List of football films

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The football film is a sub-area of ​​the film genre " sports film ", which is defined by the fact that football is the central theme or leitmotif of the film. The lexicon of football films lists over 500 such films. As with sports films in general, but also with music films, for example, both feature films and documentaries are included in football films . Films in which football plays only a minor role are not counted among the football films - an example of this is the film Trainspotting .

The football film is an important part of football culture . So there is on the subject film festivals , among others in Basel (floodlights Football Film Festival), Berlin ( 11mm ) and in Frankfurt.

Movies

Movie title year country Director Film genre, miscellaneous
King football 1926 Germany OV wall Documentary, silent film
The king of the center forward 1927 Germany Fritz Freisler Feature film, silent film
The eleven devils 1927 Germany Zoltan Korda Feature film, silent film
The great game 1930 Great Britain Jack Raymond motion pictures
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 1940 Great Britain Thorold Dickinson motion pictures
The big game 1942 Germany Robert A. Stemmle motion pictures
Campeones !! 1943 Spain Ramon Torrado Feature film with Guillermo Gorostiza , Ricardo Zamora and Jacinto Quincoces
O Leão da Estrela - The lion from the Estrela district 1947 Portugal Arthur Duarte Feature film (with original recordings of the Porto-Sporting Cup final)
Los ases buscan la paz 1955 Spain Arturo Ruiz Castillo Feature film with László Kubala
Three girls in the final 1956 GDR Kurt Jung-Alsen motion pictures
The new craze 1960 GDR Walter Beck Feature film, children's and sports film
Two halves in hell 1961 Hungary Zoltán Fábri motion pictures
Garrincha - Brazilian soccer hero 1962 Brazil Joaquim Pedro documentary
La batalla del domingo 1963 Spain Luis Marquina Feature film with Alfredo di Stefano
Football like never before 1970 FRG Hellmuth Costard Documentary; experimental film, the camera stays 90 minutes on George Best directed
The goalie's fear at the penalty kick 1971 FRG, Austria Wim Wenders Feature film based on the story of the same name by Peter Handke from 1970
Football coach Wulff 1972 FRG Erich Neureuther , Theo Mezger Television series
Las Ibericas FC 1972 Spain Pedro Masó Feature film about a women's team
Libero 1973 FRG Wigbert Wicker Feature film with Franz Beckenbauer
Fimp, the kid 1973 Sweden Bo Widerberg motion pictures
Good old days football 1973 Hungary Pál Sándor motion pictures
Bienvenido, Mister Krif 1974 Spain Tulio Demicheli motion pictures
How football came to Georgia 1975 USSR Nana Mtschedlidze motion pictures
Professionals - One year of football with Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß 1979 FRG Christian Weisenborn , Michael Wulfes documentation
That is the end of it for me 1979 France Jean-Jacques Annaud motion pictures
Escape or victory 1981 United States John Huston Feature film with Sylvester Stallone
Gregory's Girl 1981 Great Britain Bill Forsyth motion pictures
Manni, the Libero 1982 FRG Franz Josef Gottlieb Television series
Excuse me, do you watch soccer? 1983 GDR Gunther Scholz motion pictures
O Nosso Futebol 1984 Portugal Ricardo Costa Documentary / Football in Portugal 1888–1984, speaker + music: António Victorino de Almeida
Soccer poker 1988 Poland Janusz Zaorski motion pictures
The Firm 1988 Great Britain Alan Clarke motion pictures
And on Fridays to the Green Hell 1989 GDR Ernst Cantzler Documentary about the fans of 1. FC Union Berlin
Ultrá - Bloody Sunday 1990 Italy Ricky Tognazzi motion pictures
Cup final 1991 Israel Eran Riklis motion pictures
