Football movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant football movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, inspirational, feel good, serious, humorous and entertaining films and TV shows about / with football, sport team, ambition, rivalry, football team, american football, coach, underdog, hopes and contests and competitions plots mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as football: Goal! (2005), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), The Damned United (2009), Jerry Maguire (1996), We Are Marshall (2006), Victory (1981), Baggio: The Divine Ponytail (2021), Facing the Giants (2006), Friday Night Lights (2006), Invincible (2006).

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 6.7
 66K
Goal! (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer...However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him ...
Style: inspirational, harsh, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: soccer, football, coach, sport team, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, human spirit, lifestyle, dream come true, against the odds, rivalry ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, england, europe, london, mexico
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Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play ...
Style: feel good, touching, light, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: soccer, football, culture clash, friendship, hinduism, wedding, feminism, immigrant, tradition, stereotypes, coach, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, hamburg germany, germany
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The Damned United (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous ...
Style: factual, inspirational, tense, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: soccer, football, discipline, biopic, soccer coach, friendship, ambition, mentor, training, rivalry, justice, life philosophy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2009, 60s, year 1974
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe, mallorca ...
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 7.3
 285K
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style: feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: usa, cuba
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We Are Marshall (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Style: sentimental, inspirational, touching, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family outing, adult
Plot: football, college, american football, coach, football team, survivor, university, friendship, underdog, small town, teacher, happy ending ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: usa, west virginia, virginia, california
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 6.6
 33K
Victory (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Style: inspirational, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: world war two, prison, soccer, football, nazi, war, human spirit, escape, contests and competitions, against the odds, world war, rivalry ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century
Place: germany, france, paris france, europe
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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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Facing the Giants (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, christian film, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: christian, underdog, religious, faith, football, american football, high school football, human spirit, athlete and trainer, christianity, ambition, athlete's life ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
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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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Friday Night Lights (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Friday Night Lights is an American drama television series based around a high school football team situated in Texas. The series takes place in the fictional town of Dillon: a small, close-knit community in rural Texas. Particular focus is given to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, football, athlete and trainer, american football, coach, sport team, friendship, contests and competitions, cheerleader, small town, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, hawaii, southern usa, usa
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 7.0
 75K
Invincible (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of Papale's beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot: underdog, american football, football, teacher, follow your dream, team, biopic, against the odds, determination, teamwork, motivation, rookie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, usa, boston
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 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
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 6.0
 15K
Wildcats (1986)
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, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
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 6.5
 49K
Varsity Blues (1999)
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, inspirational, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: football, american football, coming of age, small town, cheerleader, teenager, high school, stripper, mentor, stereotypes, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
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 6.9
 27K
School Ties (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: high school, coming of age, anti semitism, preparatory school, justice, friendship, american football, judaism, working class, youth, football, school ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: israel, massachusetts, harvard university, usa
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 6.8
 66K
Draft Day (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
Style: inspirational, exciting, intense, suspense, semi serious ...
Plot: football, negotiation, american football, nfl, boss and employee, honest, power relations, overcoming, disorder, ambition, one last chance, strategy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, cleveland ohio, usa, ohio, seattle
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The Longest Yard (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' ...
Style: inspirational, intense, suspense, talky, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, american football, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships, prison life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida, usa, america, georgia
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All the Right Moves (1983)
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, talky, melancholic, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: american football, high school, friendship, football, college, coach, small town, father son relationship, coming of age, student athlete, high school football, cheerleader ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
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Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of ...
Style: serious, disturbing, factual, intense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: soccer, gang, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, hooligan, subculture, friends, buddies, football, skinhead, bar fight ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, harvard university
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 6.0
 33K
Leatherheads (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up ...
Style: witty, feel good, inspirational, intense, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: american football, football, underdog, sport team, justice, redemption, life philosophy, vengeance, rivalry, cheerleader, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 1920s, post world war one, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: chicago, minnesota, usa, france, milwaukee wisconsin
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 4.7
 3K
Cosmoball (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: What will Moscow look like if it turns off the electricity, stops all production, and the whole world will only watch the alien game? As a result of the galactic war that occurred near the Earth, the Moon collapsed and the poles of the planet ...
Style: exciting, disturbing, light, futuristic, computer animated ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: football, save the world, save the day, game, flash forward, athlete, fate of humanity, soccer, heroes, friendship, champion, supernatural ...
Time: future
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Two for the Money (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
Style: intense, tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: gambling, american football, greed, football, father son relationship, cons and scams, addiction, rags to riches, manipulation, dishonesty, workplace, bookies ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, puerto rico, las vegas
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 7.6
 358K
The Blind Side (2009)
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: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: american football, adoption, life, african american, human spirit, family drama, christian, interracial relations, football, rising to stardom, racism, interracial adoption ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, america, boston, mississippi ...
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 7.7
 876
The Rebels (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Julie is in over her head when her husband suddenly dies leaving her as sole owner of a pro-football team.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic, feel good ...
Plot: fish out of water, parents and children, football, family relations, sport team, single parent, loss of spouse, manager, silly humor, disorder, major league, millionaire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 6.1
 46K
Fired Up! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Style: sex comedy, teen, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, high school, fall in love, teenager, football, college, youth, love and romance, bare breasts, erotica, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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The Replacements (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty ...
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleading, transformation, adaptation, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 7.3
 88K
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Style: absurd, humorous, feel good, witty, parody ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: soccer, martial arts, kung fu, football, underdog, champion, silly humor, fight, love story, mentor, humiliation, coach ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: china, hong kong, east asia, asia
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 6.6
 10K
Big Fan (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas ...
Style: talky, disturbing, bleak, dark comedy, witty ...
Plot: american football, character study, obsession, football, loser, obsessed fan, eccentricity, loneliness, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, hospital, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, usa
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Friday Night Lights (2004)
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, intense, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: football, high school, american football, sport team, coach, underdog, youth, high school football, championship, athlete's life, career, small town ...
Time: 80s, year 2004, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, midwest, houston texas
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 7.4
 42K
McFarland, USA (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
Style: inspirational, touching, uplifting, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, kids
Plot: teacher, underdog, coach, track and field, high school, athlete and trainer, human spirit, mentor, teenager, school, competition, dedicated educator ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, palo alto california
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