10 Best Soccer Movies Ever

4. Green Street

Where do you go after playing the lead in cinema's most epic fantasy trilogy ever? Where do you go after the entire world has known you as diminutive halfling who journies to a make-believe mountain to throw some jewelry into a haunted volcano? Well, if you're Elijah Wood, you do a fish-out-of-water football gang violence film. Because obviously.

Green Street (or Greet Street Hooligans as it had to be titled in Wood's native America) tells the tale of a Harvard University student who finds himself caught up in a turf war between rival fans of Milwall and West Ham United. Oh, and he was expelled for being caught with cocaine, although it wasn't actually his, it's quite complicated.

The film, like the violence it documents, has virtually nothing to do with football at all. Rival gangs fight one another under only the thinnest pretense that it's connected to sporting rivalry. This is expertly encapsulated in the unspooling brutality of the world Wood gets dragged into, and both he and Charlie Hunnam turn in surprisingly gritty performances as a result.