The Wrestler(2008)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.



Redbelt(2008)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.



Semi-Pro(2008)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.



The Love Guru(2008)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Pitka, an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge is to settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.



Sugar(2008)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Dominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.



Never Back Down(2008)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A frustrated and conflicted teenager arrives at a new high school to discover an underground fight club and meet a classmate who begins to coerce him into fighting.



Rudo y Cursi(2008)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two siblings rival each other inside the world of professional soccer.



The Express(2008)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.



Forever Strong(2008)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A rugby player is put up in a juvenile detention center. There he plays for the Highland Rugby team and ultimately plays against his father in the National Championships.



Linha de Passe(2008)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A story about four brothers from a poor family who need to fight to follow their dreams.



Gong fu guan lan(2008)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fang Shijie is found as a baby in the garbage and raised at a martial arts academy. With the help of a man, he gets into college and is promoted to the basketball championship as he searches for his real parents.



Gutterballs(2008)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A bowling night will turn into a bloody death match for a team of teenagers, as a deranged serial killer is taking them down one by one.



Fast Track: No Limits(2008)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An action movie centered around a group of street racers.



Two Fists, One Heart(2008)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 6

This is a contemporary story set in Perth, Western Australia. Anthony Argo is a young Italian/Australian boxer, being pushed to the limit by his Sicilian father-trainer, Joe. Joe wants ...



Soccer Mom(2008)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep...



Shôrin shôjo(2008)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.



Phantom Punch(2008)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The fascinating life story of Sonny Liston, the controversial heavyweight boxing champion of the world.



The Sensei(2008)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1985 Colorado, a long-absent woman, proficient as a black belt in martial arts, returns home where she agrees, secretly, to train a bullied gay teen.



Fast Girl(2008)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young woman dreams of becoming a race-car driver, even though the career claimed the life of her father.



Carnera: The Walking Mountain(2008)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.




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