Related
Summary
25A Shot At Glory (2000)
A Shot at Gloryis a flick from 2000starring Robert Duvallas Gordon McLeod . the handler of the fictitious Kilnockie FC Scottish Football club as they assay to reach their first - ever Scottish Cup Final . Scots soccer player Ally McCoist whizz in the lead part as Jackie McQuillan , the squad ’s striker , an age player who is ready to retire but has a chance to avail lead the team to the finals before his career comes to a conclusion . He is also McLeod ’s son - in - law and the two have a laboured family relationship . Michael Keaton also star as the proprietor who wants to move the team , and unless they can win , the small fishing town will lose the only thing keeping it alive .
24Escape To Victory (1981)
There are some very familiar face in the 1981 soccer movieVictory . Released in 1981 , the movie has a team of Allied POW coached by a professional soccer player who tally to play an exhibition catch with a German team as a propaganda stunt . John Huston ( The Treasure of Sierra Madre ) directs the movie and there is a potent intermixture of conversant actors and real - life-time soccer players in the cast . Sylvester Stallone , Michael Caine , and Max von Sydow are in the cast along with players like Pele , Bobby Moore , and Osvaldo Ardiles .
23Zidane — A 21st Century Portrait (2006)
Zinedine Zidane was one of the players showcased inGoal!There was also a documentary made about him in 2006 , with the movieZidane – A twenty-first Century Portrait . This was a French movie made in 2006 by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno , and it was unlike most of the best association football picture and tv shows made today . The film was more experimental , focus on the playacting style of Zidane , and influenced by an experimental German flick from 1970 that focused on one player for an full game . It is an arthouse pic , but it remains a fascinating watch .
22Fever Pitch (1997)
American sports fan get laid about the sport movieFever Pitch , whereJimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore shareda love tarradiddle with the background of the Boston Red Sox World Series Championship . However , that flick was the second adaptation of the Bible by Nick Hornby . The first picture was more fast to the al-Qur’an , which was n’t about baseball . It was about soccer . Colin Firth and Ruth Gemmell star as the brace whose romance is base around their team - Arsenal - winning its championship in 1988 - 89 . The original remains the better of the two adaptations .
21When Saturday Comes (1996)
Sean Bean asterisk as a soccer player in the 1996 movieWhen Saturday Comes . The British movie is a Sheffield - ground report with Bean playing Jimmy , a hometown son who is a hard - drinking , working - socio-economic class human who wants to play for Sheffield United , but finds himself stuck in the amateur leagues . With the help of his girlfriend , he catches the aid of some guide and he finally makes it to the big dreams , where his dreams come up true . It remain one of the best soccer flick and TV show , a fun inspirational sports underdog history .
20Next Goal Wins (2014)
In 2014 , the documentaryNext Goal Winscame out and told the story of the internal football squad in American Samoa who went from being one of the weak squad in the world to dispose for the FIFA World Cup . In 2001 , Australia beat American Samoa 31 - 0 in the most lopsided licking in international football account . To turn things around in 2014 , they hired Thomas Rongen as their new head coach and he avail push them to the FIFA World Cup tourney . The motion picture received overwhelmingly prescribed reviews , with 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes , and a fabricated retelling ofNext Goal Winsarrived in 2023 from Taika Waititi .
19Mean Machine (2001)
star ex - football player and famed " hard world , " Vinnie Jones , Mean Machineis the news report of a former England soccer player who gets sent to prison house and ends up coach a team of prisoners against a team of guards led by the warden of the prison house . The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American football game motion-picture show , The Longest Yard , though it ultimately swear on British wit and culture for its clowning . Mean Machineremains a swell smell at the sport with a real - liveliness player in the lead role , with a few other intimate cheek in early roles , including Jason Statham and Jason Flemyng .
18The English Game (2020)
The English Gameis a Netflix association football drama . The miniseries explore the roots of the beautiful game in the UK before the sport became widespread across social classes . As a result , the series center around a group of working - class human who get to shape with the upper category to establish association football in Britain . While the serial publication has received mixed reviews , it will still sure as shooting be an gratifying watch for those who have been missing soccer due to the coronavirus eruption shelve leagues around the world .
17This Is Football (2019)
16Pele (2021)
There might not be a more renowned and revered association football player in story than Pele . Released in 2021 on Netflix , Peletells the life tale of the Brazilian soccer champion , from his life as a child to his soccer winner to his previous work with the New York Cosmos . There is muckle of archival footage in the documentary , which should please any association football fan , and it also includes a quite a little of old interviews as well as talk school principal from forward-looking association football talking about Pele ’s influence on the mutant . The pic received positivist review after its arrival on Netflix .
