Watermarks (2004), College (1927), Tokyo Olympiad (1966), Swimming Upstream (2002), Waterboys (2001), Girls Can't Swim (2000), Sink or Swim (2018), On a Clear Day (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Swimming movies.
Storyline: Taking its name from the Hebrew word for strength, the Hakoah Vienna sports club produced a host of talented female swimmers, who thrived in opposition to anti-Semitic trends that began to color Austrian society in the early 20th century. The club was a casualty of Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, but several of the women who were team members went on to live long, colorful lives. Now senior citizens, they're reunited in this documentary about sports, survival and bravery.
Plot Keywords: documentary, jewish, holocaust, history, women, sports, austria ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To impress his sweetheart (Anne Cornwall), a bookworm (Buster Keaton) goes out for baseball and crew.
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, campus, sports, youth, slapstick, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ichikawa's cameras follow the 1964 Summer Olympics from opening to closing ceremonies. Sometimes he focuses on spectators, as athletes pass in a blur; sometimes he isolates a competitor; other times, it's a closeup of muscles as a hammer is thrown or a barbell lifted; or, we watch a race from start to finish. We see come-from-behind wins in the women's 800 and the men's 10,000 meters. We follow an athlete from Chad from arrival to meals, training, competition, and loss. Throughout, the film celebrates the nobility of athletes pushing themselves to the limit, regardless of victory.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: sports, olympics, documentary, japan, classic, black and white, competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart.—Crusader Entertainment
Plot Keywords: biography, sports, family, coming of age, australian, father-son relationship, competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: All it takes for a bunch of schoolboys to join the swim club is the arrival of a pretty teacher who clearly is considered a babe. The number of participants quickly swells. Alas, the teacher specialized in synchronized swimming and moreover finds out she is pregnant and has to resign from her position. The boys are stuck with the feminine sport since they owe some money now and the school festival at which they are to perform is fast approaching.—aghaemi
Plot Keywords: comedy, youth, sports, school, inspirational, friendship, team ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenager (Karen Alyx) becomes jealous when her friend (Isild Le Besco) seems more interested in the opposite sex than in her problems.
Plot Keywords: drama, french film, coming of age, youth, female, friendship, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is in the corridors of their municipal swimming pool that Bertrand, Marcus, Simon, Laurent, Thierry and the others train under the relative authority of Delphine, former glory of the basins. Together, they feel free and helpful. They will put all their energy into a discipline previously owned by women: synchronized swimming. So, yes it's a weird idea, but this challenge will allow them to find meaning in their lives...
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, comedy, french film, midlife crisis, teamwork, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel. As Frank plunges headlong into his new daily life, his astonished friends are swept along with him. Prodded by stalwart fish-and-chips shop owner Chan, the men support Frank, train him - and keep their goal secret from his wife and son. Frank is unable to confide in those closest to him, but as the big day and moment of truth draw near, there is a sea change. Frank's family confronts him, and he realizes that he must repair his strained family ties. As Frank and those closest to him discover - or re-discover - reserves of love and compassion, he realizes that he is also swimming from one part of his life to another.—Focus Features
Plot Keywords: drama, sports, inspirational, midlife crisis, self-discovery, british film, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who's slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love. Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumored to be a slut. François pursues her. Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favors, and soon it's an odd sort of friendship. Each of the three experiences her own first, and Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: coming of age, female friendship, sexual awakening, first love, french cinema, emotional exploration, growth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, elderly, aliens, retirement, friendship, florida, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Million Dollar Mermaid tells the story of Australian swimming sensation Annette Kellerman, who overcame childhood polio to go on and achieve fame as a professional swimmer and film star in the early decades of the 20th century. At the same time, she scandalized the world by wearing a one-piece bathing suit on public beaches long before the style was accepted in polite company, and made waves in other ways as well. The story was a perfect vehicle decades later to showcase the star quality of Esther Williams in the 1950s, and Kellerman's moniker was picked up by Life Magazine when it named Ms. Williams the "Million Dollar Mermaid" herself.—Tedosan
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, musical, historical, australia, female lead, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town. Frankie works with her brother, Neil running their family's beach-front burger bar. Frankie's friend, Nicola, runs a body-piercing shop next to the burger shop. Neil hires the life-guard's new flame, Josee, as a waitress. Frankie makes an immediate bond with Josee, which causes jealousy with Nicola. Then a drifter, who sells t-shirts from the back of his van, starts a romance with Frankie. This casts her away from both of the other two women and for the first time gives her confidence to function on her own, instead of hiding behind the other more brash or beautiful women.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, biography, true story, olympics, athlete, training ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, athlete, family, health, competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers-inextricably connected through personal heartbreak-find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in-it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.—Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Plot Keywords: comedy, independent film, midlife crisis, interpersonal relationships, self-discovery, american film, 2000s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story of 2 brothers: Robbie - a local athlete and celebrity who happens to be blind and his brother Bill - who's helped Robbie through everything for years. Bill falls in love with a girl, Rose, but as luck would have it she starts dating his brother Robbie. Bill has to decide whether to put his own emotions above his brother or to be the bigger man.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, blindness, brothers, disability, family ...
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