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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
Original name: Il Divin Codino
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A chronicle biopic of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including depictions of his difficult debut as a player, his deep rifts with some of his coaches, his triumph over injuries and personal discovery of Buddism.
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: football, soccer, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life, football player, soccer coach, career change, price of fame, playing football, rising to stardom, european, biopic, coach, career, father, journey, manager, target, football team, world cup, friend, based on real people, lost, field ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 70s, year 1985, 2000s, 20th century, year 1994 ...
Place: italy
Keyword: sport

Most similar movies to Baggio: The Divine Ponytail

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, disturbing and serious films with plots about football, football player, soccer, sport team, athlete's life, soccer coach and athlete and trainer mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like Baggio: The Divine Ponytail: Champs (2018), Forever the Moment (2008), I Am Zlatan (2021), The Final Score (2022), Tigers (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Champs (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A professional coach has under his wing the team that is expected to qualify and play the FIFA U-17 World Cup. A fictionalized drama inspired by the story of Jesús Ramírez, the mexican coach.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: football, sport team, rise and fall, football player, soccer coach, football team, aspiration, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, teamwork, ambitious ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Forever the Moment (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A look at the Korean women's handball team and their journey to the 2004 Summer Olympics. Their path was far from flowery, and they must overcome many obstacles before they can head over to compete.
Style: captivating
Plot: handball, coach, team, female protagonist, direction and purpose, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, sport team, friends, friendship, longing, teamwork ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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I Am Zlatan (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: football, soccer, champion, football player, athlete's life, professional sports, historical character, direction and purpose, ambition, playing football, nordic, real life ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Final Score (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Colombia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The complicated relationship of several of the Colombian national team players with drug trafficking, one that culminated in the own goal and murder of one of the most beloved defenders in the world.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: soccer, drug crime, drug, football player, football team, soccer coach, football, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, drug use, sport team, drug traffic ...
Time: year 1994, year 1987, 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Tigers (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden, Italy, Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Super-talented footballing prodigy Martin is bought by top club Inter Milan, aged just 16. It’s the chance of a lifetime – but at what price?
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: soccer, football, depression, football player, playing football, price of fame, professional sports, athlete's life, adulthood, soccer coach, self sacrifice, football team ...
Place: milan italy, italy, eastern europe, scandinavia
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The Coach (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
Style: uplifting, exciting, captivating, motivational
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: football player, soccer coach, coach, football, football team, athlete and trainer, playing football, professional sports, soccer match, athlete, sporting event, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal. Lanky, with ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: football, goalkeeper, football team, sport team, football player, skill, triumph, athlete's life, popularity, world cup, professional athlete, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Marinette (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on the biography Ne jamais rien lâcher, the script traces the career of Marinette Pichon over three decades. Born in 1975, she was the pioneer of French women's football and one of the greatest stars of that sport in the world. A prodigy ...
Plot: soccer, women's football (soccer), soccer match, sex scene, violent husband, lgbt, female protagonist, based on real people, mother daughter relationship, soccer coach, world cup, girl ...
Time: year 2003, year 1975, 20th century, year 2002, 70s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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American Underdog (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.
Style: inspirational, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: american football, american football player, football team, sport team, biopic, champion, nfl, christian, athlete's life, lifestyle, direction and purpose, cultural icon ...
Time: year 1985, year 1996, year 1992
Place: los angeles, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dream (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A top football player Hong-dae gets involved in an assault case and winds up being appointed as the coach for the national football team. This team will compete in the ‘Homeless World Cup’. A documentary producer So-min films their story while ...
Style: satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot: soccer, football team, soccer coach, football, football player, coach, athlete and trainer, sport team, satire, athlete's life, ambition, playing football ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Best (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The life story of former Manchester United football legend, George Best.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, emotional
Plot: athlete's life, football player, ambition, rising to stardom, sport team, life is a bitch, rivalry, celebrity culture, professional sports, football, biopic, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, england, manchester, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Damned United (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous ...
