Sport Movies, a list by Riz

7.7

/55410/

75

/2364/

76

/443/

4.1

/450123/

89

/261/

Audience

94

/1574/

73

/55/

2.5

age 15+

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

61

7.0

/248323/

72

/6180/

66

/2495/

3.4

/203907/

62

/55/

Audience

85

/991269/

31

/14/

1.5

age 14+

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

72

6.9

/15086/

75

/993/

74

/144/

3.2

/47893/

58

/156/

Audience

97

/3148/

54

/35/

3.5

age 13+

The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

66

6.3

/4322/

66

/229/

65

/84/

2.9

/8235/

83

/36/

Audience

70

/98/

60

/10/

age 13+

Advocates to end homelessness, organize an annual tournament for Homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.

58

6.5

/21558/

67

/1037/

64

/334/

3.0

/76518/

45

/165/

Audience

84

/183/

44

/42/

1.5

age 13+

Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.

83

7.6

/464389/

76

/10183/

72

/4859/

3.9

/421300/

94

/275/

Audience

86

/92590/

87

/42/

4.0

age 12+

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

72

7.1

/36747/

72

/1028/

70

/372/

3.3

/98284/

85

/161/

Audience

87

/962/

63

/36/

2.5

age 14+

Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.

61

6.1

/105675/

67

/2709/

62

/1613/

3.3

/142174/

65

/124/

Audience

66

/767786/

52

/31/

2.0

age 13+

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.

9

80

8.1

/497782/

81

/8535/

78

/4333/

4.0

/153166/

84

/196/

Audience

92

/59863/

71

/35/

3.0

age 14+

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

69

6.7

/10244/

75

/222/

64

/116/

3.3

/4977/

60

/15/

Audience

78

/7028/

55

/12/

3.5

After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.

69

7.3

/258271/

75

/8565/

73

/5320/

3.5

/162881/

60

/243/

Audience

75

/44450/

57

/42/

3.0

age 16+

Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

63

6.7

/5646/

72

/410/

77

/171/

2.7

/4340/

44

/36/

Audience

97

/806/

48

/4/

2.0

age 9+

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.

67

6.8

/30118/

74

/2344/

67

/725/

3.4

/20623/

71

/143/

Audience

69

/8918/

62

/34/

2.5

age 16+

The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who after a near fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports most incredible comebacks.

70

6.6

/199743/

70

/4120/

63

/1591/

3.3

/157538/

71

/187/

Audience

73

/554820/

66

/33/

3.5

age 14+

The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.

63

6.4

/175730/

68

/3904/

68

/2883/

3.3

/304016/

44

/114/

Audience

79

/607855/

45

/28/

3.0

age 12+

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

75

7.3

/120994/

75

/2652/

72

/1307/

3.8

/91377/

81

/79/

Audience

84

/367366/

69

/21/

3.0

age 10+

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

66

6.7

/267111/

69

/6822/

63

/3339/

3.2

/212421/

71

/167/

Audience

76

/996023/

55

/34/

age 14+

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

80

7.4

/167224/

74

/5521/

73

/1710/

3.6

/386342/

93

/337/

Audience

98

/3518/

73

/59/

3.5

age 15+

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

51

6.1

/178301/

66

/3982/

60

/1714/

2.8

/105905/

33

/75/

Audience

71

/911131/

41

/21/

1.0

age 14+

Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.

74

7.8

/231853/

79

/4824/

76

/2538/

3.8

/147377/

71

/140/

Audience

93

/578611/

48

/32/

3.0

age 10+

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

68

7.2

/127152/

73

/2730/

66

/1095/

3.4

/77960/

72

/61/

Audience

87

/204046/

48

/12/

2.5

age 17+

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.

85

8.1

/721576/

80

/10832/

79

/9206/

4.0

/238425/

90

/270/

Audience

90

/405553/

86

/39/

4.0

age 14+

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

77

7.5

/69061/

76

/1197/

73

/622/

3.5

/36926/

77

/48/

Audience

90

/127438/

71

/22/

3.5

age 11+

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.

