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American football film, Biographical picture, Sport, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama
Minden, Louisiana, is a former factory town with a failing economy and a pathetic football team that no one believes in. Curtis Plummer, a washed-up former football player, returns home broke and directionless until he meets his niece Jasm…
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy film, drama film
Jack Dundee is a banker obsessed with what he considers the most shameful moment in his life: dropping a perfectly thrown pass in the final seconds of the 1972 high school football game between Taft and their arch rivals, Bakersfield, that…
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American football film, Sport, comedy drama
In the late-1970s, Phil Elliott plays wide receiver for the North Dallas Bulls professional football team, based in Dallas, Texas, which closely resembles the Dallas Cowboys. Although considered to possess "the best hands in the game", the…
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American football film, Komödie, parody film
Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) has the distinction of being the worst coach in the history of sports that anyone can recall. The incompetent and seemingly hopeless coach has a job that he is finally proud of producing the DNA buildi…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
Deon, a skilled college running back, falls ill from a genetic disease just when he is about to go realize his dreams and advance to the NFL, a professional American Football league. Though idolized for his athletic ability, Deon shares th…
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American football film, Komödie, Raunchy comedy, buddy film, romantic comedy
Wide receiver Marvin "Shake" Tiller and running back Billy Clyde Puckett are football buddies who play for a Miami pro team owned by "Big Ed" Bookman. Bookman's daughter Barbara Jane is roommates with both men, and the film depicts a subtl…
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American football film, Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Lars Knutson Rockne, a carriage builder, moves his family from Norway in 1892, settling in Chicago. His son, Knute, saves up his money and enrolls in college at the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana, where he plays football. Rockne …
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American football film, Thriller, action film, disaster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
An unknown sniper (Warren Miller) positions himself at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before a professional football championship dubbed "Championship X" (Ten) between Baltimore and Los Angeles, similar to the Super Bowl. He is spotted …
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American football film, Komödie, comedy film, parody film
The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, is convinced by his son Frank, a student at the school, to recruit…
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American football film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, drama film
Roy Chutney is a high school senior in the fictional Montana town of Blue Springs. Roy does not have an especially close relationship with his mother Evangeline and has not seen his father in years. That does not prevent Roy from feeling e…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
A star collegiate quarterback ignites a players' strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.
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American football film, Biographical picture, Drama, drama fiction
On October 29, 2011, Joe Paterno wins his 409th game as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. During 61 years at Penn State University, he helped the former "cow college" to quintuple its financial endowment and build P…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
Gavin Grey is a 1950s star athlete known by the moniker "The Grey Ghost," who plays football at Louisiana State University. His campus girlfriend Babs Rogers, nephew Donnie "Cake" McCaslin, and teammate Ed Lawrence adore his personality an…
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Sport, comedy drama
Small, obscure St. Anthony's College, a Jesuit Catholic university, is in dire financial straits and about to be closed. To save it, and himself from forced retirement, elderly rector Father Burke hires a down-and-out former big-time footb…
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American football film, biographical film
The Bear follows the life of Paul "Bear" Bryant (Busey), head coach of the University of Alabama football team, who died in 1983. Jon-Erik Hexum plays Pat Trammell in the film.
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American football film, Sport, drama film
Taking place in the 1960s, My All American recounts the life of a young Freddie Steinmark and his dream of playing football in college. He is a strong-willed athlete with a big heart. In high school, Steinmark won the prestigious “Denver P…
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American football film, Family Comedy, comedy film
The California Atoms are the worst team in the NFL and have not won a game in years. Team owner Hank Cooper is deeply in debt to two bookmakers named Charles Gwynn and Cal Wilson. When Cooper tells them he cannot pay his debts, the bookies…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
Travis Freeman, a local football star, is an average high school junior. Living in the town of Corbin, Kentucky, his inner circle includes his supporting parents, girlfriend, and childhood best friend, Jerry Baker (Bram Hoover) Life is nor…
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American football film, Komödie, Sport, comedy film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=15|The Freshman (1925)|left Harold Lamb (Harold Lloyd), a bright-eyed but naive young man, enrolls at Tate University. On the train there, he meets Peggy (Jobyna Ralston). They are attracted to each other.
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American football film, Drama, Sport
Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers are not friends in the beginning of the story; in fact they are rivals. During their first season together with pro football's Chicago Bears, Piccolo is never in the spotlight because Sayers is a better and mo…
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American football film, Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, crime film
High-school nerd Ed Wallis enters into a friendship with his neighbor, Ashby, a retired CIA assassin who only has a few months to live. The film is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. Ashby initially tells Ed that he is a retir…
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American football film, Drama, Komödie, Psychodrama
Paul Aufiero is a parking garage attendant who lives with his mother in Staten Island, New York, and relentlessly follows the New York Giants football team. He and his friend Sal faithfully attend each Giants game; however, as they can't a…
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American football film, Documentation, Sport, documentary film
Adventure, American football film, Drama, Komödie, fantasy film
The Westfield Angels high school football team is on a 54-game skid. Jesse Harper is their best player and is playing as tailback, shedding a new light for the team. However, after a terrible accident in a rainstorm in which his father Pet…
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