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1970s Sports Movies

Public list by WPS with 15 movies or TV shows/series

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Le Mans(1971)

1h 44min | Action, Drama
3.4/5 (with 93 votes)

Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.

Heaven Can Wait(1978)

3.3/5 (with 162 votes)

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

The World's Greatest Athlete(1973)

1h 46min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.

Goldengirl(1979)

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.

Penitentiary(1979)

1h 39min | Action, Drama, Crime
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

Bleacher Bums(1979)

1h 25min | TV Movie, Comedy

Bleacher Bums takes place in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, watching a game in progress on a summer afternoon.

Murder at the World Series(1977)

1h 40min | Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.

Los golpes bajos(1974)

1h 35min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Mario Sábato - With Adrián Ghio, Héctor Alterio, Hugo Arana, Aldo Barbero, Rodolfo Brindisi, Martín Coria, ...

The Butt(1974)

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.

Directed by Bo Widerberg - With Monica Zetterlund, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Georg Ericson, Ronnie Hellström, Ralf Edström, Ove Grahn, ...

One By One(1975)

1h 26min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Intended to be about the passing of the torch from Stewart to Cevert; One By One is a documentary chronicling the lives of Formula 1 racers in the seventies.

Directed by Claude Du Boc

Thayige Thakka Maga(1978)

At his detective wife's request, a young man joins a boxing club to find out about the illegal activities carried out by the head of the establishment.

Directed by V. Somashekhar - With Dr. Rajkumar

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story(1978)

1h 40min | TV Movie, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story was a 1978 made for TV movie telling the story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers. The movie was based on LeFlore's autobiography, Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues. It follows LeFlore from his heroin addiction, to his time in Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary, and tells of his discovery in prison by Billy Martin, who was then the manager of the Detroit Tigers. The role of Ron LeFlore was played by LeVar Burton. Larry B. Scott portrayed Ron LeFlore's younger brother. Former Detroit manager Billy Martin played himself, and former Tiger players Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, and Jim Northrup also appeared as themselves. The movie first aired on CBS Television on September 26, 1978.

Directed by William A. Graham - With LeVar Burton
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The Super Fight(1970)

1h 10min | Drama, Fantasy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Retired, undefeated Heavyweight World champion Rocky Marciano and the then current undefeated Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, sparred together with the footage then being edited to the instructions of a computer that had been designed to work out the result of this fantasy fight.

Directed by Murray Woroner - With Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee, Ferdie Pacheco, James J. Braddock, Joe Louis, ...

A Shot or It All Started on Saturday(1976)

1h 4min | Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on Kyr Bulychev's Sci-Fi story, a man acquires the ability to throw objects with precision. He tries to become a basketball player.

Directed by Serik Raibayev - With Esbolghan Zhaysangbaev, Asanali Ashimov, Dinmukhamet Akhimov, Tanat Zhaylibekov, Andrey Dudarenko, Galina Shetenova, ...
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