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- The Redeem Team (2022) Heading into the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the US Men’s Basketball Team had a huge chip on its shoulder. Just four years earlier, at the 2004 Summer Games, the traditionally dominant squad of NBA all-stars was forced to settle for a bronze medal.
- 38 At The Garden (2022) Seemingly overnight, in early 2012, a relatively unknown Taiwanese-American point guard named Jeremy Lin, who went undrafted just two years earlier, became an international sensation following a magical night when he led the New York Knicks to a resounding victory with 38 points at the most famous arena in the world: Madison Square Garden.
- The Way Back (2020) Director Gavin O’Connor has gone on the record saying The Way Back isn’t really a sports movie, and instead more of a character study, but the emotionally-raw 2020 drama starring Ben Affleck as a basketball coach struggling with addiction and his past mistakes, is too good not to mention.
- Untold: Malice At The Palace (2021) There were few bigger sports scandals in the early 2000s than the notorious “Malice at the Palace,” the November 2004 brawl between Indianapolis Pacers players, and players and fans of the Detroit Pistons.
Complete with documentaries, inspirational stories, films based on historical basketball events, and funny comedies, I’ve got you covered. Here are 98 basketball movies you can watch with yourself or with your family.
- 'Chang Can Dunk'
- 'Blue Chips'
- 'High Flying Bird'
- 'Cornbread, Earl and Me'
- 'Glory Road'
- 'Shooting Stars'
- 'Forget Paris'
- 'The Basketball Diaries'
- 'Above The Rim'
- 'The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh'
Whether you've got great jumping skills or not, it's easy to relate to the charming coming-of-age film's title character (Bloom Li), a 5-foot-8 Asian American band kid with a love for Kobe Bryant and moxie to spare. When the school jock bets him he can't dunk, and Chang wants to impress the new girl at school, the teen goes on a quest full of physi...
Bugaboos of college basketball, from gambling to corruption to illegal payments for athletes, are part of the playbook for the drama from director William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”). Nick Nolte is the irascible Western University coach based on Bobby Knight (who also makes an appearance) while co-stars Shaquille O’Neal and Penny Hardaway give the fi...
Steven Soderbergh's modern foray into the wheeling and dealing of pro ball – filmed entirely via iPhone – stars André Holland as a sports agent with a rookie client (Melvin Gregg). An NBA lockout forces them to look outside the box and a testy game of one-on-one that goes viral turns into a moneymaking opportunity, though one that's risky for the ...
It’s a trip to see a teenage Laurence Fishburne make his film debut in this drama starring NBA standout Jamaal Wilkes as Cornbread, a good-hearted and gawky talent who’s the popular big man of his neighborhood on the way to a college career. Tragedy strikes involving cops and an innocent man, and residents want justice in a retro movie that still f...
The story of how Texas Western coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) took an all-black starting lineup – the first in NCAA history – to a championship title in 1966 against mighty all-white Kentucky is an obvious inspiration for a big-screen underdog tale. Sure, it leans predictable but still works thanks to standout basketball action and strong performan...
When it doesn't look like their pal (Caleb McLaughlin) is going to make the basketball squad, his three longtime teammates decide not to go to their local high school and instead enroll in a private academy so they can keep playing together. Oh, and did we mention one of those guys was teenage LeBron (Mookie Cook)? It's an insightful coming-of-age ...
Billy Crystal directs and stars in the decently sweet romantic comedy as an NBA referee who takes his recently deceased father’s ashesto France and falls for an airline employee (Debra Winger). Their relationship goes through its ups and downs, but the best stuff is on the court, where Crystal gets to riff with an assortment of basketball icons, in...
A scrawny Leonardo DiCaprioleads the biopic as high school hoopster and fledgling writer Jim Carroll, whose life goes off the rails when he gets mixed up in drugs and crime. The melodrama is pretty overwrought, though the cast is top notch, including Mark Wahlberg as one of Jim’s ill-behaved buddies and Ernie Hudson as a kindly sort who tries to ge...
A whole lot of drama follows Duane Martin as a New York City high school senior who, while waiting to find out if he’ll play at Georgetown, gets caught up in the goings-on between a former star (Leon) and a drug dealer (Tupac Shakur). The basketball scenes are solid, and Shakur is especially good as the film’s vicious heavy. Where to watch: Apple T...
Philadelphia 76ers legend “Dr. J” Julius Erving headlines the goofy disco-era delight as Moses Guthrie, star of the lowly Pittsburgh Pythons. The team goes on a championship run when an astrologer (Stockard Channing) pitches the wacky idea to the owner (Jonathan Winters) that Moses should have only Pisces teammates. Only in the movies, folks. Where...
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Mar 15, 2023 · Looking for some really good basketball movies? We've gathered the 13 best films about basketball for March Madness.
- Jacob Kienlen
May 19, 2023 · We love basketball because it has all the ingredients you need for a thrilling sports movie: the ticking clock, the last-minute reversals, the underdog victories, and the troubled characters ...
Feb 23, 2024 · Lights, camera, alley-oop! Prep your streaming watchlist with our list of the best basketball movies. Our guide includes where to watch each film online.
Jul 28, 2022 · Sports and movies often go hand in hand. From Coach Carter to Love & Basketball to Space Jam, take a look at the 20 best basketball movies of all time.
