20 movies like 8th Round Pick, ordered by similarity : Run the Race(2018), Mario(2018), Invincible(2006), Draft Day(2014), Friday Night Lights(2004), Remember the Titans(2000), Brian Banks(2018), When the Game Stands Tall(2014), 89(2017), The Longshots(2008), United(2011), The Express(2008) ...
Drama
USA
2020
101 Minutes
Daniel Contois Ali Froid Jacob Hasting Tim Ross
football player coach agent girlfriend inspiring uplifting emotional engaging football field motel room house street football draft injury dreams fall pursuit sacrifice underdog
Arriving home from the NFL draft Austin Aimes is a broken man returning to a broken town and a celebration he won't receive. As a top rated college quarterback it seemed Austin had a lock ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2018
101 Minutes
Tanner Stine Kristoffer Polaha Evan Hofer Kelsey Reinhardt Mario Van Peebles Mykelti Williamson Frances Fisher Jake McEntire Caleb Castille Caleb Emery Gianna Simone
football player high-school student brother coach nurse family member heartwarming emotional touching inspiring positive football field high school hospital track house athletic competition football injury love
Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining - but ultimately strengthening - the bonds of brotherhood.
Drama, Romance, Gay & Lesbian
2018
119 Minutes
Max Hubacher Aaron Altaras Jessy Moravec Jürg Plüss Doro Müggler Andreas Matti Scherwin Amini Fabrizio Borsani Julian Koechlin
football player team member football coach friend lover moving emotional football field football game germany locker room coming out sports football career love gay couple discovery growing up love
Two young football players are caught between the politics of the game and their growing feelings for each other.
Biography, Drama
USA
2006
104 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Greg Kinnear Elizabeth Banks Kevin Conway Michael Rispoli Kirk Acevedo Dov Davidoff Michael Kelly Sal Darigo Nicoye Banks Turron Kofi Alleyne
bartender coach football player wife friend inspiring heartwarming philadelphia football field training area bar house football teamwork victory failed romance sports underdog rise transformation
Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
Drama
USA
2014
109 Minutes
Kevin Costner Jennifer Garner Denis Leary Frank Langella Sam Elliott Sean Combs Terry Crews Ellen Burstyn Chadwick Boseman Josh Pence Rosanna Arquette
manager girlfriend football player agent football coach owner brash confident cool suspenseful moving tender stadium cleveland football field theater stage office football love
At the NFL Draft, General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
Drama
Germany|USA
2004
117 Minutes
Billy Bob Thornton Derek Luke Jay Hernandez Lucas Black Garrett Hedlund Tim McGraw Connie Britton Lee Thompson Young Lee Jackson Grover Coulson Connie Cooper
coach football player townsperson girlfriend quarterback high-school student emotional winsome rousing football field locker room classroom texas football small-town life high school redemption ambition pride sports
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.
Drama
USA
2000
113 Minutes
Denzel Washington Will Patton Donald Faison Wood Harris Ryan Hurst Kate Bosworth Ethan Suplee Nicole Parker Kip Pardue Craig Kirkwood Burgess Jenkins
coach football player racist homophobe student friend inspiring emotional gutsy virginia high school football field racism ambition football training prejudice teamwork sports discovery
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
99 Minutes
Aldis Hodge Greg Kinnear Sherri Shepherd Melanie Liburd Tiffany Dupont Gino Vento Xosha Roquemore Mystie Smith Jose Miguel Vasquez Dorian Missick Monique Grant
football player convict wrongly accused police officer assistant district attorney family member inspiring emotional confident moving football field house prison courtroom law office wrongfully accused shattered dreams wrongful conviction imprisonment self-confidence
A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
Drama
USA
2014
115 Minutes
Jim Caviezel Michael Chiklis Alexander Ludwig Clancy Brown Laura Dern Matthew Daddario Joe Massingill Jessie T. Usher Richard Kohnke Ser'Darius Blain Stephan James
football coach football player high-school student teacher parent dead person inspiring cool emotional tense moving california school locker room football field house office football winning tragedy
The journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur, who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
Documentary, Drama
UK
2017
91 Minutes
Lee Dixon Michael Thomas Tony Adams Alan Smith George Graham Nigel Winterburn
football coach football player fan confident emotional gripping gutsy inspiring thrilling liverpool, england stadium football championship underdog rivalry 20th century
The true story of a sporting miracle, when Arsenal went to Anfield on the last day of the 1988/89 season needing to beat the best team in England by two clear goals to snatch the title.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2008
94 Minutes
Ice Cube Keke Palmer Tasha Smith Jill Marie Jones Dash Mihok Miles Chandler
teen girl uncle coach football player father inspiring amusing emotional illinois small town football field football family teamwork coming of age sports underdog growing up love 2000s
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.