56

6.6

/69462/

72

/1640/

66

/880/

3.1

/22953/

41

/108/

Audience

66

/159910/

30

/32/

2.0

age 14+

Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

87

8.1

/380089/

78

/4308/

79

/4071/

4.2

/318470/

92

/150/

Audience

93

/131921/

90

/28/

4.0

age 17+

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

80

7.5

/136199/

77

/5127/

76

/2287/

3.7

/231688/

90

/299/

Audience

98

/1210/

76

/53/

3.0

age 13+

The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

80

7.4

/51061/

74

/832/

71

/474/

3.5

/26805/

91

/46/

Audience

88

/50853/

77

/13/

4.0

age 9+

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

7

78

7.3

/144033/

75

/4738/

77

/2362/

3.5

/259452/

93

/171/

Audience

93

/27/

68

/41/

3.0

age 16+

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.

7

80

7.5

/30725/

73

/998/

73

/617/

3.9

/176093/

84

/255/

Audience

81

/92/

80

/45/

4.0

age 16+

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

71

7.6

/360398/

78

/10004/

76

/6117/

3.3

/264204/

66

/206/

Audience

85

/432222/

53

/29/

age 12+

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

64

6.9

/91041/

70

/1890/

65

/817/

3.3

/38341/

49

/39/

Audience

69

/81412/

43

/14/

3.5

age 16+

After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naive hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.

72

7.3

/171896/

76

/3895/

75

/2770/

3.7

/119980/

64

/149/

Audience

85

/406970/

57

/36/

3.0

age 14+

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

70

7.4

/161790/

75

/3247/

72

/2246/

3.4

/52787/

46

/65/

Audience

87

/220011/

55

/22/

3.5

After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.

65

6.8

/25931/

73

/1715/

68

/307/

3.1

/37232/

59

/128/

Audience

95

/1003/

50

/34/

2.0

age 13+

A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.

73

7.2

/76410/

75

/1776/

68

/722/

3.5

/35539/

83

/40/

Audience

84

/91385/

62

/15/

age 15+

When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.

66

7.1

/58203/

73

/1033/

71

/709/

3.6

/33636/

55

/146/

Audience

81

/68406/

56

/35/

2.0

age 15+

The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.

59

6.4

/195023/

67

/4806/

66

/3228/

3.0

/112462/

31

/169/

Audience

62

/32774364/

48

/35/

3.0

age 14+

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

65

6.8

/68518/

72

/1977/

70

/1511/

3.0

/19547/

51

/206/

Audience

66

/46247/

58

/40/

3.0

age 13+

Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

70

6.7

/36172/

70

/805/

63

/404/

3.2

/16616/

87

/39/

Audience

68

/33209/

68

/9/

3.0

age 14+

Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.

9

84

7.9

/319893/

77

/5180/

75

/3464/

4.0

/155055/

98

/232/

Audience

88

/140861/

80

/36/

4.0

age 18+

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

50

6.5

/106395/

69

/2627/

67

/2216/

2.9

/28197/

21

/84/

Audience

34

/609851/

39

/22/

age 15+

Jake, full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his new Orlando high school - until Ryan, head of an underground MMA fight club, picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of the entire school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a MMA master, where he learns how to fight... and how to avoid a fight. But it becomes obvious that a rematch will be inevitable if Jake wants to stop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.

77

6.7

/92814/

70

/4552/

71

/2322/

3.5

/261288/

88

/339/

Audience

95

/8926/

73

/62/

3.5

age 13+

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.

64

6.3

/177709/

65

/3304/

60

/1676/

3.0

/108031/

70

/188/

Audience

68

/1403251/

64

/35/

age 14+

When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athletes skirt their way back onto the ice via a loophole that allows them to compete together as a pairs team.

57

6.1

/98854/

67

/3881/

62

/2051/

3.1

/75340/

45

/33/

Audience

52

/122268/

55

/9/

age 11+

After discovering that his father is at death's door, Mr. Miyagi sets out to Japan, to see him with Daniel. Upon arriving, Miyagi must confront an old rival. Meanwhile, Daniel encounters a new love, and some new enemies.

83

7.6

/310786/

75

/16140/

74

/7180/

3.8

/409800/

95

/314/

Audience

89

/77256/

82

/42/

4.0

age 13+

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

55

6.5

/66388/

68

/1555/

61

/539/

3.1

/33216/

41

/51/

Audience

74

/196527/

38

/18/

1.5

Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.

61

6.9

/226348/

72

/6094/

71

/4200/

3.6

/171231/

40

/52/

Audience

80

/326288/

40

/13/

2.0

age 11+

Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Ivan Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.

77

7.2

/24296/

76

/602/

74

/399/

3.7

/29024/

85

/114/

Audience

95

/186954/

72

/28/