2000 | 1h 38m | Directed by Peyton Reed
 

Starring Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, and Eliza Dushku

Bring It On is one of the most popular teen movies of all time. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union as the leaders of rival cheerleading squads set to compete against each other in a national competition. The movie was so popular that it spawned several sequels, but none came close to the popularity of the original 2000 film.

2006 | 1h 39m | Directed by Steve Rash
 

Starring Hayden Panettiere, Solange Knowles, and Gus Carr

The third installment in the Bring It On series follows former cheerleader captain Britney Allen as she moves from her affluent neighborhood to Crenshaw Heights, where she must adjust to a new school and new team. Despite some minor differences between this film and the first two, it still has all the charm we’ve come to expect from the series.

2009 | 1h 42m | Directed by Bille Woodruff
 

Starring Christina Milian, Vanessa Born, and Gabrielle Dennis
 

Iconic in every sense of the word, Lina Cruz is a tough, sharp-witted cheerleader from East Los Angeles who transfers to Malibu after her widowed mother remarries a wealthy man. Lina not only finds herself out of her depth at her new high school. She also faces off against Avery, the snobbish and ultra-competitive cheerleading captain who leads her own squad, the Jaguars, after the official high school squad, the Sea Lions, did not vote for her to be captain.

2009 | 1h 30m | Directed by Will Gluck
 

Starring Nicholas D’Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, and Sarah Roemer
 

This comedy follows two guys who give up football in exchange for a spot on the cheerleading squad. Shawn and Nick join the team to meet girls but learn that there is more to cheerleading than meets the eye. With their newfound insight into the world of cheerleading, they help their team compete in Nationals while trying to keep their true intentions hidden.

2004 | 1h 30m | Directed by Damon Santostefano
 

Starring Anne Judson-Yager, Bree Turner, and Faune Chambers Watkins
 

Friends Whittier and Monica can’t stand the tyrannical cheerleader captain, Tina. They decide to form their own team, pulling together a collection of social misfits: geeks, artists, and bleeding-heart students whose after-school activities were cut for budgetary reasons. Through teamwork, they challenge the official squad’s right to represent the school at the upcoming cheerleading championship.

2005 | 1h 40m | Directed by Stephen Herek
 

Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Cedric The Entertainer, and Christina Milian
 

The movie stars Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas Ranger whose job is to protect five cheerleaders who witness a murder. Initially, Tommy Lee Jones’ character was to be an FBI agent working in Virginia. Still, upon receiving the script, Jones suggested that Texas would be a great location for the film. After the producers arrived, they decided to shoot the movie there and, as a consequence, made the main character a Texas Ranger.

2006 | 1h 45m | Directed by Andy Fickman
 

Starring Amanda Bynes, James Kirk, and Channing Tatum

Nobody puts Viola Hastings in a corner! In Fickman’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Amanda Bynes plays Viola, a teenager with a deep passion for football. When Viola’s football team is dissolved, and she is not allowed to play on the boys’ team either, she disguises herself as her twin brother so she can keep playing. Among cheerleaders, hard training, and romantic troubles, she’ll have to keep her secret at any cost.

2019 | 1h 30m | Directed by Zara Hayes
 

Starring Diane Keaton, Pam Grier, and Charlie Tahan

It’s not every day you see a movie about not-so-young cheerleaders, but that’s exactly what we got with Poms! Diane Keaton stars in this cheer comedy as a woman who joins a senior citizen cheerleading squad in her retirement community. Poms is a fun film with great life lessons: it’s about never giving up on your dreams and going for them even as you get older.

2001 | 1h 21m | Directed by Francine McDougall
 

Starring Marla Sokoloff, Marley Shelton, and Melissa George

Sugar & Spice is another 2000s cheerleading comedy that pokes fun at the genre as well as other pop culture phenomena, like teen movies and pregnancy movies. The film follows a cheerleading squad involved in a bank robbery to pay for their captain’s medical bills following an unexpected pregnancy. Get ready to cheer for the bad girls!

2001 | 1h 29m | Directed by Joel Gallen
 

Starring Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, and Jaime Pressly

Not Another Teen Movie is a silly, satirical take on the teen genre. While it isn’t a cheerleading movie per se, it does feature a very memorable spoof of one of the best cheerleading movies ever: Bring It On! The film was received well by critics and audiences alike and is often considered one of the most popular comedies of the early 2000s.

