Movies Similar to Football With a Cause

State of Exception(2007)

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

Football Rebels(2012)

Five stories that tell how a handful of football stars took the risk of losing everything and put their fate in the balance to make a difference by becoming the symbol of a fight.

Joao Gomes: The Pitbull(2024)

‘Joao Gomes: The Pitbull’ covers start of the midfielder’s second year in England as he experienced becoming a father for the first time and a full Brazil international within a matter of weeks.

Salatinas(2025)

Todo Dia é 4 de Novembro: O Fluminense Conquista a América(2023)

Fluminense's historic Copa Libertadores campaign told by its protagonists. Behind the scenes of the conquest, from the tournament's debut to the top of America. An honor to remember forever.

Goal Vocation(2023)

Based on the career of Roberto Dinamite, Vasco da Gama's biggest idol, we explore the magic of the goal and the connection with the stands in the figure of a player who personified the spirit of the club and its fans on the field

4 de Novembro: Fluminense, Vitória e Glória Eterna(2023)

Rockumentary(2006)

Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.

Ceifeira(2024)

Mi ta bon: Paulinho das Arábias, um artilheiro brasileiro de Curaçao

No Meio de Campo(2024)

Here is Flamengo(2020)

Flamengo is the most famous football club in Brazil. Deep in Ceará arid region, a small village shares a passion for the team that is shown in village name: Flamengo. Who is born there is called flamenguense, and every flamenguense is also a flamenguista. We witnessed the local commotion caused by the Libertadores final in 2019.

Balada para futebol(2009)

Mimo: O Milagre de Milagres

Craiova Versus Craiova(2016)

Bastidores do Botafogo Campeão da Conmebol Libertadores 2024

1994 - O fim de uma longa espera

Sonho e Glória: Os 100 anos do Ypiranga(2025)

Bastidores do Botafogo Campeão do Brasileirão Betano 2024

The Dead Queen(2018)

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.