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The Third Half (2012)
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Original name: Трето полувреме
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:
sentimental, captivating, romantic, serious, emotional, realistic, uplifting, odd
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, soccer, world war two, forbidden love, hopes, holocaust, human spirit, love affair, ambition, family disapproval, love and romance, fall in love, rivalry, society, sport team, contests and competitions, lifestyle, championship, against humanity, nazism, occupation, underdog, football, war, wartime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
macedonia, europe, former yugoslavia, bulgaria
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Most similar movies to The Third Half
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sentimental films with plots about hopes, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, society, world war two and wartime life mostly in Drama, Sport and History genres. Some movies like The Third Half: Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010), Goal III: Taking on the World (2009), Children of Glory (2006), Surviving Auschwitz (2013), A Shot at Glory (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, 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), ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
soccer, sport team, football player, soccer match, wedding ceremony, athlete's life, friends, contests and competitions, love and romance, lifestyle, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Children of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
female warrior, politics, olympics, rebellion, human spirit, wartime life, resistance, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, state affairs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1956, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
hungary, europe, australia, oceania, melbourne ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: France, Israel, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
boxing, anti semitism, hopes, holocaust, contests and competitions, ambition, life is a bitch, human spirit, danger, rivalry, society, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
africa, europe
Similarity:
30%
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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:
30%
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy, Hungary
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Style:
inspirational, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
prison, world war two, soccer, football, escape, nazi, war, pow, contests and competitions, against the odds, world war, prison escape ...
Time:
year 1981, 20th century
Place:
germany, paris france, europe, france, argentina ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on the novel's trilogy of the same name, by Erico Verissimo, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of family Terra Cambará and their opponent Amaral family. The history of struggles between the two families begins in the missions and runs ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, serious, epic ...
Plot:
true love, love affair, love triangle, wartime life, political unrest, rivalry, state affairs, hopes, forbidden love, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, on the run, human spirit, war, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dramatic novel that presents the submission in a relationship between an Italian settler and a Brazilian woman in 1932. Luiza is a generation of women who were sent to convents to be educated, many of the high cost of permanency option ran out and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
love affair, forbidden love, couples, revolution, love and romance, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, vengeance, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put to death in a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, wartime life, life is a bitch, dictatorship, biopic, love affair, revolution, politics, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Style:
sincere, captivating, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
baseball, hopes, rivalry, ambition, against the odds, athlete's life, society, youth, sport team, contests and competitions, asian, friends ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
japan, taiwan, china, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss, racism, nazi, anti semitism, genocide, wartime life, society, against humanity, life is a bitch, war ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
baseball, african american, racism, baseball coach, black, racial issues, blaxploitation, baseball player, black man, hip hop, interracial relations, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947
Place:
usa, new york, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
soccer, world cup, follow your dream, contests and competitions, football, economist, dishonesty, workplace, workplace intrigue, sponsor, leadership, entity ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 70s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
adoption, survival, holocaust, confined, family relations, society, danger, against humanity, anti semitism, frame up, religions or cults, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ramiro Forteza is a Premier League goalkeeper whom the Civil War and the rigors of the war led to make a living visiting villages and challenging locals to mark him penalty goals. One evening he arrives to a town in Asturias and meets Manuela, a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
Plot:
soccer, nationalism, fall in love, single parent, social decay, hopes, ambition, life is a bitch, rivalry, family life, politics, football ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, historical drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, hopes, high school sports, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, youth, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A beautiful story about youth, love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the Warsaw Uprising.
Style:
realistic, romantic, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, rebel army, nazi occupation, love and romance, nazism, death, world war, shoah, friendship, love story, friends, relationships ...
Time:
year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: Germany, Croatia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot:
nazi germany, world war two, world champion, anti semitism, boxing, dictator, fighting the system, athlete's life, hopes, against humanity, society, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, new york, hamburg germany, berlin germany, germany ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
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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:
22%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
world war two, interfaith relationship, friends, forbidden love, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, couple relations, opposites attract, love affair, social differences ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
21%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A thrilling love story between the young boxer Vincent and the German Eva, who soon has to marry with the middle-aged Dirk to save her family. While the war starts in the Netherlands their impossible love inflames. May 14, 1940, the day that the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
world war two, bombing, wartime life, wedding planning, social differences, society, german occupation, unfulfillment, forbidden love, brother sister relationship, impossible love, nazi germany ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Before he went exclusively style-over-substance, Daniel Lee directed fighting drama A FIGHTER’S BLUES, about an aging boxer (Andy Lau, in a mature and underrated performance) seeking a shot at redemption. Co-starring Japanese drama queen Takako ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, rough, realistic
Plot:
tough heroes, rivalry, redemption, starting over, fall in love, unlikely couple, ambition, martial arts, underdog, hopes, boxing, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
ss, holocaust, wartime life, nazi occupation, human spirit, world war two, children, selflessness, rescue, idealism, hopes, deportation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
20%
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