Ice Princess (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
With the help of her coach, her parents, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey (Trachtenberg) from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere
Director: Tim Fywell
Draft Day (2014)
Drama | Sport
The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Ivan Reitman
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Drama | Film-Noir | Sport | Thriller
Down-on-his-luck ex-sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by shady fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable phenom from Argentina.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Edward Andrews
Director: Mark Robson
Draft Day (2014)
Drama | Sport
The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Fast Girls (2012)
Drama | Sport
Regan Hall's directorial feature debut is a fast-paced sports drama set in London. Sparks fly when Shania (Lenora Crichlow), a sprinter from the city's back streets, comes head to head with Lisa (Lily James), an equally ambitious young runner from a wealthy middle class background. Their fierce rivalry soon reaches breaking point as both girls strive to make it to the top. Bradley James, Rupert Graves and Noel Clarke co-star.
Starring: Lenora Crichlow, Philip Davis, Jamie Howard, Jahvel Hall, Richie Campbell
Director: Regan Hall
Bring It On: In It to Win It /Bring It on 4 (2007)
Comedy | Sport
Southern California high school senior Carson arrives at the all-important "Cheer Camp Nationals" determined to lead her squad, the West High Sharks, to victory. But chic New Yorker Brooke and her team, the East High Jets, are equally steadfast in their pursuit of the competition's coveted "Spirit Stick." As tension mounts between the two rival squads, Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn, not realizing he's a Jet. When Brooke discovers the budding romance, she raises the stakes by challenging Carson to a one-on-one cheer-off. A spectacular "cheer fighting" sequence erupts into a no-holds-barred brawl and cheerleaders on both sides are suspended from the competition. With their dreams of taking home the top prize all but shattered, the leaders of both squads realize they'll have to take drastic measures to stay in the game.
Starring: Ashley Benson, Cassandra Scerbo, Noel Areizaga, Jennifer Tisdale, Kierstin Koppel, Anniese Taylor Dendy, Michael Copon
Director: Steve Rash
Bring It on Again / Bring It on 2 (2004)
Comedy | Sport
A group of new college students, spurned from the official college cheerleading team. Rather than give in to defeat, the students band together and form their own cheer squad, but can they win the cheer-off.
Starring: Anne Judson-Yager, Bree Turner, Kevin Cooney, Faune A. Chambers, Bryce Johnson, Richard Lee Jackson, Bethany Joy Lenz
Director: Damon Santostefano
Hawaa Hawaai (2014)
Drama | Family | Sport
The plot centres around Arjun Harishchand Waghmare (Partho Gupte) and his dream to skate. The film chronicles his coach Aniket Bhargava (Saqib Saleem) and Arjun's journey to wards being a champion skater.
Starring: Saqib Saleem, Partho A. Gupte, Makrand Deshpande
Director: Amole Gupte
Secretariat (2010)
Drama | Family | History | Sport
Despite knowing nothing about horse racing, stay-at-home mum Penny Chenery agrees to take over the Meadow Stables in Virginia after her father falls ill. With the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin, Chenery manages to overcome the odds by navigating her way through an aggressive, male-dominated business and ultimately producing the champion racehorse, Secretariat, who becomes the first Triple Crown winner for 25 years in 1973.
Starring: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Dylan Walsh, Otto Thorwarth
Director: Randall Wallace
The Basketball Diaries / Streets of New York (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
An autobiographical account of poet and rock musician Jim Carroll's delinquent high school years, during which he excelled playing basketball for a boy's club team, meanwhile hustling to support his growing heroin addiction.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg, Vincent Pastore, Bruno Kirby
Director: Scott Kalvert
Best of the Best (1989)
Action | Drama | Sport | Thriller
A team from the United States are going to compete in the world finals in karate. The team consists of fighters from all nations, can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
Starring: Eric Roberts, Chris Penn, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, John Dye, Phillip Rhee
Director: Robert Radler
Miracle (2004)
Drama | Family | History | Sport
The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the tale captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels' now famous question, to the millions viewing at home: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"
Starring: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Sean McCann, Kenneth Welsh, Eddie Cahill
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Semi-Pro (2008)
Comedy | Sport
Semi-Pro is an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA – a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest. Will Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy" to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible – win.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, Maura Tierney, Andrew Daly, Will Arnett
Director: Kent Alterman
Rollerball (1975)
Action | Sci-Fi | Sport
In a futuristic society where corporations have replaced countries, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the populace by demonstrating the futility of individuality.
Starring: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, Moses Gunn, John Beck, Shane Rimmer
Director: Norman Jewison
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined, always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However, he is immediately drafted to the army. But they can't keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent.
Starring: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Harold J. Stone
Director: Robert Wise
Where the Trail Ends (2012)
Adventure | Documentary | Drama | Sport
Where The Trail Ends…is a film following the worlds' top freeride mountain bikers as they search for un-ridden terrain around the globe, ultimately shaping the future of big mountain freeriding. This unparalleled story documents man's challenge of mother nature and himself showcased through a cast of colorful characters. This is the most progressive and ambitious mountain biking ever attempted resulting in an entertainment adventure unlike anything experienced before.
Starring: Darren Berrecloth, James Doerfling, Andreu Lacondeguy, Kurt Sorge, Cam Zink
Director: Jeremy Grant
Varsity Blues (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
At first, backup quarterback Jonathan "Mox" Moxom is nowhere close to being a football star. He's perfectly content to stay on the bench and out of the win-at-all-cost strategies of coach Bud Kilmer. But when the starting quarterback is injured, Mox is in the game… and in direct conflict with his hotheaded coach and girlfriend. Soon everyone in Mox's football-crazed community will realize there's not just a new star quarterback in town, there's a new kind of hero.
Starring: James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, Paul Walker, Ron Lester, Scott Caan, Richard Lineback, Amy Smart, Ali Larter
Director: Brian Robbins
Shaolin Soccer / Siu lam juk kau (2001)
Action | Comedy | Sport
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Wei Zhao, Man Tat Ng, Yin Tse, Yat-fei Wong, Kai Man Tin, Chi Chung Lam, Kwok-Kwan Chan, Mei Lin Mo, Kin-Yan Lee
Director: Stephen Chow
Summer League (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
When Allie returns home during her final college summer break, she doesn't anticipate staying long, but that all changes when there's a death in the family and Allie inherits her childhood home. Her life-long BFF, Kenzie helps her deal with her loss, and other family drama, by forcing her to join The Browncoats, the team she captains in the small town's co-ed softball league. Kenzie's advice for Allie is simple… When life sucks, just grab your glove, and grab a ball. Everything just sort of fades away when you're playing catch!
Starring: Danielle Evon Ploeger, Kelsey Thomas, Gabriel Peña, Timothy Bowman, Casey Charland, David Harper, Kara Rainer
Director: Lex Lybrand
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Tapped Out / Tapped (2014)
Action | Drama | Sport
One-time martial arts prodigy Michael Shaw is sentenced to community service at a rundown karate school, where he gets back into the discipline of the sport. During a local MMA fight he encounters the man who killed his family a decade ago, and his decision to get revenge involves going behind his karate master's back to train and compete in the upcoming MMA tournament. When he finally goes toe to toe in the ring with his parents' killer he won't stop until the last punch knocks his opponent to the ground, leaving him TAPPED OUT.
Starring: Michael Biehn, Martin Kove, Nick Bateman, Krzysztof Soszynski, Cody Hackman, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida
Director: Allan Ungar
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