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Films with theme "Basketball films", sorted by production date
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Dream Team 1935 (2012)
, 2hGenres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Vilis Daudziņš
The first European Championship in basketball is about to take place in Geneva. The event is organized by FIBA, the newly established international basketball organization and European national teams are going to play each other for the first time. Each wants the honor of being the first European champion.
The Iran Job (2012)
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
The Other Dream Team (2012)
Origin Lituanie
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
Actors Dan Majerle
Le film traite de l'incroyable histoire de l'équipe nationale de basketball de Lituanie qui réussit à déjouer l'étreinte communiste pour participer aux Jeux olympiques de l'été 1992 à Barcelone.
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
Before he was born, Laue's umbilical cord wrapped around his neck in the womb. To save his own life, Laue used his arm to protect his neck. Lack of circulation to the arm caused him to be born with an arm that ended just below the elbow. Kevin’s father died when he was in middle school. A former athlete and youth coach, his father had difficulty accepting Kevin’s disability. The will to carry on for his family and make his father proud drove Kevin to follow his own path of success by playing extraordinary basketball.
Thunderstruck (2012)
, 1h34Directed by John Whitesell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Children's films
Actors Taylor Gray, James Belushi, Brandon T. Jackson, Taylor Gray, Taylor Gray, Doc Shaw
Brian is a 16-year-old living in Oklahoma. Though he has tried out for the school basketball team, the Eagles, he has never made it, resigned to being water boy for the team. While practicing at home, Brian's sister makes a video of him injuring himself. She shows the video around school, and it is eventually seen by Connor, the star player of the basketball team. Brian takes a liking to Isabelle, a new girl at school, but is embarrassed when Connor shows the video of him to the whole school. In order to cheer him up, Brian's dad takes him to a Thunder game against the Detroit Pistons at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.
Salaam Dunk (2011)
, 1h18Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
The film follows the women's basketball team of the The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani (AUIS) for a full academic year. The players discover what it means to be students, athletes and friends in the difficult political, economic, cultural and ethnic/sectarian divide and how basketball unites them around a game. The film follows the lives of some of the AUIS' woman basketball players, notably those of Laylan (team captain), Enji, Ola and Safa and their basketball coach Ryan Bubalo, who is the university's contractual English language teacher. The film is a testament to the perseverance of a handful of young Iraqi women, it is a story of triumph in the face of chaos and adversity.
Playoff (2011)
, 1h47Directed by Eran Riklis
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Danny Huston, Hanns Zischler, Amira Casar, Max Riemelt, Mark Waschke, Smadi Wolfman
The movie tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team into European winners.
The Fab Five (2011)
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
Actors Ice Cube, Chuck D
Un lycée est mis à mal par le comportement rebelle et outrancier de cinq pom-pom girls, parmi lesquelles figure la fille du principal. Le coach essaie de leur faire entendre raison, mais toutes ne sont pas prêtes à s'amender.
Just Wright (2010)
, 1h40Directed by Sanaa Hamri
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Common, Paula Patton, Queen Latifah, James Pickens Jr., Phylicia Rashād, Pam Grier
Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah) is a straight-shooting physical therapist and die-hard basketball fan who is tired of being a guy's best friend. She and her god-sister, Morgan (Paula Patton), are living together; Morgan dreams of becoming an NBA trophy wife.
Once Brothers (2010)
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films
, 1h25Directed by Ezra Edelman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
Actors Liev Schreiber, Arsenio Hall
Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird were rivals on the basketball court but unlikely friends off of it. After Johnson's team won in the 1979 NCAA championship game, Johnson would be drafted first in the 1980 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers, while Bird would go to the Boston Celtics at the #3 spot. Bird captured "Rookie of the Year" in 1980, while Johnson's Lakers won the NBA Championship and Johnson was named NBA Finals MVP. The Celtics took the championship in 1981, the Lakers took it back in 1982. The Celtics would win again in 1984, while the Lakers would win the title in both 1985 and 1987. The careers of both men were cut short, Johnson by his diagnosis with HIV and Bird by a debilitating back injury.
Hurricane Season (2009)
, 1h42Directed by Tim Story
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Forest Whitaker, Taraji P. Henson, Isaiah Washington, Robbie Jones, China Anne McClain, Jackie Long
This movie is based on the true story of John Ehret High School's 2005–06 State championship team. After Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins (Forest Whitaker), a John Ehret high school basketball coach in Jefferson Parish, across the river from New Orleans in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the disaster and leads them on the path to winning the state championship.
First Ink (2009)
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports, Documentary films about cities
Actors Sherman Alexie, Ryan Stiles
Streetballers (2009)
Directed by Matthew Scott Krentz
Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Matthew Scott Krentz
Two basketball players are drawn into the lures of crime and gambling on the courts of St. Louis, Missouri tough Northside neighborhoods. Constantly searching for sanity in the midst of alcoholism, racism, and drugs, John Hogan (played by the film director Matthew Scott Krentz)and Jacob Whitmore (played by Jimmy McKinney) find release and therapy while competing at one of the most competitive street courts in the U.S.