The Best Sports Movies of All Time!

We all like to watch a good movie from time to time. It can help relax us or give us inspiration, and motivation, or simply offer some good entertainment.

The movie industry has boomed with the rise of the internet and everyone got the ability to have some exposure thanks to the internet. Many industries that were prior to the internet boom only land-based, became available online – for example, the sports bookmakers – that now not only have more visitors but often have offers like the Betfair Sign up Offer.

Sports fans not only like watching the games and having fun online – but they also love sports movies – and there have been tons of them over the years. Here are the best sports movies that you should watch right now.

Hoosiers

Everyone likes a good basketball movie, especially people who enjoy watching the NBA. Basketball is one of the world’s most popular sports and it comes as no surprise that even in the 1980s. Basketball was actually booming in the 1980s and the 1990s, so it comes as no surprise that when the movie was released in 1986, it did quite well. It also helps that it had a decent script and that the two-star actors were Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper, the latter winning an Oscar for his performance.

The movie is about two people starting a basketball team, both of which are questionable for their roles. 

The Way Back 

Another basketball movie, you say? This one has a similar approach to the good old Hoosiers, but is actually a lot younger. It is a great movie that was released in 2020. A recent take on the drunken basketball coach who needs something to pull him back from the abyss that is alcoholism.

Starring Ben Affleck who is always known to deliver a solid performance when there is drama involved, his character, the coach Jack, eventually finds his way back to the world through coaching a high-school team. Or does he? Watch and find out.

Moneyball

Nothing beats science, so when a mathematician and economics graduate and a baseball manager meet up, they decide that science should be the best way to form a competitive baseball team. Computers rule our world and we keep coming back to them so it comes as no surprise that Brad Pitt’s character, Billy Beane, finds a way to use computers to his advantage. That advantage comes in the shape of Jonah Hill’s character, Peter Brand. It’s a rather interesting combination that revolutionised the baseball world at the time.

This is a great movie that shows the inner workings of baseball, but also sports. 

The Fighter

Boxing is one of the world’s most interesting sports, often considered a rather noble sport. Micky Ward, played by Mark Wahlberg, wants to get back into boxing and he does so through the help of his older brother, Dicky Eklund. Eklund has a cocaine addiction, so not everything is cut and dry.

This movie won two Oscars, both for supporting actor and actress, namely the performances of Christian Bale who plays Eklund and Melissa Leo who plays Alice Ward, wife of the film’s protagonist. It is a great movie, released in 2010.

These are some of the world’s best sports movies.