Remember the Titans (2000), 89 (2017), Diego Maradona (2019), Undefeated (2011), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Blind Side (2009), Rudy (1993), Buffalo '66 (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Football movies.
Storyline: A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Plot Keywords: athlete, warden, guard, convict, girlfriend, amusing, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?
Plot Keywords: coach, assistant, president, football player, student, bleak, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Penn State football coach Joe Paterno becomes embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal.
Plot Keywords: football coach, victim, sexual predator, student, colleague, pedophile, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
Plot Keywords: private investigator, quarterback, stripper, son, team owner, brutal, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.—Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: athlete, football player, coach, jock, dark, gritty, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. After his medals are stripped on a technicality and his dream of coaching is shattered, Thorpe's life begins to unravel. His marriage to his college sweetheart ends, and he is a forgotten figure, except by Glenn 'Pop' Warner, his coach at Carlisle College.—<jmilani@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: athlete, coach, wife, spirited, touching, pennsylvania, boarding school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To be a Pet Detective, you have to understand both the criminals and animals. Ace Ventura goes even further... He behaves like a criminal animal. When a football team's mascot (a dolphin) is stolen just before the Superbowl, Ace Ventura is put on the case. Now, who would want to steal a dolphin, and why?
Plot Keywords: private detective, pretty woman, football player, criminal, friend, animal, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.
Plot Keywords: football player, environmentalist, millionaire, angel, coach, lighthearted, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
Plot Keywords: counselor, juvenile delinquent, football player, coach, co-worker, delinquent, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends--one an older-brother figure, the other a girl with whom he is in love-- fall for each other.
Plot Keywords: nerd, football player, teen girl, bully, coach, endearing, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest modern player.
Plot Keywords: soccer player, emotional, argentina, life, soccer, football, rise ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence; it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo-Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters' extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.
Plot Keywords: hooligan, young man, gritty, brooding, brutal, engaging, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to save from closure with a winning program.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: coach, daughter, ex-wife, priest, football player, social worker, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's draft day in the NFL, and as General Manager of the Cleveland Browns, Sonny is forced to come up with a big move. After trading for the number one pick, Sonny has to choose between a lower-ranked linebacker with a questionable past, or a celebrated quarterback with a questionable future. All the while, Sonny is walking in the footsteps of his father, and personal complications force their way to the surface.
Plot Keywords: manager, girlfriend, football player, agent, football coach, owner, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry. He and a teammate develop the forward pass as an offensive weapon while working as life guards on summer break and use it to upset heavily favored Army in a historic game. After graduation Rockne becomes a teacher while coaching part-time but ultimately abandons academics to devote all his energies to football. During his tenure as head coach at the school, he develops such outstanding players as George Gipp, who dies prematurely from a strep infection, and the Four Horseman while introducing many innovative tactics including the backfield shift. Rockne, known for his staccato motivational speeches, devotes his life to maintaining the integrity of the sport he loves and promoting it as an integral component in the development of the American character.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: football player, professor, coach, wife, heartwarming, indiana, football field ...
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