Best Sport Movies List

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 239 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $100.42M

Lead Role: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, | Director: Clint Eastwood,

A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.

Rocky (1976)

Aggregate Rating: 224 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $117.24M

Lead Role: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, | Director: John G. Avildsen,

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Moneyball (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 213 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 87 | Earnings: $75.61M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, | Director: Bennett Miller,

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.

Warrior (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 213 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $13.65M

Lead Role: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison, | Director: Gavin O'Connor,

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

Raging Bull (1980)

Aggregate Rating: 202 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 92 | Earnings: $0.05M

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

Creed (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 185 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $109.71M

Lead Role: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, | Director: Ryan Coogler,

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

The Fighter (2010)

Aggregate Rating: 175 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $93.57M

Lead Role: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, | Director: David O. Russell,

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.

The Wrestler (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 174 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $26.24M

Lead Role: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, | Director: Darren Aronofsky,

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

Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)

Aggregate Rating: 170 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale, | Director: Luchino Visconti,

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

Match Point (2005)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $23.09M

Lead Role: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, | Director: Woody Allen,

At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.

Cinderella Man (2005)

Aggregate Rating: 164 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $61.64M

Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko, Paul Giamatti, | Director: Ron Howard,

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.

Foxcatcher (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 162 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $12.10M

Lead Role: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, | Director: Bennett Miller,

U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.

The Damned United (2009)

Aggregate Rating: 161 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $0.45M

Lead Role: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington, | Director: Tom Hooper,

The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.

The Black Stallion (1979)

Aggregate Rating: 160 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse, | Director: Carroll Ballard,

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...

Chak De! India (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 160 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $1.11M

Lead Role: Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Sagarika Ghatge, Shilpa Shukla, | Director: Shimit Amin,

Kabir Khan is the coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey Team and his dream is to make his all girls team emerge victorious against all odds.

Hoosiers (1986)

Aggregate Rating: 159 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $28.61M

Lead Role: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, | Director: David Anspaugh,

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.

The Color of Money (1986)

Aggregate Rating: 159 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $52.29M

Lead Role: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Offside (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 159 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $0.18M

Lead Role: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, | Director: Jafar Panahi,

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

Downhill Racer (1969)

Aggregate Rating: 157 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, | Director: Michael Ritchie,

Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.

Southpaw (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 157 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $52.42M

Lead Role: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker, | Director: Antoine Fuqua,

A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.