Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with football genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 360 films · Page 7.
Dark Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, Tragic Comedy Film, association football film, drama film
Jimmy, a shy teenager from Oldham and devoted Manchester City fan, faces bullying at school, especially from Manchester United supporters Gordon and Psycho. He joins the school football team, coached by the disheartened Mr Wirral, and befr…
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Documentation, Sport, association football film, documentary film
In 2001, American Samoa lost 31–0 to Australia, the worst loss in international football history, and have been dogged by defeat ever since. They want to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but continue to lose on the pitch. To help turn …
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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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association football film, comedy film, parody film
association football film, drama film
In the year 1978, Gracie Bowen, a 15-year-old tomboy who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and their former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and neighbor Kyle …
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Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film
The film begins with Joe Kavanagh at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, relaying an experience from his past. On the way to pick up Liam, a former junkie whom Joe is fond of, for a football match, they are cut off by Sarah, a health visitor …
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Documentation, Sport, association football film, documentary film
Ronaldo documents the life and way of thinking of Cristiano Ronaldo (born Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro; 5 February 1985), from his childhood until 2015, through a series of interviews with Ronaldo himself as well as friends and fami…
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Documentation, Sport
Social Drama, Sport, association football film, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 1979 with Paul Carty (Nicky Bell), with his sister Molly, (Holliday Grainger) and father, at his mother's graveside. After his sister escorts her dad away from the grave, Carty, looking at his watch, starts to run off. A…
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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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Drama, association football film, drama film
Jimmy Muir, a worker at the Stones Brewery, gets scouted. First, by the well-known non-league side Hallam F.C., and then later by Sheffield United Football Club.
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Komödie, association football film, comedy television program, family film
Thirteen-year-old twin sisters Sam and Emma Stanton are opposites growing up in Evansville, Indiana. Sam is a star soccer player and a tomboy; however, she wants to attract boys. Emma is a popular girly girl who enjoys fashion and make-up,…
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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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adventure film, association football film, comedy film, drama film, romance film
In 1930 Belgrade, Yugoslavia, eleven passionate, mostly anonymous but very talented soccer players and their journey from the cobblestone streets of impoverished Belgrade neighborhoods to the formation of the national team before the very …
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Drama, Robinsonade, drama film, thriller film
The story is about a partially filled United States men's national soccer team plane, returning to the US from Brazil after a FIFA World Cup match, that crashes off an uninhabited Malaysian tropical island. After the crash, the coach and h…
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Biographical picture, Komödie, association football film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film
Bernie Reubens, a young Jewish boy, is about to have his bar mitzvah. Initially, he meticulously plans a lavish reception to upstage that of his older brother Alvie, but as the family's finances lurch from one disaster to another, the fami…
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American football film, documentary film
American football film, Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film
Luke Abbate is a popular high school athlete, who plays lacrosse and football. When the 15-year-old dies in a car accident caused by a reckless teenage driver after lacrosse practice in February 2006, Luke's older brother, Jon Abbate, is m…
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American football film, musical comedy, musical film
Tycoon Harvey Casey (Harry Shannon) is frustrated by his daughter Connie's (Lucille Ball) frequent efforts to escape her hired bodyguards. She arrives back in the United States from finishing school in Italy, intent on going to Harvey's al…
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American football film, Biographical picture, athletics film, biographical film
During a banquet, legendary football coach "Pop" Warner delivers a speech praising Jim Thorpe, which leads to a flashback. Young Jim Thorpe runs home before his first day at an Indian reservation school, but his father convinces him to ret…
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