Entertainment
Updated : Nov 26, 2013, 03:13 AM IST
Field of Dreams (1989)
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come.
Cast - Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta
Director - Phil Alden Robinson
Major League (1989)
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
Cast - Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen
Director - David S. Ward
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
A self-centered lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team.
Cast - Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Joshua Jackson
Director - Stephen Herek
Jerry Maguire (1996)
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
Cast - Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger
Director - Cameron Crowe
Space Jam (1996)
Michael Jordan agrees to help the Looney Toons play a basketball game vs. alien slavers to determine their freedom.
Cast - Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
Director - Joe Pytka
When We Were Kings (1996)
A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.
Cast - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King
Director - Leon Gast
The Big Lebowski (1998)
'Dude' Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Cast - Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Director - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Any Given Sunday (1999)
A behind the scenes look at the life and death struggles of modern day gladiators and those who lead them.
Cast - Al Pachino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz
Director - Oliver Stone
Remember The Titans (2000)
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
Cast - Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Donald Faison
Director - Boaz Yakin
Ali (2001)
A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his days in the ring.
Cast - Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight
Director - Michael Mann
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with a football team (soccer in America).
Cast - Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director - Gurinder Chadha
Seabiscuit (2003)
True story of the undersized depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Cast - Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks
Director - Gary Ross
Miracle (2004)
Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 US Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.
Cast - Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathan West
Director - Gavin O'Connor
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Based on HG Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
Cast - Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke
Director - Peter Berg
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to pursue her dreams to become a professional boxer.
Cast - Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
Director - Clint Eastwood
Coach Carter (2005)
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
Cast - Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri'chard
Director - Thomas Carter
Cinderella Man (2005)
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.
Cast - Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko
Director - Ron Howard
The Wrestler (2008)
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
Cast - Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
Director - Darren Aronofsky
The Damned United (2009)
A look at Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United.
Cast - Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper
Director - Tom Hooper
Invictus (2009)
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.
Cast - Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge
Director - Clint Eastwood
Senna (2010)
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
Cast - Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams
Director - Asif Kapadia
The Fighter (2010)
A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
Cast - Mark Walberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Director - David O Russell
Moneyball (2011)
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
Cast - Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Director - Bennett Miller
Rush (2013)
A re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
Cast - Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde
Director - Ron Howard
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