The Game of Their Lives (2003), Thriller in Manila (2008), The End of the Storm (2020), The Last Victory (2004), Dan Carter: A Perfect 10 (2019), Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016), Go for It (1983), Borg vs. McEnroe (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Match movies.
Storyline: During a charity soccer match between top professional side Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses. When he dies, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.—Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: football, murder, detective, mystery, sports, crime, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking brewery worker in the city of Sheffield, with an arrogant lack of respect for authority. His entire life has been orientated by football and he possesses the potential, but has never had the courage or discipline to make anything of it. Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson, whilst playing for his pub team. Ken is the manager of Hallam football club, a local non-league team. After continually playing brilliantly for Hallam, Jimmy gets offered a trial at Sheffield United. The evening before the trial he gets drunk, and wakes up feeling very rough. Consequently he fails to impress the Sheffield United manager. Jimmy then has to consider his future and his choices and if he has the self discipline to succeed!—Antony Annunziata <annunzia@phymat.bham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: football, inspirational, sports, dream, struggle, coming of age, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fighter Johnny Rocket, Arthur Kennedy agrees to the request of his fiancée, Angela, Olympe Bradna, to quit boxing after his next bout. Promoter Trego, Anthony Quinn, who has just purchased Johnny's contract, urges him to continue and realize his abilities, but Johnny refuses. Later, after the couple marries and Angela is pregnant, Johnny can't find work and returns to Trego and the ring. With Trego's guidance, Johnny's career blossoms -- but with disastrous results for his marriage.
Plot Keywords: action, boxing, sports, inspirational, drama, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas. On the trip, we see flashbacks to their previous title shots, their competitive friendship, and Grace's motivational wiles. (She has her own entrepreneurial dreams.) The fight itself is historic: ten rounds of savagery and courage. Who will win, who'll get the title shot, who gets Grace, and where will she find venture capital?
Plot Keywords: boxing, sports, comedy, road movie, friendship, competition, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mixed martial arts fighter (Hector Echavarria) whose son is gravely ill gets a chance to battle the MMA world champion, a vicious pugilist whose last opponent ended up in the hospital.
Plot Keywords: boxing, biography, sports, inspirational, true story, mexico, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Sunshine, Nevada, the middle-aged housewife Melanie Leroy sees her husband Ralston Leroy shagging her neighbor and she freaks out. Then she poisons Ralston, who is allergic to seafood, in the dinner. Melanie travels to the California to the apartment building that she has inherited from her aunt and when she meets her tenant Patrick Forman, she believes that he would be a perfect husband for her. She uses her maiden name, Melanie Leroy, and becomes obsessed for him, killing anyone that might interpose between Patrick and her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: football, comedy, sports, independent film, black comedy, small town, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The soccer career of Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker) continues as he gets a chance to move from the English club Newcastle to the famous "Galacticos" team, Real Madrid, joining superstars such as Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham. His move is a step forward professionally, but it also entails personal drama as Muñez, engaged to British nurse Roz (Anna Friel), fends off the advances of TV presenter Jordana (Leonor Varela) and discovers the truth about the mother who had abandoned him.
Plot Keywords: football, sports, inspirational, dream, growth, career, competition ...
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