Over the Top (1987)
Action | Drama | Family | Sport
Big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk's (Sylvester Stallone) only chance for a better existence, which includes starting his own business and earning the love of his son, lies in his considerable talent for armwrestling.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall, Chris McCarty
Director: Menahem Golan
Champion (1949)
Drama | Film-Noir | Romance | Sport
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public…and a heel in private.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Luis Van Rooten
Director: Mark Robson
Waterboys (2001)
Comedy | Sport
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Kôen Kondô, Takatoshi Kaneko, Aya Hirayama
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Driven (2001)
Action | Drama | Sport
A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. A former champion is called in to give him guidance.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger, Gina Gershon, Estella Warren, Cristián de la Fuente
Director: Renny Harlin
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Biography | Drama | Family | Romance | Sport
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea
Director: Sam Wood
Gibsonburg (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sport
Gibsonburg is the true story of a boy's high school baseball team in Ohio that won 6 games and lost 17 games in the regular season. During the regular season, this team lost 13 games in a row and were mercy ruled 7 times. In a magical way, this same team won 8 games in a row to win the state championship! Baseball is the backbone of the film. However, Gibsonburg is much more of a love story coupled with an amazing mystery. Gibsonburg also deals with the real life trials and tribulations of high school students when coming of age.
Starring: Louis Bonfante, Lili Reinhart, Jonnie Wagner, Dusty Shidaker, Nick Schneider, Ryan Kunk, Judy Tenuta
Director: Jonathon Kimble, Bob Mahaffey
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Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase / Nasu: Suitcase no Wataridori (2007)
Animation | Drama | Sport
Legendary bycicle racer Marco Rondanini dies as team Pao Pao Beer is set to race in Japan. This makes team member Ciocci, close friend of Marco, start to think about quitting. Under heavy rain, Ciocci and Pepe must put that aside as Team Pao Pao struggles to reach another victory. Pepe continues to ride his bicycle both in competition and training. He often spends time with his other team mates while they train in beautiful scenery in Japan. While in Japan a local girl helps out the team before and during the race.
Starring: Yô Oizumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Daisuke Imanaka, Kôichi Yamadera, Maaya Sakamoto, Taro Shirato, Yuushi Sato, Bon Ishihara
Director: Kitaro Kosaka
Fighting (2009)
Action | Drama | Sport
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) knows firsthand that every day in New York City is a struggle to survive. So when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) gives him a chance to be something more in the brutal underground world of bare-knuckle street-fighting, Shawn decides that he has something worth fighting for and puts everything on the line to win. Every knockout brings him closer to the life he's always wanted, but also traps him in a dangerous web he can't escape.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Brian J. White, Luis Guzmán, Zulay Henao, Michael Rivera
Director: Dito Montiel
Lucky You (2007)
Drama | Romance | Sport
In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses – and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
Starring: Phyllis Somerville, Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Horatio Sanz, Joey Kern, Debra Messing, Delaine Yates, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Charles Martin Smith, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Curtis Hanson
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Action | Drama | Family | Romance | Sport
Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing, a troubled teenage girl.
Starring: Pat Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers, Walton Goggins
Director: Christopher Cain
Step Back to Glory / Aspiration and War / Zhi Qi (2013)
Drama | Sport
Most sports involve dashing forward for victory, but tug-of-war requires players take a step back to win. For the girls' tug-of-war team of Jingmei Girls High School, that one crucial step back gave them the victory of a lifetime. Based on a true story, Step Back to Glory is an inspiring story about the Jingmei girls' arduous journey from underdog to becoming a championship team. To stay true to the real story, the filmmakers intentionally chose members of the Jingmei High School tug-of-war team to play themselves. The sole exception is young idol Yao Yao (a.k.a. Kuo Shu Yao), who shows her own growth as an actress with her first film lead role here, playing a student from the countryside determined to prove her worth in the team. Even director Chang Bo Rui had to walk a tough road to get Step Back to Glory made, giving up a comfortable production consultant job to bring the girls' story to the big screen.
Starring: Shuyao Guo, Kaixun Zhuang, Pink Yang, Belle Yu, Youfang Chen, Yushan Gao, Hannah Quinlivan, Mengjie Gao
Director: Borui Zhang
Day of the Fight / This Is America: Day of the Fight (1951)
Documentary | Short | Sport
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James. This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout. After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for. At 10:00, he faces James, and soon, he comes out victorious in a short match which was filmed live on April 17th, 1950.
