The football (soccer) and the cinema have a common history soon centenary. Harry The Footballer, fiction British 11 minutes going back to 1911, has indeed the appearance of a first tographic work Cinéma devoted to the Football.

In addition to films taking for principal subject football (see list below), football is also evoked in other films. One will quote for the example the football game opposing to the Dynamo of Peppone to the Strapping woman of Gift Camillo in the Small world of Gift Camillo.

Principal films of the kind

• 1911 : Harry The British Footballer film of Lewin Fitzhamon
• 1912: The Cat' S Final Cup British film of Arthur Melbourne Cooper
• 1914: The Cup Final Mystery British film of Maurice Elvey
• 1914: has Footballer' S Honor , film British of Lewin Fitzhamon
• 1916: Rival The Captains , British Ethyl film Batley
• 1926: The Ball off Fortune , film British of Hugh Crosses
• 1930: The Great Range , British film of Jack Raymond
• 1931: Up For The Cup , British film of Jack Raymond
• 1933: The Lucky Number , British film of Anthony Asquith
• 1937: Kings of the sport , French film of Pierre Dovecote
• 1937: Oh, Mr. Porter! , British film of Marcel Varnel
• 1939: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery , British film of Thorold Dickinson
• 1948: Easy Money , British film of Bernard Knowles
• 1948: Cup-tie Honeymoon , British film of John E. Blakeley
• 1949: Gods of Sunday , French film of Rene Lucot
• 1950: Up For The Cup , British film (remake of that of 1931) of Jack Raymond
• 1952: The Card , British film of Ronald Neame
• 1952: The Great Range , (remake of that of 1930) British film of Maurice Elvey
• 1954: The Coils Match , film British of David Paltenghi
• 1956: Up in the World , British film of John Paddy Carstairs
• 1957: the Tri-car , French film of Jack Pinoteau
• 1962: One the Happy , British film of Robert Asher
• 1962: The Saturday Men , British film of John Fletcher
• 1964: Rattle off has Simple Man , film British of Muriel Box
• 1965: Cup Fever , British film of David Brackwell
• 1967: Charlie Bubbles , British film of Albert Finney
• 1968: Goal! Goal! Another Goal! , Soviet film (Lenfilm)
• 1973: Governed idök focija , Hungarian film of Stake Sandor
• 1974: Tom foot ( Fimpen ), Swedish film of Bo Widerberg
• 1977: The Servant boys in Company C , film hong-kongais of Sidney Furie
• 1978: Kick , American film of Sean Cunningham
• 1978: Forza Bastia , French film of Jacques Tati and Sophie Tatischeff
• 1979: Blow of head , French film of Jean-Jacques Annaud
• 1979: Yesterday' S Hero , British film of Neil Leifer
• 1981: Longshot , American film of E.W. Swackhamer
• 1981 : has us to it victory ( Victory ), American film of John Huston
• 1982: Gregory' S Girl , British film of Bill Forsyth
• 1983: With dead the referee , French film of Jean-Pierre Mocky
• 1988: virile Play , Czech film of Jan Švankmajer
• 1990: Struck The Lightning , Australian film of Jerzy Domaradski
• 1990: Ultra , Italian film of Ricky Tognazzi
• 1991: Final Cup , Israeli film of Eran Riklis
• 1992: Ladybugs , British film of Sidney Fury
• 1993: Nordkurve , German film of Adolf Winckelmann
• 1994: Balloon of gold , film free-Guinean of Sheik Doukouré
• 1995: ID , British film of Philip Davis
• 1996: Forza Roma , ( Al central dell' area di rigore ) film free-italo-Switzerland de Bruno Garbuglia and Roberto Ivan Orano
• 1996: yellow Paperboard ( Fever pitch ), British film of David Evans
• 1996: The Van , Irish film of Stephen Frears
• 1996: Jimmy ( When Saturday Comes ), British film of Maria Giese
• 1996: Hillsborough , British film TV of Richard McDougall
• 1997: Didier , French film of Alain Chabat
• 1997: Historias of fútbol , Chilean film of Andrés Wood
• 1998: My Name Is Joe , British film of Ken Loach
• 1998: Home TEAM, a team of champions ( Home TEAM ), Canadian film of Alan A. Goldstein
• 1999: the Cut ( The Cup ), film australo-Bhutanese of Khyentse Norbu
• 1999: the Match of the century ( The Beautiful Range (GBR), The Match (the USA)), British film of Mike Davis
• 1999: Gregory' S Two Girls , British film of Bill Forsyth
• 2000: Jimmy Grimble ( There' S Only One Jimmy Grimble ), British film of John Hay
• 2000: Newcastle servant boys , British film of Mark Hermann
• 2000: Football is our life , ( Fußball STI unser Leben ) German film of Tomy Wigand
• 2001: Shaolin Soccer , Chinese film (Hong-Kong) of Stephen Chow
• 2001: red Paperboard ( Mean Machine ), British film of Barry Skolnick
• 2001: Mike Bassett: England Manager , British film of Steve Barron
• 2002: 3 zero , French film of Fabien Onteniente
• 2002: Plays it like Beckham ( Bend it like Beckham ), British film of Gurinder Chadha
• 2003: Días of fútbol , Spanish film of David Serrano
• 2003: the Miracle of Bern , ( Das Wunder von Bern ) German film of Sönke Wortmann
• 2004: The Football Factory , film British of Nick Coils
• 2005: the Match of their life ( The Range off Their Lives ), American film of David Anspaugh
• 2005: Kicking & Screaming , American film of Jess Dylan
• 2005: Goal! , film américano-British of Danny Canon
• 2005: Hooligans ( Green Street Hooligans ), film américano-British of Lexi Alexander
• 2006: Zidane, a portrait of XXIe century , French film of Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
• 2006: Goal! 2 , film américano-British of Jaume Collet-Tightened
• 2006: Once in has Lifetime , American film of Paul Crowder and John Dower.
• 2006 : Team spirit , ( Strákarnir okkar ), Icelandic film of Douglas Robert I.,
• 2007: Pardoned , American film of Davis Guggenheim
• 2007: Goal! 3 , film américano-British of Danny Canon

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