Movies like The Third Half

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The Third Half (2012)
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The Third Half (2012)
Original name: Treto Poluvreme
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, uplifting, captivating, romantic, serious, emotional, realistic, odd
Audience: date night
Plot: soccer, world war two, true love, holocaust, forbidden love, human spirit, love affair, ambition, family disapproval, love and romance, fall in love, rivalry, society, sport team, contests and competitions, lifestyle, championship, against humanity, hopes, nazism, occupation, underdog, football, war, wartime ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place: europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia, bulgaria
Keyword: jewish, sport, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sentimental films with plots about hopes, ambition, rivalry, society, contests and competitions, sport team and human spirit mostly in Drama, Sport and History genres. Some movies like The Third Half: Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010), A Shot at Glory (2000), Children of Glory (2006), Victory (1981), Goal III: Taking on the World (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010)
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, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, football, ambition, rivalry, young lovers, love and romance, hopes, talented, coach, post war, fan ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, uruguay, serbia
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100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Children of Glory (2006)
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: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, rough ...
Plot: politics, olympics, rebellion, human spirit, resistance, wartime life, society, hopes, state affairs, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: 1950s, year 1956, 20th century, 50s
Place: hungary, australia, europe, oceania, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 33K
Victory (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
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: world war two, prison, soccer, football, nazi, war, human spirit, escape, contests and competitions, against the odds, world war, rivalry ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century
Place: germany, france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Goal III: Taking on the World (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
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: serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: soccer, sport team, soccer match, athlete's life, wedding ceremony, lifestyle, buddies, love and romance, rivalry, contests and competitions, friends, against the odds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
 238
Nina's House (2005)
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, serious, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: adoption, survival, holocaust, confined, society, danger, against humanity, family relations, anti semitism, frame up, war, religions or cults ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 2K
Kano (2014)
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: uplifting, captivating, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: baseball, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, against the odds, youth, hopes, contests and competitions, society, sport team, asian, power relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, taiwan, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.5
 4K
Olga (2004)
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, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, holocaust, concentration camp, wartime life, life is a bitch, biopic, love affair, revolution, confined, society, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: germany, rio de janeiro, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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United Passions (2014)
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, realistic, serious
Plot: soccer, world cup, ambition, follow your dream, contests and competitions, football, economist, workplace, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, sponsor, leadership ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
The Game of Their Lives (2005)
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, sport team, interracial friendship, underdog, football, human spirit, against the odds, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, friendship, soccer match ...
Time: year 2005, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1950
Place: brazil, missouri, usa, washington d.c., new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Miracle of Bern (2003)
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: serious, realistic, exciting, feel good, sentimental
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, working class, pow, follow your dream, human spirit, against the odds, contests and competitions, football, hopes, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: west germany, budapest, europe, germany, hungary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
 358
Spring of Life (2000)
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, serious, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot: world war two, holocaust, breeding, racism, nazi, anti semitism, ss, genocide, wartime life, against humanity, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
 7K
Warsaw 44 (2014)
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, tense, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, love and romance, rebel army, nazism, death, world war, friendship, war, love affair, relationships, young love ...
Time: year 1944, 20th century, 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.5
 516
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 ⇓
23%
Soul of the Game (1996)
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: touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: baseball, african american, black, blaxploitation, racial issues, black man, hip hop, friendship, racism, interracial relations, historical figure, injustice ...
Place: new york, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Forever Nevermore (2014)
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: forbidden love, love affair, couples, revolution, vengeance, rivalry, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Australian Rules (2002)
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, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, hopes, lifestyle, athlete's life, love and romance, society, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 6.7
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Goal! (2005)
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, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: soccer, football, coach, sport team, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, dream come true, against the odds, rivalry ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, england, europe, london, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)
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, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, world war, anti semitism, journal, biopic, injustice, against humanity, hopes, confined, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: holland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
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The Goalkeeper (2000)
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, serious, touching, sexual
Plot: soccer, nationalism, fall in love, rivalry, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, social decay, single parent, family life, politics, football ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Time And The Wind (2013)
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, epic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, love affair, political unrest, wartime life, state affairs, rivalry, hopes, true love, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Hidden Children (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story: This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, rescue, survival, orphan, human spirit, life is a bitch, society, youth, against humanity, fugitives, danger, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Final Season (2007)
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, sincere, touching, sentimental, historical drama ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, athlete's life, youth, contests and competitions, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Fist of the Reich (2010)
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: world war two, nazi germany, world champion, anti semitism, boxing, fighting the system, hopes, athlete's life, against humanity, society, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, new york, hamburg germany, berlin germany, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
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Rosenstrasse (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped ...
Style: uplifting, emotional, touching, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, anti semitism, nazi, wartime life, life is a bitch, human spirit, hopes, society, couple relations, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.9
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Süskind (2012)
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: captivating, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot: ss, holocaust, wartime life, world war two, nazi occupation, human spirit, selflessness, children, idealism, rescue, deportation, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, amsterdam, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
More Than Just a Game (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drama about political prisoners playing soccer at Robben Island prison, where Nelson Mandela was held.
Style: uplifting, realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious
Plot: prison, racism, fighting the system, human spirit, friendship, against the odds, prison life, injustice, sport team, life is a bitch, society, hopes ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Maradona, the Hand of God (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dramatizing of the many shocking highs and lows of Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona, an extraordinary athlete and arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, sentimental, sincere
Plot: athlete's life, rise to the top, rise and fall, lifestyle, ambition, prodigy, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, folk hero, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, 60s
Place: argentina, naples italy, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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