Starring: Douglas Edwards
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Deadball / Deddobôru (2011)
Comedy | Horror | Sport
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously.
Despite having sworn never to play baseball again, Jubeh is presented with an ultimatum by governor Mifune: join the reformatory team, The Gauntlets, in the national tournament for juvenile inmates, or witness the death of his innocent cellmate Four Eyes (Mari Hoshino). With the knowledge that the death of his brother is somehow connected to the team, Jubeh agrees, and Gauntlet training begins. Their first opponents: the sexy but deadly “psycho butcher girls” of the St. Black Dahlia High School, a team of literal man-killers. And so the splatterific baseball tournament begins, but Jubeh soon learns that he is not only fighting to win the game, but also to save his own life!
Starring: Tak Sakaguchi, Mari Hoshino, Miho Ninagana, Takamasa Suga, Jyonmyon Pe
Director: Yudai Yamaguchi
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Comedy | Sport
You'll dodge, duck, dip, dive… and laugh out loud watching Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller settle their differences in a winner-take-all dodgeball competition. Under the painful tutelage of legendary ADAA champ, Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn), Peter LaFleur (Vaughn) and his Average Joes take on the Purple Cobras, led by egomaniacal fitness guru, White Goodman (Stiller). It's an over-the-top underdog tale filled with hilarious sight gags and balls-out fun!
Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Justin Long, Stephen Root, Rip Torn
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
De Marathon / The Marathon (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
The marathon is a feelgood movie with a huge laugh and a tear about four friends from Rotterdam. They work in a garage but it doesn't go well. So the a-sportive guys get the idea to do a sponsor walk at the marathon from Rotterdam. But there is more on the line then only raise enough money for the garage…
Starring: Stefan de Walle, Martin van Waardenberg, Marcel Hensema, Frank Lammers, Mimoun Oaïssa
Director: Diederick Koopal
The Hurricane (1999)
Biography | Drama | Sport
This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger
Director: Norman Jewison
Donald Duck's Christmas Favorites (1935-1951)
Action | Animation | Comedy | Family | Short | Sport
In Donald Duck's Christmas Favorites you’ll be treated to some of the best and most hilarious cartoon shorts from the days when Walt Disney himself added his magical touch to each film. The full effect of his presence can be felt in these sparkling gems that for generations have brought joy and laughter to kids and families everywhere. Want to find out how a real snow ball fight is done? Discover how to replace snow with popcorn? Learn how an alpine expedition should not be done? You'll get all the answers you need in this collection of Donald Duck's Christmas Favorites – a delightful winter collection from all of us to all of you. Features: Hockey Champ / Snow Fight / Rescue Dog / Chip & Dale / Winter Storage / Toy Tinkers / Corn Chips / On Ice / Alpine Climbers and The Art of Skiing.
City Without Baseball / Mou ye chi sing (2008)
Drama | Sport
The actual members of the Hong Kong Baseball Team all prove themselves to be natural actors by playing themselves in this fictional youth drama set in 2004. In a city where baseball culture is non-existent, these baseball players are a minority by choice. The experience teaches them to be free-thinkers in dealing with love, friendship and their own sexuality. It also enables them to find the will to live in the face of death and the strength to conquer losing in a spectatorless sport.
Starring: Yu Chung Leung, Ron Heung, John Tai, Jason Tsang, Jose Au, Yu Hong Lau, Peter Mak
Director: Lawrence Ah Mon, Scud
Like a Virgin / Cheonhajangsa madonna (2006)
Comedy | Sport
OH Dong-gu believes himself to be female. Although overweight and on the short side, he dreams of becoming the perfect some day, and he devotes himself to mimicking Madonna's singing and dancing after school. To cover the costs of transsexual surgery, he decides to enter a wrestling competition.
Starring: Yun-shik Baek, Kyeong-ik Kim, Yun-seok Kim, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Eon Lee, Jae-goo Lee, Sang-a Lee, Yun-hong Oh, Yeong-seo Park, Deok-Hwan Ryu, Mi-yeong Yun
Director: Hae-yeong Lee, Hey-jun Lee
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Comedy | Drama | Sport
Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Cylk Cozart
Director: Ron Shelton
