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: Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) solve racetrack-related murders with their 4-year-old son and dog, Asta.
Plot Keywords: detective, film noir, comedy, mystery, crime, murder, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After just being released from a five year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five man team, including two insiders, to carry out what he estimates will be a $2 million heist at Lansdowne Racetrack, that take, minus expenses, to be split five ways. Besides Johnny, none of the men truly are criminals in the typical sense. In addition to the other four team members, Johnny has hired two men external to the team to carry out specific functions for a flat fee, the other four who will not meet the two men for hire or know who they are, while the two men for hire will not be told of the bigger picture of the heist. None involved are to tell anyone, even their loved ones, about the job, each of the five who has a specific reason for wanting his share of the money: Johnny, in wanting to get married to his longtime girlfriend Fay, the two who have known each other since they were kids, realizes that to live comfortably, he has to shoot for the moon instead of carrying out the penny ...
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, heist, suspense, classic, 1950s, hardboiled ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When fisherman Ford Lofton's (Gabriel Byrne) wife dies in a horseback riding accident, the devastated widower tells his daughters they can no longer ride. The younger of the two, Virginia (Lindze Letherman), can't shake her passion for horses, and cares for a young foal named Stormy behind her father's back. When Ford moves to sell Stormy, the girl enlists a friendly horse trainer named Jessie Eastwood (Joanne Whalley) to try to change Ford's mind and let Virginia keep Stormy for her own.
Plot Keywords: family, adventure, coming of age, equestrian, father-daughter relationship, rural life, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with her boyfriend's horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high-priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in veterinary medicine.
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, classic, song and dance, humor, 1930s, horse racing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, drama, moral dilemma, corruption, new york, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap loses his first races, but Telford's faith in the animal is unshakable. Suddenly the horse becomes a winner, thanks to the love and diligence of stableboy Tommy Woodcock. American-promoter Dave Davis arranges for Phar Lap to be entered in several top races, where his "long shot" status results in heavy losses for the professional gamblers. Just after winning an important race in Mexico, Phar Lap collapses and dies; though the film never comes out and says as much, it is assumed that the horse was "murdered" by the gambling interests.—Hal Erickson
Plot Keywords: sports, horse racing, biography, history, australia, true story, animal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuit's nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny "Red" Pollard, so nicknamed because of his hair color. Like Tom, Red has always shown a natural way with ...
Plot Keywords: sports, horse racing, drama, biography, historical, underdog story, great depression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, adventure, independent film, usa, horse, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery -- with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin -- manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years.
Plot Keywords: sports, horse racing, biography, true story, inspirational, family, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back her faith in humanity?—Miss Eli
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Boots Malone is jockey's agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. After nearly three years, he has yet to find a replacement for him. Along with his cronies at the track, he manages to buy a horse that's a bit of a sleeper. Their hopes of cashing in big take a positive turn when Boots decides to train an eager young man, who turns out to be a runaway from a rich family, as a jockey. When gangsters tell Boots to throw the race in favor of another horse, he faces a major dilemma.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, horse racing, sports, gambling, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, biographical, female, horse racing, true story, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner. The arrival of the mare to Crane's farm, will be the perfect opportunity for both father and daughter to reconstruct their lost familiar bond. "Soñador" (Dreamer in English), the renamed mare, despite its broken leg, maybe could have another chance to return to the racecourse, with the help of Cale, Ben, and his father, Pop.
Plot Keywords: family, inspirational, sports, horse racing, based on a true story, father-daughter relationship, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, musical, romance, classic, 1930s, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Held yearly for centuries, the Ocean of Fire--a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian desert--was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines, owned by the greatest royal families. In 1890, a wealthy sheik invited an American, Frank T. Hopkins, and his horse to enter the race for the first time. During the course of his career, Hopkins was a cowboy and dispatch rider for the U.S. cavalry--and had once been billed as the greatest rider the West had ever known. The Sheik puts his claim to the test, pitting the American cowboy and his mustang, Hidalgo, against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders--some of whom are determined to prevent a foreigner from finishing the race. For Frank, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor, but a race for his very survival as he and his horse attempt the impossible.
Plot Keywords: adventure, western, action, drama, historical, biographical, horse racing ...
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