LC
Years ago

Basketball Movies

Was talking movies with a mate the opther day and we came up with a pretty lengthy list of basketball movies that I have also updatedwith those I have located online.

The list below is a great starting point if you want to watch a movie with a basketball flavour.

High School Hero (1927)
Campus Confessions (1938)
The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
The Basketball Fix (1951)
Go, Man, Go (1954)
Tall Story (1960)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Drive, He Said (1972)
Maurie (1973)
Shirts/Skins (1973)
The Gambler (1974)
Mixed Company (1974)
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
One on One (1977)
Coach (1978)
Fast Break (1979)
The American Game (1979)
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
Inside Moves (1980)
That Championship Season (1982)
Teenwolf (1985)
Hoosiers (1986)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Heaven is a Playground (1991)
Pistol: The Berth of a Legend (1991)
One Special Victory (1991)
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (1992)
Blue Chips (1994)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
The Air Up There (1994)
Above the Rim (1994)
The St. Tammany Miracle (1994)
Annie Q (1995)
Basketball Diaries (1995)
Forget Paris (1995)
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Celtic Pride (1996)
Eddie (1996)
Space Jam (1996)
Sunset Park (1996)
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
Soul in the Hole (1996)
The Sixth Man (1997)
Air Bud (1997)
He Got Game (1998)
BASEketball (1998)
Bad as I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story (1998)
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal (1998)
Big and Hairy (1998)
Passing Glory (1999)
New Jersey Turnpikes (1999)
The Basket (1999)
Game Day (1999)
Michael Jordan: An American Hero (1999)
That Championship Season (1999)
Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Love and Basketball (2000)
Whatever Happened to Micheal Ray? (2000)
Luck of the Irish (2001)
O (2001)
On Hallowed Ground: Streetball Champions of Rucker Park (2001)
Harvard Man (2001)
Boys Klub (2001)
Hoop Soldiers (2001)
Double Teamed (2002)
Like Mike (2002)
The Red Sneakers (2002)
A Season on the Brink (2002)
Crossing the Line (2002)
King of the Streets: The Ed "Booger" Smith Story (2002)
Something to Cheer About (2002)
Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002)
Don’t Nobody Love the Game More than Me (2002)
Juwanna Mann (2002)
Full Court Miracle (2003)
Hooked: The Legend of Demetrius Hook Mitchell (2003)
Edge of America (2004)
Skywalker: The David Thompson Story (2004)
Prison Ball (2004)
The Cookout (2004)
Coach Carter (2005)
Rebound (2005)
Through the Fire (2005)
Believe in Me (2006)
Glory Road (2006)
Church Ball (2006)
Crossover (2006)
Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
30 Days (2006)
The Heart of the Game (2006)
The Real: Rucker Park Legends (2006)
John Tucker Must Die (2006)
Home of the Giants (2007)
Semi Pro (2008)
The Mini's (2008)
Sweetwater (2008)
4Chosen (2008)
Gunnin For That #1 Spot (2008)
Streetballers (2009)
More Than a Game (2009)
Our Lady of Victory (2010)
Just Wright (2010)

There are quite a few on the above list that I either have not heard of previously and also not yet seen. Some are a bit of a stretch to be related to basketball (i.e. Forget Paris), but they do have basketball in them. If you know of any others missed, please let us know.

The list also poses the question, what are your all time basketball movie favourites?

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KingJames  
Years ago

That's a great list.

I don't think Finding Forrester should be in there though?

You missed "Above the Rim" 1994

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LC  
Years ago

How the hell did I leave that off the list - it's one I've seen and own! I edited the list to include it.

Finding Forrester is about a kid at school and focusses on his education, but combining it by playing hoops if I'm not mistaken? However very much a marginal basketball movie much in the mould of Forget Paris I would say.

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curious  
Years ago

Air Bud? ha!

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KingJames  
Years ago

Would "The Basketball Diaries" 1995 fit your list then? Probably not one to watch with the family :P

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LC  
Years ago

Basketball Diaries (1995) is already on my list...a very good but dark movie.

Air bud (1997) is a good call. Will edit and add to the list.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

what about LeBron's movie?

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Anon  
Years ago

oh and One Special Victory http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102596/plotsummary

Basically like mighty ducks on the basketball court with a twist

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Kazaam

Dont think it has any actual basketball in it.. but Shaq is a rapping genie so it's automatically the best movie ever.

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LC  
Years ago

I added One Special Victory to the list.

Kazaam is not making the list. Just like Flying High with Kareem does not make the list, as there is no reference to basketball.

LeBron's movie is not yet released is it?

