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Great Expectations (2019)
, 1h38Directed by Delphine Gleize
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Rugby, Rugby à XV
Après une année en Pro D2, l'Aviron bayonnais est de retour dans le Top 14 pour la saison 2016-2017. Mais en octobre 2016, l'équipe est déjà dernière du classement et son objectif devient alors de se maintenir dans l'élite.
Handsome Devil (2017)
, 1h34Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Rugby, Rugby à XV, Buddy films, Teen LGBT-related films, Teen movie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Andrew Scott, Michael McElhatton, Moe Dunford, Ardal O'Hanlon, Hugh O'Conor, Amy Huberman
Ned Roche raconte le moment qui l'a rendu le plus honteux. Après la mort de sa mère et le remariage de son père, il se retrouve dans un pensionnat. Alors qu'il ne s'intéresse pas au sport et qu'il aime la musique, sensible et introverti, Ned est mal vu dans un établissement où le rugby est une institution. Ses camarades l'importunent régulièrement et le traitent d'homosexuel, mais par chance, il a une chambre à lui tout seul. Lorsqu'arrive un nouveau, il est obligé de partager sa chambre avec lui, à son grand déplaisir. Le nouvel élève, Conor, est un sportif, et son très bon niveau au rugby en fait vite la coqueluche de l'équipe et de l'entraîneur, M.
Mercenary (2016)
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Rugby, Rugby à XV
Actors Iliana Zabeth
Soane, jeune rugbyman, membre de la communauté wallisienne de Nouvelle-Calédonie, brave l’autorité de son père violent pour partir jouer en métropole. Il a été recruté par un intermédiaire, Abraham, qui exploite le filon de l'émigration des joueurs vers la France. Malheureusement son arrivée se passe mal et il n'a pas le contrat espéré. Renié par son père, il ne peut pas retourner en Nouvelle-Calédonie et est menacé par Abraham qui exige le remboursement de ses frais. Livré à lui-même à l’autre bout du monde, son odyssée le conduit à devenir un homme dans un univers qui n’offre pas de réussite sans compromis.
Jo's Boy (2011)
, 1h35Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Rugby, Rugby à XV
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Jérémie Duvall, Vincent Moscato, Karina Lombard, Lionnel Astier
Héritier d'une longue lignée de rugbymen, Jo Canavaro tente, avec l'aide de ses amis, de faire apprécier ce sport à son fils, Tom.
Invictus (2009)
, 2h14Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Sports films, Rugby, Political films, Rugby à XV
Actors Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Scott Eastwood, Adjoa Andoh, Leleti Khumalo, Julian Lewis Jones
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after having spent 27 years in jail. Four years later, Mandela is elected the first black President of South Africa. His presidency faces enormous challenges in the post-Apartheid era, including rampant poverty and crime, and Mandela is particularly concerned about racial divisions between black and white South Africans, which could lead to violence. The ill will which both groups hold towards each other is seen even in his own security detail where relations between the established white officers, who had guarded Mandela's predecessors, and the black ANC additions to the security detail, are frosty and marked by mutual distrust.
Bakgat! (2008)
, 1h36Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Rugby, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ivan Botha
Katrien (Cherié van der Merwe) is dumped by her boyfriend, high school rugby star Werner (Altus Theart), so he can focus his energy on the sport. To get even, she makes a bet with her friends that she can make a star out of the school's dorkiest boy, Wimpie Koekemoer (Ivan Botha), by pretending to be his girlfriend. The awkward Koekemoer rises to the challenge but Katrien finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with him, until he realizes she is merely using him.
Forever Strong (2008)
, 1h52Directed by Ryan Little
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Rugby, Rugby à XV
Actors Sean Faris, Gary Cole, Penn Badgley, Arielle Kebbel, Sean Astin, Neal McDonough
Rick Penning (Sean Faris) is a high school rugby player who is the captain of his team in which all of the players only improve via drugs and alcohol. After losing the championship to the Highland Rugby Team, who is also the team's rival, Rick drinks and drives, resulting in a crash that seriously injures his girlfriend, Tammy. Thus, he loses his position on the team and is sentenced to a boys' Juvenile Detention Center in Salt Lake City. Feeling bad for him, the center's manager, Marcus (Sean Astin) puts him on the Highland rugby team (much to his chagrin), coached by Larry Gelwix (Gary Cole). He suddenly becomes influenced by brotherhood and manages to cope with his homesickness and death of his first true friend, Kurt (Michael J. Pagan). Soon he finds himself again in the national championships—against his old team, who is coached by his distanced father, Richard Penning (Neal McDonough) and which has labeled him a renegade. Highland wins the tournament again, and Rick reconciles with Richard.
