Movies like Paper Lion

20 movies like Paper Lion, ordered by similarity : Necessary Roughness(1991), Navy Blue and Gold(1937), College Coach(1933), Life Begins in College(1937), North Dallas Forty(1979), The Longshots(2008), Trouble Along the Way(1953), Mario(2018), The Waterboy(1998), Rise and Shine(1941), Heaven Can Wait(1978), My Sister Eileen(1955) ...

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Paper Lion

Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.

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Necessary Roughness

Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.

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Navy Blue and Gold

Three young men, with a common fondness for football, become roommates the at United States Naval Academy where they experience its rules and traditions.

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College Coach

Coach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power.

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Life Begins in College

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.

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North Dallas Forty

A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family is bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.

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The Longshots

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

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Trouble Along the Way

An ex-football coach is hired by a small Catholic college to train its football team in the hopes of winning games and making money to save the school from bankruptcy.

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Mario

Two young football players are caught between the politics of the game and their growing feelings for each other.

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The Waterboy

A waterboy for a college football team discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.

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Rise and Shine

Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited.

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Heaven Can Wait

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.

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My Sister Eileen

After submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher.

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Little Giants

Misfits form their own opposing team to an elite peewee football team, coached by the elite team coach's brother.

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Think Like a Dog

A 12-year-old tech prodigy's science experiment goes awry and he forges a telepathic connection with his dog. The duo join forces and use their unique perspectives on life to comically overcome complications of family and school.

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The Longest Yard

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

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Friday Night Lights

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.

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Rattle of a Simple Man

When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final one of their number winds up with a lady of the night. As they talk, the unsophisticated and naive lad starts to ... See full summary »

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Hold That Co-ed

While running for governor a politician aids a needy college by plotting to assure victory for their football team. Though to be a parody of Huey Long and his machine.

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The Bromley Boys

A man and his 9-year-old daughter disappear into the swampy Virginia backwoods. Haunted by tragedy and destitution, they must both face the painful past if they are to ever have a future.

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American Splendor

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

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