preface
"Competition is life", in a sports game, you never know what will happen in the next moment. It is precisely because of this uncertainty that countless people fall in love with sports competition. At the same time, it has also created endless stories in competition, such as team reversals, enmity between opponents, coaches' strategizing, etc., and competitive movies are the records of these stories...
1. Chariot of Fire, 1981
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Ben Klaus / Nigel Havls
Type: Running
Country of Production: United Kingdom
Douban 7.8 IMDb 7.2
Adapted from the true story of the 1920s, the Jewish youth Abraham and the Devout Liddell of Scotland, one to fight racial prejudice; the other to glorify God. Two young men with dreams eventually represented Britain at the Olympics and won gold. This film is one of the great sports inspirational films in the history of film, and the theme song of the film is widely circulated! Serve it by the way. The film won four awards at the 54th Academy Awards in 1982, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
2. The Pentium Age, 2003
Directed By: Gary Ross
Starring: Toby Maguire / Jeff Bridges / Chris Cooper
Type: Horse Racing
Country of Production: United States
Douban 8.4 IMDb 7.3
The film tells the story of three life and career losers who meet by chance to train a short lame pony that also looks like a failure to participate in a horse race. A major feature of "The Rushing Age" is that it abandons the sense of tension and oppression that the previous aspire films like to use, such as making the audience worried about the protagonist's encounter, lifting the heart, hanging the guts, wiping the sweat, even if it knows that the final result is bright and bright, it cannot alleviate the tense mentality before the result.
3. The Raging Bull, 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro / Kathy Moratti / Joe Pesci
Type: Boxing
Douban 8.4 IMDb 8.2
The film is based on the true experiences of former worldweight champion Jack Ramota. It is about a generation of boxer Jack Lamotta in his life from success to failure. The boxing scenes in the film are full of claustrophobic, rough and terrifying colors, known as the best boxing scenes in the history of the film, the film's cinematography skills are superb, especially the boxing scenes, the brave posture of the characters and the crazy bull-like personality are vividly expressed, and the use of music to set off the picture and picture editing is also very in place, firmly grasping the heartstrings of the audience, truly reflecting the sweet and sour life of a boxer and the rich and subtle emotional world. The film won two awards at the 53rd Academy Awards in 1981, Named Best Actor and Best Film Editing.
4. "North Wall", 2008
Director: Philippe Stelzl
Starring: Benno Philman / Florian Lucas
Type: Rock climbing
Country/Region of Production: Germany / Austria / Switzerland
Douban 8.6 IMDb 7.4
The film tells the story of the failure of a German teenager to challenge the north wall of Egger in 1936. The film not only compares the climbers' wind and food with the media personnel's fine clothes and food, but also shows the competition between the climbers. Cruelly, this competition turned out to be the direct cause of the ultimate tragedy. In addition, the film is also quite realistic in terms of details, such as the famous Hitelstoisser Traverse, which is believed to make climbing enthusiasts feel empathy.
5. "Speed King" 2019
Directed By: James Mangold
Starring: Matt Damon / Christian Bell
Type: Racing
Douban 8.6 IMDb 8.1
Adapted from the documentary novel Hell Drive: Ford, Ferrari and Le Mans, the film tells the story of Henry Ford II, the talented entrepreneur Icoka and racing champion Miles and engineer Carol running Ford together to build the dream sports car Ford GT40 and Ferrari at the Le Mans circuit. Matt Damon is the pillar of the film, and carol's character needs someone who can express his stubbornness and decency without too much extroverted personality, and he does a good job in these areas. At the same time, Christian Bell is also quite outstanding. He injected a lot of dynamism into the role of Miles. The film has a retro style, the storyline is brilliantly told, from top to bottom to small details are all-encompassing, and its excellence is beyond doubt.
