One Day in September (1999), Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008), Mike Wallace Is Here (2019), Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation (2017), Walk, Don't Run (1966), Across the Line (2015), Chak de! India (2007), Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Athlete movies.
Storyline: Don King (Ving Rhames) is involved in two fistfights that result in the deaths of his combatants, and, after serving prison time, enters the world of professional boxing. Chatty, with a memorable head of hair, King becomes the promoter for Muhammad Ali (Darius McCrary) and other champions, and he stages lucrative boxing spectacles in the Philippines, Zaire, Atlantic City, Reno and Las Vegas. Despite King's success, he's beset by critics who say he cons his fighters out of their ring earnings.
Plot Keywords: athlete, muhammad ali, boxer, promoter, journalist, fascinating, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: All Blacks great Dan Carter has revealed that an "intimate" film about his personal life and his "challenging road" towards the 2015 Rugby. He's fallen in love with an impossible reach, a few thousand km away, and circumstances aren't making it any more possible.
Plot Keywords: athlete, friend, sports reporter, cheery, confident, engaging, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented...
Plot Keywords: figure skater, ex-husband, competitor, friend, mother, athlete, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two long-estranged siblings (Mark Kelly, Steve Zissis) resurrect their self-made, 25-event athletic contest that ended in a tie and permanently fractured their relationship when they were teens.
Plot Keywords: brother, athlete, witty, uplifting, unrestrained, united states, brother relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young boy in a at secondary school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with John, the top athlete at school - who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, athlete, friend, overweight kid, gay man, girlfriend, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Molly Bloom, a beautiful young Olympic-class skier, ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans, and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe.
Plot Keywords: skier, fbi agent, movie star, athlete, russian mobster, defense attorney, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, cameraman, doctor, athlete, ex-wife, investigator, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the Captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon) to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of Apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Plot Keywords: nelson mandela, athlete, politician, rival, intense, inspiring, south africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steep traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers to the daredevils of today.
Plot Keywords: skier, ski coach, athlete, pioneer, mountaineer, musician, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist.
Plot Keywords: athlete, brother, rival, soccer player, coach, hilarious, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dan Millman has it all: good grades, a shot at the Olympic team on the rings and girls lining up for the handsome Berkely college athlete all teams mates look up to with envy. Only one man shakes his confidence, an anonymous night gas station attendant, who like Socrates, keeps questioning every assumption in his life. Then a traffic crash shatters Dan's legs, and his bright future. Now Socrates's life coaching is to make or break Dan's revised ambition.
Plot Keywords: athlete, stranger, gymnast, thug, doctor, eerie, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary chronicles the grand ambitions of rising matador David Fandila, also known as El Fandi, as he attempts to take his place in bullfighting history as the 13th matador to defeat 100 raging bulls within the course of a single season. While the bulls themselves often prove quite dangerous -- as evidenced by a graphic goring by the horns of a particularly testy opponent -- Fandila must also contend with equally enraged animal rights activists and the shadow of a worried mother.
Plot Keywords: animal, athlete, doctor, protester, matador, mother, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who joined the armed forces during the second world war. Only to be captured by the Japanese navy after a plane crash in the Pacific. During his capture, Louie must continue his fight by surviving through the war.
Plot Keywords: athlete, olympic athlete, crew member, air force pilot, prisoner of war, prison guard, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the post-World War I era. Britons Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell are both naturally gifted fast sprinters, but approach running and how it fits into their respective lives differently. The son of a Lithuanian Jew, Harold, who lives a somewhat privileged life as a student at Cambridge, uses being the fastest to overcome what he sees as the obstacles he faces in life as a Jew despite that privilege. In his words to paraphrase an old adage, he is often invited to the trough, but isn't allowed to drink. His running prowess does earn him the respect of his classmates, especially his running teammates, and to some extent the school administration, if only he maintains what they consider proper gentlemanly decorum, which isn't always the case in their minds. Born in China, the son of Christian missionaries, Eric, a Scot, is a devout member of the Church of Scotland who eventually wants to return to that missionary work. He sees running as a win-win in that the notoriety of being fast ...
Plot Keywords: athlete, missionary, coach, sister, reverend, uplifting, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rick Penning, the 17-year-old star player on his coach/father's rugby team, lands inside the Wasatch County Juvenile Detention Center following his second drunk driving conviction (and where his father leaves him to rot). Mistrust and dislike of the situation makes Rick anything but a model prisoner, but counselors at the center nonetheless hook him up with the Highland Rugby Team, a team renowned for its long string of successive state championships. Its coach, Larry Gelwix, has a surprisingly unexpected philosophy: train boys to be champions in life first, then on the field. Rick doesn't buy into this, which could earn him some time in State Prison if he doesn't turn his life and attitude around by the time he turns 18.—statmanjeff
Plot Keywords: athlete, young man, juvenile delinquent, father, moving, uplifting, touching ...
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