Under the guidance of Cesar Faz, who himself was a non-successful Major League baseball player, and their priest, the children go to the U. S. following their dream of becoming real Little League players, propelled only by their passion for the sport and their belief in God.

They have to surpass many obstacles on the way: lack of material resources, the disapproval of the parents, bigotry (they weren’t allowed into some buses and restaurants) and even being deported but in the end arrive at their destination – Williamsport and earn their place into the history of baseball.

Release Date: N/A

Genre: Drama, Sports

Cast: Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin

Director: William Dear

He teaches them that in order to aspire to a black belt you have to be like him: patient, perseverant, and self-controlled. But is the master capable of following his own teachings? Well, he’s mental strength is put to the test when he’s cheating wife leaves him. And he fails lamentably. He turns in to a nervous wreck, bullying everybody around him.

Then he pulls himself together in an ultimate effort to recompose himself and, together with two loyal apprentices and his bizarre best friend Mike McAllister, go to see their idol Chuck “The Truck” Wallace and invite him to perform a demonstration at his studio. But is meeting “The Truck” the recipe for his rehabilitation?

Release Date: September 26th, 2008

Genre: Comedy, Action, Sports

Cast: Danny McBride, Mary Jane Bostwick, Spencer Moreno, Carlos Lopez, Ben Best

Director: Jody Hill

We are shown the eight characters from different perspectives: we see them through the eyes of their loved ones; in their hometowns with their families and friends; we see them talking about their life, dreams and future expectations, and, of course, about their common passion:  basketball. We see them as they progress from being clumsy and camera-shy to being used to the media attention, the make-up and spotlight.

Ultimately this documentary is about dreaming and living the dream. About how much you have to sacrifice in order to be among the best and, ultimately, about broken dreams, about winners and losers.

Release date: October the 10^th 2008

Genre: Documentary, Sports

Cast: Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Donte Greene, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Love, Kyle Singler and Lance Stephenson

Director: Adam Yauch

C-Dub is a pro-basketball wannabe Asian American who fails in realizing his lifelong dream but resolves in blaming genetics for his failure. He lives with his parents and in the shadow of his brother who is a doctor and a ping-pong champion.

With his parents and brother injured, C-Dub has to take over the family business and also win the National Golden Cock Tournament to keep the award in the family. At first he sees the whole thing as a big waste of time and energy but soon realizes that by winning the award he could earn his family’s respect for the first and also he could win the heart of the girl he’s in love with.

Release Date: May 9th, 2008

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sports

Cast: Jimmy Tsai, Smith Cho, Khary Payton, Roger Fan, Peter Paige, Jim Lau

Director: Jessica Yu

The baseball team is formed of 12 year old children. The team is about to be thrown out of the league.

The alcoholic coach (played by Billy Bob Thornton) manages to turn the failing baseball team into champions again.

Release Date: July 22, 2005

Genre: Comedy, Sport

Cast:

Billy Bob Thornton (Morris Buttermaker)

Greg Kinnear (Ray Bullock)

Director: Richard Linklater

If you can make it to the NBA, you’ll make it anywhere! But there is a long road to take before getting there, and a lot of work to stay in.

The film focuses on Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, a 7ft 6in phenomenon; he has managed to succeed in the NBA in his first year, despite all the cultural differences and the language issue.

We can all imagine that facing Shaquille O’Neal cannot be easy on anybody, let alone on a newcomer. So Yao Ming had to adapt well and fast; he had a lot of help from his American translator and did not forget, even for a second, that he was Chinese and that the wisdom of his culture was always a good place to search for solutions and advice.

After hard work, good faith and self confidence, Yao Ming became the sports idol of many people all around the world and definitely one of the best known Chinese public figures.

Release Date: 29 April 2005

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles Barkley, Frank Deford, Steve Francis, Michael Irvin, Ernie Johnson, Cuttino Mobley, Shaquille O’Neal, Colin Pine, Glen Rice, Kenny Smith, Ming Yao

Director: Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern

Saint Ralph (2005)

Ralph Walker is a 14 year old boy who lives with his mother in Hamilton, a town in Ontario.

He is convinced that one day he will do something remarkable, but now he has other worries on his mind. Hid father has recently passed away and his mother is very ill and is in the hospital.

