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Movies in the genre Sport

  • Warrior

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    The youngest son (Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nolte) 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 corner with his older brother (Edgerton).

  • Moneyball

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

  • Senna

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.

  • Lords of Dogtown

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.

  • The Fighter

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    The Fighter, is a drama about boxer “Irish” Micky Ward’s unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO’d by drugs and crime.

  • The Wrestler

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.

  • The Blind Side

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    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.

  • Invictus

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

  • The Damned United

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A look at Brian Clough’s 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United.

  • Ali

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his days in the ring.

  • The World's Fastest Indian

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle — a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

  • Cars

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.

  • Million Dollar Baby

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.

  • Riding Giants

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A semiserious, often rollicking, multigenerational insider’s look at the origins of surfing, the colorful and subversive birth of surf culture, and the mythology and lure of the big wave.

  • Whip It!

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In a town near Austin, Bliss Cavendar's strong-willed mom believes Bliss, at 17, can win pageants - the key to a happy life. Bliss isn't the beauty pageant type: she's shy, quiet, and has just one friend, Pash, her fellow waitress at a diner. Things change for Bliss when she discovers a women's roller derby league in Austin, tries out, proves to be whip fast, and makes a team. Now she needs to become someone tough on the rink, keep her parents from finding out where she goes twice a week, and do something about a first crush, on a musician she meets at the derby. Meanwhile, mom still sees Bliss as Miss Bluebonnet. Things are on a collision course; will everyone get banged up?

  • Jerry Maguire

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.

  • Dodgeball

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.

  • Point Break

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of bank robbers who may be surfers.

  • Goon

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.

  • Rocky IV

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Rocky Balboa, heavyweight champion of the world, is the trainer for Apollo Creed in an exhibition match against Ivan Drago, a "superman" boxer from the Soviet Union. When Apollo is killed in the ring by the brutal Drago, Balboa blames himself and promises to avenge his friend's death in the ring.

  • Rocky III

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Boxer Rocky Balboa enjoys the wealth he has as world-champion. He only fights against opponents "hand-picked" by his manager Mickey Goldmill. Then he is challenged by the arrogant Clubber Lang. Rocky accepts the challenge to prove once more that there is only one world-champion. But Lang wins and becomes the new champion. Nobody believes in Rocky anymore, except for one man: former world-champion Apollo Creed. As Creed tries to stimulate his fighting spirit and get Rocky back in top-form, it is now up to Rocky to get his edge back. Will he win ?

  • The Basketball Diaries

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction…

  • Radio

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing.

  • Blades of Glory

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men’s single competition. Presently, however, they’ve found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.

  • Slap Shot

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games.

  • The Karate Kid

    5

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.

  • Speed Racer

    5

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible…

  • Balls of Fury

    5

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom, Randy Daytona (Fogler), is sucked into a maelstrom when FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez (Lopez) recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and win, and to smoke out his father’s killer — arch-fiend Feng (Walken).

  • The Ringer

    5

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A young guy’s only option to erase a really bad debt is to rig the Special Olympics by posing as a contestant.

  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

    5

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    NASCAR stock car racing sensation Ricky Bobby is a national hero because of his “win at all costs” approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo — “Shake” and “Bake” by their fans for their ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges “Shake” and “Bake” for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky Bobby must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing’s top driver.