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25 films tagged sport
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2000 · Crime
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and a bare-knuckle fighter nobody can understand all end up chasing the same few objects around London. Told fast, with a large cast and a lot of doubling back.
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2023 · Drama
In 1984 Nike's basketball arm is broke and running third behind Adidas and Converse, and one scout wants to spend the whole budget on a single rookie. Men in offices and on the phone, talking fast.
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2017 · Comedy
In 1973 the top woman in tennis agrees to a televised match against a loud former champion who says no woman can beat him. Half of it is the circus, half is her private life.
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2024 · Drama
A tennis coach enters her slumping husband in a small tournament, where he draws his oldest friend across the net. The match keeps cutting back through thirteen years of the three of them.
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2015 · Drama
The son of a famous heavyweight, who never knew him, turns up in Philadelphia and asks his father's old rival to train him. The usual boxing shape, with the fights shot in long unbroken takes.
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2016 · Drama
A former wrestler in a village in Haryana decides his two daughters will win the gold medal he never did, and starts training them before either of them wants it. Long, loud, and built around the bouts.
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2025 · Action
A driver whose Formula One career ended in a crash in the eighties is brought back decades later to rescue a last-place team and its rookie. Huge engine noise, big screens, simple story.
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2023 · Drama
Summer 1957, and Enzo Ferrari is close to losing the company while a marriage and a second household pull at him, with one long road race left to win. More kitchens and offices than racetrack.
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2019 · Drama
Ford hires a car designer and a difficult British driver to build something that can beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Half of it is engineering arguments in a workshop and half is cars at speed.
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2014 · Drama
An Olympic wrestler living in his brother's shadow takes an invitation to train at the estate of a very rich man who wants to be part of the sport. Slow and quiet, with nearly all of the tension in what nobody says.
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2017 · Comedy
An American figure skater comes up poor and hard in a sport that wants her sweet, told through interviews with everyone who was there. Funny and mean, and the people telling it keep contradicting each other.
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2024 · Animation
Riley turns thirteen and a new crew of feelings, Anxiety among them, muscles into the control room in her head just as she leaves for hockey camp. Bright, fast, and mostly set inside her mind.
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2021 · Drama
A father in Compton has a written plan for turning his two youngest daughters into tennis champions, and spends years pushing coaches, clubs and his own family to follow it. Warm and steady, and more about the household than the matches.
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2001 · Musical
A village in colonial India can skip three years of tax if it beats the British garrison at cricket, a game none of them has played. Nearly four hours, with songs, and the last hour is the match.
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2024 · Crime
A gym manager in a dusty New Mexico town falls hard for a bodybuilder passing through on her way to a contest, and her own father's business gets in the way. Grimy, violent, and it gets stranger.
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2021 · Animation
Two sea monster boys pass as human in a seaside town on the Italian coast for one summer, chasing a Vespa and a place in the local race. Sunny, quick, and aimed squarely at kids.
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2004 · Drama
A waitress past thirty talks a stubborn old trainer into taking her on, and turns out to be worth the trouble. Slow and quiet, and almost all of it is three people around one gym.
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2011 · Drama
The general manager of a baseball team with no money starts picking players by statistics instead of scouting instinct, and has to sell it to a clubhouse that thinks he has lost it. Mostly meetings, phone calls and arguments about numbers.
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2013 · Drama
Two Formula One drivers in the 1970s, one reckless and charming, the other precise and unloved, spend a season trying to beat each other. It cuts between their private lives and the races, and the races are loud.
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2010 · Documentary
Ayrton Senna's decade in Formula One, told with footage from the time: races, press conferences and the arguments between drivers. No narrator on camera, no interviews shot afterwards.
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2010 · Drama
A journeyman boxer in a Massachusetts mill town is trained by his half-brother, a former local hero now on crack, and managed by their mother. More about the family shouting at each other than about the fights.
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2023 · Drama
The Von Erich brothers wrestle their way through 1980s Texas under a father who wants a world title in the family. Long, and it spends more time with the brothers at home than in the ring.
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2018 · Drama
A young rodeo rider on the South Dakota plains is told he cannot ride again after a head injury, and has to work out what else he is for. Played by the real people involved, quiet and slow.
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2011 · Action
Two brothers who have not spoken in years both enter the same winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament, one to save his house and one for reasons he keeps to himself. Half family drama, half fight film.
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2019 · Drama
A high school wrestler in south Florida is holding together a bad shoulder, a girlfriend, and a father who expects a great deal. It changes shape halfway, and the camera and music never sit still.
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