Basketball movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant basketball movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, feel good, touching, humorous, captivating and inspirational films and TV shows about / with basketball, sport team, ambition, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, basketball player, coach, teenager and contests and competitions plots mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, Japan, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as basketball: Thunderstruck (2012), Coach Carter (2005), Swagger (2021), Three Seconds (2017), Glory Road (2006), Hoosiers (1986), Above the Rim (1994), The Way Back (2020), Love & Basketball (2000), Rebound (2005).

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Thunderstruck (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Brian is a 16 year-old who can't play basketball, but he still wants to play like his hero, Kevin Durant. At an Oklahoma City Thunder game, Brian gets chosen to shoot a half court shot which he misses and hits the mascot in the process. Later ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, light
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: basketball, switching roles, disorder, athlete's life, supernatural, wish come true, life turned upside down, youth, teenage life, unsuccessful, down on your luck, body swapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
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 7.3
 170K
Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Style: inspirational, motivational, touching, hood, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: basketball, teacher, high school, mentor, teachers and students, underdog, athlete and trainer, life philosophy, athlete's life, human spirit, dedicated educator, sport team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, sacramento california
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 7.4
 4K
Swagger (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore the world of AAU basketball in the nation’s capital, and the players, their families and coaches who walk the fine line between dreams and ambition, and opportunism and corruption.
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: basketball, basketball player, direction and purpose, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, professional rivalry, following a dream, basketball team, sport team, family problems, lifestyle, aspiration ...
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Three Seconds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play ...
Style: atmospheric, inspirational, captivating, motivational
Plot: basketball, sport team, basketball player, olympics, terror, kgb, handicapped, coach, athlete, disability, reputation, stubbornness ...
Time: 70s, year 1970, year 1972
Place: eastern europe, lithuania, munich germany, moscow russia
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 7.2
 49K
Glory Road (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sincere, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens, kids
Plot: basketball, underdog, racism, athlete and trainer, coach, college, racial slur, teamwork, racial segregation, justice, unlikely friendships, civil rights ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place: texas, usa, america, mexico, maryland ...
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 7.4
 51K
Hoosiers (1986)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
Style: inspirational, realistic, exciting, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: basketball, high school, small town, underdog, alcoholic, high school basketball, father son relationship, championship, basketball coach, coach, athlete and trainer, redemption ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1986, 50s
Place: indiana, usa, indianapolis indiana
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 6.6
 17K
Above the Rim (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Style: hood, inspirational, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hip hop, african american, gang, african american gangster, high school, urban, ghetto, black, violence, gangster, coming of age ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem
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 6.7
 52K
The Way Back (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
Style: realistic, touching, inspirational, serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, basketball coach, prodigy, coach, sport team, alcoholism, basketball team, ambition, underdog, beer, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: future, year 1998
Place: usa, los angeles
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Love & Basketball (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow ...
Style: touching, sexy, uplifting, romantic, intense ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: basketball, high school, friendship, best friends in love, black, true love, college, relationships, coming of age, african american, love, love story ...
Time: 80s, year 2000, year 1993, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, barcelona, italy
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 5.1
 14K
Rebound (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, happy ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, college, sport team, youth, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds, prodigy, ambition, teenage life ...
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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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The Sixth Man (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. Some time later, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in ...
Style: humorous, inspirational, semi serious, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, ghost, college, life philosophy, death, sport team, contests and competitions, youth, ambition, team, underdog, athlete ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: british columbia, usa, seattle
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 7.0
 8K
Rise (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After emigrating to Greece from Nigeria, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. Desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but undermined by a system ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: basketball, basketball player, professional, biopic, career, basketball team, champion, professional sports, athlete's life, immigrant, direction and purpose, competitor ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 90s, year 2013, year 2004 ...
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 6.9
 51K
He Got Game (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Style: inspirational, hood, captivating, rough, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama
Plot: basketball, prison, redemption, college, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, hip hop, forgiveness, ghetto, black, released from prison, parent child relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, buddy comedy, talky ...
Plot: basketball, friendship, buddies, buddy, hip hop, black, con artists, ghetto, ambition, contests and competitions, blacks and whites, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
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 5.9
 2K
Sunset Park (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style: hood, humorous, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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The Winning Season (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Style: humorous, sincere, inspirational, light, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: basketball, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, youth, misfit, sport team, teenage life, ambition, hopes, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
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The Mighty Macs (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, sincere, emotional, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, college, mother superior, catholic school, catholic, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, ambition, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, coach ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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 5.9
 5K
Amateur (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
Style: inspirational, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, sport competition, basketball player, sport team, teenager, professional sports, direction and purpose, follow your dream, desire for fame, ambitious man, professional rivalry, aspiration ...
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The Air Up There (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the ...
Style: black comedy, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, culture clash, student athlete, humour, sport team, power relations, disorder, scout, contests and competitions, misfit, ambition, hopes ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: africa
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes, NBA superstar LeBron James must rescue his missing son Bronny by navigating through movies in the Warner Bros. catalogue as they challenge against the villainous Al-G's plot to win a basketball ...
Style: funny, captivating, tense, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: basketball, looney tunes, coyote, bugs bunny, game, african american, evil computer, monster, villain, duck, cartoon dog, rabbit ...
Time: 2020s, future, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, youth, contests and competitions, friendship, teenager, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, sport competition, champion, adaptation ...
Place: japan
Is relevant ?
 4.7
 7K
Juwanna Mann (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A basketball star is booted out of the NBA when his on-court antics go too far, so he poses as a woman and joins the WUBA.
Style: funny, intense, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: basketball, farce, fish out of water, hidden identity, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, disorder ...
Time: 2000s
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 6.4
 215K
17 Again (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside ...
Style: romantic, feel good, entertaining, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, youth, body swapping, teenage life, popularity, adolescence vs adulthood, teenager, high school life, bullying, family relations, college, wish come true ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
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 6.5
 2K
One on One (1977)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, college, coach, young lovers, follow your dream, ambition, youth, contests and competitions, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 70s
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 11K
Eddie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations ...
Style: inspirational, light, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, friendship, ambition, rivalry, against the odds, lifestyle, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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 5.8
 16K
Uncle Drew (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Uncle Drew recruits a squad of older basketball players to return to the court to compete in a tournament.
Style: funny, entertaining, light, humorous
Audience: adult
Plot: basketball, tournament, comeback, financial problem, athlete's life, follow your dream, sport team, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambitious, celebrity culture, rise to the top ...
Place: new york, harlem, new york city
Is relevant ?
 5.4
 22K
Like Mike (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, touching, black comedy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: basketball, youth, sport team, teenage life, wish come true, teenager, orphanage, rising to stardom, prodigy, hopes, superhuman powers, ambition ...
Place: los angeles, england, europe, california
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
Style: psychological, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: basketball, basketball player, basketball team, trophy, career, winning, professional, tournament, coach, sport team, athlete's life, female nudity ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1991, year 1980
Place: los angeles
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