American Basketball Movies

List of the best American basketball movies selected by visitors to our site: Hustle, Just Wright, Thunderstruck, The Way Back, Hoop Dreams, He Got Game, The Air Up There, Uncle Drew, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, Rebound.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountryUSA

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

    A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, family, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    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 on, he gets a chance to meet Durant and expresses his desire to play just like him. When Kevin gives Brian the ball, the two unknowingly switch talents.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada

    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.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama, documentary, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:50

    Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, family, sport
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:47

    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 chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Uncle Drew recruits a squad of older basketball players to return to the court to compete in a tournament.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA

    A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrecomedy, family, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:16

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, family, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:39

    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 basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:54

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    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 life, but Kenny changes in the process and doesn't quite like it.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    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 first national championship.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, sport
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:42

    Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    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 into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. They've followed the game all their lives and have no small amount of talent on the court. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, sport
    CountryUSA

    A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the National Basketball Association (NBA) plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. The Tropics are the worst team in the league and if they want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning. The only problem is the fact that Jackie Moon is not really the coach and star basketball player he thinks he is. To keep his team from oblivion and leave his mark in the city, Jackie Moon must inspire his team to win fourth place in the playoffs.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, family, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:38

    A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. Josh is amazed when he realizes that Buddy loves basketball...that is playing basketball...and he is GOOD! Josh eventually makes the school team and Buddy is named the Team Mascot. Josh and Buddy become the stars of halftime. Buddy's half-time talent draws media attention. Unfortunately, when Buddy's mean former owner, Norm Snively, comes along with a scheme to cash in on the pup's celebrity, it looks like they are going to be separated.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    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 gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs. A very honest look at what can be done with the right people having the desire and fortitude to pick up and

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    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

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, crime, sport
    CountryUSA

    A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a High School journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the teams' main "Star" Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to steal money from a drug dealers' home. Gar tags along, but soon things go horribly wrong. One question to ask is "Will the Giants win the big game?

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, family, biography, sport
    CountryUSA

    Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball coach. Inspired by the true story of Heather and Heidi Burge.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

      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 the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      The National Basketball Association play-offs are taking place, and the Boston Celtics are facing the Utah Jazz in a crucial series. This is also the last year that any games will be played in the Boston Garden, which is going to be torn down after the end of the season. Mike and Jimmy, two die-hard sports fans who will risk anything for the Celtics to win, are really getting into the games...

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, sport
      CountryUSA

      Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. After placing an ad on Craigslist, the siblings decide to pick Tatiana and Alice, two charming and seemingly normal women. Once they arrive on the island, however, Mike and Dave realize that their companions are ready to get wild and party.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A fashion photographer is traveling to meet his sister at Eden Parish. Once there, his friends begin to film interviews with the Eden Parish inhabitants, all of whom speak of the commune in glowing terms. However, they soon discover that there is a sinister edge to the commune that belies the seemingly peaceful setting.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:54

      Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian,” the film follows the true story of Picard (Del Toro), a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainable symptoms shortly thereafter. He travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he meets Devereux (Amalric), thus beginning a professional and personal friendship guided by compassion and understanding of Native American culture.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

        After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

        Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrecomedy, sport
        CountryUSA

        An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, become a national media sensation, and gain a new lease on life.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

          For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he's earned the seasoned policeman's respect and asks for his blessing to marry Angela. Knowing that a ride along will demonstrate if Ben has what it takes to take care of his sister, James invites him on a shift designed to scare the hell out of the trainee. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, James will find that his new partner's rapid-fire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryAustralia, USA
          Duration01:55

          Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA

          Wrongfully accused and sent to prison, a former basketball star prepares for the national slam dunk competition while finding redemption in himself and in those he loves.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Sweden
          Duration02:00

          The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrecomedy, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrecomedy, family, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          Ray, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy, who was living with Ray's sister, to show up at the house right in the middle of planning. Timmy is ignored and Ray and his buddies pull off the heist. Timmy gets his father's attention by stealing the coins and hiding them. To get them back, his father must take him to a number of different places and treat him like he enjoys his presence. They grow fond of each other but Timmy won't stay with his dad unless he gives up the coins.

          Key figures from an infamous November 19th 2004 incident between players and fans at an NBA game in Michigan discuss the fight, its fallout and its lasting legacy.




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