The Longshots Similar Movies • FlixPatrol

Draft Day

Movie | United States | 04/11/2014 | Drama | Football

At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.

6.8/10

60%

460

The Express

Movie | United States | 10/10/2008 | Drama | Football

Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

7.2/10

62%

The Blind Side

Movie | United States | 11/20/2009 | Drama | Football

Oversized African American Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Leigh Anne and Sean, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.

7.6/10

66%

6,791

Rudy

Movie | United States | 10/13/1993 | Drama | Football

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

7.5/10

78%

745

Friday Night Lights

Movie | Canada | 10/08/2004 | Drama | Football

Gary Gaines, the coach of a local football team in small-town Odessa, Texas, propels his squad to the state championships. But the path to glory is paved with racial and economic strife, and the coach must help his players navigate through the maze so they can play like winners.

7.2/10

82%

168

The Longest Yard

Movie | United States | 05/19/2005 | Drama | Football

Pro quarter-back Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds) are doing in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quiet another way.

6.4/10

77%

2,557

Safety

The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.

6.8/10

79%

1,130

Invincible

Movie | United States | 08/25/2006 | Drama | Football

Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of Papale's beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public consensus was that it was a waste of time – no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way.

7.0/10

72%

Remember the Titans

Movie | United States | 09/28/2000 | Drama | Football

The year is 1971, and the people of Alexandria, VA. are none too pleased when African American Herman Boone is given the nod to head a newly integrated football team. As the season progresses, however, their contentious attitudes begin to change.

7.8/10

72%

220

American Underdog

Movie | United States | 12/25/2021 | Drama | Football

The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.

7.1/10

75%

4,597

We Are Marshall

Movie | United States | 12/12/2006 | Drama | Football

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

7.0/10

49%

Brian's Song

Movie | United States | 11/30/1971 | Drama | Football

Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.

6.7/10

92%

The Program

Movie | United States | 09/24/1993 | Drama | Football

Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.

6.5/10

National Champions

Movie | United States | 12/10/2021 | Drama | Football

A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.

65%

You Dont Know Jack

Angel of mercy… or murderous “Doctor Death”? Jack Kervorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern American history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification. Oscar®- and Emmy®-winning actor Al Pacino brings “Dr. Death” to life in an all-new HBO Films presentation: You Don’t Know Jack, directed by Oscar®-winner Barry Levinson.

7.6/10

83%

Strip Search

Movie | United States | 04/27/2004 | HBO | Drama | 11 09

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.

6.2/10

The Fever

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

5.7/10

Monster

Movie | United States | 11/16/2003 | Drama | Serial killer

Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer. The film, based on a true story, centers more on the surrounding circumstances than on the murders.

7.3/10

132

12 Years a Slave

Movie | United States | 10/30/2013 | Drama | Racism

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

8.1/10

95%

138

The Lincoln Lawyer

Movie | United States | 03/18/2011 | Drama | Lawyers

A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

7.3/10

83%

638

The Wolf of Wall Street

Movie | United States | 12/25/2013 | Drama | Business

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belforts autobiography.

8.2/10

80%

20,528

Hotel Rwanda

Movie | United States | 12/22/2004 | Drama | Racism

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

8.2/10

91%

Michael Clayton

Movie | United States | 10/12/2007 | Drama | Lawyers

A law firm brings in its \fixer\ to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

7.2/10

91%

Thank You for Smoking

Movie | United States | 09/05/2005 | Drama | Satira

The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage.

7.6/10

86%

102