High school football movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant high school football movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, inspirational and humorous films and TV shows about / with high school football, american football, football, sport team, high school, friendship, football player, football team, ambition and soccer coach plots mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, Japan, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as high school football: Underdogs (2013), All American (2018), Catching Faith (2015), Varsity Blues (1999), Friday Night Lights (2004), 23 Blast (2014), Under the Stadium Lights (2021), The Kicks (2015), Wildcats (1986), When the Game Stands Tall (2014).
Best films
New films
| Freaky (2020) | 6.3 | |
| Days (2016) | 7.3 | |
| Blame (2017) | 5.8 | |
| Death Note (2017) | 4.5 | |
| Farewell, My Dear Cramer (2021) | 6.1 |
List of high school football movies
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, athlete and trainer, youth, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, human spirit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds - Compton and Beverly Hills - begin to collide. Inspired by ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, emotional, ambiguous ending, inspirational ...
Plot:
american football, high school football, male objectification, high school, father son relationship, coach, football team, rise to the top, stubbornness, family problems, sport team, rivalry ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, daughter a straight A student and her husband is CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden death ...
Style:
christian film, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school student, christian, faith, football, high school football, high school athlete, religion, christianity, belief in god, high school, school ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, entertaining, semi serious, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, football, american football, cheerleader, high school, football player, stripper, tough girl, high school sports, stereotypes, mentor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant ...
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
football, high school, american football, cheerleader, sport team, high school football, underdog, championship, youth, athlete's life, small town, football team ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, midwest, austin texas ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, christian film, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
blindness, american football, high school football, high school, sport team, student athlete, friendship, self pity, athlete's life, disability, american football player, football ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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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 ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, high school, coach, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style:
captivating, sincere, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, football, athlete and trainer, ambition, small town, high school sports, youth, coach, high school football, sport team ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, oakland california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, inspirational, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school, football, college, cheerleader, small town, coming of age, high school football, student athlete, friendship, coach, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, funny, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
high school, coming of age, abortion, friendship, teenager, stoner, shopping mall, teacher, sex scene, teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, teenager, suicide attempt, unrequited love, high school football, true love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future ...
Place:
kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Style:
black comedy, sexy, bleak, dark comedy, controversial ...
Plot:
high school, dark humor, high school student, high school football, satire, homosexual, american football, celebrity, maid, writers, filmmaking, family problems ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, colombia, israel
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, lighthearted, light
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
american football, high school football, american football player, football team, football player, training, career, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, brother brother relationship, soccer coach ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
racism, high school, african american, american football, civil rights, racial tension, racial prejudice, against the odds, high school football, football, prejudice, life lesson ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place:
virginia, boston, usa, america, africa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers’ ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach—and ...
Style:
christian film, psychological, captivating, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
brother brother relationship, american football, christian, high school football, teenage boy, party, family bonds, coming of age, friendship, rivalry, society, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida, alabama
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
american football, adoption, life, african american, football, christian, interracial relations, human spirit, family drama, rising to stardom, interracial adoption, strong female character ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, tennessee, america, mississippi ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, melancholic, anamorphic ...
Plot:
gay son, gay teenager, gay interest, father son relationship, gay, high school, cheerleader, high school student, american football, gay student, flash forward, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, idaho, colorado, salt lake city utah, new york
Is relevant?
119K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our ...
Style:
mecha, psychotronic, colorful, super sentai, dutch angle ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
power rangers, superhero, superpower, teenager, superhero team, giant robot, mission, transformation, good versus evil, supernatural power, student athlete, teenage superhero ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, prehistory, prehistoric times
Is relevant?
206K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Style:
exciting, epic, sexy, saga, tense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, time travel, megalomaniac, double life, space and aliens, father son relationship, cheerleader, save the world, heroes, alien, planet ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1948, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
new york, kansas, california, san francisco, manhattan new york city ...
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318K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Following on the heels of popular teen-scream horror movies, with uproarious comedy and biting satire. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen Electra pitch in to skewer some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including Scream, ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, slasher, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
satire, absurd humor, youth, dark humor, sarcasm, stupidity, gross out humor, graphic violence, creativity, adolescence, serial killer, sex scene ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
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47K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
american football, football, disability, underdog, radio, destiny, friendship, teacher, prejudice, football team, bully, football player ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2003, 60s
Place:
cuba, south carolina, san francisco
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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 ...
Is relevant?
30K
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:
tense, captivating, thrilling, anime, shounen ...
Plot:
football player, football team, soccer, high school football, world cup, tournament, football, high school, school, sport team, athlete and trainer, coach ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The play tells the story of a group of high school football teenagers who struggle all the way through the school football league under the guidance of "underdog coach" mooch.
Style:
captivating, humorous, motivational, feel good, lighthearted
Plot:
teenager, soccer, teamwork, football, aspiration, rivalry, high school football, football team, underdog, school, coach, ambition ...
Is relevant?
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: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Everybody has a dream, and for Shou Kazamatsuri, that dream is simple: he wants to be the best soccer player he can possibly be. Although he is not very good at the game and he's not very tall.
Style:
anime, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
football team, football player, soccer, high school football, college football, middle school, school, tournament, soccer match, direction and purpose, sport team, friends ...
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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: 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, football team, high school football, football, world cup, teammate, dream, championship, tournament, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, soccer coach ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
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