Best Sports Biography movies

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Paul Sorvino, William Forsythe, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Martin Guigui,

Based on the tumultuous real-life experiences of legendary boxing champion Jake LaMotta, THE BRONX BULL chronicles his rise as a world-class boxer and his struggles with life outside of the ring, offering an unflinchingly honest look into the heart of a champion.

Actors : Aleksandr Fokin, Aleksey Guskov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Yuliya Khlynina,
Directors : Vasiliy Chiginskiy,

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

Actors : Behnoosh Tabatabaei, Alireza Goudarzi, Mahoor Alvand, Farhad Aeesh,
Directors : Bahram Tavakoli,

The story of life of Gholam Reza Takhti from his childhood till adulthood, his matches and finally his death.

Actors : Yonas Zergaw, Tedesse Haile, Haile Gebrsellasie, Shawananness Gebrselassie,

The gold medal for the men's 10,000-metre race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

Actors : Masato Hagiwara, Miki Nakatani, Kyoung-gu Sul, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Hae-sung Song,

The life of Korean-born wrestler Rikidôzan, who, after being barred from Japanese wrestling because of his ethnic origins, became a sensation in the United States in the 1950s.

Actors : Axel Stein, Jasmin Schwiers, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Max Riemelt,
Directors : Adnan Köse,

He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.

Actors : Alex Vincent Medina, Alessandra de Rossi, Robert Villar, Cesar Montano,
Directors : Paul Soriano,

Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he ...

Actors : Jenny Chang, Lukman Sardi, Dion Wiyoko, Laura Basuki,
Directors : Sim F.,

Susi Susanti rises through the rank to become Indonesia's most beloved athlete. In time of economic turmoil, Susi seizes the opportunity to show her country and the world that heroism is measured by the depth of one's sacrifice.

Actors : Riitta Havukainen, Inka Kallén, Ilona Chevakova, Anu Sinisalo, Tommi Eronen,
Directors : Tuukka Temonen,

The feature film (One half of me) is based on true events and tells an incredible survival story of a Finnish woman. Jaana is a bar owner and a mother of two kids. Her spare time hobby is ...

Actors : Alexander Petrov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Vitaliy Khaev, Stasya Miloslavskaya,
Directors : Ilya Uchitel,

By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, money, fame and love. He is the rising star of the Soviet football. The whole country expects victory from ...

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

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

Actors : Chris Dingli, Filipp Ershov, Kirsty Bartolo, William Erazo Fernández,
Directors : Elena Hazanova,

Following her divorce, Marina Gordeeva (40) thinks she'll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she'll find the love of her life in free diving, one of the most extreme ...

Actors : Granit Rushiti, Emmanuele Aita, Cedomir Glisovic, David S. Lindgren,
Directors : Jens Sjögren,

Son of Balkan immigrants Zlatan Ibrahimovic, born in Sweden, becomes, after a rough childhood, a Swedish football champion of several decades.

Actors : Václav Neuzil, Martha Issová, Robert Miklus, James Frecheville,
Directors : David Ondrícek,

Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the most famous Czech athlete of all time, will help him overcome the biggest crisis of his career.

Actors : Ranveer Singh, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Jiiva, Deepika Padukone,
Directors : Kabir Khan,

The story of India's incredible cricket World Cup victory in 1983.

Actors : Ganesh Deshmukh, Amitabh Bachchan, Vicky Kadian,
Directors : Nagraj Manjule,

Based on the life of Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher who founded an NGO called Slum Soccer. He managed to rehabilitate street kids by keeping them off drugs and crime by turning them into soccer players and building a whole team.

Actors : Viktoriya Isakova, Filipp Ershov, Cheslav Golovinets, William Erazo Fernández,
Directors : Elena Hazanova,

Following her divorce, Marina Gordeeva (40) thinks she'll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she'll find the love of her life in free diving, one of the most extreme ...

Actors : Bo Svenson, Stephanie Edwards, Bernie Casey, Janet MacLachlan,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential ...

Actors : Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Ron Haddrick, Bunney Brooke, Tom Richards,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.