North curve 1993 Germany Adolf Winkelmann motion pictures
Fate game 1993 Germany Bernd Schadewald motion pictures
Bando and the golden soccer ball 1993 Guinea Cheik Doukouré motion pictures
Girls on the ball 1995 Germany Aysun Bademsoy documentary
The Big Green - An unbeatable team 1995 United States Holly Goldberg Sloan motion pictures
Again and again on Saturdays 1996 Great Britain Maria Giese motion pictures
The Sheffield football drama 1996 Great Britain Charles McDougall Documentary
Ball fever 1997 Great Britain David Evans Feature film based on Nick Hornby's 1992 novel Fever Pitch
Indirect free kick 1997 Spain Juanjo Giménez Short film
Dribbling Fate - Fintar o Destino 1998 Portugal / Cape Verde Fernando Vendrell Feature film / CICAE Award Berlinale 1998
Kick it with Samba 1998 UK / USA John Forte motion pictures
Les Yeux dans les Bleus 1998 France Stéphane Meunier documentary
Eight 1998 Great Britain Stephen Daldry Short film
Boleiros 1998 Brazil Urgo Giorgetti motion pictures
Home Team - An accurate team 1998 Canada Allan A. Goldstein motion pictures
Fintar o Destino 1998 Portugal, Cape Verde Fernando Vendrell motion pictures
Uma História de Futebol 1998 Brazil Paulo Machline Feature film, short film, adaptation of a children's book about Pelé's youth
Game of the Gods - When Buddha discovered football 1999 United States Khyentse Norbu motion pictures
6: 3 - Tutti's dream 1999 Hungary Péter Timár motion pictures
Derby 1999 Germany Ingo Haeb Short film
An unbeatable double 1999 United States David Steinberg motion pictures
No more second division 2000 Germany Kaspar Heidelbach motion pictures
Football is our life 2000 Germany Tomy Wigand motion pictures
Yellow card 2000 Zimbabwe John Riber motion pictures
Best 2000 Great Britain Mary McGuckian motion pictures
Take it easy, Jimmy Grimble 2000 Great Britain, France John Hay Motion pictures; awarded the Transparent Bear at the Berlinale 2001
The ball is damn round 2000 Germany Jakob Ziemnicki Short film
Life, death and football 2000 Belgium Sam Garbarski Short film
A shot at Glory 2001 Great Britain Michael Corrente motion pictures
Mean Machine - the fighting machine 2001 Great Britain Barry Skolnick motion pictures
Grégoire Moulin against the rest of the world 2001 France Arthur de Penguern motion pictures
Shaolin Kickers 2001 Hong Kong Stephen Chow motion pictures
Mike Bassett: England Manager 2001 Great Britain Steve Barron Feature film, satire
Kick it like Beckham 2002 Great Britain Gurinder Chadha motion pictures
The heroes of Bern 2002 Germany Florian Plag , Martin Seibert , Ingo Steidl Animation film
The night of Yokohama 2002 Germany Romuald Karmakar Short film
The Game of Their Lives 2002 Great Britain Daniel Gordon documentary
The Soccamatic 2002 Great Britain Loyd Price , Christopher Sadler Animated film, short film
Two little heroes 2002 Sweden Ulf Mamros motion pictures
The sun rose in the west 2002 Germany Wolfgang Ettlich Documentary. The history of mining, steel and football in the Ruhr area.
The miracle of Bern 2003 Germany Sönke Wortmann motion pictures
Liberated zone 2003 Germany Norbert Baumgarten motion pictures
The Other Final 2003 Netherlands, Japan Johan Kramer documentary
The wild guys - everything is fine as long as you are wild! 2003 Germany Joachim Masannek motion pictures
United 2003 Norway Magnus Martens motion pictures
The cat from Altona 2003 Germany Wolfgang Dinslage Short film
La Barriera 2003 Italy Fillippo Macelloni Short film
Player wives 2003 Germany Martin Walz Short film
The Forbidden Team 2003 Denmark Arnold Krøigaard , Rasmus Dinesen documentary
From the depths of the room 2004 Germany Gil Mehmert motion pictures
Pelé Eterno 2004 Brazil Anibal Massaini Neto documentary
Men like us 2004 Germany Sherry Hormann motion pictures
