Sport Films
Generally of the inspiring-true-story, triumph-of-the-little-guy variety, films about competitive sports and the people who play them are hugely successful in sports-mad USA. And they're catching on here. Get ready to sit back with a cold one and demonstrate your armchair referee skills - bearing in mind that you may just need to keep box of tissues handy.
Pictured: Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones in seminal baseball film, 'Field of Dreams'.
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Robert Lorenz
Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Goodman, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake
Bittersweet drama stars Clint Eastwood as Gus Lobel, a veteran baseball scout who is nearing the end of his career. Realising that her father is strug... Read more
Twentyfourseven (1997)
7.1/10
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, James Hooton
The title is local Midlands English slang for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This poignant, hard-hitting drama focuses on an idealistic 1980s burn... Read more
Unbroken (2014)
7.2/10
Director: Angelina Jolie
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Finn Wittrock
Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of olympian and war hero Louis "Loui... Read more
Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2014)
7.2/10
Starring: Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Vincenzo Amato
Haunted by nightmares of his horrific experiences, World War II hero Louis Zamperini meets Cynthia Applewhite, a young woman who becomes his wife. Zam... Read more
United (2011)
7.4/10
Director: James Strong
Starring: David Tennant, Dougray Scott, Jack O'Connell
Based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Cras... Read more
Victory ( aka Escape to Victory ) (1981)
6.6/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow
This WWII drama centres on a German sponsored soccer match between the Reich's top players and Allied prisoners. The game, at first the diversion for... Read more
Warrior (2011)
8.2/10
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison, Tom Hardy, Frank Grillo
Haunted by a tragic past, ex-Marine Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick... Read more
Warrior ( Blu-ray ) (2011)
8.2/10
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison, Tom Hardy, Frank Grillo
Haunted by a tragic past, ex-Marine Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick... Read more
Waves (2019)
7.6/10
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Starring: Lucas Hedges, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Sterling K. Brown
Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, Waves traces th... Read more
We Are Marshall (2006)
7.1/10
Director: McG
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Ian McShane,...
In November 1970, a chartered plane carrying the Marshall University football team, their coaches and various prominent citizens, crashed into the App... Read more