Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.

Mad About Mambo

2000

English

5.9

♡ 10

57%

52%

Action

amateur football (soccer)

John Forte Director

Jim Norton as Brother Xavier

Keri Russell as Lucy McLoughlin

Gavin O'Connor as Seamus Mitchell

Brian Cox as Sidney McLoughlin

High school student tries to improve soccer skills by practicing dance and falls for his dance partner.

Pitch

2016

Russian

6.3

♡ 2

Action

amateur football (soccer)

coming of age

Drama

football (soccer) coach

Sport

sports

Eduard Bordukov Director

Kirill Degtyar as Damir

Sergey Romanovich as Kostya

Sergey Podolnyy as Mel

Stasya Miloslavskaya as Nastya

Kostya and his friends are young and love playing street football. Kostya dreams of playing professionally, but cannot bring himself to approach the coach. His girlfriend, Nastya, shares his dream, but street football is Kostya’s life, and the outdoor pitch is akin to a second home, a place for friends to meet and play.

Lessons of a Dream

2011

German

6.8

♡ 3

76%

Action

amateur football (soccer)

Sebastian Grobler Director

Christina Große as Frau Profalla

Daniel Brühl as Konrad Koch

Justus von Dohnányi as Richard Hartung

Axel Prahl as Schricker Sen.

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

Kicking & Screaming

2005

English

5.6

♡ 27

41%

43%

Action

amateur football (soccer)

Comedy

Family

football (soccer)

football (soccer) coach

generations conflict

parent child relationship

Romance

Sport

sports

Jesse Dylan Director

Kate Walsh as Barbara Weston

Brian Palermo as Beantown Customers

Josh Hutcherson as Bucky Weston

Peter Jason as Clark

Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But when Phil's hyper-competitive dad benches Sam, Phil decides to transfer his son to a new team which needs a coach. Phil steps in to be the temporary coach and immediately begins to butt heads with his dad over this new competition in their lives.

Studs

2006

English

5.4

♡ 3

55%

amateur football (soccer)

Comedy

football (soccer)

football (soccer) coach

football (soccer) player

ireland

Sport

sports

Paul Mercier Director

David Wilmot as Bubbles

Emmett J Scanlan as Jake

Domhnall Gleeson as Trampis

Brendan Gleeson as Walter Keegan

The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having lost everything -- their drive, their skills and soon, their playing field. When mysterious Walter Keegan shows up offering to be their coach, captain Bubbles and the rest of his loopy, obnoxious teammates are so desperate to succeed, they agree to give him the job. Drilled into the ground with a fierce discipline they have never known, the team pushes beyond their aches and pains to gain not only redemption on the field, but more importantly, their self-respect.

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