Hands of Stone (2016)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Starring: Ana de Armas, Robert De Niro, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Édgar Ramírez, Ellen Barkin, John Turturro
Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Dirty Old Wedge (2016)
Documentary | Sport
The Wedge, located at the end of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California, is a world famous, man-made beast of a wave. Since its creation, people have flocked from all over to see it in its mythical form. Wedge waves can be as powerful as any on Earth. It is a place where injuries are common and where even deaths have occurred. Dirty Old Wedge is a documentary film that will showcase the history of the Wedge starting from its creation in the 1930's. A unique assemblage of body surfers which has come to be known as the "Wedge Crew" will be one of the focal points of this film, highlighting their relationships with the wave and with one another.
Director: Tim Burnham
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014)
Adventure | Documentary | History | Sport
In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.
Director: Annika Iltis, Timothy James Kane
Redbelt (2008)
Drama | Sport
Mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry has never fought in prize bouts, but events lead him to land a job in the entertainment business and consider fighting in the ring for the first time in his life in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Tim Allen, Joe Mantegna, Rodrigo Santoro
Director: David Mamet
I Believe in Miracles (2015)
Documentary | History | Sport
The story of the history-making Nottingham Forest team that won back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980, led by the mercurial Brian Clough and his assistant Peter Taylor.
Director: Jonny Owen
Den unge Zlatan / Becoming Zlatan (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
A documentary of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Starring: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Director: Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten
The Fencer / Miekkailija (2015)
Drama | History | Sport
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
Starring: Lembit Ulfsak, Kirill Käro, Märt Avandi, Liisa Koppel, Kai Nordberg
Director: Klaus Härö
Sultan (2016)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sport
A biographical drama based on the life of fictional Haryana based wrestler & mixed martial arts specialist Sultan Ali Khan.
Starring: Marko Zaror, Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda, Ron Smoorenburg, Marrese Crump
Director: Ali Abbas Zafar
Remember the Titans (2000)
Biography | Drama | Sport
In Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, African-American football coach Herman Boone is hired to guide an integrated but racially polarized high school football team. Boone faces a cool reception from the team's players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast, a local white coach who was bypassed for the job. As the two men learn to overcome their ignorance and bigotry, they work together to transform a group of angry unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. Based on a true story.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood
Director: Boaz Yakin
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Gerard Butler stars in this surfing drama. Santa Cruz teenager Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers that the Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists only a few miles from his home. Instantly gripped by the dream of surfing the wave, he begs local surfing legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to help him achieve his goal. But with tide patterns dictating that the Mavericks is due to reappear in just 12 weeks, has Jay got what it takes to conquer this epic wave?
Starring: Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley, Jonny Weston
Director: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
Kingpin (1996)
Comedy | Sport
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray, Chris Elliott, William Jordan
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Pelé: Birth of a Legend / Pelé (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Colm Meaney, Seu Jorge
Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
Split (2016)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
SPLIT is a peek into the life of Cassie, an over-achiever with a thing for bowlers whose life takes an unexpected turn when she reads a strangely ominous statistic in the local newspaper as her 30th birthday looms. Chronically absent and infamously eccentric, her recently deceased, professional bowler father has left her with not only a freeloading mother on her couch, but an undying notion in her head that in order to live up to her own "above average" standards, she has just under a month to meet and marry the man of her dreams. Despite pleas from her friends, she begins to hatch a plan, but a fateful run in at her local lanes makes her wonder what she really wants – the 7… or the 10?
Starring: Tracy Weiler, Christopher Guetig, Sean C. Keller, Sarah East, Lauren Maxwell, Josh Mendelow, Jou Jou Papailler
Director: Jamie Buckner
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Azhar (2016)
Biography | Drama | Sport
Indian biographical sports film directed by Tony D'Souza based on the life of the former Indian international cricketer, Mohammad Azharuddin. It will star Emraan Hashmi in the lead role alongside Prachi Desai , Nargis Fakhri and Lara Dutta.
Starring: Nausheen Ahmed, Saunvedan Aparanti, Varun Badola, Gurpal Bhogal, Mohit Chhabra, Roy Christian, Prachi Desai, Lara Dutta
Director: Anthony D'Souza
Lionheart / A.W.O.L. (1990)
Action | Drama | Sport
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ashley Johnson, Brian Thompson, Ash Adams, Jeff Speakman, Scott Spiegel
Director: Sheldon Lettich
Hurricane Season (2009)
Drama | Sport
A year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the disaster and leads them on the path to the state championships.
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Shad Moss, Isaiah Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Khleo Thomas, Bonnie Hunt
Director: Tim Story
Nacho Libre (2006)
Comedy | Family | Sport
Jack Black is at his comic best as Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery that can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery — not to mention the admiration of beautiful nun Sister Encarnacion.
Starring: Jack Black, Héctor Jiménez, Ana de la Reguera, Richard Montoya, Darius Rose, Peter Stormare
Director: Jared Hess
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Sport
The story of Great Britain's first ski jumper to enter the Winter Olympics.
Starring: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Jo Hartley, Tim McInnerny, Daniel Ings
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Emma's Chance (2016)
Drama | Family | Sport
While volunteering at a horse rescue, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused horse that won’t let anyone else ride him. Gaining new skills and confidence, Emma hatches a plan to redeem herself and ultimately save the ranch she’s grown to love.
Starring: Greer Grammer, Joey Lawrence, Missi Pyle, Jennifer Taylor
Director: Anna Elizabeth James
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't / Shiko funjatta (1992)
Comedy | Sport
Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger generation is more interested in "Western" sports like baseball and basketball. Professor Anayama, a former university sumo champion, blackmails graduating (and slim) student Shuhei into joining the decimated university team, or he doesn't graduate. Along with a pro wrestler, an unpopular, chubby guy, and a gaijin (white guy), the team begins training for competition, even though none of them cares about sumo at all. Gradually, they develop a love and respect for the traditional sport.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Kaori Mizushima, Hiromasa Taguchi, Robert Hoffman
Director: Masayuki Suo
