Football biography movies

So you want to do what some of the biggest NFL busts never did: study football film. You&#;ve got the drive to learn from the decisive plays, watch those game-clinching throws, and witness them beastly runs that can get a roaring stadium crowd up on their feet and register on the Richter scale.

It&#;s a good thing we got the best football movies right here that&#;ll make you a pro, and you won&#;t even need a sports agent or that distracting multi-million dollar contract.

First, throw away your scout reports, QB ratings, and ELOs (we&#;re not talking about Jeff Lynne LPs). To create our list of the best football movies, we use just one metric: the Tomatometer. We start with Certified Fresh films like Friday Night Lights, Jerry Maguire, and ultimate underdog story Rudy, all majorly approved by the critics.

Then we follow those up with Fresh movies, which include enduring favorites like crowd-pleasing Remember the Titans, tearjerker Brian&#;s Song, and Academy Award-winning The Blind Side.

Then come the Rotten movies, which plenty of RT users have given the go-ahead with positive Audience Scores. (Alright, we&#;ll come out and say it: A majority of critics may not have played ball at the collegiate level.) The include popular picks like Any Given Sunday, We Are Marshall, The Waterboy, and Varsity Blues.

So if you want to know from your Xs and Os and Y.A. Tittles, open up the playbook to the best football movies of all time, ranked by Tomatometer. And soon you&#;ll get to the Hall of Fame without ever having to step foot in Canton.

Beyond the Pitch: The Best Football Films Ever Made

Football films always have a bit of a hard time. Ultimately, it&#;s probably because the world&#;s biggest movie market, the USA, doesn&#;t really care for football like the rest of the world. Then there&#;s the ever-present issue that people who enjoy football tend to be busy actually watching the football rather than visiting the cinema.

Still, that&#;s not to say that good football movies don&#;t exist at all. There are a few gems that have popped up over the years.

So, for all the times you&#;re not watching the World Cup but still need your football fix, we&#;ve put together of the best football films ever made.

As with our romantic and horror movie guides, we looked at scores from Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDB to find the football films with the overall highest average scores. Here they are in order from lowest to highest rated.

Playing For Keeps ()

More of a football-adjacent film than a true football film. This romantic comedy sees Gerard Butler star as a down-on-his-luck former football player trying to raise his son with his ex-wife. The film follows his attempts to get a new job as a sports broadcaster while various women attempt to seduce him.

Will ()

Will is a little boy who is a huge fan of Liverpool F.C. He&#;s living at a boarding school since his ailing father can&#;t care for him after his mother&#;s death. Out of the blue, his dad arrives with tickets to go and see Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League Final. Unfortunately, Will&#;s father passes away shortly afterwards meaning Will can&#;t go. However, deciding to honour his father, Will makes the arduous journey to the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul to see the match anyway.

One Night In Istanbul ()

Oddly, another film based on the same football match as the previous one. Two hard-up cab drivers from Liverpool strike a deal with a local gangster to get