Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "football", "small-town"

1. Friday Night Lights (2006–2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Sport

A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation's best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor.

Stars: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden

Votes: 72,564

2. The Faculty (1998)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 135,285 | Gross: $40.06M

3. The Deer Hunter (1978)

R | 183 min | Drama, War

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage

Votes: 362,612 | Gross: $48.98M

4. Hell or High Water (II) (2016)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch.

Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham

Votes: 252,845 | Gross: $27.01M

5. Big Fish (2003)

PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange

Votes: 459,210 | Gross: $66.26M

6. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

PG-13 | 165 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 331,863 | Gross: $245.44M

7. Red Dawn (1984)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

It is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Director: John Milius | Stars: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen

Votes: 63,182 | Gross: $38.38M

8. Varsity Blues (1999)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured.

Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, Paul Walker, Ron Lester

Votes: 49,122 | Gross: $52.89M

9. Breaking Away (1979)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley

Votes: 25,505 | Gross: $16.42M

10. Whip It (2009)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Sport

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock-loving misfit finds a way of dealing with small-town misery after discovering a roller-derby league in nearby Austin.

Director: Drew Barrymore | Stars: Elliot Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Habel

Votes: 70,243 | Gross: $13.04M

11. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

R | 87 min | Horror

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler

Votes: 77,565 | Gross: $30.00M

12. Friday Night Lights (2004)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Drama, Sport

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.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke, Lucas Black

Votes: 66,894 | Gross: $61.26M

13. Rudy (1993)

PG | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty, Greta Lind

Votes: 69,142 | Gross: $22.75M

14. Walking Tall (2004)

PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Crime

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Michael Bowen

Votes: 110,053 | Gross: $46.44M

15. Straw Dogs (2011)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.

Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods

Votes: 35,834 | Gross: $10.32M

16. Badlands (1973)

PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri

Votes: 78,479

17. Changing Ends (2023– )

30 min | Biography, Comedy

An autobiographical scripted comedy based on stand-up and presenter Alan Carr's life.

Stars: Alan Carr, Oliver Savell, Shaun Dooley, Nancy Sullivan

Votes: 817

18. Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

G | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.

Directors: Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball | Stars: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 40,758 | Gross: $18.53M

19. Radio (2003)

PG | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.

Director: Michael Tollin | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Debra Winger, S. Epatha Merkerson

Votes: 44,033 | Gross: $52.33M

20. Tender Mercies (1983)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Music

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley

Votes: 12,039 | Gross: $8.44M

21. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Two teens live the same day repeatedly, enabling them to create a map of things to remember.

Director: Ian Samuels | Stars: Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen, Jermaine Harris, Anna Mikami

Votes: 27,971

22. The Cheerleaders (1973)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Sport

A group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.

Director: Paul Glickler | Stars: Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway, Jovita Bush, Brandy Woods

Votes: 1,499

23. All the Right Moves (1983)

R | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

An ambitious young football star is trapped in a dying mill town--unless his gridiron skills can win him a way out.

Director: Michael Chapman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Lea Thompson, Craig T. Nelson, Charles Cioffi

Votes: 20,418 | Gross: $17.23M

24. The Slaughter Rule (2002)

R | 112 min | Drama, Sport

A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

Directors: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith | Stars: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Clea DuVall, David Cale

Votes: 2,635 | Gross: $0.01M

25. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)

R | 77 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical

Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

Director: Deborah Brock | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur, Patrick Lowe

Votes: 7,430

26. Just Cause (1995)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

Director: Arne Glimcher | Stars: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood

Votes: 29,527 | Gross: $36.85M

27. Wolves (2014)

R | 91 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

A boy is trying to find out about his family history and stumbles upon a town of lycans.

Director: David Hayter | Stars: Lucas Till, Stephen McHattie, John Pyper-Ferguson, Merritt Patterson

Votes: 10,459

28. The Promoter (1952)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy

Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark

Votes: 1,849

29. Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Mystery

Widowed Liz Garfield and her son Bobby change when mysterious stranger Ted Brautigan enters their lives.

Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem

Votes: 41,077 | Gross: $24.19M

30. Empire Falls (2005)

TV-14 | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, led by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.