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Mystro  
Years ago

Space Jam wins/end topic

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KingJames  
Years ago

"More Than a Game" was released 3 years ago according to IMDB :P

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anon  
Years ago

love and basketball

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KingJames  
Years ago

"Hooked: The Legend of Demetrius Hook Mitchell" 2003

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389010/

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curious  
Years ago

what is 'church ball' and 'just right'?? has anyone seen them are they worth tracking down to watch??

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curious  
Years ago

Above the rim and white men cant jump!! top the list in this category if you ask me!!!....awesome list i am going to go find a few of those i have not seen!! thanks

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Coopz  
Years ago

King James, More than a game, is actually a doco on Lebrons High School team. not a Movie as such. Fits more in the mould of MJ's Playground, Air Time etc.

Amazing doco, if you haven't seen it, highly recommend it, and i am not the worlds biggest Lebron fan, but that doco is great.

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LC  
Years ago

I have added "More than a Game" and "Hooked" to the list.

Whilst a like a lot of basketball movies, my personal favourites include White Man Can't Jump, Coach Carter, Hoosiers and He Got Game.

I've never personally seen Church Ball or Just Wright. Probably worth doing a google search,

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KingJames  
Years ago

He has "Hoop Dreams" so that is similar to "More than a game".

"He got game" and "Coach Carter" are my favourites.

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The Answer  
Years ago

You could *technically* add The Blind Side to the list.

Big Mike gets admitted to the school after Coach sees him playing playground basketball with his friend....

A 30 second scene, but pivotal to the whole story...

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Anon  
Years ago

Church ball is a light hearted feel good sports movie. If it was going cheap at a DVD sale I'd buy it but I wouldn't pay top dollar for it.

Summary
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457303/plotsummary

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The Situation  
Years ago

The basketball scene is Soul Man is the best clip ever.

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Anon  
Years ago

The Minis (2008) which stared Denis Rodman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1009017/

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ashman  
Years ago

http://www.sandlotshrink.com/moviebkb.htm

Is the list I have always looked at

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XY  
Years ago

Isn't there a scene in one of the Lethal Weapon movies where they are shooting hoops in the gym? There would be quite a lot of movies where that sort of thing happens.

How far removed from the actual story line did you want the basketball content to be?

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LC  
Years ago

Basketball IMO should be a recurring theme if not the central component of the movie to make it on this list.

Scenes in movies where the characters shoot hoops such as the Lethal Weapon example and which is common to many TV shows will not get in on this list. That for mine is a whole different list altogether.

"The Mini's" will be added to the list.

I'll go through and add a lot of movies not on this list from that link when I get a chance.

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billo  
Years ago

Certainly not a bball film by any means, but there's a great basketball scene in the Cable Guy.

"Oh, I see, we're playing prison rules huh?"



Also, how good is youtube and the internet in general? I still can't believe the things we can do that were utterly unthinkable 20 years ago.

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XY  
Years ago

Hmmm, The Air Up There - great childhood memories of Kevin Bacon's unstoppable "Shake'n'Bake".

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Skud  
Years ago

How about the South Park creators first movie BASKetball ;)

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Skud  
Years ago

Oh wait..its in your list..ignore my comment lol

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ankles  
Years ago

Sorry to be picky but I think it was actually BASEketball.

Also - I remember as a young hoops junkie watching a movie about a guy who made it onto the Lakers roster (Mitch Kupchak played the obligatory genuine basketball talent). I can't think of the name (I think the heroes name was Rory) and none of the names on the list jog my memory.

We're talking early eighties cinema release (though I susepct very short-lived and not very wide).

Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

"They're automatic you dumbass!"

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LC  
Years ago

I just edited the list with a whole list of inclusions from the website link provided by ashman.

I think we have a very comprehensive list of basketball movies & documentaries.

Anyone come close to owning the collection?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

White Men Can't Jump and Blue Chips are still by far the two best basketball movies I've ever seen.

Mad silly props to The Cable Guy reference, a classic comedy.

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ineedmore  
Years ago

Great list. Thanks.I've printed and will work through it.
Does Blind Side have Eddie Shannon in it?

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curious  
Years ago

17 again?? definetly a basketball theme in there somewhere......and speaking of zac efron, high school high basketball dance scene?? ha!

just joking these are way too obscure....(maybe) .. for the record the original list is getting epic, thanks and well done!!

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johnny_sack  
Years ago

"Skyhook" - English Title (2000, Serbia)

Saw this on SBS sometime ago (8-9 years ago). Thought it was pretty good - framing the civil war in context of basketball (or vice versa). Like most movies from that part of the world focusing on that era it is pretty dark and uncompromising (with a pretty fatalistic sense of humor).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209180/

Surely someone else on hoops saw this...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

"To the baseline SIRS"

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Interested  
Years ago

"Juwanna Mann" is a basketball movie that I found around 5 years ago and it is hilarious.

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ando  
Years ago

Why isn't 'Glory Road' on this list? One of the best basketball movies ever.

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