Best Sports Movies

Caddyshack is a 1980 U.S. comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. It stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray. Doyle-Murray also has a supporting role. The film was Ramis's first feature and was a. . . more

Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia. Balboa is also a club fighter who gets a shot at the. . . more

The Cleveland Indians are perennial losers. For years, few things have gone right with the team, and when Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), a former Las Vegas showgirl, inherits the team from her late husband, it doesn't look like their fortunes will change any time soon. The greedy Phelps hates. . . more

Hoosiers is a 1986 movie about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship. The film is set during the 1950's, when all high schools in Indiana, regardless of school size, competed in one state championship tournament. It stars Gene Hackman as a new coach with. . . more

The Natural is a 1984 movie based on the 1952 novel by Bernard Malamud. The movie follows the career of Roy Hobbs, an outstanding pitching prospect whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a crazed fan. Most of the movie concerns itself with Hobbs' comeback with the fictional New York. . . more

Field of Dreams is a movie about a farmer who becomes convinced by a mysterious voice that he is supposed to construct a baseball diamond in his corn field. It stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, and Frank Whaley. The. . . more

Remember the Titans is an American drama film released in 2000. It was directed by Boaz Yakin, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures, and starred Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone. Remember the Titans centers on racial tensions in the football team of the newly integrated. . . more

Raging Bull is a 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese (Academy Award nomination - Best Director) adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the memoir Raging Bull: My Story it is commonly ranked as one of the Greatest films ever made It stars Robert De Niro (Academy Award - Best Actor) as. . . more

Slap Shot is a 1977 film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean and directed by George Roy Hill. The film is based on a book written by Nancy Dowd, based in part on her brother Ned Dowd's experiences playing minor league hockey in the United States in the seventies, during which time violence,. . . more

Kevin Costner stars as "Crash" Davis (named after Lawrence "Crash" Davis, an actual player for the Durham Bulls in the 1940s and 50s), a veteran of countless years in the minor leagues unwillingly sent down to single-A Bulls for a specific purpose: to educate a hotshot rookie pitcher "Nuke". . . more

Rudy is a 1993 film directed by David Anspaugh. It is an account of the life of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles. It was the first movie shoot the Notre Dame administration allowed on campus since "Knute. . . more

The Longest Yard is a 1974 movie about inmates at a prison who play American football against their guards. Burt Reynolds portrayed Paul "Wrecking" Crewe in the original, and the coach Nate Scarboro in the 2005 remake starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and Nelly. The 1974 original was also the. . . more

The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, and a short-lived 1979 CBS television series, none of which were. . . more

Happy is a wannabe ice hockey player who masters a powerful slapshot that his father taught him as a child. His slapshot is not enough, though, as his aggression and poor skating ability on the ice gets him cut from every team he tries out for. His grandmother, with whom he's lived almost all his. . . more

Brian's Song is a 1971 made-for-TV movie, recalling the details of the life of Brian Piccolo (played by James Caan), a football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams), who. . . more

The movie chronicles the journey of the 1980 US Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team. It begins with a montage of the 70s. Then University of Minnesota head coach Herb Brooks is interviewed by the USOC in Colorado Springs, in which they are very skeptical of his philosophies. He then tells his wife Patti. . . more

The story of the 1919 World Series as told in the 1963 nonfiction book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series is brought to the big screen. The Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds fight it out in the baseball World Series, but questions arise when the heavily favorite White. . . more

The 2005 biographical film Cinderella Man tells the story of James J. Braddock. Directed by Ron Howard, and starring Russell Crowe as Braddock with Renée Zellweger as his wife Mae, the movie had an estimated budget of $88,000,000 and grossed $108.5 million world-wide. Paul Giamatti, playing. . . more

When World War II threatens to shut down Major League Baseball, candy manufacturing magnate Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall) decides to create a women's league to make money. Ira Lowenstein (David Strathairn) is put in charge and scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) is sent out to recruit players.. . . more

Rocky II begins with the 15th round of the Bicentennial fight from the first movie. The fight indeed lasts 15 rounds with each fighter suffering many injuries. After the fight, Rocky calls out for Adrian, who runs down to the ring. As Creed is announced the winner by split decision, Adrian and. . . more

he movie is based on the true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Englishman Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), who is Jewish, overcomes anti-Semitism and class prejudice in order to compete against the "Flying Scotsman", Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), in the 100. . . more

