Top 20 movies like Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights

A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.

Friday Night Lights is of 1 hour(s) and 58 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Imagine Entertainment, Friday Night Lights, MDBF Filmgesellschaft mbH & Company KG, Universal Pictures. It was released on 2004-10-08. It has the tagline: Hope comes alive on Friday nights. It has an average vote of 6.894 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. My Sweet Holiday

My Sweet Holiday

When Sadie's boyfriend cancels their holiday plans, she decides to spend Christmas with her parents back in her hometown, only to find out they've sold the family's beloved chocolate store to a stranger who knows nothing about chocolate. Begrudgingly, her father convinces her that she'd be the obvious choice to help teach the new owner everything she knows about chocolate. In the middle of planning the perfect retirement party for her parents, she discovers that not everything has to be perfect. And sometimes, when you least expect it, you find love.

It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.

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2. Three Weeks, Three Kids

Three Weeks, Three Kids

While taking care of her sister's children, a free-spirited woman discovers the hardships of raising a family.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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3. The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

It has an average vote of 6.722 on TMDB.

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4. Bad Boys

Bad Boys

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.

It has an average vote of 6.98 on TMDB.

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5. Gantz: Perfect Answer (Gantz: Perfect Answer)

Gantz: Perfect Answer

Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.

It has an average vote of 6.727 on TMDB.

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6. The Long Riders

The Long Riders

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.

It has an average vote of 6.669 on TMDB.

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7. The Express

The Express

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

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

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8. Machuca (Machuca)

Machuca

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.

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9. Varsity Blues

Varsity Blues

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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10. The Missing

The Missing

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

It has an average vote of 6.289 on TMDB.

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11. Starry Eyes

Starry Eyes

A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

It has an average vote of 6.03 on TMDB.

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12. Extortion

Extortion

A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.

It has an average vote of 6.21 on TMDB.

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13. Franco Escamilla: por la anécdota (Franco Escamilla: por la anécdota)

Franco Escamilla: por la anécdota

Mexican stand-up comedian Franco Escamilla draws his jokes from real-life experiences -- and he's willing to do anything for new material. He's not afraid to make generalizations about how men bathe. But he is scared to talk to strangers. Especially at funerals.

It has an average vote of 8.8 on TMDB.

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14. The Red Thread (El hilo rojo)

The Red Thread

Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

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15. Conspiracy

Conspiracy

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

It has an average vote of 7.293 on TMDB.

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16. The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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17. Our Brand Is Crisis

Our Brand Is Crisis

Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

It has an average vote of 5.845 on TMDB.

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18. The Road Within

The Road Within

A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

It has an average vote of 6.925 on TMDB.

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19. True Crime

True Crime

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

It has an average vote of 6.537 on TMDB.

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20. Next Friday

Next Friday

A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.

It has an average vote of 6.409 on TMDB.

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