Movies like Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime

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Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime (2008)
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Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime (2008)
Original name: Carlitos y el campo de los sueƱos
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Carlitos is a heartfelt story about one young boy's fight for his right to play soccer, while keeping his very essence intact.
Style: uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: football, prodigy, orphan, follow your dream, mischievous children, against the rules, youth, best friend, rebellion, self discovery, disorder, hopes, boarding school life, coming of age, friends, soccer, direction and purpose, longing, friendship, football player, dream, orphanage, playing football, sport team, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, europe
Keyword: sport

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Most similar movies to Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about ambition, youth, hopes, friends, rivalry, contests and competitions and friendship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime: The Dream Kids (2013), Montevideo, God Bless You! (2010), The Race (2009), There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000), Air Bud 3 (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hopes, social relations, friends, athlete's life, lifestyle, contests and competitions, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Race (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story of an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community who dreams of becoming a racing driver.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, best friend, against the odds, against the rules, follow your dream, young heroes, family life, parents and children, family relations, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: soccer, working class, football, teenage life, against the odds, ambition, follow your dream, sport team, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Air Bud 3 (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In this second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular favorite, Air Bud masters two new starring roles: soccer (real football) player and fatherhood. Loaded with laughs and cool soccer action, Buddy teams up alongside U.S. women's ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, sport team, golden retriever, soccer, ambition, friendship, rivalry, best friend, contests and competitions, family relations, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., usa
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28%
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Cupid's Balls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: football, teenage love, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, youth, buddies, ambition, social relations, village, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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
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28%
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Soccer Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A comedic romp that celebrates the power of friendship to turn your life around, Dias de Futbol introduces us to Antonio, an ex-convict and amateur shrink who convinces his pals that the best way to overcome their midlife crises and lack of success ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Plot: football, soccer, friendship, marriage, starting over, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, contests and competitions, introspection, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
26%
Shooting for Socrates (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES is a David Vs. Goliath set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup. It tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, exciting ...
Plot: soccer, hopes, rivalry, ambition, family relations, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, parents and children, soccer fan, football, underdog ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: ireland, belfast, brazil, northern ireland, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Frankie & Hazel (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, youth, ballet, baseball, small town, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, dancer's life, feminism, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
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26%
Soccer Dog: European Cup (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: soccer, children, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, human spirit, contests and competitions, rivalry, disorder, family relations, hopes, against the odds ...
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Footballest (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Francisco and his closest friends play on a soccer team that has reached its lowest point. Theyā€™ve got to win one of the next three games to keep the school from cutting their team altogether. A series of strange events take place in the first two ...
Style: light, humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: football, referee, contests and competitions, sport team, youth, rivalry, friendship, teamwork, teenager, follow your dream, hopes, stubbornness ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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
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24%
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Offside (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: alcoholic, nothing goes right, couples, family problems, disorder, hopes, ambition, crumbling marriage, couple relations, small town, once promising, soccer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Josh is off to his first year of college and buddy has stayed behind with joshs little sister andrea and the rest of the family. Adrea attempting to fit in with her jr. High classmates decides to join the baseball team and along the way discovers ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, golden retriever, baseball, pets, youth, sport team, underdog, contests and competitions, hopes, friendship, family relations, disorder ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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All Stars (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Leading up to their 500th match, the late twenty-something members of a Dutch amateur soccer team have their intimate bond put to the test as they each find themselves facing increasing responsibilities off the pitch.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: boys' night
Plot: football, friendship, soccer, lgbt, friendship between men, closeted homosexual, cheating, silly humor, ambition, contests and competitions, buddies, sport team ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on the lam from the dog-catcher. It's up to these two underdogs to win the PeeWee Soccer League championship game.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: soccer, football, youth, dog, underdog, hopes, athlete and trainer, orphan, odd couple, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ping Pong (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, uplifting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, rivalry, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, opponent ...
Place: japan, asia
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22%
Ping Pong Summer (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, happy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, vacation, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, youth, friendship, society, summer, game, ping pong, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: usa, maryland
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22%
The Devil's Kickers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, teen comedy
Audience: kids
Plot: soccer, friendship, child's point of view, family relations, mischievous children, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, parents and children, disorder, parents separation ...
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, odd couple, young heroes, against the odds, rescue, pets, mischievous children, parents and children, adoption, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Alley Cats Strike (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
Style: uplifting, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: bowling, youth, ambition, friendship, contests and competitions, misfit, unlikely partners, rivalry, sport team, social differences, disorder, high school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Calvin Marshall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: baseball, coming of age, college, ambition, follow your dream, self discovery, underdog, youth, athlete's life, hopes, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Chillar Party (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A gang of innocent but feisty kids who lead carefree lives in Chandan Nagar colony take own the big bad world of politics when one of their friend's life is endangered.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, parody ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, gang, fighting the system, mischievous children, rebellion, hopes, society, dog, parent child relationship, politician, satire ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Kisses for Everyone (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, manga ...
Plot: looking for love, friendship, youth, dancer's life, medical school, pregnancy, cabaret, health, family relations, school, coming of age, prostitute ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Name Is Juani (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot: lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, hopes, city life, on the road, friends, tough heroes, couples, society, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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