Association Football
see all genres ›Also known as soccer (to you Yanks) or just plain football (to everyone else), footy (as the Australians call it) is the sport so inherently cinematic that if it didn't already exist, the movies would have had to invent it.
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Sunday Ball
Eryk Rocha's SUNDAY BALL focuses on a fourteen-team, annual soccer championship among favela teams in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Set in the Sampaio neighborhood (close to the Maracana Stadium, where the 2014 World Cup final was held), the film brings audiences up-close to a final match between two...Watch Movie
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Hopefuls
HOPEFULS tells the story of Junior, a young player for Bacaxa A.C, an amateur football team from the city of Saquarema, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. He has to deal with the unexpected pregnancy of his girlfriend Karine, while his childhood best friend, Bento, signs a contract with a...Watch Movie
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Romeo and Juliet Get Married
From international auteur Bruno Barreto comes this hilarious retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Ophthalmologist Romeo and his family are passionately obsessed fans of the Corinthians football team. While across town, the lovely Juliet’s father is an equally rabid...Watch Movie
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Black Diamond
It’s an old story with a perverse new twist. Before, it was known as the transatlantic slave trade. Today, it’s just called business. BLACK DIAMOND is the compelling story of the international web of speculation and trafficking in African boys, under the guise of international football. Every...Watch Movie
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In the Game
Directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo and produced by Kartemquin Films, IN THE GAME is a moving, timely documentary that follows the story of the girls' soccer team at Kelly High School on Chicago's south side. Set in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Brighton Park, Kelly High...Watch Movie
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Liberated Zone
An economically depressed town in Germany finds its collective fortune and libido rejuvenated when the local soccer club negotiates the purchase of superstar African footballer “Blondi.” Before long the team’s winning streak is matched only by the number of bed swapping affairs.Watch Movie
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Solo: Out of a Dream
In 1994, eleven year old Leonardo, was portrayed in the Award-winning documentary SOLO: THE LAW OF THE FAVELA. His dream was to become a soccer player, to escape the poverty and violence of the slum in Rio de Janeiro. As a result of the film, Leonardo was invited to join Dutch...Watch Movie
