Best Sport movies of 1970s

Actors : Eli Wallach, Red Buttons, Trish Van Devere, George C. Scott,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.

Actors : Bernard King, Harold Sylvester, Michael Warren, Gabe Kaplan,
Directors : Jack Smight,

David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good...

Actors : Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Thommy Pollard, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Hazel Spears,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's ...

Actors : Susan Anspach, Eugene Levy, Michael Douglas, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him...

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Jack Thompson, Frank Wilson, Graham Kennedy,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.

Actors : Cathy Lee Crosby, Michael Biehn, Channing Clarkson, Keenan Wynn,
Directors : Bud Townsend,

An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her...

Actors : Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, David Essex, Beau Bridges,
Directors : David Wickes,

A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike ...

Actors : Eddie Albert, Gary Busey, John Calvin, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.

Actors : Michael Crawford, Jeremy Kemp, Charles Aznavour, Ryan O'Neal,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Four marathon runners (one from England, one from the U.S., a Czech and an Australian Aborigine) prepare to run in the Olympic games. The film follows each one and shows what their motivations are for running in the games.

Actors : Franco Accatino, Rino Cavalcanti, Dante Cleri, Teodoro Corrà,
Directors : Luigi Filippo D'Amico,

Hilarious comedy on the world of football fans . Alberto Sordi is known in Italy, not only for his many comical and dramatic film roles but also for playing parts which reflected the new ...

Actors : Pertti Melasniemi, Lilga Kovanko, Ulf Törnroth, Perttu Näsänen,
Directors : Risto Jarva,

Actors : Don Allen, Kay Hawtrey, Bruce Armstrong, Eric Cryderman,
Directors : George McCowan,

Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player (Billy Duke) and a hippie folk singer (Sherry Nelson). Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their ...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Nikolai Ozerov, Svetlana Golovina, Viktoriya Fyodorova,
Directors : Viktor Sadovsky,

A ski coach in a midlife crisis is about to quit his career in sports.

Actors : Elizabeth Ashley, Keir Dullea, Dayle Haddon, John Beck,
Directors : Peter Pearson,

A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.

Actors : Franz Beckenbauer, Klaus Löwitsch, Beatrice Kessler, Harald Leipnitz,
Directors : Wigbert Wicker,

This movie portrays the German soccer player Franz Beckenbauer. It shows the ups and downs of being a superstar.

Actors : Andrey Myagkov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Larisa Malevannaya, Lyudmila Kasatkina,
Directors : Sergey Mikaelyan,

Chess Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov is a highly talented and unusual person, living in the 1970s Soviet Union. His is obsessed with making a beautiful game. But his emotional and irrational...

Actors : Magnus Härenstam, Monica Zetterlund, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Johan Bergman,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an ...

Actors : James Ryan, Daniel DuPlessis, Charlotte Michelle, Norman Coombes,
Directors : Ivan Hall,

Two former ranking figures of the Axis powers schedule a deadly martial arts tournament in an isolated locale. The two rivals then race to assemble the top competitors from around the world...

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Lyubov Virolaynen, Yuriy Demich, Aleksandr Goloborodko,
Directors : Viktor Sadovsky,

International soccer game, set in Leningrad, USSR. Coach Vorontsov (Papanov) is forming a new national team. He selected eleven best players because they are talented, compatible and hard ...

Actors : Neda Arneric, Darko Damevski, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, Dime Ilijev,
Directors : Aleksandar Djurcinov,

A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.