Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Best sport related films

Karim_myBagheri
Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,692
in Other Football and Sports
after some suggestions for the Easter weekend 

for me its got to be Happy Gilmore 

also really enjoyed The Dammed United 
«13

Comments

  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Invictus
    Moneyball
    Blackball
    Dodgeball
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Raging Bull
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Jerry Maguire
    The Blind Side
    Moneyball
    Cool Runnings

  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    funnily enough, i was reading this earlier 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/52216970
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,664
    Senna
    Maradona
    The Damned United
    Bobby Robson biopic 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Rush
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Green Street
  • heckington_reds
    heckington_reds Posts: 727
    Escape to victory 
  • LTKapal
    LTKapal Posts: 1,312
    edited April 2020
    Rocky 1 through 4
    Coach Carter
    Any of the escape to victory remakes ala mean machine

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    edited April 2020
    BASEketball
    Cool Runnings
    Eddie the Eagle
    Damned United
    Rush
    Mighty Ducks
    The Keeper
  • Sponsored links:



  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Damned United 
    Golden Gordon
    Eddie the Eagle
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    Raging Bull
    Is the correct answer.

  • Sarrf_London
    Sarrf_London Posts: 523
    Damned United
    Le Mans
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Rollerball
    Jossy's Giants
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Debbie does Dallas
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,735
    Icarus
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Icarus
    god bless you
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Grand Prix
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    ID.

    Fucking love you Gumbo...
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,517
    A documentary film rather than a story, but if you haven't seen the Diego Maradona film yet, it is brilliant. It was on Channel 4 last week and is available on All4 for a limited time...

    https://www.channel4.com/programmes/diego-maradona
  • Sponsored links:



  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,189
    I was watching a well known quiz show a while back, and this was the question - can you name the top 100 sports movies.

    Tried to name as many as I could, and found that the contestants were getting away with some really tenuous choices. So I wondered what list this was based on. I rewound the show and discovered, it was based on my list. A list I had compiled for a movie website a few years earlier.

    I remember compiling it, getting to about 70 and struggling to finish it, and asking around the office for suggestions. We were throwing anything we could think of in there just to get to 100. And here it was, being used as a source by a BBC quiz show that people were winning huge sums of money on. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,438
    My favourites:

    Foxcatcher
    Caddyshack
    I, Tonya
    Damned United
    Le Mans 66
  • FSLN1
    FSLN1 Posts: 263
    The best sporting films work as films in their own right.

    Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Natural, The Longest Yard, Bend it Like Beckham, The Karate Kid, When we Were Kings, Million Dollar Baby, Slapshot, The Wrestler, Friday Night Lights, Hoop Dreams. 
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    If you like American Football then:

    Any Given Sunday
    Remember The Titans
    Friday Night Lights

    Comedy

    Blades of Glory


  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,488
    edited April 2020
    White men can't jump
    The fighter
    Moneyball
    I Tonya
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,730
    edited April 2020
    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "When We Were Kings".

    My favourite ever sports documentary film  . It's about the Rumble in the jungle - Ali v Foreman in 1974 . 

    I can't believe someone said Green Street .  One of the worst films ever made .  
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    edited April 2020
    'Champions'

    (Bob Champion's successful fight against cancer and then going on to win the Grand National on Aldaniti. 1984 film starring John Hurt).
  • Addickhead86
    Addickhead86 Posts: 1,148
    King Of Kong is a fun documentary about competitive arcade-gaming that's made in the format of a Rocky style sports film.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,166
    Always had a very soft spot for Remember the Titans. And The Waterboy obviously
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,514
    The Wrestler
    The Fighter
    Million Dollar Baby 
    Rush
    Moneyball
    Damned United


    Documentaries 
    Road
    Senna
    Class of 92
    I Believe In Miracles
    Miracle in Medinah
    Seve (too much archive to not be classed for me as a documentarry)
    Next Goal Wins
    Fire in Babylon
    TT3D
    When We Were Kings
    Free Solo

Categories

“Marketplace”