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1970s Sports Comedy Movies

Public list by WPS with 32 movies or TV shows/series

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Slap Shot(1977)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 3min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 147 votes)

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

Herbie Rides Again(1974)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 28min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 171 votes)

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

The Bad News Bears(1976)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 42min | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 124 votes)

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

They Called Him Bulldozer(1978)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Action, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 143 votes)

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.

The Gumball Rally(1976)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.

Gus(1976)

1h 36min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.

Semi-Tough(1977)

2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

The Main Event(1979)

2.5/5 (with 20 votes)

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.

Let's Do It Again(1975)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Crime
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh(1979)

1h 42min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.

Matilda(1978)

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club(1970)

1h 55min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.

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Fast Break(1979)

1h 47min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.

Directed by Jack Smight - With Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Bernard King, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Conte, Reb Brown, ...

I due maghi del pallone(1970)

1h 35min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?

Coach(1978)

1.8/5 (with 4 votes)

An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the team loses, so he can fire her for poor performance.

Directed by Bud Townsend - With Cathy Lee Crosby, Michael Biehn, Keenan Wynn, Channing Clarkson, Steve Nevil, Meridith Baer, ...

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings(1976)

1h 50min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.

I due assi del guantone(1971)

1h 37min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters.

Racquet(1979)

1h 27min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.

Directed by David Winters

The One and Only(1978)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling.

Willi Manages the Whole Thing(1972)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 24min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

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My Name Is Rocco Papaleo(1971)

2h | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Rocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.

Playing the Field(1974)

1h 52min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.

Tatlı Dillim(1972)

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Tarik is the best scorer basketball player of his team and is very popular. One day he comes to a village with his team to do entreman. There, he met the village teacher, Emine. He loves her very much and they get married immediately. But, some days after he had to return to istanbul. He wants Emine to go to istanbul with him but she says that she can't leave the village and her students.

The Prize Fighter(1979)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.

Squeeze Play(1979)

1h 34min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.

Sport, Sport, Sport(1970)

1h 25min | Documentary, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.

Directed by Elem Klimov - With Georgy Svetlani

Here Come the Tigers(1978)

1h 27min | Kids & Family
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A cop and his partner manage a little league baseball team, trying to turn the group of misfits into a competitive team.

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham

Second Wind(1976)

1h 33min | Drama, Comedy

A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.

Directed by Donald Shebib

Manny's Orphans(1978)

1h 32min | Comedy, Kids & Family

Manny coaches soccer for the fashionable Creighton Hall school, but is relieved of duty because he is 'not a good match' for the school. He finds a job at a Catholic home for orphans, where he forms a new soccer team, with the help of one very good player Pepe who turns out to be a girl. 'Pepe' is the sister of one of the orphans, who comes to the all-boy orphanage posing as a boy, because her former foster home was an abusive environment. Along the way, Manny has incurred a gambling debt, his creditors begin to lean on him, and the boys find out. They set up a soccer game and stake the outcome against Manny's debt. If they win, the debt will be forgiven.

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham - With Malachy McCourt, Jim Baker, Victor Miller

The Kid from Left Field(1979)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands.

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