2019 | 1h 27m | Directed by Peter Sullivan
 

Starring Denise Richards, Savannah Lee May, and Alexandria DeBerry
 

Ava, a pretty and naturally gifted cheerleader, finds herself embroiled in a rivalry with the manipulative and ruthless head cheerleader who only wants Ava out of the way. When Ava finds herself the victim of Katrina’s maligned machinations, she’ll have to join forces with some new allies if she hopes to end her tyrannical reign. Get your favorite snacks and enjoy all the drama of this cheerleader movie!

1992 | 1h 26m | Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui
 

Starring Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, and Donald Sutherland

There’s no way we can make a list of cheerleading movies without mentioning the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer film with Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, and Donald Sutherland in his role as Merrick. The plot is pretty simple: Buffy is your average cheerleader who happens to be the slayer that was prophesied to come along and help save humans from vampires.

2018 | 1h 33m | Directed by Clay Glen
 

Starring Kelli Berglund, Emily Morris, and Terry Rogers

Emma, a 17-year-old American girl, moves to a new town in Australia with her father, a member of the Air Force. Together with her new friend Hannah, she decides to teach the art of cheerleading to a bunch of total beginners and form a good cheer squad to take on their biggest rivals in competition. This is the second time Kelli Berglund and Emily Morris have co-starred in a movie. They previously appeared in the film Raising The Bar, released in 2016.

2019 | 1h 27m | Directed by Paul Shapiro
 

Starring Aubrey Peeples, Morgan Taylor Campbell, and Sarah Dugdale

Death Of A Cheerleader stars Aubrey Peeples as Bridget, a shy teenager obsessed with fitting in and being popular. After both failing to join the cheerleader squad and get a yearbook staff position, she tries to befriend the rich and pretty Kelly Locke. When Kelly also rejects her, Bridget can’t take it anymore. As you might expect from the title, things don’t end well for these girls. Inspired by the true story of the murder of Kirsten Costas in 1984.

1973 | 1h 24m | Directed by Paul Glickler
 

Starring Denise Dillaway, Raoul Hoffnung, and Richard Meatwhistle
 

When Jeannie, a reluctant virgin, gets involved with the Amoroso High cheerleaders, she finds herself getting a crash course in teenage temptation. But now the fix is in on the football season’s big game, and the cheerleader squad has a plan to make their own school team win the match: sleeping with the opponents the night before the game and tiring them out to the point they won’t be able to play. Can this crazy plan work?

2017 | 1h 35m | Directed by Robert Adetuyi
 

Starring Vivica A. Fox, Cristine Prosperi, and Sophie Vavasseur
 

Vivica A. Fox makes her Bring It On debut as Cheer Goddess, a “Cheer-lebrity” whose fame originates from her internet persona. When the reigning three-time national champions, “The Rebels,” are challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team, “The Truth,” the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the globe.

1999 | 2h 2m | Directed by Sam Mendes
 

Starring Kevin Spacey, Thora Birch, and Mena Suvari

American Beauty is not your typical cheerleading movie, but it does feature Kevin Spacey’s character getting infatuated by his daughter’s friend Angela Hayes, a member of her school’s cheerleading squad. This 1999 drama about an American family with serious issues won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Kevin Spacey, and Best Director for Sam Mendes.

2000 | 1h 58m | Directed by Howard Deutch
 

Starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, and Brooke Langton

When the NFL’s Washington Sentinels go on strike, the team’s owner calls former NFL coach Jimmy out of retirement to coach a rag-tag group of replacement players to finish the season’s games. This sounds like a perfect opportunity for Shane Falco to find a second chance at his long-lost football career (and also love, with Annabelle, the beautiful head cheerleader). The Replacements isn’t so much a cheerleading movie as it is a sports movie. Well, okay, it’s a Keanu Reeves movie. And it also happens to be a pretty underrated film.

2001 | 1h 20m | Directed by Chris Sivertson and Lucky McKee
 

Starring Julia Carpenter, Jesse Hlubik, and Jennifer Grant
 

A low-budget horror movie about a bunch of cheerleaders-turned-zombies who rise from the dead to exact their revenge on their football player ex-boyfriends who murdered them. If you’re a fan of B movies, you can just watch this one, or you could also opt to watch the 2013 remake made by the same directors and declare your favorite one!

2007 | 1h 30m | Directed by Steve Rash
 

Starring Ashley Benson, Cassandra Scerbo, and Michael Copon
 

The West Coast Sharks cheerleading squad, led by Carson, is heading to Camp Spirit-Thunder and will have to face their arch-rivals, the East Coast Jets, led by Brooke. Chaos ensues when Carson falls in love with Penn, a member of the Jets. What will happen when Carson finds out that Penn also likes her?