Across the Line (2015), Chak de! India (2007), Inside Out (2015), The Rebel (2006), Barney's Version (2010), Slap Shot (1977), Mystery, Alaska (1999), The Mighty Ducks (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hockey movies.
Storyline: A young, black hockey star (Stephan James), bound for the NHL, is surronded by racial tension in a divided Nova Scotian community.
Plot Keywords: young man, black man, athlete, moving, emotional, engaging, nova scotia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) knows what it's like to come back from the dead. The ex Indian Captain has now come back in the avatar of the Coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey team. A team that exists more on paper and less in reality. The team is a rag-tag bunch of girls with their own agenda. A bunch of girls who have forgotten what it is like to play for the love of the game. Of playing because you want glory for your country. Not because you want a pensioned job or a government flat. They have all forgotten the sharp thrill of just holding the hockey stick, keeping their eyes on the ball and playing for all they are worth. They have played every game but hockey to make sure they get selected every year in the Indian National team. But what does it really mean to play for the Indian National team? To play for India? The girls have never known the thrilling energy of being Team India. Of giving their all to see their country's name on a trophy. But Kabir Khan, once a captain, ...
Plot Keywords: hockey player, widow, captain, coach, athlete, lighthearted, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Plot Keywords: young girl, mother, father, imaginary friend, teacher, friend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: hockey player, teammate, coach, commissioner, wife, president, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Take a ride through the life and memories of Barney Panofsky, a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer, as he reflects on his life's successes and (numerous) gaffes and failures as the final chapters of his own existence come sharply into focus.
Plot Keywords: grump, television producer, wife, ex-wife, father, son, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Located in the US Rust Belt, Charlestown is home of the hapless Chiefs, a losing Federal League hockey team whose games are poorly attended. To make money, the team's unknown owner makes its manager, Joe McGrath, do cheesy publicity much to the players' chagrin. Rumors abound among the players that if the local mill closes, the team will fold. Just before the official announcement is made, the team's aging player/coach, Reggie Dunlop, does get wind that the mill is indeed closing and that this season will be the team's last. Beyond efforts to reconcile with his wife Francine, who loves Reggie but doesn't love his career, Reggie begins to focus on how to renew interest in the team for a possible sale as he knows if the team folds, his hockey career is over. Without telling anyone of his plan, he begins a rumor that the owner is negotiating a sale with a city in Florida. He also decides that "goon" hockey - most especially using the untapped talents of the recently acquired childlike ...
Plot Keywords: coach, hockey player, wife, manager, radio personality, unrestrained, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Mystery, Alaska's (amateur) hockey team accepts a challenge to play the New York Rangers, the entire population must put their petty differences aside, and band together, as their small town becomes the centre of a nationally televised event.
Plot Keywords: hockey player, coach, judge, reporter, publicist, uplifting, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gordon Bombay, a hotshot lawyer, is haunted by memories of his childhood, when, as the star player in his champion hockey team, he lost the winning goal in a shootout, thereby losing the game, and the approval of his coach. After being charged for drunk driving, the court orders him to coach a peewee hockey team, the worst in the league, Gordon is at first very reluctant. However, he eventually gains the respect of the kids and teaches them how to win, gaining a sponsor on the way and giving the team the name of The Ducks. In the finals, they face Gordon's old team, coached by Gordon's old coach, giving Gordon a chance to face old ghosts.
Plot Keywords: coach, lawyer, hockey player, young boy, mentor, spirited, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gordon Bombay is forced to withdraw from the minor hockey league with a knee injury. Much to his surprise, he is given the job of coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games in California. With most of the Ducks and a few new players in tow, he sets forth for LA. All appears to be going well for a while, but the hype of Hollywood starts to get to Gordon, and he is distracted when Iceland, the favourites to win the title, appear on the scene.
Plot Keywords: hockey coach, hockey player, teenager, promoter, girlfriend, opponent, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ice hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother. A romantic plot ensues, as well as a confrontation with the gang leaders.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: hockey player, single mother, son, pretty woman, thug, lighthearted, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's a new day for the Halifax Highlanders. A pro lockout has reunited old teammates and brought a crew of new players to the bench; notably missing from the line-up, however, is everyone's favourite enforcer and heart of the team, Doug "The Thug" Glatt. Sidelined after one too many hits and now married with a baby on the way, Doug is hanging up his skates and settling into life as an insurance salesman. But when Doug's nemesis, Anders Cain, is made captain of the Highlanders and new ownership threatens to tear his team apart, Doug is compelled back into action. Ignoring the wishes of wife Eva, Doug heads to the rink, discovering an unlikely training partner in fellow retired enforcer and one-time arch rival, Ross "The Boss" Rhea. Together with grit, passion and unrivaled loyalty, they will grind out one last chance to do what they do best...protect their team.—Subrat Jain
Plot Keywords: teammate, married man, hockey player, insurance salesman, nemesis, brash, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of Midwestern pals -- Owen (Jim Gaffigan), Tommy (Michael Gilio), Dave (Ian Brennan), Greg (T.J. Jagodowski) and Vern (Jed Resnik) -- typically make an annual pilgrimage to a big amateur hockey tournament in Madison, Wis. But this year their plans may be changing. With the men coming up on middle age, they're torn between their desire to repeat their once-a-year outing and the responsibilities that come with adulthood, careers and marriage.
Plot Keywords: fan, young man, girlfriend, hockey player, friend, traveler, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Working-class Quebecois hockey player Maurice Richard (Roy Dupuis) becomes a hero to French Canadians as he stars for the famous Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s and '50s. One of the few French players in an English league, Richard has a chip on his shoulder and suffers subtle racial discrimination at the hands of the owner and other players. When his temper boils over during a game in Boston, he is suspended by league president Clarence Campbell (Tedd Dillon), and his fans riot in the streets.
Plot Keywords: hockey player, teammate, coach, commissioner, wife, president, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the third episode of this series, the Ducks get scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, a high ranking prep school. But as freshmen, they will have to face the snob varsity team...
Plot Keywords: coach, lawyer, hockey player, high-school student, mother, mentor, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. Jack, however, has not been making progress fast enough for Dr. Kendall's sponsor, Dr. Peabody, who has cut off his funding and sold Jack to a medical research lab. Afraid of what could happen to his simian friend, Dr. Kendall sneaks Jack out of his home in the lab; however, Jack is accidentally sent to Canada, where he escapes and is discovered by Tara, a deaf girl who recognizes Jack's sign language. Jack has an even bigger surprise for Tara's older brother Steven; Jack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's junior league hockey team, and he and his teammates discover the primate has a natural talent for the game. With Jack on the team, Steven's team is on their way to a league championship, but Jack's notoriety attracts the unfortunate attention of Dr. Peabody, who is determined to send Jack back to his new owners.—Dawkins
Plot Keywords: ape, doctor, boss, teen boy, sister, coach, lighthearted ...
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