Eight great football movies to get you in the mood for World Cup 2022

The 2022 World Cup begins on Monday morning (New Zealand Time) in Qatar. The 32-nation tournament has been controversial since Qatar was announced as the host in 2010.

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2002) is a film that gave the world Keira Knightley, Parminder Nagra and Jonathan Rhys-Davies. Gurinda Chadha's story inspired a generation of female footballers.

The World Cup is a drama about a group of kids at an Indian monastery trying to watch the 1998 World Championship on TV.

ESCAPE TO VICTORY (1981) is a World War II drama that still makes it a crowd pleaser almost three decades on.

Eight football movies to get you in the mood for World Cup 2022. Fever Pitch (1997, Prime Video) is an adaptation of Nick Hornby's seminal 1992 book about football obsession. Colin Firth plays the Arsenal player who puts Highbury before his life.

MEAN MACHINE is a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds movie The Longest Yard. Vinnie Jones plays England captain Danny Meehan in the movie. The director Barry Skolnick infuses the cliched win-against-the-odds movie with a cast of memorable characters.

The Miracle of Bern is a 2003 dramatisation of West Germany's 1954 World Cup campaign. Director Sonke Wortmann is former second division footballer.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME (2006, DocPlay) chronicles the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos and the North American Soccer League.

Gary Oldman narrates 2010 documentary "One Night in Turkey" about England's run to the semifinals of the 1990 Fifa World Cup.

Eight football movies to get you in the mood for World Cup 2022.