Sports injury movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sports injury movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sincere, captivating, inspirational, sentimental and touching films and TV shows about / with sports injury, athlete's life, ambition, bare chested male, friendship, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, coach and hospital plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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sports injury movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as sports injury: Concussion (2015), My All American (2015), The Rider (2017), Just Wright (2010), Mountain Medic (2008), Ice Girls (2016), 16-Love (2012), In Orange (2004), Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008), The Bronze (2015).

List of sports injury movies

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 7.1
 100K
Concussion (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought ...
Style: inspirational, medical drama, captivating, realistic, compassionate ...
Plot: american football, doctor, professional sports, autopsy, football, sports injury, research, football player, brain damage, uncover truth, investigation, biopic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, washington d.c., usa, pennsylvania
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My All American (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Freddie Steinmark, an underdog on the gridiron, faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing
Plot: american football, football, football team, coach, championship, bare chested male, boyfriend, underdog, father son relationship, lsd, athlete, motivation ...
Time: 60s
Place: texas, denver colorado, austin texas
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Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Chronicles the life of Don Cherry, from playing minor league hockey to coaching the NHL's Boston Bruins.
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, hockey player, award, moving, determination, pet dog, coach, training, car trouble, fight, press conference ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: canada
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 7.4
 21K
The Rider (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternatives ...
Style: indie film, inspirational, suspenseful, captivating, touching ...
Plot: rodeo, horse, horse riding, human animal relationship, rodeo cowboy, riding accident, cowboy, father son relationship, horse trainer, prairie, autism, friend ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south dakota
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 5.9
 16K
Just Wright (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.
Style: rom com, realistic, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: basketball, black, love triangle, looking for love, couples, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle, african american, father daughter relationship, black girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, indiana, philadelphia
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 6.4
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Mountain Medic (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.
Style: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, suspense, bleak
Plot: small town, doctor, mountain, family relations, hospital, danger, twists and turns, heroes, rescue, husband wife relationship, disorder, society ...
Place: alps
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 5.9
 434
Ice Girls (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A figure skater is injured during a competition. A coach that hired her then helps her rehab her injury so that she may live her dream.
Style: satirical, captivating, entertaining
Plot: skating, sports injury, competition, gym, ice skater, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, figure skating, athlete's life, dream, teenager, follow your dream ...
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 5.6
 2K
16-Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When the number one junior player in the country is injured, she begins to discover the teenage life she never got to live... and find the love she never thought she'd have.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: tennis, prom, coming of age, teen romance, lifestyle, fall in love, teenage life, teenager, self discovery, teenage love, fish out of water, popularity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, russia
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 6.6
 2K
In Orange (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An 11 year old talented soccer player, Remco, has one big dream: to be selected for the national team under 12 years. His father Erik coaches him and everything seems to work out fine, until Erik suddenly dies. Remco and mother Sylvia are shocked. ...
Style: serious, feel good, uplifting, captivating, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, football, against the odds, follow your dream, ambition, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, hopes, athlete and trainer, parents and children, death in the family, soccer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gym teacher, youth, ambition, sports injury, lifestyle, redemption, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, school, family life ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.1
 13K
The Bronze (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life ...
Style: semi serious, absurd, light, funny, colorful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: gymnastics, sex scene, olympics, rise and fall, training, rivalry, ambition, rudeness, female protagonist, toilet humor, sexual humor, women in sport ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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Las Bravas F.C. (2022)
Genre: Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A former soccer player who was once the best in the world becomes the new coach of his town's women's soccer team and promises to make them champions in order to avoid going to jail.
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing
Plot: soccer, competition, athlete's life, football player, lifestyle, soccer coach, football, sports injury, lifestyle change, athlete and trainer, getting home
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 7.3
 100K
Eddie the Eagle (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, motivational, emotional, art house ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly
Plot: skiing, life, athlete, olympics, following a dream, underdog, winter olympics, determination, biopic, coach, winter, snow ...
Time: 20th century, year 2015, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place: england, britain, london
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 8.0
 1K
HIStory (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: HIStory (pronounced "his story") is a Taiwanese streaming drama anthology series created by Ting Fei Chang for the online streaming service Line TV. Each season presents stand-alone stories with different plots and main characters focusing ...
Style: yaoi, disturbing, touching, sentimental, dorama ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: romantic relationship, gay asian, boys love, gay interest, gay, gay subtext, love, relationships, love affair, love and romance, lgbtq, lgbtqi ...