Ralph ends up going to the Catholic School run by Father Fitzpatrick. The father discovers that Ralph has a talent for sports activities, and encourages him to train as a runner.

When the doctors tell him that only a miracle can save his mother from death, Ralph is determined to win the Boston marathon, totally convinced that his victory will save his mother.

Release Date: 5 August 2005

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport

Cast: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Shauna MacDonald, Gordon Pinsent, Michael Kanev, Tamara Hope, Jennifer Tilly, Miranda Black

Director: Michael McGowan

Radio (2003)

In “Radio” the action takes place in the sixties, in a small town in Carolina.

Harry Jones coaches the local high school team and he is very committed to his job; so committed that he doesn’t have enough time to spend with his little girl, Mary Helen, or with his wife, Linda.

He meets Radio, a student with severe mental problems and takes him as his help in coaching the team.

People are not sure whether Radio can make it or not, or if he can help the tea in any way; but he decides not to give up and he will remain with the high school team for a long period of thirty years.

It is a dramatic store based on real facts and it means to show that all it takes is good will and respect for other human beings in order to help those less fortunate lead a normal life.

Release Date: 24 October 2003

Genre: Drama, Sport

Cast:  Debra Winger, Patrick Breen, Ed Harris, Chris Mulkey, Sarah Drew, Riley Smith, Alfre Woodward, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bill Roberson, S. Epatha Erkerson

Director: Michael Tollin

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Only one man could lead his team to victory ….. but that person was busy.

Will Ferrell is playing in a comedy full of life about a world based too much on competition – Football League for Juniors.

“Kicking & Screaming” presents Ferrell in the role of Phil Weston, an ordinary man, who had to bear it all his life on his father always eager to win, Buck (Robert Duvall).

When Phil decides to lead the football team of his 10-year-old son, he will play for the title against Buck, coach from another team.

It will be paid old policies, and Phil and Buck will resort to extreme measures to win the trophy.

This going to be an interesting game, you never know which team will score higher.

Who will be the winner? Watch and find out!!!

Release Date: 13 May 2005 (USA)

Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport

Cast: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Kate Walsh, Musetta Vander, Dylan McLaughlin, Josh Hutcherson

Director: Jesse Dylan

Madison

Inspired by a true story, “Madison” is a drama about a father-son relationship, located in the competitive season hydroplanes in 1971.

Jim McCormick has abandoned the life of a hydroplane pilot to settle down,  he found a family and got a job as a debugger for air conditioning systems.

Although trying to embrace his new life, he still craves for racing, but his abandoned hydroplane became the target of the people’s ironies.

Meanwhile, the city has experienced harsh financial difficulties and the fight right now is among the big sponsors who represent the rivals that compete against Jim.

Madison city is suddenly asked to host the prestigious Gold Cup championship and Jim could not resist  to lose the chance of being back in competition, although his fellows are not at all part of it.

He tries to get community support in an attempt to play city pride, although his wife, Bonnie is eager to move somewhere far from Madison’s melancholy, and his son, Mike, is disappointed to see how rich competitors win every time.

But Jim is stubborn and doesn’t give up, he is decided to take on competition with the big names.

Release Date: 22 April 2005 (USA)

Genre: Drama, Sport

Cast: James Caviezel, Mary McCormack, Jake Lloyd, Bruce Dern, Paul Dooley

Director: William Bindley

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Life at 40 is not exactly as pink and as promising as it used to be at 20………that is what Jerry Ferro noticed on his 40th birthday too.

He was once a promising amateur boxer and he could have made it, but he just wasn’t ambitious enough for it.

So he quit while he was yet another amateur; started working on construction sites and went from one to another, always thinking about what it would feel like to put his life in order.

His love life is not exactly perfect either so he is seriously thinking about what to do.

In an attempt to have a second chance at life and boxing, Jerry steps back into the ring and trains with Eddie Bell, a venerable boxing coach.

Soon after he begins a funny quest for what he never had the courage to go for in his youth: the Olympic gold.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport

Cast: Adam Carolla, Oswaldo Castillo, Harold House Moore, Jonathan Hernandez, Heather Juergensen

Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Nacho Libre

The chef from a Mexico monastery realizes that he’s not made only for the kitchen. So, one day he finds a way of winning money in an unusual way: lucha libre (wrestling).

