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, 45minutesThemes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
This film contains footage of slam dunks by NBA players such as Julius Erving, Dominique Wilkins, Michael Jordan, and Darryl Dawkins, and a large number of bloopers by various players, including Danny Ainge, Bill Walton, and Frank Johnson. Recaps of NBA slam dunk contests from 1984 to 1988 are also shown. The video also features brief bios of NBA personalities including Darryl Dawkins, John Salley & Frank Layden. and footage of dolphins playing basketball, a group playing basketball while riding horses and a group playing basketball on ice skates.
The Rivalry: Red v. Blue (2013)
Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
Red V. Blue is a documentary about the instate rivalry between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, the two most prominent universities in the state of Kentucky. The universities are located in the state's two largest cities, respectively the second-largest city of Lexington and the largest city, Louisville, and are separated by 75 miles of Interstate 64. But this is the least of their differences.
Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003)
, 1h31Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about cities
Three Seconds (2017)
, 2h13Directed by Anton Meguerditchev
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Vladimir Machkov, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Andrey Smolyakov, Sergueï Garmach, John Savage, Marat Basharov
En 1972 aux jeux olympiques de Munich, l’équipe de basket-ball de l’union soviétique joue la finale face à celle des états-unis. Alors que tout semble tourné en faveur des américains, les 3 dernières secondes de ce match mythique vont propulser l’équipe soviétique dans la légende du sport.
Celtic Pride (1996)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd, Gail O'Grady, Christopher McDonald, Paul Guilfoyle
Best friends for life, gym teacher Mike O'Hara (Daniel Stern) and plumber Jimmy Flaherty (Dan Aykroyd) are united by their love of Boston and its sports teams, especially the Boston Celtics, who are playing their last season in the old Boston Garden. When the Celtics drop Game 6 of the NBA Finals to the Utah Jazz, setting up a deciding Game 7 in Boston, Mike and Jimmy find themselves depressed and hopeless. On top of all this, Mike has moved back in with Jimmy after his wife Carol, fed up with his unhealthy obsession with the Celtics, left him and took their son Tommy with her. Jimmy and Mike stumble upon the Jazz's selfish, one-man-show shooting guard Lewis Scott (Damon Wayans) at a Boston nightclub. Hoping at first to get him drunk enough so he'll be hungover for Game 7, Mike and Jimmy pose as Utah fans. This however leads to them running into their idol Larry Bird (as himself), who scolds them for being what he thinks are "fair weather" fans. However, the pair get more than they bargained for when the next morning they end up kidnapping Scott after he wakes up at Jimmy's apartment. The two decide to hold Scott until after the game, reasoning that if they are going to prison, they might as well help the Celtics win in the meantime.
Finding Forrester (2000)
, 2h16Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, April Grace
Sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) plays basketball with his friends in New York. A recluse, William Forrester (Sean Connery), lives on the top floor of the building across from the court. The kids regularly notice him watching them. One of the boys dares Jamal to sneak into the apartment and retrieve an item. Jamal takes a letter opener only to be surprised by Forrester and inadvertently leaves his backpack behind. Forrester later drops Jamal's backpack onto the street. Jamal goes home to find that Forrester wrote notes in his journals. Jamal returns to Forrester's apartment and asks him to read more of his writing. Forrester tells him to begin with 5,000 words on why Jamal should "stay the fuck out of my home", which he completes and leaves on the doorstep the following day.
Full-Court Miracle (2003)
, 1h30Directed by Stuart Gillard
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Basketball films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Actors Alex D. Linz, Richard T. Jones, R.H. Thomson, Sean Marquette, Erik Knudsen, Sheila McCarthy
Alex Schlotsky is a freshman at Philadelphia Hebrew Academy, where he and his friends are on the school's struggling basketball team, the Lions. Without a good coach and with a dream of winning the Liberty Tournament and defeating their school's rivals, the Warriors, Alex and his friends are determined to find their own Judah Macabee to coach their team. During one day of practice at a local park, Alex finds what he believes is their coach—Lamont Carr, a college basketball star whose knee injury forced him to quit. After interrupting his practice, Alex and Lamont don't get off to a good start. The next day, however, Alex offers to pay Lamont to coach their team for a while: Lamont reluctantly agrees.
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Millie Perkins, John Richardson, Tom Lester
The film shows 5-foot-2-inch (1.57 m) Maravich's efforts to make the D. W. Daniel High School varsity team as an eighth grader as he deals with racially charged issues in the deep south of the 1950s. Press Maravich serves as his son's drill sergeant, motivator, coach and cheerleader.