Adelante Muchachas 2004 Germany Erika Harzer documentary
The city of the blind 2004 Portugal Jaime Cravo documentary
The game without the ball 2004 Germany Alfred Behrens documentary
Give me the cherry! - The 1st German football role 2004 Germany Oliver Gieth , Peter Hüls documentary
Soccer god 2005 Germany David Kadel Documentary / road movie
The wild guys 2 - everything is fine as long as you are wild! 2005 Germany Joachim Masannek motion pictures
Maximum penalty 2005 Spain Juanjo Giménez Short film
11 Men Out 2005 Iceland Róbert I. Douglas motion pictures
Bloody footy 2005 Australia Dean Chircop Short film
FC Venus - football is a woman's business 2005 Finland Joona Tena motion pictures
Goal - Live your dream 2005 Great Britain Danny Cannon motion pictures
Hooligans 2005 UK, USA Lexi Alexander motion pictures
The death elf 2005 Germany Claus Bredenbrock documentary
Football fever - penalty for daddy 2005 United States Jesse Dylan motion pictures
The spirit of St. Pauli 2005 Germany Michael Sommer (director) Short film
One Day in Europe 2005 Germany, Spain Hannes Stöhr motion pictures
The Football Factory 2005 Great Britain Nick Love motion pictures
The great match 2005 Germany, Spain Gerardo Olivares motion pictures
We are loyal to you 2005 Switzerland, Germany Michael Koch Short film, documentary
Jamila 2005 Netherlands Ingeborg Jansen Short film, documentary film
The Game of Their Lives 2005 United States David Anspaugh motion pictures
We world champions - a football fairy tale 2006 Germany Sebastian Dehnhart motion pictures
Offside 2006 Iran Jafar Panahi motion pictures
The wild guys 3 - the attack of the beasts beasts 2006 Germany Joachim Masannek motion pictures
Poldi's angel 2006 Germany Tina von Traben Short film
FC Venus - Attack is the best defense 2006 Germany Ute Wieland Feature film, remake of FC Venus - football is a woman's business
Germany. A summer fairy tale 2006 Germany Sönke Wortmann documentary
Amando a Maradona 2006 Argentina Javier Martín Vázquez documentary
3 Lions, 23 Players & 100,000 Friendly Fans 2006 England Jamie McDine documentary
Another league 2006 Germany Buket Alakuş motion pictures
Black Starlets - The dream of great football 2006 Germany, Ghana Christoph Weber (director) documentary
She's the Man - totally my type! 2006 United States Andy Fickman motion pictures
Heroes 06 2006 Germany Daniel Müller (director) , Florian Plag , Martin Seibert Animation film
Goal II - The dream is real! 2006 Great Britain Jaume Collet-Serra motion pictures
Soccer goddesses 2006 Germany Nina Erfle , Frédériue Veith documentary
Referee offside 2006 Germany Lutz Schebesta motion pictures
Why half past three? 2006 Germany Lars Pape documentary
Dawn of the Dorks 2006 Germany Eric Esser Short film
The way to San Diego 2006 Argentina Carlos Sorin motion pictures
Once in a Lifetime - The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos 2006 United States Paul Crowder , John Dower documentary
Gracie 2007 United States Davis Guggenheim motion pictures
Kick It Like Sara 2007 United States Norm Hunter motion pictures
Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal 2007 India Vivek Agnihotri motion pictures
Fifth men - pure football 2007 Germany Volker Redeker Documentary film about the fascination of amateur football using the example of the 5th men's team of FC St. Pauli .
Die Wilden Kerle 4 - The attack of the silver lights 2007 Germany Jochen Massaneck motion pictures
Zidane - A portrait in the 21st century 2007 France Philippe Parreno , Douglas Gordon Documentary. 17 cameras watch Zinédine Zidane over the length of an entire game between Real Madrid and Villarreal, similar to Hellmuth Costard's football as never before from 1970 over George Best .
