Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Whip It

Rating: 7.1/10
Release Date:2 October 2009 (USA)
Genre: Sports
Plot: In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Invictus

Rating: 7.5/10
Release Date:12 March 2010 (India)
Genre: Sports
Plot: Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Bend It Like Beckham

Rating:7.0/10
Release Date:12 July 2002 (India)
Genre:Sports
Plot:The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with a football team (soccer in America).

Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Blind Side

Rating:7.7/10
Release Date:20 November 2009 (USA)
Genre: Sports
Plot:The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Wrestler

Rating:8.2/10
Release Date:30 January 2009 (USA)
Genre: Sports
Plot:A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Balls of Fury

Rating:5.1/10
Release Date:29 August 2007 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom, Randy Daytona, is sucked into a maelstrom when FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and win, and to smoke out his father's killer -- arch-fiend Feng

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Coach Carter




Rating:7.1/10
Release Date:14 January 2005 (USA)
Genre:Sport
Plot:Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for their breaking their academic contract with him.

Remember the Titans


Rating:7.5/10
Release Date:29 September 2000 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Shaolin Soccer

Rating: 7.3/10
Release Date: 12 July 2001 (Hong Kong)
Genre:Sports
Plot:A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

The Karate Kid

Rating:6.9/10
Release Date:22 June 1984 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting

Goal II: Living the Dream

Rating:5.9/10
Release Date:29 August 2008 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid

Goal :Dream Begins

Rating:6.9/10
Release Date:12 May 2006 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:The film starts with a clip showing Santiago Munez playing football as a child in Mexico. The same night, his family illegally enter into the United States to find a better living. Santi grows up in the USA and works with his father as a gardener. At night he works as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant. He also plays football for a small local team called AJFC. He goes to play a match one day after his work with his father, where he is forced to use a pair of cardboard pieces as shin guards as he cannot afford any. He saves his money and hides it in his shoes every night to purchase a football kit

Friday, November 20, 2009

Youngblood


Rating:5.5/10
Release Date:31 January 1986 (USA)
Genre:Sports.
Plot:A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.

Longest Yard


Rating:6.2/10
Release Date:27 May 2005 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:When ex-football star Paul Crewe is thrown into prison, he is assigned the job of creating a football team to take on Warden Hazen's team. Together with the Warden and the legendary Coach Nate Scarborough, Crewe begins to recruit his new team

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Never Back Down

Rating:6.2/10
Release Date:14 March 2008 (USA)
Genre:Sports
Plot:At his new high school, a rebellious teen is lured into an underground fight club, where he finds a mentor in a mixed martial arts veteran.