Drama, History
UK
2011
90 Minutes
David Tennant Jack O'Connell Sam Claflin Dougray Scott Dean Andrews Kate Ashfield David Calder Neil Dudgeon Tim Healy Melanie Hill
football player football coach journalist englishman moving emotional incredible inspiring england plane football field plane crash air disaster team community tragedy sacrifice underdog 20th century
Based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of their number.
Biography, Drama
USA|Germany
2008
129 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Rob Brown Clancy Brown Omar Benson Miller Charles S. Dutton Darrin Dewitt Henson Nelsan Ellis Nicole Beharie
college student football player coach teammate uplifting engaging new york state college football field football college civil rights racism heisman trophy sports transformation quest 1950s
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Biography, Drama
UK|Australia|USA
2015
121 Minutes
Will Smith Alec Baldwin Gugu Mbatha-Raw Arliss Howard Paul Reiser Luke Wilson Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje David Morse Matthew Willig Albert Brooks Richard T. Jones
football player pathologist doctor commissioner lawyer family member brooding emotional intense football field laboratory pittsburgh office house street brain disorder football cover-up lawsuit determination
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Drama
USA
1997
97 Minutes
Mac Davis Cynthia Sikes Greg Coolidge Andrew Prine Dennis Burkley Monica Lacy Jay Underwood Jerry Haynes Clive Revill J.W. Johnson Kyle Moody
radio personality football player son mayor townsperson heartwarming uplifting amusing oklahoma small town football field imagination football small-town life competition dreams deception underdog rise 1990s
Will Clark loves his job as radio announcer for the local high school football team, the Nowata Possums. He loves it so much that he continues announcing even after the town decides to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
63 Minutes
football player football coach college sweetheart roommate lawyer police officer rousing suspenseful confident college campus stadium football field jail football college athletics friendship college life responsibility gambling sports
Injured Carlton College quarterback Ken Thomas makes a promise to his girlfriend that he won't play again. Then, when she relents, crooks hoping to make money from the big game, kidnap him.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1979
120 Minutes
Nick Nolte Mac Davis Charles Durning Dayle Haddon Bo Svenson Steve Forrest G.D. Spradlin Dabney Coleman Savannah Boucher Marshall Colt Guich Koock
athlete football player coach jock dark gritty brash dallas football field football hunting drugs corruption ambition teamwork sports rise fall rivalry 1970s
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.
Drama
USA
2014
98 Minutes
Stephen Lang Alexa PenaVega Mark Hapka Max Adler Kimberly Jo Zimmer Bram Hoover Timothy Busfield Fred Dalton Thompson Becky Ann Baker Dylan Baker Kevin Cooney
teen boy athlete parent physical therapist coach best friend emotional inspiring uplifting small town kentucky school football field hospital office blindness perseverance football family love
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Drama
USA
2017
92 Minutes
Tatum Chiniquy Heather Beers Shona Kay Jasen Wade Scarlett Hazen Yvonne D Bennett
teen girl parent friend cheerleader sad spirited emotional inspiring house neighborhood school football field accident life lessons family ties miracles fall growing up love underdog
A teenage girl copes with her diagnosis of terminal juvenile Batten disease.
Biography, Drama
USA
2015
118 Minutes
Aaron Eckhart Finn Wittrock Robin Tunney Sarah Bolger Michael Reilly Burke Rett Terrell Juston Street
football coach football player college student college president teammate family member confident gripping emotional texas football field dorm locker room classroom college campus football college determination challenge teamwork
Freddie Steinmark, an underdog on the gridiron, faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
Drama
USA
1932
104 Minutes
football player football coach rival sister roommate doctor melodramatic spirited gary, ind. new haven, conn. yale university dorm football field college athletics college life football friendship illness class conflict rivalry
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his ... See full summary »