Other Sports Movies

The best cricket movie ever made...2001's Lagaan....but then again how many cricket movies have ever been made.
The best cricket movie ever made…2001’s Lagaan….but then again how many cricket movies have ever been made.

Want to know the best Other Sports Movies?  How about the worst Other Sports Movies?  Curious about Other Sports Movies did at the box office or which Other Sports Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins? Need to know which Other Sports Movies movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

This page represents the 10th and final page in a series of pages that is trying to identify the Top 400 Sports Movies. This page will look at the top 62 Other Sports movies.  Movies are ranked by using a combination of box office results, reviews from audiences and critics and award recognition. 

Paul Newman in 1961's The Hustler
Paul Newman in 1961’s The Hustler

Other Sports Movies Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Other Sports Movies by the type of sport in the movie
  • Sort Other Sports Movies by actual domestic box office grosses
  • Sort Other Sports Movies by adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort by how Other Sports Movies were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Other Sports Movie received.
  • Sort Other Sports Movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Other Sports Movies Table

  1. Six Other Sports Movie crossed the magical $100 million mark.  That is a percentage of 9.67% of his movies listed.  The Karate Kid Part II (1986) is the biggest box office hit when looking at adjusted domestic box office.
  2. An average Other Sports Movie grosses $38.23 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  31 Other Sports Movies are rated as good movies…or 50.00% of the movies listed.  Highest rated Other Sports movie is The Wrestler (2008).  Lowest rated Other Sports movie is Rollerball (2002).
  4. Ten Other Sports Movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 15.87% of the listed movies.
  5. Two Other Sports Movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 3.22% of the movies listed.
  6. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 39.86.  9 of Other Sports Movies’s movies scored higher that average….or 14.51% of the listed movies.  The Karate Kid (1984) got the highest UMR Score….Supercross (2005) got the lowest UMR Score.
The original Karate Kid ranks #1 of all the other sports movies out there.
The original Karate Kid ranks #1 of all the other sports movies out there.

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38 thoughts on “Other Sports Movies

  1. not as impressive as your other lists, but I give credit for finding some of thiese various sports

  2. Not a single surfing movie? Surfing is a sport my friend, even if you were lousy at it, you can not discriminate against it. If you have soccer you have to have surfing. Another great page. Who would have thought a cricket movie would out perform a great bowling movie like Kingpin.

    1. Hey Yankee fan, on the final part, #6, I will include some of the better surfing movies. As for Kingpin, a great comedy with an awesome Bill Murray. Thanks for stopping by and reminding me about my surfing issues.

  3. Nice lists. Looking at the other sports. How about Stallone’s Over the Top or any surfing movies? Do they count?

    1. Thanks Alabama Girl….Over the Top is now in the tables…the only arm wrestling movie to make the list

  4. Movies on this page that I enjoy: listed in their ranking order with comments:

    The Karate Kid-only the first

    The Hustler

    The Color of Money-anything with Newman is fun and finally he won an Oscar

    Night and the City-I’m not surprised this made the top ten. This movie is nearly always discussed in any listing of Widmark films. He usually-not always-played evil characters in his early films, but this is an example of one he didn’t- Poor Widmark was a loser at life and every thing he tried in the movie.

    Regarding Men with Brooms-Leslie Nielson had lots of fans, but I think the movie suffered inthe states because, well, except for people who live in States like Minnesota, Americans don’t play or watch Curling.

    1. Hey Flora….. I was glad when I saw Night and the City finished in the Top 10….while also easily beating out the DeNiro version as well. And finally I do not know if I would have found Men with Brooms without your help….so I thank you for suggesting that title.

  5. I have such fond memories of Personal Best, I can not believe that movie is almost 30 years old. Your final list should be cool, I can tell you have done lots of research.

    1. Hey Shaun…thanks for the input….Personal Best is over 30 years…and I have moved it to my Olympics page versus this page..thanks for stopping by.

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