6. "Weakness" 2009
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Sandra Bullock / Tim McGrough
Type: Rugby
Douban 8.6 IMDb 7.6
Weakness is an inspirational film based on Michael Lewis's novel Weakness: The Course of the Race. The film tells the story of a homeless African boy Michael Oher, who was an orphan since childhood, and after repeatedly escaping from the adoptive family, he finally met the kind Mrs. Taussi, and with the help of the latter, Michael Oher gradually found himself, and under his physical condition and hard work, he finally became the first batch of selected players in the National Football League.
7. "The Green Fight", 2005
Directed By: Bill Paxton
Starring: Shea LaBeouf / James Paxton
Type: Golf
Douban 8.1 IMDb 7.4
Based on mark Frost's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of the commoner Francis Omitt who gradually grew from a caddy to an excellent amateur golfer, and finally changed the history of golf with his own efforts, truly restoring the golf world more than a hundred years ago and being loved by many golfers. There are many golf elements in the film, telling real events, the film is not only inspirational golf competition, but also heart-to-heart affection and love, the audience can also see the classical swing of the early 20th century and the classic grip of Harry Watton. In the film, the director also presents the arrogance of the British and the domineering of American athletes, adding to the realism of the film, while also showing many golf strategies that are still very practical until now, and very professional. The film's influence is not limited to the golf circle, many outsiders have begun to understand more about golf after watching the film.
8. "Breaking Bad Munich" 2017
Director: Anton Megeldichev
Starring: Vladimir Mashkov / John Savage
Type: Basketball
Country/Region of Production: Russia
Douban 8.2 IMDb 6.6
The film tells the story of the Soviet basketball team that defeated the American team, which held the record for 36 years, in the final of the basketball tournament that took place at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Different from the traditional Hollywood-style sports film, the film spent nearly half of the space to restore the entire game of the former Soviet men's basketball team against the American men's basketball team, although the result is known only from the title, but the process of ups and downs in the final still makes everyone see the blood boiling, even people who do not understand basketball will be infected by the twists and turns of the plot, making people's blood boil. It once set a local film box office record in the history of Russian cinema with 3 billion rubles.
9. "Wrestle! Daddy" 2016
Director: Neti Tivari
Starring: Amir Khan / Fatima Sana Shaka / Sanya Mahota
Genre: Wrestling
Country of Production: India
Douban 9.0 IMDb 8.4
Based on the true story of Indian wrestler Mahavira Singer Perga, the film tells the inspirational story of former wrestling champion Singer who trained his two daughters to become women's wrestling champions, breaking indian traditions. The film is of great relevance to women in India and around the world. Fathers do want their daughters to inherit their dreams, but take into account the fact that in India, inheriting dreams is a privilege in itself, given only to sons, and daughters are just "other people's" who need to marry and have to spend a large dowry. The film is well-intentioned in the play, arranging an awakening ceremony for the daughters at the wedding of their classmates, a "father-killing" ceremony for the eldest daughter to defeat her father, and finally the eldest daughter wins the gold medal competition, and the father is also absent. All of this shows that women have a sense of autonomy in this film. The film about the actor is also remarkable, Amir Khan first completed the role of a 19-year-old youth, and then gained 28 kilograms in a short period of time to perform the role's 55-year-old blessed state, at this time Amir Khan's weight has reached 97 kilograms, in order to fit the character's 29-year-old wrestler career golden age body, he spent five months, not only lost 25 kilograms of extra flesh, but also learned wrestling skills, and trained the devil body with eight-pack abs.
10. "Chasing Dreams and Pure Hearts" 2016
Director: David Ainsbauf
Starring: Sean Austin / Jon Feiru / Ned Barty
Douban 8.8 IMDb 7.5
"Chasing Dreams and Pure Hearts" is an adaptation of the novel by Daniel M. Rudy's real people. The film tells the story of the skinny Rudy who worked tirelessly to enter the dream Notre Dame University football team and eventually changed from a substitute to a regular player. Considered a model of American inspirational film, it celebrates the good qualities of hard work and conviction, and although the film did not do well at the box office when it was released, the title of the film has become synonymous with the courage of those who overcome prejudice and go forward.