By Amy Renner Dec. 14, 2023
1 – 20 of 42 movies
Three Mississippi
A feud exists between two families over an annual Thanksgiving touch football game that has existed for 50 years.
The Fifth Official
A soccer ref attempts to throw a match for the first time.
The Dive
A biopic of Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and his wife, Audrey Mestre, two world record setters in the sport of "freediving"—diving as deep as possible on one breath and without any scuba equipment. Mestre died in 2002 while trying to break her record of 557.7 feet.
Triumph
Set against the backdrop of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the story of how the son of an Alabama sharecropper shattered Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by winning a record four gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, the long jump and the 400-meter relay.
The Smashing Machine
Mark Kerr is born in Toledo, Ohio. From early childhood, he dreams of being in the World Wrestling Federation and holds mock fights with his younger siblings in the back yard. He comes a high school state champion wrestling for Toledo Waite. Later Kerr becomes known as The Smashing Machine, The Titan and The Specimen — and is a two-time UFC heavyweight champ, and is widely regarded as the best fighter in the world during his MMA career.
Ten Bears
True story of the first all-black lacrosse team founded in Baltimore in 1970. Team consisted of off-season college football players from Morgan State University who had never really heard of the game of lacrosse before. Their Jewish coach took them from miserable to competing and winning in the NCAA championships.
The Catch
A man, who was on the verge of losing his job and his marriage, decides to keep a promise to his father and return to college. He finds he's eligible to play ball and makes the team as tight end.
The Dance
True story of the life of prison boxing coach Billy "The Kid" Roth.
The Precious One
A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.
The Throwback
The true story is based on the lives of Frank and Isaac Gildea, the only father-son duo to ever play basketball together on a college team.
The Wanderers
A shambolic Midlands soccer team is accidentally invited to play against a top-league German team.
Tetherball: The Movie
Four unmotivated telemarketers find fame and fortune through Tether Ball games.
Location: US - Michigan
The Dreyfus Affair
A baseball star falls in love with his team's second baseman.
The Green Wave
The story of firefighter Louis Mulkey, an assistant high school basketball, who perished in a 2007 fire at a Charleston furniture store. In the following season, the team won its first-ever state championship.
The Magician
Story center on the true story of Marlin "The Magician" Briscoe, the first African-American starting quarterback in football.
The Miracle of St. Anthony
In 2005 in a downtrodden Jersey City neighborhood, coach Bob Hurley Sr. tries to transform the toughest, least-engaged players at St. Anthony High School.
The Rucker
"Undercover Brother" director Malcolm Lee's next project is "The Rucker", set in Harlem, one of New York City's hot spots of street basketball. The story follows two players, one black and one white, who are competing for the MVP award in an important tournament that could launch their NBA careers.
The Trade
Set in the 1970s, a scandal is caused by New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich when they admit to swapping wives with one another.
The Untitled Peter Buck...
The story of Peter Buckley -- aka "the worst boxer of all time."
They Fight
A group of adolescent boxers and their formerly incarcerated coach in Southeast Washington DC go on the road to defend their national titles.