Walk Like a Man (2008)
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about sports, Rugby, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
The Final Winter (2007)
, 1h36Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Rugby
Actors Conrad Coleby, Nathaniel Dean, Damian De Montemas, Raelee Hill, John Jarratt, Tiarnie Coupland
The film explores the way in which business tore up the loyalty that was between Grub's club and family. Essentially this is a metaphor for the way in which business began to imprint the game of Rugby League during the 1980s, and saw the rise of commercialism in the game. Consequently, Grub must battle with an administration that wanted him gone and additionally his brother and coach's betrayal. The film also deals with the domestic issues between Grub and his wife and his children, as their husband and father has been transformed from who he was to who he has become.
Rugbystar (2007)
, 1h29Directed by Stéphane Giusti
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Rugby, Rugby à XV
Actors Marc Ruchmann, Audrey Fleurot, Philippe Maymat, Philippe Cariou, Arnaud Binard
Fraîchement arrivé de Grenoble, Olivier Costa, un beau demi d'ouverture, a été choisi par un grand club de rugby parisien. Accueilli par Alain Moretti, l'entraîneur, et Fred, l'ex-capitaine de l'équipe, il s'installe dans un grand appartement avec Brian, un joueur irlandais. Très doué, Olivier ne tarde pas à être remarqué pour ses prouesses sportives et sa plastique. Surtout lorsque le président du club entreprend de publier un calendrier glamour avec les photos des joueurs. Bientôt sacré icône du rugby, Olivier tombe sous le charme d'Inès, la photographe du calendrier. Grisé par l'argent et la notoriété, il entame une ascension tumultueuse…
Footy Legends (2006)
, 1h30Directed by Khoa Do
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Rugby
Actors Anh Do, Angus Sampson, Emma Lung, Claudia Karvan, Paul Nakad, Steven Rooke
Set in Sydney's western suburbs, Footy Legends tells the story of Luc Vu (Anh Do), a young Vietnamese Australian man with an obsession about rugby league football. Out of work and with welfare authorities threatening to take away his little sister (Lisa Saggers), because their parents are dead and Luc is deemed incapable of being a responsible guardian, Luc re-unites his old Yagoona High School "footy" team—whose members are now facing social problems such as long-term unemployment, drug addictions, the after-effects of teenage parenting—and wins a competition that offers a Holden Ute and a modelling job for Lowes Menswear as its prize. It is mostly comedy which is underpinned with serious social issues affecting western Sydney.
Murderball (2005)
, 1h28Directed by Henry-Alex Rubin
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Rugby, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Films about disabilities
School Wars: Hero (2004)
, 1h58Directed by Ikuo Sekimoto
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Rugby
Actors Emi Wakui, Shōei, Sayaka Kanda, Kōtarō Satomi, Tomohisa Yuge, Hiroyuki Onoue
Yamagami (Shōei), is a teacher who formerly played for the Japanese rugby union team in the 1960s. The principal of Fushimi Daiichi Kogyo High School (Kōtarō Satomi), which suffers from severe discipline problems, persuades him to join his staff, in the hope that he has the strength to turn the school around.
Sye (2004)
Directed by S. S. Rajamouli
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Rugby
Actors Nithin Reddy, Genelia D'Souza, Pradeep Rawat, Nassar, Ajay, Rajiv Kanakala
Prudhvi (Nitin Kumar Reddy) & Shashank (Shashank) are the leaders of two warring students groups in a Hyderabad college. They are fond of rugby union game and they sort the things out between them by playing rugby to prove superiority. One fine day, a local mafia leader Bhikshu Yadav (Pradeep Rawat) gets a court notice that he has purchased the land of college from its legal heirs. The groups of Prudhvi and Sashank unite together by forgetting differences to fight a united cause of winning back the land for college. After getting affected by assaults of students, Bhikshu Yadav throws a challenge to defeat his team in a game of rugby union to win back the land for their college. The rest of the story is all about how Prudhvi leads his team to the victory.
Cheerleader Queens (2003)
, 1h59Directed by Poj Arnon
Genres Comedy
Themes Dance films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Rugby, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rattapoom Toekongsap
Four kathoey—Mod, Som, Kam-pang and Wa-wa—move from a rural town to attend St. Mary's High School in Bangkok. Once there they try to join the school's cheerleading team, only to be rejected because of their sexuality. Instead they join the school's struggling rugby team, making friends with the other team members after they score a number of tries in an important game.