Game & Sports Movies

The ABCs of 100 Game & Sports Movies:

(I have seen the 37 movies in bold; movies to see next are marked with a ^.)

Varsity Blues (1999)
A: American Football
    1. Rudy (1993)
    2. Jerry Maguire (1996)
    3. Any Given Sunday (1999)
    4. Varsity Blues (1999)
    5. Remember the Titans (2000)
    6. Friday Night Lights (2004)
    7. We Are Marshall (2006)
    8. The Express (2008)
    9. The Blind Side (2009)
    10. Concussion (2015)
42 (2013)
B: Baseball
    1. Bull Durham (1988)
    2. Field of Dreams (1989)
    3. Major League (1989)
    4. A League of Their Own (1992)
    5. Mr. Baseball (1992)
    6. The Sandlot (1993)
    7. Sugar (2008)
    8. Moneyball (2011)
    9. 42 (2013)
    10. Eephus (2024)
Outskirts: Route 66 (2018)
C: Cycling
    1. Breaking Away (1979)
    2. Outskirts: Route 66 (2018)
Downhill Racer (1969)
D: Downhill Skiing
    1. Ski Party (1965)
    2. Downhill Racer (1969)
The Black Stallion (1979)
E: Equestrian
    1. National Velvet (1944)
    2. The Black Stallion (1979)
    3. The Man From Snowy River (1982)
    4. Black Beauty (1994)
    5. The Horse Whisperer (1995)
    6. Seabiscuit (2003)
    7. Hidalgo (2004)
    8. Dreamer (2005)
    9. Secretariat (2010)
    10. War Horse (2011)
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
F: Football (Soccer)
    1. Victory (1981)
    2. Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
G: Golf
    1. The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    2. The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Hoosiers (1986)
H: Hoops (Basketball)
    1. Hoosiers (1986)
    2. White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
    3. Space Jam (1996)
    4. Finding Forrester (2000)
    5. Love & Basketball (2000)
    6. Coach Carter (2005)
    7. The Heart of the Game (2005)
    8. The First Slam Dunk (2022)
    9. Hustle (2022)
    10. Air (2023)
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
I: Ice Hockey
    1. The Mighty Ducks (1992)
    2. Mystery, Alaska (1999)
    3. Miracle (2004)
The Gabby Douglas Story (2014)
J: Jumping/Gymnastics
    1. The Gabby Douglas Story (2014)
    2. The Bronze (2015)
The Karate Kid (1984)
K: Karate Tournaments
    1. The Karate Kid (1984)
    2. The Karate Kid Part II (1986)
    3. The Karate Kid Part III (1989)
    4. The Next Karate Kid (1994)
    5. The Karate Kid (2010)
    6. Karate Kid (2025)
Bring It On (2000)
L: Leading (Cheerleading)
    1. But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
    2. Bring It On (2000)
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003)
M: Martial Arts Tournaments
    1. Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003)
    2. Warrior (2011)
Wimbledon (2004)
N: Net Sports

(Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis/Ping Pong, etc.)

    1. Wimbledon (2004)
    2. Match Point (2005)
    3. Battle of the Sexes (2017)
    4. King Richard (2021)
    5. Challengers (2024)
Jim Thorpe – All American (1951)
O: Olympics (Summer)
    1. Jim Thorpe – All American (1951) (track and field)
    2. Chariots of Fire (1981) (running)
    3. Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) (skateboarding)
    4. Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005) (1972 terrorist attack)
    5. Race (2016) (running)
    6. The Boys in the Boat (2023) (rowing)
Rocky (1976)
P: Prizefighting (Boxing)
    1. The Great White Hope (1970)
    2. Rocky (1976)
    3. Raging Bull (1980)
    4. Ali (2001)
    5. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
    6. Creed (2015)
Quidditch
Q: Quidditch

Harry Potter movies are listed under Fantasy Films.

