The Best Cheerleading Movies To Cheer You Up

For some people, the Super Bowl is actually about football and for some, it’s a slightly more elegant display of cheerleading athleticism. In this list, we face off the top greatest cheerleading movies and TV series to ever provide perfectly synchronized moral support. The list contains related movies and TV shows with cheerleaders ordered by similarity.

Common themes – films and TV shows with plots about cheerleading, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage life, and relationships. Category – Comedy, Romance, Sports genres.

List of cheerleaders in movies and TV shows

Bring it on (Film Series)

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport, Movie
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass, and a killer routine that’s sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros’ road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly choreographed routines were in fact stolen from the Clovers, a hip-hop squad from East Compton, by the Toro’s former captain.

Fired Up (2009)

Genre: Comedy, Sport, Movie
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: High-school football stars Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D’Agosto) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen) are dreading another summer at football camp, then Nick hatches a brilliant scheme: to enroll at cheerleading camp instead. Soon the pair are surrounded by beautiful girls, but the boys may have to revise their playbook when Shawn falls for Carly (Sarah Roemer), the head cheerleader who sees right through the guys’ scheme.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Movie
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The series narrative follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), the latest in a line of young women known as “Vampire Slayers”, or simply “Slayers”. In the story, Slayers, or the “Chosen Ones”, are chosen by fate to battle vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness.

Heroes (2019)

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, TV show
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Heroes chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities, and in doing so use them to prevent catastrophic futures.

Dare Me (2019)

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, TV show
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story: Based on Megan Abbott’s acclaimed crime novel, this series follows the fraught relationship between two best friends after their charismatic new cheer coach arrives to bring their squad to prominence.

Glee (2009)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, TV Show
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
Story: A group of ambitious misfits tries to escape the harsh realities of high school by joining a glee club headed by a passionate Spanish teacher. When high school Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) becomes the director of the school’s failing Glee club, New Directions, he hopes to be able to rejuvenate it.

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Death Proof (2007)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Movie
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) is a professional body double who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his free time. He has doctored his car for maximum impact; when Mike purposely causes wrecks, the bodies pile up while he walks away with barely a scratch. The insane Mike may be in over his head, though, when he targets a tough group of female assassins friends, including real-life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who served as Uma Thurman’s double in “Kill Bill”), who plays herself.

American Beauty (1999)

Genre: Drama, Movie
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A telesales operative becomes disillusioned with his existence and begins to hunger for fresh excitement in his life. As he experiences a new awakening of the senses, his wife and daughter also undergo changes that seriously affect their family. Critically acclaimed, this film won Oscars for Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Film.

Starsky and Hutch (2004)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Action, Movie
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: High-strung workaholic David Starsky (Ben Stiller) and laidback ladies’ man Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson (Owen Wilson) are detectives who patrol the crime-ridden streets of Bay City, Calif. When the murdered body of a drug dealer is found on a local beach, Starsky and Hutch follow the clues to repeat offender Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn). But time and again the mismatched cops fail to apprehend the shifty Feldman, while under their noses he goes about planning his biggest trafficking operation yet.

Kim Possible (2000)

Genre: Animated series, comedy, sport, TV show
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Story: The Disney redhead character Kim Possible looks like an average high-school cheerleader, but in her spare time, she saves the world from supervillains. Her buddy, Ron Stoppable, his pet Rufus, and a resourceful webmaster named Wade collaborate on secret missions and can do anything. When she’s not defeating the bad guys, Kim still has to cope with the typical pressures of school, family, and social life.

Hit The Floor (2014)

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
The Los Angeles Devils provide plenty of highlights as pro basketball’s top team, but it’s the heat generated by the league’s premier dance squad, the Devil Girls, that has everyone’s attention. The players now share the entertainment spotlight in the City of Angels with the dancers, and with that attention comes fame, money, power, and sex. It’s an alluring world for many young women, although the team’s star, ruthless Jelena, does not suffer lightly any competition to her standing. On the outside looking in is coach Davenport, a former all-star who returns to the sidelines of his old team but has to contend with the girls hogging the limelight and distracting his players.

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Hellcats (2010)

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Marti Perkins, a pre-law college student, loses her scholarship. She has no other choice but to join the college’s cheer squad in order to obtain a new one.

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Jennifer´s Body (2009)

Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Jennifer becomes possessed and turns into a succubus after she is sacrificed to Satan. When her best friend Anita learns about it, she has to stop Jennifer before she attacks her lover Chip.

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but I’m a cheerleader (2000)

But I’m a Cheerleader (2000)

Genre: Drama, LGBT, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn’t that crazy about him. So she’s stunned when her parents decide she’s gay and sends her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, Megan meets a rebellious and unashamed teen lesbian, Graham (Clea DuVall). Though Megan still feels confused, she starts to have feelings for Graham.

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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)

Genre: Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
The students of Seabrook High School are thrown when students from Zombietown transfer to their school, and both groups must work together to prove they can embrace their differences to celebrate their community.

See relevant: The 10 Best Zombies in TV Shows and Movies

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Poms (2019)

Genre: Comedy, Dance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Martha is an introverted woman who moves to a retirement community that has shuffleboard, golf, bowling, and other activities. Hoping to be left alone, she meets Sheryl, a fun-loving neighbor who insists that they become best pals. After coming out of her shell, Martha and her new friend decide to form a cheerleading squad with their fellow residents. As the two women hold auditions, they soon learn that it’s never too late to follow your dreams, even when the odds are stacked against you.

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Kiss and Cry (2017)

Genre: Comedy, Dance
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Sarah, 15 years old, returns to figure skating and high-level competition at the Colmar club. Confronted with the rivalry between the girls and the harsh words of the trainer, her body is put through its paces by the ice while her adolescent desires turn her attention away from her sporting ambitions.

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Identity Theft Of A Cheerleader (2019)

Genre: Bio, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
A woman in her thirties steals the identity of a high school cheerleader.

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John Tucker Must Die (2006)

John Tucker Must Die (2006)

Genre: Comedy, Dance
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
A womanizing teenager’s ex-girlfriends set him up to fall in love with a girl. They seek revenge and want to see him go through the pain of a break-up.

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Anime Yell (2018)

Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
At the end of middle school, Hatogaya falls in love with cheerleading and starts a club in high school with her friends Arima and Saruwatari.

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Cheer Boys! 2018

Cheer Boys!

Genre: Anime
Country: Japan
College freshman Haruki Bandou has practiced judo his whole life, but an injury and severe lack of self-confidence finally push him to give it up. His childhood friend Kazuma Hashimoto insists they start something new together: a men’s cheerleading club.

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Cheer 2020 Netflix

Cheer (Netflix 2020)

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
In the small town of Corsicana, Texas, hard-driving head cheer coach Monica Aldama demands perfection from her team of competitive college athletes.

Having studied scriptwriting in London, I subsequently worked on a number of film sets. I write about pop culture trends, films, and tv series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Hulu.