Playing football movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant playing football movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, entertaining, inspirational, psychological, disturbing and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with playing football, football, football player, soccer, football team, soccer coach, athlete and trainer, sport team, athlete's life and ambition plots mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Sweden and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as playing football: The Coach (2018), FC Venus (2005), Tigers (2020), Holy Goalie (2017), The Women's Football Show (2013), Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015), Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016), The Falcons (2018), Soccer Aid (2006), Giant Killing (2010).
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
football, soccer, playing football, sport team, ambition, football team, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, male female relationship, woman, soccer coach ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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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:
disturbing, suspense, thought provoking, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soccer, football, football player, playing football, football team, depression, professional sports, price of fame, athlete's life, self sacrifice, adulthood, soccer coach ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, italy, milan italy
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young priest coaches a team of uncoordinated monks in order to win a soccer tournament and save their monastery from being turned into a hotel.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
soccer, male nudity, religion, playing football, football team, monk, priest, football player, football, vatican, soccer fan, soccer match ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Football series looking at the biggest issues in the women's game.
Style:
captivating, informative, insightful, fast paced, educational ...
Plot:
football, analysis, women's football (soccer), football team, professional sports, soccer match, woman, playing football, sport team, british, ambitious woman, soccer coach ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Mr. Müller is not satisfied with his new work at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. The early getting up and correcting exams annoy him. Director Gerster wants to improve the image of the Goethe-Gesamtschule because she wants to be a symbol of the new ...
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, freeze frame, entertaining
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school teacher, camp, vulgar language, teacher, school, high school, criminal as protagonist, survival, naked in public, emotional blackmail, teachers and students, teenager ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
germany, thailand
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Style:
inspirational, serious, realistic, uplifting, factual ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
following a dream, soccer, athlete's life, rags to riches, football player, rise to the top, contests and competitions, prodigy, rivalry, soccer match, youth, father son relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
brazil, latin america, africa, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Iceland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Every year, on a large island just outside of Iceland, there is a huge football tournament for kids. Ten-year-old Jón and his team go to compete, but he will have to grow up faster than expected, both on and off the pitch.
Style:
satirical, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
soccer, friendship, football team, playing football, sport team, athlete's life, soccer match, football player, high school football, competitor, teenage life, athlete and trainer ...
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Genre: Sport
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Soccer Aid is a biennial British charity event that has raised £6.5 million in aid of UNICEF UK through ticket sales and donations. The event is a football match between two teams of celebrities and former professional players, representing England ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, uplifting, feel good
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
football, charity, soccer, football team, celebrity, playing football, soccer match, sporting event, fund raising, sport team, rivalry, contest ...
Place:
england, manchester
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Giant Killing follows a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo who are struggling in Japan's top football league. Nearing the bottom, they have lost 5 matches in a row which hasn't done much to team morale. Even with the fan's turning their ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, exciting, captivating, seinen
Plot:
football player, football team, soccer, high school football, football, soccer coach, sport team, professional sports, soccer match, playing football, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Devin Burke and her family have moved cross-country to California and now must adjust to a new life and a new soccer team. The Kentville Kicks don't quite play up to the standard that Devin is used to, so she must establish herself as a leader ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teenage girl, high school football, football team, school, soccer, girlfriend, football, playing football, coping, sport team, teenager, teenage protagonist ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
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, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
football player, soccer, football team, marriage proposal, wartime, biopic, racial slur, friendship, loss of family, nazi germany, soccer match, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1947, year 1943, year 1932
Place:
germany, bavaria, munich germany
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Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
89 tells the incredible story of one of football’s greatest triumphs: when against all odds Arsenal snatched the Championship title from Liverpool at Anfield in the last minute of the last game of the 1988/89 season. It’s a universal tale of a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, sincere, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, football, football team, sport team, football player, sports history, playing football, athlete and trainer, sporting event, soccer fan, coach, interview ...
Time:
20th century
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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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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
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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
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Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
After his team was disbanded, Sho Ota is 6th grader determined on finding new members to reassemble the Momotaro Predators.
Style:
anime, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
football team, soccer, high school football, college football, sport team, football, soccer match, ambitious, ambition, teenager, direction and purpose, teenage life ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a mile in under four minutes. Cam's decision tears apart his relationship with former ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
track and field, grief, american football, father son relationship, family relations, guilty conscience, professional sports, high school sports, athletics, athlete and trainer, runner, rugby player ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Starting over at a new high school is a challenge for former soccer team captain Cameron, especially when faced with a new coach who has a deadly vendetta and refuses to play by the rules.
Style:
captivating, thrilling
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
football team, soccer, competitor, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, women's football (soccer), soccer coach, sport team, problem, female protagonist, football player, playing football ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Eric, an ordinary man in his mid 30s with an ordinary job, wins a large sum of money playing the lottery. Despite his total lack of talent, he quits his job and sets off to learn how to play soccer. Eric firmly believes that if he spends 10,000 ...
Style:
entertaining, thought provoking, funny, feel good, motivational ...
Plot:
soccer, dream, lottery winner, football, middle aged man, motivation, playing football, athlete and trainer, direction and purpose, ambition, soccer coach, ambitious man ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Biopic charting the career of legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer who won the World Cup as a player in 1974, and then as the West German team's coach in 1990. Taking place against the backdrop of the stunning global tournaments, the ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, historical drama ...
Plot:
soccer, football, ambition, football team, triumph, biopic, football player, soccer coach, historical figure, life, athlete's life, sport team ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
germany, west germany
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Genre: Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
From the classroom to the locker room to the kick-off each week, viewers are transported behind-the-scenes, beyond the field and into the lives of these student athletes as they compete throughout the season. Go deep inside the world of a Division ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, motivational
Plot:
college football, american football, football team, high school football, notre dame cathedral, behind the scenes, sport team, rugby, soccer coach, american football player, athlete and trainer, rugby player ...
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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:
disturbing, tense, captivating, inspirational, emotional
Plot:
high school football, football team, underdog, teamwork, athlete's life, sport team, athlete and trainer, football player, soccer, competitor, professional rivalry, school club ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and ...
Style:
anime, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, entertaining ...
Plot:
football player, soccer, football team, tournament, football, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, slice of life, competition, coach, teamwork, playing football ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, 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, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
american football, american football player, football team, nfl, football, supermarket, based on real people, sport team, biopic, champion, christian, athlete's life ...
Time:
year 1996, year 1992, year 1985
Place:
oklahoma city, los angeles, st. louis missouri
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
american football, american football player, sport team, hometown, football team, nfl, team, life, coach, football, father son relationship, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2012
Place:
new orleans
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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:
captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
football player, soccer, football, champion, professional sports, athlete's life, direction and purpose, playing football, ambition, historical character, teenager, schoolboy ...
Time:
2000s, year 1992, year 2004, year 1999, 90s
Place:
amsterdam, eastern europe
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Genre: Family, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
Jamie Johnson is a boy with a dream. A boy who lives and breathes football. Join Jamie with his struggle to settle into a new school, search for his absent father and make the all-important football team.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
football, high school life, ambition, soccer, coming of age, youth, football player, athlete's life, dream, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, teenage life ...
Place:
britain
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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, price of fame, rising to stardom, playing football, career change, european, biopic ...
Time:
year 2000, 70s, year 1970, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
italy
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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, uplifting, disturbing, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing
Plot:
soccer coach, football player, football team, obstacle, unrequited love, human spirit, sport competition, professional sports, male protagonist, ambition, sport team, sports star ...
Place:
ussr
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