We Are Marshall is a 2006 motion picture directed by McG dramatizing the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, the rebuilding of the program, and the healing that the community undergoes. It stars Matthew McConaughey as head. . . more

by InterMat The name is simple, effective and defining for Jon Trenge. The very definition of veritas is a singular word – truth. The movie “Veritas,” directed by Lehigh Valley native and former University of Virginia wrestler turned filmmaker Howie Miller echoes that definition as it shows. . . more

White Men Can't Jump is a 1992 feature film starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as basketball hustlers. Rosie Perez co-stars as Harrelson's girlfriend. The film was written and directed by Ron Shelton. It was released to theaters on March 27, 1992 by 20th Century Fox. Woody Harrelson plays. . . more

Glory Road deals with the events of the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which Texas Western College coach Don Haskins led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history. Several scenes in this movie were filmed at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP),. . . more

Coach Carter is a 2005 film, directed by Thomas Carter. It is based on a true story, in which Richmond High School (Richmond, California, USA) head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results. At the start of the movie, Ken Carter. . . more

Friday Night Lights follows the journey of a high school football team to greatness. The team is the Permian Panthers, and the town is Odessa, Texas. The movie focuses on the town's absolute obsession with the team and how the team must live up to all of the pressures surrounding them. The Panthers. . . more

Jerry Maguire tells the story of professional sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), whose crisis of faith leads him to write a mission statement that advocates better service, fewer clients, and less focus on the bottom line. However, after he distributes the mission statement to his fellow. . . more

To spice things up for his organization, Philadelphia Eagles coach Dick Vermeil decided to hold open tryouts for a spot on the pro football team's roster. Vince Papale is a 30-year-old bartender who has just lost his part-time teaching job. Disgusted with his professional failure, his wife abruptly. . . more

Ali is an Academy Award-nominated 2001 biographical film which tells the story of Muhammad Ali. It stars Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nona Gaye (in her film debut), Michael Michele, Joe Morton, Giancarlo. . . more

Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James. It follows the story of two Chicago, Illinois high school students and their dream of becoming professional basketball players. Originally intended to be a 30-minute short produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, it eventually led. . . more

The film follows the real-life quest during the 1961 season of New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record of 60 set in 1927. The asterisk in the title reflects the fact that Ruth had 154 games to set the record, while Mantle and Maris had 162. . . more

When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie. . . more

Mystery, Alaska is a 1999 movie directed by Jay Roach about a fictional small-town ice hockey team that plays a game against the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. The New York Rangers The New York Rangers' roster portrayed in the film is entirely fictional. The roster features the. . . more

Million Dollar Baby is an Academy Award winning 2004 dramatic film directed by Clint Eastwood. The film stars Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past and his quest for atonement in helping an underdog amateur female boxer. . . more

The Hustler is a 1961 film adaptation of the novel of the same name (1959) by Walter Tevis. It stars Paul Newman as Eddie Felson, Jackie Gleason as Fats, Piper Laurie and George C. Scott as Bert. The film was adapted by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen. It was directed by Rossen and, like his. . . more

Adam Sandler plays Bobby Boucher (pronounced in the French fashion as "Boo-SHAY"), a socially inept (but also intelligent) water boy with anger issues due to constant teasing and his mother's (Kathy Bates) excessive sheltering. He was the water boy for the fictitious University of Louisiana. . . more

From the author of Killer Angels (made into the movie Gettysburg), and other American Civil War books, comes For Love of the Game. For Love of the Game is the story of an aging, almost over-the-hill pitcher who has done the almost impossible, pitched a perfect game. The book was adapted by Dana. . . more

Rocky IV is the fourth and most successful movie, in terms of box office gross, of the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa (played again by Sylvester Stallone), has said he plans to retire from boxing after recovering his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III. A new sensation from the Soviet Union, Ivan. . . more

The Rookie is a 2002 drama, directed by John Lee Hancock. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career. Twelve years prior to the setting of the movie, Jimmy Morris (played by Dennis Quaid) injured his shoulder, putting an end to his Minor. . . more

When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in (what was then called) Zaïre (now called the Congo, all references are to Zaire) on October 30, 1974. It is. . . more

Rocky III (1982) is the third installment in the Rocky movie series. It stars Sylvester Stallone as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian. Rocky's opponent is Clubber Lang, played by former bodyguard Mr. T. Lang is a. . . more

The Mighty Ducks is the first film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy, produced by Avnet-Kerner Productions and Walt Disney Pictures, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and originally released to movie theatres on October 2, 1992. After winning yet another case, hotshot lawyer Gordon Bombay (Emilio. . . more