Sports Movies

Based on the story of world middleweight boxing champion, Jake LaMotta, this movie was released in 1980 saw Robert De Nero in the lead role and directed by Martin Scorsese.

A 1996 film starring Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr, this movie is best remembered for Cruise shouting out the line ‘Show me the money!’ Gooding Jr. won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Ron Tidwell.

A film that taught us the importance of ‘Wax on. Wax off’, this movie introduced us to Daniel-san and Mr. Miyagi, a young student and his wise master with a love of bonsai trees. Thanks to the success of the first movie, three more were released featuring Mr. Miyagi although everyone certainly remembers the first one best.

With a stellar cast including Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna, this film tells the story of the women American baseball league that ran during World War II. Hanks plays a washed out baseball player tasked with putting a competitive team together to play against others from around the United States.

Starring Charlie Sheen as ‘Wild Thing’ Ricky Vaughn, this 1989 baseball film also stars Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, and Wesley Snipes. The story involves a bunch of misfit players on the roster at the Cleveland Indians and an owner who wants them to lose.

The fourth in an ongoing franchise that has spanned the last 30 years, this movie pits the West against the East in one of the greatest boxing matches ever. After Russian boxer Ivan Drago kills his friend in a boxing match, Sylvester Stallone’s character puts his heavyweight title on the line and agrees to face Drago in the U.S.S.R.

This 1981 masterpiece won four Oscars including for Best Picture and Best Score. And it’s the iconic athletics race scene where that all familiar music drives the runners along. It tells the true story of two athletes who are determined to compete in the 1924 Olympics.

This tells the story of the American ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics who won the gold medal against all odds, including beating a formidable Soviet outfit in the semi-finals. It features Kurt Russell as legendary coach, Herb Brooks.