Best Sports Movies

[tob]

what are your favourite sport movies mine are

Rocky Boxing
Blue Chips Basketball
Any Given Sunday American Football
Escape to Victory Football
The Damned United Football
The Wrestler Wrestling
The Fighter Boxing

[Almadacr]

For me still "Escape to Victory" and i would love to have this in BD . Still have the DVD

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Almadacr

For me still "Escape to Victory" and i would love to have this in BD . Still have the DVD

If you mean "Victory", as it's known in the US, it's up there.
Still nowhere near "Miracle", but a good contender.

A sampling of the ESPN 30 For 30 documentaries should also be up there--
There's not many fictional sports films out there better than "Four Days in October" or "June 17, 1994".

[Villiam Hayes]

Originally Posted by EricJ

If you mean "Victory", as it's known in the US, it's up there.

Yeah that's the same film.

[Mahatma]

For me it has to be 'Hoosiers' with Gene Hackman,Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper.Gets me every time

[cricepng]

Rocky 1-4, Real Steel - Boxing
Happy Gilmore - Golf
Miracle - Ice Hockey

[octagon]

The Bad News Bears (1976)
Rocky
When We Were Kings
Miracle
Hoosiers
Slap Shot
Major League
Eight Men Out
The Fighter
Searching for Bobby Fisher (if you've seen it you know what I mean, if you think I'm an idiot, well, I understand)

And yeah, Victory was very underappreciated (and soccer was actually fairly hot in the US in the early 80s).

[Show spoiler] Max von Sydow leaping to his feet after Pele's goal is probably one of the cooler 'love of the game' sports movie moments ebrah.

[Iamspartacus]

Raging Bull
Cinderella Man
The Fighter
The Wrestler
Remember the Titans
Hoosiers
Coach Carter
Miracle
Semi Pro

[tob]

I forgot about Raging Bull

[Visco.]

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Moneyball
The Fighter
Warrior
The Wrestler
Hoosiers
Caddyshack
Coach Carter
Glory Road
Invictus

[Almadacr]

Originally Posted by EricJ

If you mean "Victory", as it's known in the US, it's up there.
Still nowhere near "Miracle", but a good contender.

A sampling of the ESPN 30 For 30 documentaries should also be up there--
There's not many fictional sports films out there better than "Four Days in October" or "June 17, 1994".

I saw it the first time in Europe and it was " Escape to Victory " and it has more sense to Europeans for 2 reasons : Football and second WW , wile Miracle doesn't have the same appeal .

One thing i agree with you the 30 for 30 series from ESPN are great documentaries .

[Galactus]

Originally Posted by Mahatma

For me it has to be 'Hoosiers' with Gene Hackman,Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper.Gets me every time

A very good movie one of my all time favorites and I don't like Basketball (I like playing not watching it).

[Iamspartacus]

Also:

The Natural
Moneyball
Bang the Drum Slowly

[Punishment1o1]

Major League
Friday Night Lights
Gridiron Gang
For Love of the Game
Remember the Titans
Coach Carter
Miracle

[Meeklo]

Rudy

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Almadacr

wile Miracle doesn't have the same appeal

Miracle just shatters all the "Inspirational coach" drama cliche's by focusing on the real hard work and the context of the championship game at the time--
It's easily more of an ESPN movie than a Disney movie. (Given how many of Disney's other "Inspirational sports" movies made us cringe.)

Originally Posted by Almadacr

One thing i agree with you the 30 for 30 series from ESPN are great documentaries .

I've only started watching them, and they're all good:
"Silly Little Game" is the only clinker out of the bunch, trying to make a "comedy documentary" (yuk yuk) out of the founding of Fantasy Baseball--

But "Four Days in October" goes past all the "loyal Red Sox nation" cliches to focus on the MLB footage, and remind you just how nailbiting that Red Sox vs. Yankees championship was.
And "June 17, 1994" manages to be both bitter and touching, as we saw three of the biggest events in sports history that year in one day almost ignored by the news because an ex-football star was driving away from the police in a white Bronco on the LA freeway.

[Galactus]

Invincible is a good one

[Shanester]

The Longest Yard (original)

I also loved the Bad News Bears Trilogy from the 70's

Breaking Away is a great film too

More recently Remember the Titans had me crying

Brian's Song is a classic as well

[menaceuk]

Mean Machine - Football/Soccer
Happy Glimore - Golf
Rocky 2 - Boxing
The Fighter - Boxing
Warrior - MMA
Any Given Sunday - American Football
Raging Bull - Boxing
Match Point - Tennis
Jerry Maguire - Sport agent
The Replacements - American Football

[Turnda643]

Wow! This is a tough one to only name a few. But I'll do my best.

Remember The Titans
Rudy
We Are Marshall
Seabiscuit
Secretariat
Cinderella Man
Warrior
The Blind Side
Coach Carter
Miracle. And now for my fav sport.
A League of Their Own
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Fever Pitch
Cobb
The Babe
For Love of The Game
Sandlot
Bad News Bears series
The Rookie
Field of Dreams
Major League
Eight Men Out
Hardball
The Pride of the Yankees
and soon to be added, ......
..... 42.