Stars: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman

Votes: 6,343

31. Leatherheads (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, David de Vries

Votes: 33,458 | Gross: $31.20M

32. The Best of Times (1986)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance

Votes: 8,203 | Gross: $7.79M

33. Absurd (1981)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: George Eastman, Annie Belle, Charles Borromel, Katya Berger

Votes: 3,555

34. The Pit (1981)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Director: Lew Lehman | Stars: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth

Votes: 3,524

35. Keeping Mum (2005)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime

A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair, and his children are up to no good.

Director: Niall Johnson | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze

Votes: 35,943 | Gross: $1.62M

36. Crush (II) (2013)

PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller

A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.

Director: Malik Bader | Stars: Ashleigh Craig, Cody Hamilton, Lucas Till, Crystal Reed

Votes: 6,639

37. Homecoming (I) (2009)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

A jilted ex-girlfriend plots revenge after her former beau comes back to their hometown with a new lover.

Director: Morgan J. Freeman | Stars: Mischa Barton, Matt Long, Jessica Stroup, Michael Landes

Votes: 4,544 | Gross: $8.50M

38. 23 Blast (2014)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Sport

When a high-school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible, total blindness, he must decide whether to accept his new reality or attempt a return to the game he still loves.

Director: Dylan Baker | Stars: Mark Hapka, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Max Adler

Votes: 2,195 | Gross: $0.49M

39. Division III: Football's Finest (2011)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

After the sudden death of the head coach of a small Divison III football program, Athletic Director Roy Goodwyn hires ex-convict Rick Vice in a desperate attempt to get the Bluecocks' back to a winning season.

Director: Marshall Cook | Stars: Andy Dick, Marshall Cook, Michael Jace, Mo Collins

Votes: 1,847

40. Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared.

Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach

Votes: 3,674

41. Heimebane (2018– )

50 min | Drama, Sport

When a newly-promoted football club loses its coach just before the start of the league season, a woman, Helena Mikkelsen, gets the historic chance to coach the team, even before an ambitious player who was promised the job.

Stars: Ane Dahl Torp, John Carew, Axel Bøyum, Emma Bones

Votes: 2,485

42. Jaadugar (2022)

TV-14 | 167 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Magic Meenu, a small-time magician in Neemuch, M.P., has to win a local football tournament in order to marry the girl he loves.

Director: Sameer Saxena | Stars: Jitendra Kumar, Arushi Sharma, Jaaved Jaaferi, Raksha Panwar

Votes: 11,538

43. Angelo Rules (2010– )

TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Angelo is a sweet-talking genius with a knack for getting out of trouble.

Stars: Cynthia de Graaff, Cassandra Lee Morris, Jennifer Visalli, Aaron Conley

Votes: 1,802

44. Lone Star State of Mind (2002)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime

A young Texas mechanic (Jackson) tries to save a dim-witted relative from the mob. There's also something about the murderer of the mechanic's father, who's been in prison for 20 years, thanks to histestimony as a child.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Jaime King, Matthew Davis, Ryan Hurst

Votes: 3,235

45. Sunshine State (2002)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, Romance

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Alan King

Votes: 4,245 | Gross: $3.06M

46. The Cake General (2018)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.

Directors: Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Helena Bergström, Agnes Lindström Bolmgren, Tomas von Brömssen

Votes: 4,954

47. Hothead (1979)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

The miserable football player becomes a town hero after bringing victory in extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge to the team star for the previous mockeries.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma, Maurice Barrier

Votes: 2,256

48. Hot Rods to Hell (1966)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The new owner of a motel in the California desert has a run-in with a gang of delinquent teenage hot rod drivers.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Laurie Mock

Votes: 1,103

49. The Walk-On's

Action, Biography, Comedy | Pre-production

After a local Factory closes-down in a small Town, a group of Men that have been friends since High School decide to join their local D-III College Football Team and help their sons have a National Championship Season.

Director: Jim Fitzpatrick | Stars: Steve Austin, Quinton Aaron, Chris Jericho, Jacob Young

50. Guys and Balls (2004)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After their most recent loss, a soccer team discovers its goalie is gay and casts him out. He retaliates by bringing back an all-gay team for a game to prove who's better.

Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Dietmar Bär, Eileen Eilender

Votes: 1,952 | Gross: $0.03M