Invictus (2009)
R: Rugby
    1. Invictus (2009)
    2. Mercenary (2016)
Blue Crush (2002)
S: Surfing
    1. The Endless Summer (1966)
    2. Blue Crush (2002)
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
T: Trekking/Hiking
    1. Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
    2. The Way (2010)
    3. Tracks (2013)
    4. Wild (2014)
    5. A Walk in the Woods (2015)
    6. Everest (2015)
Days of Thunder (1990)
V: Vehicle Racing
    1. Days of Thunder (1990)
    2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
    3. Speed Racer (2008)
    4. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
The Cutting Edge (1992)
W: Winter Olympics

(other than ice hockey & downhill skiing)

    1. The Cutting Edge (1992) (ice skating)
    2. Cool Runnings (1993) (bobsledding)
    3. Men with Brooms (2002) (curling)
    4. I, Tonya (2017) (ice skating)
White Squall (1996)
Y: Yachting/Sailing
    1. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
    2. White Squall (1996)

Summer Olympics

    • 1896 Athens, Greece
    • 1900 Paris, France
    • 1904 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
    • 1908 London, United Kingdom
    • 1912 Stockholm, Sweden
      • Jim Thorpe — All-American (1951)
    • 1916 Cancelled (WWI – Berlin, Germany had been awarded)
    • 1920 Antwerp, Belgium
    • 1924 Paris, France
      • Chariots of Fire (1981)
      • Young Woman and the Sea (2024)
    • 1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • 1932 Los Angeles, California, United States
    • 1936 Berlin, Germany
      • Race (2016)
      • The Boys in the Boat (2023)
    • 1940 Cancelled (WWII – Tokyo, Japan had been awarded)
    • 1944 Cancelled (WWII – London, United Kingdom had been awarded)
    • 1948 London, United Kingdom
    • 1952 Helsinki, Finland
    • 1956 Melbourne, Australia
    • 1960 Rome, Italy
      • The Greatest (1977)
    • 1964 Tokyo, Japan
      • Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
    • 1968 Mexico City, Mexico
      • Salute (2008)
    • 1972 Munich, West Germany
      • Without Limits (1998)
      • One Day in September (1999)
      • Munich (2005) (Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes)
    • 1976 Montreal, Canada
      • The Last Gold (2016)
    • 1980 Moscow, Soviet Union
    • 1984 Los Angeles, California, United States
    • 1988 Seoul, South Korea
      • Foxcatcher (2014)
    • 1992 Barcelona, Spain
    • 1996 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
    • 2000 Sydney, Australia
    • 2004 Athens, Greece
      • I poli ton thavmaton (2005)
      • Forever the Moment (2008)
    • 2008 Beijing, China
    • 2012 London, United Kingdom
      • The Fire Inside (2024)
    • 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • 2020 Tokyo, Japan (postponed to 2021 due to the COVID pandemic)
    • 2024 Paris, France
    • 2028 Los Angeles, California, United States
    • 2032 Brisbane, Australia

Winter Olympics

    • 1924 Chamonix, France
    • 1928 St. Moritz, Switzerland
    • 1932 Lake Placid, New York, United States
    • 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
      • Ski Patrol (1940)
    • 1940 Cancelled (WWII – Sapporo, Japan had been awarded)
    • 1944 Cancelled (WWII – Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy had been awarded)
    • 1948 St. Moritz, Switzerland
    • 1952 Oslo, Norway
    • 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
    • 1960 Squaw Valley (Palisades Tahoe), California, United States
    • 1964 Innsbruck, Austria
    • 1968 Grenoble, France
      • Downhill Racer (1969)
    • 1972 Sapporo, Japan
    • 1976 Innsbruck, Austria
    • 1980 Lake Placid, New York, United States
      • Miracle (2004)
    • 1984 Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia
    • 1988 Calgary, Canada
      • Cool Runnings (1993)
      • Eddie the Eagle (2015)
    • 1992 Albertville, France
      • The Cutting Edge (1992)
    • 1994 Lillehammer, Norway
      • I, Tonya (2017)
    • 1998 Nagano, Japan
    • 2002 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
    • 2006 Turin, Italy
    • 2010 Vancouver, Canada
    • 2014 Sochi, Russia
    • 2018 Pyeongchang, South Korea
    • 2022 Beijing, China
    • 2026 Milan – Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
    • 2030 French Alps, France
    • 2034 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States