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The Queenstown Kings (2023)
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Original name: The Kings of Queenstown
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A prodigious young soccer player from rural Queenstown must face the return of his washed-up, pro-footballer father, and navigate the choice between his team's success and his own dreams.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, inspirational, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
soccer, father son relationship, football player, football, coming of age, relationships, family relations, life is a bitch, choice, problem, ambition, alienation, moral dilemma, estrangement, father son estrangement, playing football, determination, family conflict, small town, second chance, legacy, redemption, resilience, regret, identity ...
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Most similar movies to The Queenstown Kings
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, captivating, psychological and thrilling films with plots about redemption, coming of age, ambition, family drama, life is a bitch, small town and identity mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Queenstown Kings: Jada (2019), 90 Minutes (2019), The Champion (2024), Jersey Number 10 (2023), Champs (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
188
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Jada is an upcoming Indian Tamil language sports drama film written and directed by Kumaran on his directorial debut. The film stars Kathir and newcomer Roshini in the lead roles, while Kishore and Yogi Babu play supporting roles.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, motivational, inspirational ...
Plot:
football, ambition, soccer, teamwork, athlete's life, sport team, coping, soccer coach, playing football, football team, football player, resilience ...
Place:
india
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95%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
At the iconic Hackney Marshes in East London, Lea Valley Rangers take to the field in a game they must-win against Forest Road Athletic. If they can pull it off, they'll win the league, their first opportunity in living memory.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense, inspirational
Plot:
soccer, football, game, passion, ambition, football team, football player, ambitious, soccer match, playing football, determination, realism ...
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81%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Diego has just been voted best young player in Europe and at the age of 20 he is on his way to making his team, Atlético de Madrid, champions of La Liga. But his impulsive and conflictive character makes the club, fed up with his excesses, hire ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot:
soccer, football, life, changing lives, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, soccer coach, problem, sports man, playing football, football player, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
It's based on our National game .A boy from a small town dreams big and wants to achieve in international level .He falls in love without succeeding in that.Finally he will fail in everything.Will he get back on track and win the battle is the ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, inspirational, melancholic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hockey, determination, resilience, personal growth, coming of age, perseverance, sacrifice, ambition, competition, identity, hopes, small town ...
Similarity:
68%
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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:
inspirational, captivating, disturbing, motivational, dramatic ...
Plot:
teamwork, football, ambition, football team, soccer, rise and fall, sport team, determination, perseverance, aspiration, athlete's life, football player ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, estrangement, coming of age, reconciliation, family drama, father son estrangement, estranged father, family problems, absent father, estranged son, journey ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
Pro football star Jake Walker is living the dream, or so he thinks. The veteran tight end is a fan favorite and on pace to set the all-time receiving yards record that will guarantee a spot in the Hall of Fame. While working out at training camp, ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
american football, family drama, father son relationship, football, kids and family, dysfunctional family, family problems, family life, lifestyle, family relations, athlete and trainer, athlete's life ...
Similarity:
60%
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:
exciting, captivating, emotional, inspirational, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
coach, football player, soccer coach, football team, playing football, soccer, athlete and trainer, professional sports, athlete, soccer match, sporting event, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 13-year-old Kaitlyn, her world threatens to collapse when she learns that her parents want to get a divorce, especially because it threatens the loss of the house they shared in Portland, which had always been Kaitlyn's home. The teenage ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
divorce, coming of age, bird, adolescence, family drama, problem, teenage girl, teenage life, teenager, life is a bitch, friendship, empathy ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
boxing, boxer, boxing match, basketball coach, boxing trainer, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, problem, coach, ambition, sport team, personal trainer ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
52%
110
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After a few months of social adjustment training, the North Korean refugee Jina moves to a small studio in Seoul and starts her new life. To bring her father to South Korea, she needs money but no matter how hard she works, the discrimination ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, female protagonist, boxing, father daughter relationship, struggle, resilience, perseverance, female boxer, boxing training, boxer, lifestyle change, coping ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
korea, seoul
Similarity:
51%
16K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
An ex-cricketer struggling to make ends meet, wants to fulfill his child's wish of getting an Indian jersey but in the process comes face to face with his heroic past and is forced to decide if he will rise to the occasion and become a symbol ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, inspirational, motivational ...
Plot:
cricket, father son relationship, dream, comeback, parents and children, athlete's life, life is a bitch, family relations, social problems, athlete and trainer, ex athlete, hopes ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
276
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
This is the story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with a father figure whose own son, a firefighter, died in the line of duty, and the two help each other ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coming of age, teamwork, family drama, healing, loss, father son relationship, redemption, grief, loss of family member, ambition, loss of father, parents and children ...
