Where is escape to victory?

And why is it so hard to make a great football movie?

Errrr, Bend it like Beckham??

The champ...

We Are Marshall
The Blind Side
Major League

BASEketball

Coach Carter
Rocky 4 (Personal best)
King Richard

Gregory's Girl

Claire Grogan!! 😍😍😍

If photography and dating are sports then I suppose Gregorys Girl could be classed as Sports Film.

Friday Night Lights was pretty good

had my fill of ted lasso.

And add the football matches in Kes and Bedknobs and Broomsicks

Any Given Sunday

eight men out.

comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 1 minute ago
If photography and dating are sports then I suppose Gregorys Girl could be classed as Sports Film.
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One pink elephant.....2 pink elephants....


Got to be worth a watch just to see Brian Glover as the PE teacher

Where is Mike Bassett

Another baseball movie. The natural with Robert Redford.

Bend it Like Beckham is the best football based film ever made. But the bar isn't very high.

I love a good argument about genres (and since you ask, Die Hard is *not* a Christmas movie) and it seems obvious to me that Raging Bull is not a sports movie. It's a character-driven drama, in which the protagonist happens to be a boxer. The sports movie genre requires that the sporting journey is the primary driver of the narrative arc.

Anyway, a couple of hockey films for your list:

- Guilty pleasure: Mighty Ducks
- Unashamedly love (but apparently can't type the title because of our sensitive friends in north London): G00n

And Mike Bassett of course.

comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 23 seconds ago
Bend it Like Beckham is the best football based film ever made. But the bar isn't very high.
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You spelled 'Escape to Victory' wrong

From the ones nt already mentioned:

Adam Sandlers hustle is actually pretty decent.
Cindarella Man is up there with any sports film.
Fighting with the family was actually decent.
I Tonya is superb
Rush
Senna
Moneyball
The fighter
Warrior
Foxcatcher

Jerry Maguire

(I will die on this hill 👀) 😂

Space Jam (both of them) 😃

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 minutes ago
I love a good argument about genres (and since you ask, Die Hard is *not* a Christmas movie) and it seems obvious to me that Raging Bull is not a sports movie. It's a character-driven drama, in which the protagonist happens to be a boxer. The sports movie genre requires that the sporting journey is the primary driver of the narrative arc.

Anyway, a couple of hockey films for your list:

- Guilty pleasure: Mighty Ducks
- Unashamedly love (but apparently can't type the title because of our sensitive friends in north London): G00n
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie. You’re on strike 2 now 😡

Youngblood 🤛🏻🍻