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see all genres ›Sport films can range from heroic dramas to gripping documentaries to slapstick comedies. As both a physical spectacle and a significant cultural phenomenon, sporting competitions offer great visual and storytelling possibilities. The underdogs. The come-from-behind triumph. All essential to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, of course!
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SUB-GENRES · American Football · Association Football · Baseball · Basketball · Boxing · Cricket · Hockey · Kickboxing · Racing · Rugby · Tennis · Wrestling
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King's Gym
Oakland, California's "boxing gym of champions" is showcased here, its historic walls lined with posters for matches boasting past regulars from George Foreman and Joe Frazier to Gina Guidi. Though the crowded environ may be one of sweaty, noisy machismo, director Barry Jenkins' surprisingly...Watch Movie
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Bad Blonde
The notorious Barbara Payton stars as the titular "bad blonde" in this British noir, a coproduction between Hammer Studios and the American-based Lippert Productions. Fresh from Liverpool, nice-guy boxer Johnny Flanagan is about to join forces with big-shot Italian boxing manager Giuseppe Vecchi,...Watch Movie
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Roaring City
Private eye Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) will do anything for a dame or a dollar, tackling two more assignments filled with pistol-point suspense. The first involves a "fixed" fight, double-crosses and, of course, murder. Later, his reward for hiring out to pose as a young beauty's husband is a...Watch Movie
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The Edge
THE EDGE is a story of suppressed passion and destructive obsession set in a remote post WWII Siberian village, sparked by the arrival of Ignat, an emotionally and physically damaged Soviet tank commander with an obsession for steam engines. His self destructive streak causes increasing havoc...Watch Movie
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Shamo
From director Cheang Pou-soi, comes this long-awaited and equally brutal live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese manga by Izo Hashimoto. Ryo Narushima is a talented, college-bound student who suddenly snaps one day and murders both of his parents in cold blood. He is sent to a correctional...Watch Movie
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Satan's Cheerleaders
Benedict High School's cheerleaders aren't shy and sweet. The football team knows them well, and Billy, the school's disturbed janitor, would like to. In the locker room, the girls shower and dress, unaware of the evil eyes which secretly watch them. They don't know that a...Watch Movie
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My Breakfast with Blassie
In characteristic Andy Kaufman style, he and professional wrestler "Classy" Freddie Blassie run a parody of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE in this hilarious film. Kaufman and Blassie have discussions over the minutia that is their lives, including wrestling, stardom, hygiene and whether...Watch Movie
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of...Watch Movie
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Bad Day to Go Fishing
Jacob van Oppen, formerly "the strongest man on earth," now a washed-up alcoholic, and his crafty manager, Orsini, make good money staging bogus wrestling matches in small South American towns. When this oddball duo arrives in the unassuming village of Santa Maria, business...Watch Movie
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Manly Games
A man sits down with plenty of beer to watch a game of football but the points in this game tally body count rather than goals. Jan Svankmajer’s claymation Grand Guignol keeps the crowd cheering while the man gorges on cookies. When the animated players charge the real world of the glutton’s...Watch Movie
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Kinogram
Kinograms, brief silent-era newsreels, were the puff-pieces of their day, filming unusual events, distant locales and famous people doing mundane things. Here Babe Ruth observes a potter at work before the Bambino "turns from swatter to potter" and tries his hand at the wheel. This newsreel,...Watch Movie
