friend, redemption, family problems, hopes, parents and children, friends, estrangement, rivalry, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Dream Team (2012)
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, self discovery, working class, contests and competitions, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, down on your luck, power relations, society, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brittany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Save Your Legs! (2012)
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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, sport team, society, buddies, contests and competitions, hopes, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
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Shred (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SHRED is a motion picture that tells the story of two washed up pro snowboarders from the 90s named Max (played by Dave England) and Eddie (played by Renee Renee) who attempt to cash in on the fantastic growth of the sport by starting their own ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, human spirit ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.0
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Battle B-Boy (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Directed by Frank Lin this movie tells the story of a group of talented but financially struggling B-Boys that join an underground fighting ring in Downtown Los Angeles that uses Hip-Hop music and Break dancing to battle for money. To save the life ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: martial arts, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, underdog, hopes, kickass, intergender wrestling, female fight, urban ghetto, battles, urban ghetto life ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Break Point (2014)
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, light, feel good, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: tennis, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, odd couple, ambition, family relations, youth, coming of age, underdog, verbal byplay, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Minis (2007)
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 and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Stars 80 (2012)
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: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Plot: ambition, performer's life, buddies, showbiz, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, obsessive quest, escapades, against the odds, follow your dream, partner, once promising ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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30%
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Soccer Mom (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: soccer, contests and competitions, sport team, family life, hidden identity, rivalry, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, disorder, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Turf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot: ambition, partner, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, gambling, misfit partners, disorder, buddies, dishonesty, horse
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: emotional, touching, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: contests and competitions, against the odds, human spirit, aging, elderly, bittersweet, hopes, ambition, social relations, running, senior citizen, old age ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: germany
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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, misfit partners, love and romance, buddies, contests and competitions, rivalry, friends, fall in love, redemption, disorder, cons and scams, hopes ...
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Place: france, algeria, cote d'azur, provence
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The Breakdance Kid (2004)
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 ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
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Time: 80s
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Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Sports Pages (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories ...
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28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Parisian B* (2015)
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, feel good, light, offbeat ...
Plot: escapades, ambition, disorder, satire, goofy hero, social climbing, hidden camera, obsessive quest, misfit, blind ambition, silly humor, frenchwoman ...
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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.
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's.
Style: road movie, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
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Soccer Dog: European Cup (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, exciting ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boxer from berlin gets involved in several schemes. When trouble mounts, he relocates to Turkey.
Style: light, captivating, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
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Time: 20th century, 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tommy and the Cool Mule (2009)
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: starting over, family relations, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, farm, ambition, grownups, love, friendship, youth, bank ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Devil Dared Me To (2007)
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, funny ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Yankles (2009)
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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