Football Movies

[Quack]

Bend It Like Beckham
Escape to Victory
Mike Bassett England Manager
The Miracle of Berne (http://www.irishfilm.ie/cinema/sdispfilm.asp?SID=37&SeasonName=German%20Film%20Festival&PageID=59&filmID=3942)
Mean Machine
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0031055/combined)
Shaolin Soccer (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0286112/combined)
The goalkeeper's anxiety at the penalty kick (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066773/combined)

A film called "World Cup" (I think) involving an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants. All concerned realise their common humanity due to World Cup 82

A film starring Ally McCoist called "A Shot at Glory"

"The Disappearance of Finbar" - never saw it, but as far as I recall this Irish movie involved a promising schoolboy footballer.


Are there any other football-themed or football-related movies I've missed out on?

[Beavis]

The Big Green:D

Sheer Quality

[yur man]

the van was a good one

[Junior]

fever pitch, great book, movie was ok...

When Saturday comes, Sean Bean - pure pish.

[dutch]

Another film for the list if anyone knows the name,it was about two geordie kids who end up joy riding in Shearers car.

[fergalr]

Gregory's Girl !

[sadloserkid]

Originally posted by Quack
"The Disappearance of Finbar" - never saw it, but as far as I recall this Irish movie involved a promising schoolboy footballer.


This is a brilliant film. There's sod all football in it though. Finbar from the title gets a spell with Grasshopper Zurich, comes home after making a mess of it, gets depressed, runs away to Sweden without telling anyone and his friend tries to find him. It's a cracking film though, much better than my baldy synopsis makes it sound!

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by Quack
Are there any other football-themed or football-related movies I've missed out on?

When Saturday Comes - good film, liked the rags to riches theme in it; and of course Manchester Utd losing at the end,
Escape to Victory - probably one of the greatest war/football films EVER, and one of the few to star real life soccer players (Bobby Moore RIP, Pele etc), amazed this one got no other mention, anyone else seen it??

[sadloserkid]

'There's only one Jimmy Grimble' was alright too.

[Junior]

Originally posted by Shed End John
When Saturday Comes - good film, liked the rags to riches theme in it; and of course Manchester Utd losing at the end,
Escape to Victory - probably one of the greatest war/football films EVER, and one of the few to star real life soccer players (Bobby Moore RIP, Pele etc), amazed this one got no other mention, anyone else seen it??

Great classic footie film, Pele's overhead kick with broke arm, who could forget that. There was an Irish fella in it ....Callaghan??? can't remember.

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by Junior
Great classic footie film, Pele's overhead kick with broke arm, who could forget that. There was an Irish fella in it ....Callaghan??? can't remember.

Some goal, alright. In filming he got it right 1st time but, the director forgot to turn on the camera. Took Pele another 20 attempts to do it to the directors satisfaction.
If I remember right, Kevin O'Callaghan was his name, defender maybe?? Not sure.

[tiktok]

i remeber being very annoyed about 'escape to victory'

Kevin O'Callaghan was the sole irish representative, he was a winger who they cast as a goalie. then before the big game they intentionally broke his arm so that the nazis would let stallone go in goals, of course, rocky goes on to concede four.

[pete]

Originally posted by Shed End John
Escape to Victory - probably one of the greatest war/football films EVER, and one of the few to star real life soccer players (Bobby Moore RIP, Pele etc), amazed this one got no other mention, anyone else seen it??

Think i heard of it before like... ;)

Sly Stalone in goals.

Featured good few other footballers of the time as well whose names escape me at the moment :eek:

[dutch]

purely belter ,thats the one.escape to victory is not only the greatest football film ever but the greatest film of any genre.any takers for a tv film about a man who unlike the rest of his neighbours refuses to paint his house in the local teams colours leading to fighting in the neighbourhood and the break up of his marriage.

[SÓC]

A crappy crappy film about a Belfast boy who wants to play for Belfast United, gets dancing lessons (the samba of course), and suddenly can play like a Brazilian. He also manages to get the girl.

Filmed in Tolka Park and Blackrock College for the most part.

The worst hour and a half of my life.

[dutch]

the scene in kes was a football scene.Brian Glover was wearing full Man. United kit and cast himself as Bobby Charlton there was also an in screen score after each goal and kes was in nets

[NigeSausagepump]

"The Official DVD of the 2002 World Cup" was a great one. 2 hours of non-stop football.


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