Ranking the 10 best football movies of all time

Movies about football can be hard to rank, if only because it depends on which flavor of football film you want.

After all, we all have our favorites, and we all have our biases for what we want movies about football to give us. If you want something sappy about a team rising to the occasion to win the game, there are loads of them out there to watch.

If you want something more piercing, more introspective and realistic about the sport, those can be a bit harder to find. However, those are the films we tend to gravitate toward more as we rank the 10 best football movies of all time.

This list veers between the popcorn-friendly football fare to the hard-hitting studies on the sport and the toll it takes on its participants and its fans.

You might not find your favorite football movie here, but we hope you’ll find some you can add to your watchlist, one that both challenge and entertain you about the sport we all love. Let’s dive in.