Above the Rim (1994)
, 1h36Directed by Jeff Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Basketball films, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Duane Martin, Leon Robinson, Tupac Shakur, Tonya Pinkins, David Bailey, Bernie Mac
Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown University he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. He must decide whether to play for and follow his widely beloved basketball coach or Birdie (Tupac Shakur), a local thug in the neighborhood. Flip a homeless man remember playing basketball with Thomas "Shep" Shepard (Leon Robinson)a high school security guard. Kyle is also feeling resentment towards the security guard, because Kyle's own mother is falling in love with Shep.
Air Bud (1997)
, 1h30Directed by Charles Martin Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Basketball films, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs, Eric Christmas, Brendan Fletcher
The film opens with an unsuccessful professional clown, Norman F. Snively, and his dog by the name of "Old Blue," doing a show at a birthday party. Due to the dog causing trouble at the birthday party and both being tossed out of the house, Snively angrily takes him in a kennel to a dog pound, until the kennel falls off his truck. The dog is homeless until he meets a 12-year-old boy, Josh Framm (whom the plot mainly revolves around). After the death of his father, who died in a plane crash during a test flight (indicated in the headline of a framed newspaper article briefly read by Josh), Josh moves with his family from Virginia to Fernfield, Washington. Due to heartbreak over his father's passing, he is too shy to try out for his middle school's basketball team and to make any friends. He instead becomes the basketball team's manager, an absurd offer by coach Joe Barker which he accepts. He practices basketball by himself in a makeshift court that he sets up in a disused allotment, where he first meets the dog, naming him Buddy. Josh soon learns that Buddy has the uncanny ability to play basketball.
Ball Don't Lie (2008)
, 1h42Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Rosanna Arquette, Emilie de Ravin, Cody Longo, Nicholas Cannon, Ludacris, Nick Chinlund
Ball Don't Lie plays out over one day in the life of Sticky (Boucher), a skinny high school sophomore and basketball prodigy from Venice, California. Burdened with emotional scars from a traumatic childhood, a callous foster care system, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, Sticky manages to transcend his limitations whenever he has a ball in his hands.
The Cookout (2004)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Quran Pender, Ja Rule, Vincent Pastore, Jenifer Lewis, Tim Meadows, Meagan Good
When Todd Anderson (played by Quran Pender) has just signed a $30 million contract with his hometown basketball team the New Jersey Nets, he purchases many new luxuries for himself and his family including a new house in a well established, high class neighborhood for him and his gold digging girlfriend Brittany (played by Meagan Good). Keeping with family tradition, he decides to host a regular family reunion cookout in his new place, however, not planning for it to clash with an important business meeting for an endorsement deal.
BASEketball (1998)
, 1h39Directed by David Zucker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films, Basketball films, Buddy films
Actors Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn
Coop (Trey Parker) and Remer (Matt Stone) are 23 and unemployed. They arrive uninvited at a party hosted by a former high school classmate of theirs. After finding out that their classmates have matured, Coop and Remer find themselves outside drinking beer and shooting hoops. Two former classmates challenge them to a game. The two see that their opponents are very good at basketball, so they say they will only play a new game they picked up "in the hood".
Rebound (2005)
, 1h43Directed by Steve Carr
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Children's films
Actors Martin Lawrence, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Breckin Meyer, Horatio Sanz, Patrick Warburton, Katt Williams
Coach Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) was once college basketball's top mastermind. His attention began to turn on what endorsement contracts he could secure instead of actually coaching his team. Roy lets his temper get the best of him in most situations. After causing a mishap with a mascot, the board bans McCormick from collegiate basketball until he can show that he can control his anger. Roy's reputation has doomed to him to being unhireable as a long time passes with no job offers. However, McCormick then gets one job offer, to Mount Vernon Junior High School, which was also where he graduated as a teenager. His alma mater's basketball team, the Smelters, is looking for somebody to coach the team, and the headmistress thinks an alumnus of his caliber in basketball would be ideal. Although irritated, Roy realizes he has no other options and accepts the coaching job, figuring this is the way to prove he can control his anger and get back into the spotlight of college basketball. As Roy begins coaching the squad, he gets into an embarrassing situation that he's never been in before and decides, enough is enough. He eventually starts teaching the concepts of basketball to his new team, albeit placing paramount emphasis on sportsmanship. With teaching and learning being done between both Roy and the kids, the Smelters eventually start having success. Unexpectedly, this leads Roy to find what he's been missing this whole time...not a big coaching gig, not high-dollar endorsement deals, and not even his name in lights...but his simple love of the game. Eventually Roy gains a new appreciation for his old school and figures that while it does not lead to big money endorsements, he can earn a comfortable living from this job.
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Scott Kalvert
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about writers, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg, Bruno Kirby, Patrick McGaw
The film is an adaptation of poet and memoirist Jim Carroll's (Leonardo DiCaprio) juvenile diaries chronicling his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers on the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an appetite for cocaine and heroin all begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star.