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1980s Sports Movies

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Bull Durham(1988)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 239 votes)

Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.

The Blood of Heroes(1989)

3.0/5 (with 55 votes)

Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.

Rocky VI(1986)

9min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 23 votes)

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.

Animalympics(1980)

3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

Animalympics is all about the Animal Olympics Contest where all the animals around the world gather to take part in everything from skiing in North America to the very long marathon race in humid conditions.

Directed by Steven Lisberger

Night Game(1989)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror, Drama, Thriller, Crime
2.0/5 (with 10 votes)

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

North Shore(1987)

PG
| 1h 36min | Romance / Love, Action, Drama
2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

On a small stretch of coastline as powerful as a man's will, Rick Kane came to surf the big waves. He found a woman who would show him how to survive, and a challenge unlike any other.

Directed by William Phelps - With Matt Adler, Nia Peeples, Gerry Lopez, John Philbin, Gregory Harrison

Sport Goofy in Soccermania(1987)

G
| 20min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Uncle Scrooge donates an old beat-up trophy for Huey, Dewey and Louie's soccer tournament. But when he finds out that it is actually worth a million dollars, he has to put together a ragtag team, led by Goofy to win it back.

Thunderground(1989)

1h 32min | Action, Adventure
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a match with "the man" - the mysterious king of bare-knuckled boxing. There are no rules for this fight...one man wins when the other dies.

Hotshot(1987)

1h 39min | Drama
1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

Directed by Rick King

The Jesse Owens Story(1984)

G
| 2h 54min | Drama, History
4.3/5 (with 2 votes)

The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.

Directed by Richard Irving - With Dorian Harewood

Knockout(1989)

1h 50min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

Boxer(1984)

Shanker is jailed for theft and there meets with Tony, who introduces him to professional boxing, after witnessing him fight an inmate. When he gets out of jail, Shanker takes up professional boxing.

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Long Gone(1987)

1h 50min
3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league championship amidst the corruption and racism of the American south.

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story(1985)

1h 34min | Action, Drama, TV Movie
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story is a TV movie produced by Sylvester Stallone.

Directed by Richard Michaels - With Robert Blake

A Winner Never Quits(1986)

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. The story of Pete Gray.

Directed by Mel Damski - With Keith Carradine

Those Glory Glory Days(1983)

1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.

The Pigs vs. The Freaks(1984)

In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, the hippie "freaks" take on the town police "pigs" in a football game. On opposing sides of the fence are Frank, the police sergeant, and his son Neal. Also at odds are Neal and one time friend Doug, a returned Vietnam Vet who has joined the police force, who is also protective of his younger sister who prefers the hippie element. To make things even more intense, Mickey South, who has fled to Canada to avoid the war, returns to play for the Freaks football team. Tensions mount and all are challenged as the climax of the film approaches.

Directed by Dick Lowry - With Eugene Roche

Fire & Ice(1986)

1h 23min | Action, Adventure, Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Their first meeting is a disaster: he falls off the ski lift, and when she jumps to rescue him he leads her on a Key Stone Cops chase down the mountain. For JOHN EAVES, six-time winner of the Freestyle World Cup and stunt man for James Bond, it's love at first sight. For World Champion Freestyle skier SUZY CHAFFEE, it's a see-ya-later-buddy. But John doesn't give up easily. He decides that if the only way to win her means following her across country, then that's what he'll do. Starting in Manhattan he trudges 3,000 miles, through urban jungle and flatland desert, all the time fantasizing about what they'll do when they're together. Spectacular filming of incredible ski stunts and snow dancing blend with a power-punching soundtrack to make FIRE AND ICE a movie packed with action and adventure. If you don't ski, you will!

Directed by Willy Bogner - With Suzy Chaffee, John Eaves

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige(1981)

1h 38min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.

The Cap(1985)

24min | Drama

A baseball crazed 12 year old gets, and loses, a prized cap. A father struggles for dignity in his son's eyes. Based on Morley Callaghan's short story "A Cap for Steve.".

Directed by Robert A. Duncan - With Michael Ironside
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