World cup movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant world cup movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, disturbing, sentimental, sincere and serious films and TV shows about / with world cup, soccer, football, ambition, football player, soccer coach, soccer match, athlete's life, athlete and trainer and football team plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as world cup: United Passions (2014), Sixty Six (2006), The Little Queen (2014), Blue Lock (2022), Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 (2001), The Great Match (2006), We Will Be the World Champions (2015), eHero (2018), Streltsov (2020), The Vault (2021).

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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
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 6.7
 3K
Sixty Six (2006)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: soccer, youth, coming of age, family relations, world cup, nothing goes right, football, parents and children, family life, husband wife relationship, child's point of view, judaism ...
Time: 60s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: brighton, england, london, europe
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The Little Queen (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Julie, star cyclist, is two races away from winning the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of effort. Julie loves the spotlight. Her entourage too. Encouraged by her coach and doctor, she has been doping since the age of 14. When her doctor ...
Style: psychological, semi autobiographical, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cycling, world cup, doping, ambitious woman, cyclist, direction and purpose, athlete's life, betrayal, bicycle, drug abuse, drug use, athlete and trainer ...
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 8.2
 12K
Blue Lock (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for ...
Style: anime, captivating, tense, thrilling
Plot: soccer, world cup, tournament, football team, football player, football, school, high school, soccer coach, sport team, athlete and trainer, high school football ...
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Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Tsubasa becomes a superstar amongst soccer players in Brazil. He is now planning to play in Europe. At an important must-win game, as the fans cheer him on, Tsubasa looks back at the days when he started his soccer life. His passion to make goals ...
Style: anime, captivating, disturbing
Audience: kids
Plot: soccer, high school football, football team, football, world cup, teammate, dream, championship, tournament, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, football player ...
Time: 2000s
Place: japan
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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
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The Great Match (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A comedy about the attempts of tribal groups around the world to watch a soccer match.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, sentimental
Plot: soccer, obsessive quest, nothing goes right, football, disorder, ambition, escapades, fish out of water, globalization, travel, world cup, desert ...
Place: mongolia, latin america, brazil, asia
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We Will Be the World Champions (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, semi autobiographical
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, ambition, sport team, athlete's life, historical figure, basketball team, champion, world championship wrestling, athlete and trainer, historical character, winner, basketball player ...
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 4.8
 832
eHero (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An up-and-coming video gamer faces his greatest challenge yet as he and his team must overcome a fiery gaming superstar, as well as their own battling egos, to win the ultimate video game championship.
Style: captivating, gaming
Plot: championship, superstar, game, gamer, video game, competition, team, contests and competitions, computer game, world championship wrestling, champion, coping ...
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Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal (2020)
Genre: Animation
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible – to win the annual ‘World’s Scariest Animal’ championship, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up, former champion, a grouchy Saltwater ...
Style: entertaining, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: animal, competition, dangerous animal, contests and competitions, animal that acts human, competitor, rivalry, wild animal, anthropomorphic animal, ambition, contest, world cup ...
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 5.3
 458
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
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 6.4
 30K
The Vault (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's World ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, anamorphic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: heist, bank, master criminal, bank robbery, perfect crime, criminal heroes, danger, chase, plan, engineer, partner, violence ...
Time: 2020s, year 2010, year 2012, year 2009, 2010s ...
Place: spain, london, madrid
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Till Death Us Do Part (1968)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.
Style: independent film, cynical, biting, humorous, witty ...
Plot: world war two, world cup, working class, family relations, society, misfit, racism, eccentric family, wartime life, family life, couples, soccer ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, year 1966, year 1939, 1930s ...
Place: europe, london
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 6.9
 3K
The Cup (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Bhutan, Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young ...
Style: feel good, touching, witty, humorous, thinking ...
Plot: soccer, football, buddhism, monk, buddhist monk, humanity, buddhist, culture clash, friendship, zen, spirituality, world cup ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: tibet, himalaya, asia, india
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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 ...
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In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of ...
Style: poliziottesco, neorealism
Plot: courtroom, fascism, lawyer, great ending, world cup, crooked businessman, destroying evidence, waste, suicidal thoughts, brothel, contamination, bickering couple ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: italy
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The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: idealism, society, couples, cafe, sister in law sister in law relationship, friendship, mental illness, storytelling, musician, protest, politics, police brutality ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot: dictatorship, boy, politics, coming of age, soccer, football, political unrest, children, life is a bitch, family relations, working class, dictator ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: brazil, latin america, israel, sao paulo brazil
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 6.5
 15K
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
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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Georgia, Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: magic realism, breaking the fourth wall, changing lives, memory, switching bodies, lovers apart, love at first sight, secret identity, relationship problems, personality change, relationships, fall in love ...
Place: georgia
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 5.7
 3K
Bomb Scared (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Somewhere in Spain, four ETA terrorists await a phone call before carrying out a mission, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Spanish soccer team is one of the favorites to win, is being held in South Africa.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: terrorism, eta terrorist group, terrorist group, terrorist plot, neighbor neighbor relationship, satire, neighbor, terrorist, world cup, soccer
Place: spain
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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
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Northern Limit Line (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The movies follows the incident knows as the second battle of Yeonpyeong which happened in 2002.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: navy, military, sea battle, sea, war, inter-korean relations, marine, patriot, showdown, fight for supremacy, battles, patriotism ...
Time: 2000s
Place: south korea, north korea, korea
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 8.0
 197K
Cinderella Man (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
Style: touching, inspirational, motivational, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly
Plot: boxing, underdog, human spirit, great depression, biopic, boxer, athlete's life, poverty, depression, motivation, financial problem, family bonds ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 2000s, 1920s ...
Place: new jersey, netherlands, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.4
 275
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 ...
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 7.8
 67K
Thirteen Lives (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: cave, soccer, rescue mission, trapped, trap, survival, saving a life, drowned, struggle for survival, football player, life risking, deathtrap ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: thailand
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 6.5
 3K
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 ...
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 5.4
 997
See You Soon (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A U.S. soccer star suffers a career-threatening injury in the run-up to the World Cup, and during his recovery, embarks on an epic romance with a Russian single mom.
Style: emotional, romantic, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lovers, forbidden love, love at first sight, football player, abusive husband, love and romance, jealousy, soccer, violent husband, single mother, rags to riches, romantic reunion ...
Place: los angeles, st. petersburg russia
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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021)
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, playing football, price of fame, career change, rising to stardom, european ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 2000, year 1985 ...
Place: italy
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 4.6
 122
The Game (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A funny comedy about the Russian footfall team and their adventures during the World Cup.
Plot: gay subtext, soccer, talent, football, world cup, police officer, car, football field, injury
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