Nacho discovers that he has a special gift in this domain and he ends up fighting with the most famous wrestlers in Mexico.

As he works in a monastery and the nuns do not agree with this kind of activity, he has to wear a mask during the fights, to hide his face.

In this way, he tries to make the nun Encarnacion to like him and to help the little orphans from the monastery with the money he wins.

In this comedy, Jack Black plays one of the most eccentric characters from his entire career.

For this role the actor had to make considerable physical training.

This was the first time when he shot a sport’s movie and he felt like “recruit in a training camp”.

Release Date: 16 June 2006 (USA)

Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport

Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose, Moises Arias, Carla Jimenez

Director: Jared Hess

NASCAR

If you’re passionate about racing and you are interested in a documentary movie, here’s a very famous one: NASCAR 3D: The Imax Experience

This film is a big-screen insight into one of America’s most successful industries, NASCAR racing.

‘NASCAR 3D: The Imax Experience’ is a sports documentary, which captures the experience of driving with 190 kph. For all you racing fans out there, this is the movie for you to watch with the whole gang!

Release Date: March 12, 2004

Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport

Cast:

Tony Steward (Himself)

Matt Kenseth (Himself)

Jeff Gordon (Himself)

Ryan Newman (Himself)

Director: Simon Wincer

Breakfast with Scot

‘Breakfast with Scot’ is a comedy about a gay couple, Eric and Sam, who end up in the situation of having an 11 year-old son, named Scot. This new situation reveals Eric and Sam’s paternal side and feelings, which they didn’t even know it existed.

Eric is a ex hockey player and Sam is a lawyer on sport issues. They have been a couple for 4 years. When Billy, Sam’s younger brother accepts a job in South America and his ex-girlfriend Juli dies of an overdose, the little boy is sent to Billy, although he is not his biological father.

Sam feels responsible for his brother, and, although in the beginning Eric doesn’t accept, Sam decides to take care of little Scot for him.

In a short period of time, Sam and Eric get really attached to the boy and see him as their son. When moment comes for Billy to take Scot back, Sam and Eric can’t stand the idea of losing him.

Release Date: January 11, 2008

Genre: Drama, Music, Sport, Romance, Comedy

Cast:

Noah Bernett (Scot)

Thomas Cavanagh (Eric)

Ben Shenkman (Sam)

Colin Cunningham (Billy)

Director: Laurie Lynd

Ultimate X: The Movie

In August 2001, in Brotherly Love city, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the most talented athletes in extreme sports, like motocross and skateboarding, get together to show their talent in the Summer X Games competition.

The movie is a documentary in which we can admire the most spectacular moments of the competition.

The extreme sports presented in the film are BMX riding, motocross, skateboarding and street lugging.

Let yourself impressed by the spectacular moments of this competition.

Release Date: May 6, 2002

Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport

Cast:

Tony Hawk (Himself)

Carey Hart (Himself)

Brian Deegan (Himself)

Director: Bruce Hendricks

Competing in the Transpac, the most well known sail boat on the open ocean, the team

are to show their skills and speed of reaction in a 2,300 miles race against world renowned professionals.

They had training in Hawaii with a highly appreciated sailing trainer and they have formed very strong ties; they are on their way to becoming an indestructible team of much more value than all its members taken one by one.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Documentary, Sport

Cast: Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Chris Clark, Charlie Enright

Director: Paul Crowder

The main character of this film is played by the fascinating actor Mickey Rourke; he has both the charisma and the personal history in order to play this complicated role.

We are looking at the life story of Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson, a professional free fighter which was extremely popular in the ‘80s, but who is now spending his days in third category gyms.

A heart attack and his forced retirement will lead him to analyzing his life and to the conclusion that he has to change a few things, like his relationship with his daughter.

The history, written by Robert Siegel, is meant to touch the viewer’s soft spot, so it required simple, direct and classic lines, which is what the director Darren Aronofsky did.

Another element that will most likely draw a lot of attention is Bruce Springsteen who can be heard all through the trailer, and who has composed one of the film’s soundtracks.

Release Date: 16 January 2009

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport

Cast: Mickey Rourke  (Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson),  Marisa Tomei (Cassidy), Evan Rachel Wood  (Stephanie Robinson)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

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