Critically acclaimed Football movies

Necessary Roughness(1991)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule...



Air Bud: Golden Receiver(1998)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Story of a golden retriever who can play football.



North Dallas Forty(1979)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.



This Sporting Life(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.



The Program(1993)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.



Wildcats(1986)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.



Mario(2018)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Two young football players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.



Little Giants(1994)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Misfits form their own opposing team to an elite peewee football team, coached by the elite team coach's brother.



The Merger(2018)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Troy Carrington, a former professional football player returns to his country town after an abrupt end to his sporting career and is persuaded to coach the hapless local footy team, the Roosters.



The Blood of Heroes(1989)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A Mad Max-esque post apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal, futuristic game resembling football. Rutger Hauer plays a disgraced former star leading a rag tag group of "...



There's Only One Jimmy Grimble(2000)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend who he doesn't like. However,...



Mike Bassett: England Manager(2001)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The manager of England's national football unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack, and suddenly the search is on for a replacement. Most people who seem qualified for the position have the...



Baggio: The Divine Ponytail(2021)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Biographical film about Italian footballer Roberto Baggio, a man who inspired entire generations to play football. A unique footballer, capable of thrilling fans all over the world.



Dar Alanda Kisa Paslasmalar(2000)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is ...



Íslenski draumurinn(2000)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A business man and weekend dad is getting worn down by family trouble, business failure and the continuous loss of his favourite football team.



One Leg Kicking(2001)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mark Lee, Gurmit Singh, Moe Alkaff, Sharon Au,
Khoo Koh,

A group of underdogs form an amateur football team to play in a local league. The prize for the winners: a trip to the 2002 World Cup Finals. The team include a common man's hero who raises...



Australian Rules(2002)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Prospect Bay, a remote outpost on the South Australian coast, two communities, the Goonyas and the Nungas, come together on the one field they have in common, the football field. But the...



Full Ride(2002)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Matt Sabo is a talented high school graduating senior who is picked to play in the state all-star high school football game. Despite the honor, Sabo sports a bad attitude on and off the ...



Hometown Legend(2002)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.



The Football Factory(2004)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.




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