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56 films tagged sport, showing 50
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2025 · Comedy
Happy Gilmore has been out of golf for eleven years and drinking, and takes it up again to pay for his daughter's ballet school in Paris. Same swing, same shouting, plus a rival league.
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2025 · Horror
A young quarterback with a head injury he should not be playing through accepts a week of training at the desert compound of the ageing star he idolises. Mostly the two of them, and it turns strange fast.
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2025 · Drama
A West Virginia basketball player wins a local boxing contest and lets the coach who spotted her run her career, then marry her. It follows her rise through the 1990s, with a controlling husband in her corner.
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2025 · Drama
A rodeo rider comes to in the snow of a Nevada meadow with his horse gone and his foot freezing, and starts working his way towards shelter. It cuts between that walk and the life that got him there.
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2025 · Romance
Two Japanese ballroom champions, one in standard dances and one in Latin, agree to train together for a competition that needs both. Rivals to start with, and the practice sessions get charged.
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2025 · Action
Two young men meet in a juvenile detention centre and become friends, and once out they set about training for a mixed martial arts tournament. Street gangs keep getting in the way.
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2025 · Comedy
In the late 1980s a group of reluctant fathers from working-class Bilbao are handed the job of taking their daughters to a gymnastics competition in Berlin. Most of it happens on the road.
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2025 · Drama
A father crosses rural Georgia looking for his daughter, a photographer who vanished while shooting football grounds, moving from one pitch to the next. Three hours, shot in very low resolution, and slow throughout.
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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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2025 · Comedy
A viral brawl outside a boxer's house drags a washed-up actress back into the public eye, and a businesswoman challenges a Muay Thai champion to a fight. A Hong Kong comedy with a big cast and several stories at once.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A washed-up tennis pro coaching tourists at a Fuerteventura resort spends his nights drinking, and then a guest asks him to teach her son. Slow, sunlit, and it stays inside his aimless routine.
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2025 · Action
A kung fu prodigy moves from Beijing to New York with his mother, having promised her he is done with fighting, and lands straight in the way of the local karate champion. It runs on training scenes and a tournament, and it moves fast.
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2025 · Drama
A suspended basketball coach is sentenced to community service and put in charge of a team of players with intellectual disabilities preparing for a tournament. A long sports comedy, mostly training sessions and the players themselves.
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2026 · Comedy
Two men who cannot stand each other are sent to Brazil to sell a new condom as the official condom of the World Cup, and end up locked up in a country that takes football seriously. Broad and loud throughout.
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2026 · Drama
A sports official traces a town's love of athletics back to one man, and the story goes back to 1994 and a tribal village with no name on any map. Peddi plays cricket for wages, and the landlords nearby do not like it.
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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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2026 · Comedy
A retired rally driver is asked to put together a national team for a big international race, and finds the whole thing is not as clean as it looks. A racing comedy, and the third film about these drivers.
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2026 · Comedy
A failed tennis pro working at his father's club injures his wrist again and is told to play pickleball while it heals, which is the sport his father is fighting to keep off the courts. He is partnered with a woman getting over a divorce.
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2026 · Comedy
A football team of ordinary working women enters an Asian tournament as heavy underdogs, training around their jobs and borrowing moves from Wing Chun and tai chi. A big, silly sports comedy.
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2026 · Action
A retired mixed martial arts champion is fishing for a living when his brother lands in trouble, so he goes back to his old coach and takes one more fight. Straight-ahead training and cage fights.
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2026 · Comedy
A basketball coach whose son has an intellectual disability cannot find enough eligible players for a Paralympic team, so a neighbour suggests filling it with able-bodied fakers. They get to Rio.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Drama
A reckless Moto2 rider gets his shot at a team on one condition: that his estranged father, a former racer, coaches him. Racing, family rows, and a romance running alongside.
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2026 · Documentary
A documentary on jaripeo, the Mexican rodeo of Michoacan, and the displays of machismo around it, watched from a queer point of view. It leans on memory and longing rather than on one story.
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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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2019 · Science fiction
A doctor in a scrapyard city rebuilds a cyborg girl found in the junk, and she turns out to have been built for fighting. Bright and fast, built around one long run of combat and 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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2002 · Comedy
A London teenager plays football for a women's team without telling her Punjabi parents, who have other plans for her. Warm and light, and it moves quickly.
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2018 · Documentary
Alex Honnold prepares to climb El Capitan with no rope, while the crew filming him work out where to stand. The last twenty minutes are the climb.
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2017 · Documentary
An amateur cyclist doping himself as an experiment gets help from the head of the Russian anti-doping lab, who turns out to have a great deal to say. It changes into something else halfway.
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2025 · Drama
A table tennis player in the 1950s who is certain he is a genius will do anything to be taken seriously. Loud, fast and relentless.
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