Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Killing (1956), Virginia's Run (2003), A Day at the Races (1937), Force of Evil (1948), Phar Lap (1983), Seabiscuit (2003), Lean on Pete (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Horse Racing movies.
Storyline: Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be.—J. Hooven <dhooven@sprintmail.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, sports, gambling, horse racing, british, black comedy, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Salty owes money to Doc Baxter; he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and Salty both fall in love with Barbara Brooks and, to get even, Johnny considers throwing the horserace.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, drama, romance, crime, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, drama, equestrian, animals, travel, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Being AP' premiered at Toronto Film Festival 2015, and documents one of Northern Ireland's greatest ever sportsmen during his last racing season. The story of AP's final season is a fascinating mix of sacrifice, doubt, decisions, triumphs and failures, injury and ultimately, finding a way to leave the stage. With unprecedented access to a top athlete, the film tracks all the elements that make up McCoy's life. We see him in action at racecourses across the UK and Ireland. We are with him at the Cheltenham Festival and Aintree. We see him struggling with injury at home, setting himself new targets and grappling with the decision whether to retire or not. We track the successful early part of the season, when AP harbours the outrageous idea of riding 300 winners in a season. We see the shattering effect of injury on body and psyche. We witness the torment of deciding whether this is to be his last season, and we are there as he goes through the public agony of playing out his retirement in public. And then it's no more. Our cast is the team around him; the billionaire owner, JP McManus, the trainers, the fellow jockeys that make up that unique band of brothers, and above all, his wife Chanelle, who has lived through everything at his side. This is far from just being a story about racing, although there will certainly never be another AP McCoy. It is about universal themes, recognisable to the widest audience; relationships, decisions, sacrifices.—Casarotto
Plot Keywords: documentary, horse racing, sports, biography, true story, inspirational, champion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies for the Kentucky Derby. Based on the inspiring true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys face a series of mishaps on their way to Churchill Downs, becoming the ultimate underdogs in a final showdown with the world's racing elite.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: sports drama, horse racing, underdog story, true story, inspirational, american west, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, drama, 20th century fox, latin america, argentina ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. When a young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race, the plot breaks into a speeding gallop. Donovan is disqualified from racing, but Cricket springs into action and heads into the home stretch riding high!—Shawn Ashley
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, romance, comedy, classic film, black and white, mgm ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Plot Keywords: sports, horse racing, british film, drama, family, inspirational, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper.
Plot Keywords: comedy, sports, horse racing, british film, black and white, 1950s, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill.—Ray Hamel
Plot Keywords: sports, horse racing, biography, history, inspirational, true story, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: biography, sports, horse racing, inspirational, historical, drama, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1889, A gypsy princess, Young Marie (Annabella), loses her aristocratic husband when his is killed in an accident. Nearly a half-century later , her granddaughter Maria (Annabella) falls in love with a Canadian horse trainer, Kerry Gilfallan (Henry Fonda), working to prepare entries for Epsom Downs Derby. Although she is engaged to marry a man in Spain, she falls in love with Kerry and he with her. Complications arise when the Spanish fiancé reappears.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, romance, musical, historical, drama, horse racing, color film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film tells the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes (Academy Award® nominee Toni Collette). With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites. The group's investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks with grit and determination and goes on to race in the Welsh Grand National, showing the heart of a true champion.—Bleecker Street
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, true story, horse racing, wales, rural life, dream ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fifteen-year-old Patrick doesn't know what he wants to do with his life, and the pressure put on him by his dad isn't helping. But then he meets a misunderstood horse trainer who convinces him to train for the Derby Cup. Can Patrick convince his parents to let him compete, beat out out the rich town bully -- and find the champion that lies within?—Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Plot Keywords: family, sports, horse racing, coming of age, inspirational, friendship, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young zebra is accidentally abandoned by the circus, but is found by a man and his daughter. On their farm, they are joined by an eclectic group of animals who eventually conspire to help the zebra cheat in order to win the Kentucky Open horse race.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, family, animals, horse racing, inspirational, friendship ...
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