Best Sport movies of 1970s

Actors : Bud Spencer, Nando Paone, Raimund Harmstorf, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. ...

Actors : Joel Fluellen, James Earl Jones, Lou Gilbert, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Actors : Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, William Tepper, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, ...

Actors : Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, Gail Strickland, G.D. Spradlin,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport...

Actors : William Smith, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

The famous drag racer Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson is the star of the Fast Company, managed by the corrupt Phil Adamson Lonnie is the mentor of the promising funny car racer Billy 'The Kid' ...

Actors : Ned Beatty, Jeff Bridges, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Preston, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Actors : Robert Webber, Alexis Smith, Murray Hamilton, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Casey is a young boy in a family that trains racehorses. His best friend, a foal they call "Casey's Shadow", looks to be a loser, but comes out a champion.

Actors : Don Knotts, Edward Asner, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Haynes, John Marley, Muhammad Ali,
Directors : Tom Gries,

Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of ...

Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Nanette Newman, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Velvet's orphaned niece, Sarah, follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Dorothée Jemma, France Dougnac, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also ...

Actors : Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, Raquel Welch, Helena Kallianiotes,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Actors : Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Arthur Brauss, Libgart Schwarz,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.

Actors : Jovita Bush, Brandy Woods, Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway,
Directors : Paul Glickler,

A group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.

Actors : Diana Dors, Milo O'Shea, Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell,
Directors : Peter Sykes,

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways...

Actors : Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filipelli, Jean-Guy Fechner, Gérard Rinaldi,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside ...

Actors : Paul Préboist, Jean Carmet, Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Pierre Richard,

Alfred has always been down on his luck. An unlucky baby, he turns into... an unlucky child before metamorphosing into... an unlucky teenager! As an adult, he manages to become an architect...

Actors : Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair,
Directors : Joseph Manduke,

A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.

Actors : Cheryl Smith, Helen Lang, Patrice Rohmer, Jerii Woods,
Directors : Richard Lerner,

The tale of the Aloha Cheerleaders' struggle against Lincoln high. High points include such events as the Aloha girls raiding a Lincoln classroom to get drugs, then putting aforementioned ...