spyn’s TOP 7 HOLLYWOOD SPORTS MOVIES
…which touched our hearts.
Author – Tejasvi Lohia
(Reading time ~ 2 mins)
7. Remember the Titans, 2000
“I’m a winner, I’m going to win.”
Cast – Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Donald Faison
Director – Boaz Yakin
Based on a true story that took place in 1971, of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
Imdb rating: 7.8/10
“I’m a winner, I’m going to win.”
-Coach Boone, Remember The Titans
6. Moneyball, 2011
Cast: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Director: Bennett Miller
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane is hampered with the low salary constraint in baseball. He attempts to assemble a baseball team on a tight budget by hiring computer generated analysis to find the young talents.
Imdb rating: 7.6/10
5. Rudy, 1976
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young.
Director: John G. Avildsen
A small-time boxer, Rocky Balboa gets a rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion, Apollo Creed, in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
IMDb rating: 8.1/10
4. Rocky, 1976
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young.
Director: John G. Avildsen
A small-time boxer, Rocky Balboa gets a rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion, Apollo Creed, in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
IMDb rating: 8.1/10
3. The Fighter, 2010
Cast: Mark Walberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Director: David O Russell
The Oscar winning film put lights on the rough road to the World Light Welterweight championship taken by boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward. A look at the early years of boxer Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid-1980s.
IMDb rating: 7.9/10
2. Cindrella Man, 2005
Cast: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko
Directeor: Ron Howard
Jim Braddock, a former boxer, living an ordinary life in the late 1920s America. But decides to get back into the ring to become a champion.
IMDb rating : 8.0/10
1. Raging Bull, 1980
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Director : Martin Scorsese
A self-destructive boxer’s journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
IMDb rating: 8.3/10
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