The best women in the world 2008 Germany Britta Becker documentary
Football Under Cover 2008 Germany Ayat Najafi , David Assmann documentary
Maradona by Kusturica 2008 France Emir Kusturica documentary
The Wild Things 5 ​​- Beyond the Horizon 2008 Germany Jochen Massaneck motion pictures
Sankt Pauli! - Go out - warm up - cut away 2008 Germany Joachim Bornemann documentary
Goal 3 - The Final 2009 Great Britain Andrew Morahan Feature film, third part of the football film trilogy Goal
The Firm - Third Half 2009 Great Britain Nick Love Feature film, remake of the film of the same name from 1988
Hooligans 2 - Stand Your Ground 2009 USA, UK Jesse V. Johnson Feature film, sequel to Hooligans , released in 2005
66/67 - fair play was yesterday 2009 Germany Carsten Ludwig , Jan-Christoph Glaser motion pictures
Futebol de Causas 2009 Portugal Ricardo Antunes Martins Documentary about Academica Coimbra
Star Crossed 2009 Portugal Mark Heller Romeo & Juliet adaptation set in the area of ​​tension between two rival local clubs
Referees at Work 2009 Belgium Yves Hinant, Eric Cardot Documentary about referees at the European Championship 2008
The Damned United - The Eternal Opponent 2009 Great Britain Tom Hooper motion pictures
Hoffenheim - Life is not a home game 2010 Germany Rouven Rech , Frank Marten Pfeiffer documentary
Oh Fortuna 2010 Germany Johannes Klais motion pictures
Teufelskicker 2010 Germany Granz Henman Feature film, children and youth film
the big dream 2011 Germany Sebastian Grobler Feature film about the person of the Braunschweig educator and football pioneer Konrad Koch
Tom meets Zizou - no summer fairy tale 2011 Germany Alyosha pause documentary
Back straight 2011 Germany Tarek Ehlail motion pictures
The whole stadium 2011 Germany Felix Grimm Documentary about the fans of FC St. Pauli
The black and yellow wall 2012 Germany Klaus Fiedler ( Sky Sports ) Documentary about the Dortmund South Stand
Kiss the coach 2012 United States Gabriele Muccino motion pictures
Trainer! 2013 Germany Alyosha pause Documentary about the three young professional trainers Frank Schmidt , André Schubert and Stephan Schmidt
Soccer - Big game with little heroes 2013 USA / Argentina / Spain Juan José Campanella Animation film
We the wall 2013 Germany Klaus Mertens ( WDR ) Documentary about the BVB fans on the Dortmund South Stand
Goal of the Dead - You have to be eleven zombies 2014 France Thierry Poiraud , Benjamin Rocher Horror comedy and zombie movie set during a soccer game
The team 2014 Germany Martin Christ, Jens Gronheid, Ulrich Voigt Documentary film about the German national team at the 2014 World Cup
Union for life 2014 Germany Rouven Rech , Frank Marten Pfeiffer Documentary about the fans of 1. FC Union Berlin
Meidericher runner-up 2014 Germany Kristian Lütjens, Matthias Knorr, Michael Wildberg Documentary film about the 1964 runner-up at Meidericher SV
Two faces 2014 Germany Christian Schäfer Short film; first film about homophobia in football , which was co-produced by the German Football Association
Landauer - The President 2014 Germany Hans Steinbichler TV film about the life of Kurt Landauer
In the derby triangle 2015 Germany Milan Skrobanek Documentary film about the rivalry between the clubs VfL Osnabrück , SC Preußen Münster and Arminia Bielefeld , who played together in the third division in the 2014/2015 season .
Born on Borsigplatz - Franz Jacobi and the cradle of BVB 2015 Germany Marc Quambusch Documentary about the founding history of Borussia Dortmund and the life of Franz Jacobi
Mario 2018 Switzerland Marcel Gisler Feature film about the love between two teammates, the Swiss Mario and the German Leon, and about how this love suffers from the still widespread homophobia in professional football.
Fotbal infinite 2018 Romania Corneliu Porumboiu Documentary about an official who has been trying in vain for 20 years to revolutionize football with new rules.
Diamantino 2018 Portugal / France / Brazil Gabriel Abrantes , Daniel Schmidt Fiction film based on parody of Cristiano Ronaldo
Trautmann 2018 Germany / Great Britain Marcus H. Rosenmüller Feature film about the life of Bert Trautmann

literature

  • Ulrich von Berg: cinema kicks. A journey through the world of football film . In: Markwart Herzog (ed.): Football as a cultural phenomenon. Art - Cult - Commerce. (Irseer Dialoge; 7), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 197-231.
  • Andreas Höfer (Red.): One-two. Football and film. Publication on the occasion of the symposium on June 3, 2006 for the Doppelpass - Frankfurt Football Film Festival, a series of events by the German Film Museum and the German Olympic Institute from April 20 to June 6, 2006. Belleville-Verlag, Munich 2006, 142 pages, ISBN 3 -936298-44-0 or ISBN 3-88799-077-3 .
  • Michael Pöppl: Real fans prefer to see a real game. Football films rarely bring in great victories. ( Memento of June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Parliament . Edition 19/2006.
  • Jan Tilman Schwab: Football in Film - Lexicon of Football Films. In cooperation with the German Filmmuseum Frankfurt, the Filmmuseum Berlin and the German Olympic Institute. belleville Verlag Michael Farin , Munich 2006.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Schwab 2006.
  2. ↑ Info flyer Frankfurt Football Film Festival 2006 ( Memento from May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039563/
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121601/combined
  5. ↑ And on Fridays to the "Green Hell". In: defa-stiftung.de . Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1974261/