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 6.6
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Thumping Spike (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A volleyball coach and his players aim for success during which they develop stronger bond and friendship for each other as well as teamwork. This youthful story shows sportsmanship and heart thumping romance.
Style: captivating, semi serious, entertaining
Plot: volleyball, ambition, sport team, athlete and trainer, coach, team, romantic relationship, direction and purpose, love interest, professional rivalry, high school life, love affair ...
Place: korea
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For Love of the Game (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot: baseball, loneliness, love story, unlikely friendships, storytelling, looking for love, athlete's life, love and romance, training, major league, hopes, motivation ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, detroit, new york, london, bronx new york city
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Two for the Win (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A world champion ski racer and local ski instructor find romance on the slopes as he returns home and prepares for the biggest race of his life.
Style: psychological, romantic, disturbing, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: athlete and trainer, ski resort, physical therapy, male female relationship, winner, love interest, snow skiing, skiing, romantic friendship, christmas, love and romance, skier ...
Place: new york
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 7.7
 18K
61* (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: baseball, friendship, rivalry, fan, contests and competitions, against the odds, fame, uninhibited rivalry, rising to stardom, ambition, lifestyle, underdog ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s, year 1998
Place: usa, north dakota, new york, baltimore, kansas city ...
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H2: The Days with You (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Drama series based on manga H2 by Adachi Mitsuru about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.
Style: thrilling, semi serious, satirical, psychological, captivating
Plot: baseball, baseball player, friendship, lifestyle, athlete's life, professional sports, female protagonist, competitor, satire, ambition, sports injury, childhood friend ...
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Personal Best (1982)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: This film chronicles the relationship of two female world-class athletes. Mariel Hemingway and real-life Olympian pentathlete Patrice Donnelly play runners who train together, compete against each other and eventually become lovers. Scott Glenn ...
Style: sexual, erotic, uplifting, tense, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, nudity, running, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, track and field, gay, olympics, female nudity, female athlete, sexuality ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 70s, 20th century, year 1976 ...
Place: oregon
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Any Given Sunday (1999)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to ...
Style: inspirational, intense, stylized, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: american football, football, underdog, coach, sport team, nudity, desire for fame, success, ambition, fame, business, entrepreneur ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: boston, usa, florida, los angeles, dallas texas ...
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Not Cinderella's Type (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Indy Zimmerman's life is far from perfect. With a step mom who seems to make it her goal in life to make indy's life horrible, step sister's who want nothing to do with her, and a boy who ruined her life suddenly wanting to be a part ...
Style: romantic, sincere, realistic, compassionate, fairy tale ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cinderella, cinderella story, teenage love, family relations, orphan, love and romance, exploitation, faith, teenage protagonist, church, royalty, football player ...
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 7.0
 5K
Journeyman (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A boxer suffers a serious head injury during a fight, and must deal with the consequences.
Style: rough, inspirational, sentimental, exciting, art house ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, rise and fall, rivalry, courage, transformation, rage, ambition, violence, boxer, medicine, memory loss ...
Place: usa, england, britain, united kingdom
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Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
Style: psychotronic, terrifying, grindhouse, natural horror, cult classic ...
Plot: wrestling, rape, female wrestler, mad scientist, monkey, monster, exploitation, gorilla, heart transplant, hospital, creature feature, medical ...
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The Striker with Number 9 (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Greece
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of a talented yet self-destructive soccer player in Greece.
Plot: football, soccer, gay, male nudity, sports injury, nightclub, bartender, soccer coach, soccer match, dance, talent, football player ...
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 7.1
 39K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
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 6.6
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Jack (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, family life, teenage love, parents and children, self discovery, couples, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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Against All Odds (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be ...
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gangster, murder, couples, mother daughter relationship, american football, power relations, dangerous attraction, rescue, against the odds, danger, dishonesty, love triangle ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, mexico, latin america, california, usa
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 6.1
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Alex (1992)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, crying
Audience: teens
Plot: olympics, swimming, against the odds, urban ghetto, power relations, underdog, athlete's life, young lovers, athlete and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, human spirit ...
Time: 90s, 1950s, year 1960, year 1959, 60s
Place: new zealand, rome italy, europe
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 6.7
 4K
Breath (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
Style: captivating, exciting, sincere, melancholic, independent film
Plot: surfing, friendship between boys, teenager, coming of age, friendship, surf, grownups, danger, ocean, mentor, adaptation, storytelling ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia
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