Style: factual, inspirational, tense, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: soccer, football, discipline, biopic, soccer coach, friendship, ambition, mentor, training, rivalry, justice, life philosophy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2009, 60s, year 1974
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, mallorca ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Safety (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.
Style: thrilling, captivating, light
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: american football, high school football, training, football player, american football player, career, football team, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, brother brother relationship, soccer coach ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Next Goal Wins (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
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.
Plot: transgender, coach, soccer, biopic, training, world cup, transphobia, full moon, church, football player, luck, football team ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2011, year 2001, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Under the Stadium Lights (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it takes the guidance of their team chaplain and a surrogate father ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: high school football, athlete and trainer, football team, sport team, athlete's life, soccer, football player, competitor, desire for fame, playing football, school club, direction and purpose ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Style: inspirational, realistic, serious, uplifting, factual ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: following a dream, soccer, athlete's life, football, rags to riches, rise to the top, contests and competitions, football player, prodigy, ambition, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: brazil, latin america, africa, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
34%
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 134K
King Richard (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 144 min.
Story: The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: tennis, athlete and trainer, father daughter relationship, biopic, athlete's life, strict father, black, african american, family relations, coach, rivalry, real life ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
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34%
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Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Argentina
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Story: This gritty dramatization of the life of Carlos Tevez shows his rise to soccer stardom amid the harrowing conditions in Argentina's Fuerte Apache.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, touching, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, football, sport team, soccer coach, football player, football team, playing football, success, ambition, sporting event, prodigy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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32%
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Heleno (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 116 min.
Story: José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, stylized, black and white ...
Plot: soccer, athlete's life, lifestyle, rise and fall, couples, womanizer, life is a bitch, rivalry, bad attitude, drug abuse, troublemaker, sport team ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Leap (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, iconic
Plot: volleyball, team, friendship, motivation, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between girls, training, girl, athlete, boy ...
Time: year 1981, year 2016, year 2008, 2000s, 80s ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Forever (2023)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Mila and Kia, a pair of teenage best friends and aspiring football professionals. When the girls get a new demanding football coach Lollo, they slowly start to drift apart.
Style: touching, dramatic, serious, captivating, exciting
Plot: coach, dream, football, soccer, friendship, life, football player, soccer coach, adolescent girl, athlete and trainer, friends, female friendship ...
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32%
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Rise (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After emigrating to Greece from Nigeria, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. Desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but undermined by a system ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: basketball, basketball player, professional, biopic, career, basketball team, champion, professional sports, athlete's life, immigrant, direction and purpose, competitor ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 90s, year 2013, year 2004 ...
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32%
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Story: The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.
Style: captivating, sincere, humorous, tense, feel good
Plot: football, soccer coach, football player, soccer, male objectification, sport team, football team, tournament, drunkenness, party, sick child, cancer patient ...
Time: year 1990, year 1992, 90s
Place: denmark
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31%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Story: The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Socialists and brought to the concentration camp of Dachau, where he survived to come back and start to rebuild his old club after World War II.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: soccer, football player, racial slur, friendship, sports history, football team, german history, loss of family, holocaust survivor, soccer match, nazi germany, marriage proposal ...
Time: post world war two, year 1943, year 1947, year 1932
Place: germany, bavaria, munich germany
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Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, light ...
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Time: 20th century, 1930s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Streltsov (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, factual, uplifting ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: soccer coach, unrequited love, human spirit, obstacle, football player, professional sports, ambition, sport competition, male protagonist, sports star, sport team, football team ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.3
 13K
United (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, stylized ...
Plot: soccer, football, loss of friend, air disaster, sport team, friends, human spirit, athlete and trainer, athlete, real life, racing, post war ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1958, 50s
Place: england, europe, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 123 min.
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Style: inspirational, medical drama, captivating, realistic, compassionate ...
Plot: american football, doctor, professional sports, autopsy, football, sports injury, research, football player, brain damage, uncover truth, investigation, biopic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Name Is Lenny (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
Style: captivating
Plot: boxing, bully, street fight, bad temper, violence, athlete's life, historical figure, fistfight, lifestyle, professional sports, fight, life ...
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30%
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