Place:
usa, columbus ohio
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Ashin has spent his enitre life training for the national team in gymnastics. His mother believes his work will amount to nothing and asks his high school coach to take him off the team. Ashin then quits the sport entirely. He quickly falls in with ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, motivational, inspirational ...
Plot:
gymnastics, gymnast, dream, direction and purpose, determination, follow your dream, athlete's life, family problems, family business, ambition, lifestyle, aspiration ...
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This is a story about Denis Marković, a young talented football player with a problematic temperament, who from an early age, due to his talent, became a target of various interests.
Style:
emotional, intense, realistic, inspirational
Plot:
football, talent, ambition, athlete, soccer, coming of age, competition, urban, self discovery, exploitation, underdog, rivalry ...
Place:
balkan, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
A young girl meets a MMA coach and they quickly form a bond based on their mutual struggles with their own addictions.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
addiction, mixed martial arts, female protagonist, female athlete, redemption, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, problem, wrestler, martial arts, professional wrestler ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Cole Baird has everything—a beautiful wife, successful career, large home, country club membership and expensive toys. Behind the facade, however, is a man trapped by his surroundings and falling ever behind in the pursuit of his life's ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
social problems, relationships, problem, male female relationship, love affair, relationship problems, life is a bitch, self discovery, family problems, marital problem, introspection, male protagonist ...
Place:
washington d.c., maryland
Similarity:
45%
3K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Rameshan, who has great love for cricket, fails to become a cricketer in his life. However, he tries to fulfil his dreams through his son when he realises that the child too has a passion for it.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, feel good, light hearted ...
Plot:
cricket, father son relationship, family drama, dream, ambition, nostalgia, coming of age, small town, underdog, boyhood, regret, redemption ...
Similarity:
43%
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126
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A father and son work together as agents.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, relationships, problem, relationship problems, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, father, father and son, nightclub, family drama, nightlife ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Desperate to escape his dead-end life in Egypt and find a way to Europe, security guard Hassan devises a bold scheme: he pretends to be blind to join the national blind soccer team, bound for the World Cup in Poland.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, thrilling, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
blindness, soccer, football, immigration, playing football, pretense, con trick, sport team, football team, deception, football player, soccer coach ...
Place:
egypt, poland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
retirement home, problem, relationships, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, actor's life, love interest, actor, couple relations, love affair, escape ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Netherlands, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family reunited, father, emigrant, immigration, refugee, relationships, problem, father son reunion, father and son, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place:
berlin germany, poland, germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Mirco von Juterczenka's novel "Wir Wochenendrebellen" is the story of a father and his ten-year-old son, who is Asperger's autistic. The boy has set his mind on finally finding his favourite football club. But his selection ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, heartfelt, touching ...
Plot:
autism, soccer, father son relationship, soccer match, soccer fan, autist, problem, satire, school, journey, empathy, bonding ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
39%
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381
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
tennis, underdog, second chance, redemption, coaching, championship, rivalry, father son relationship, family conflict, bookies, resilience, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story is centered on the stubborn farmer Ernst and his wife Louise who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a traditional Danish gold wedding for friends and family. However, the family carries several secrets and Ernest holds on to the ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family secret, marriage, farmer, village life, family drama, revelation, family relations, marital crisis, couple relations, life is a bitch, problem, relationships ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa, Kenya
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On a dusty soccer pitch in Malindi, Kenya young Kalu is an aggressive striker of the “Malindi Sharks,” who dreams of playing professional soccer. He’s a selfish player and a clear stand out on his team and knows he’s destined for glory. Then ...
Style:
informative, educational, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
soccer, football, public health, problem, soccer coach, science, athlete's life, fighting illness, football player, virus, athlete and trainer, illness ...
Place:
kenya, south africa, africa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, redemption, family drama, forgiveness, bereavement, family problems, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, loss of mother, abusive father, faith ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in 1965, Pep is living in relative obscurity in his hometown of Hartford. Amidst personal troubles, and with the need to earn, Pep, at the age of 42, makes a stunning return to the ring
Style:
thrilling, captivating, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, biopic, boxer, based on real people, comeback, character study, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, marital problem, athlete's life ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 20th century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
34%
5K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A woman who hails from a middle-class family background aims to excel in the competitive world of cricket with the help of her supportive father.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, motivational, uplifting ...
Plot:
cricket, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, ambition, farmer, sports star, women in sport, professional sports, family relations, problem, sports man, lifestyle ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Chad, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Majid fights his own coach for Faiza's heart and the dream of playing international football.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, inspirational, melancholic, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
soccer, football, dream, ambition, passion, hopes, youth, coming of age, social commentary, sacrifice, love triangle, young adult ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
morocco, africa, barcelona
Similarity:
33%
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