In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | comedy, family, sport |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:39 |
Characters | Teens, Family, Trainers, Orphans |
Plot | Basketball, Fulfillment of desires, Adoption, Rivalry |
Place | Los Angeles |
Style | Touching |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | USA, Germany |
Duration | 02:16 |
Characters | Teachers, Trainers |
Plot | On real events, Basketball, Friendship |
Place | College |
Style | Inspirational, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, For men |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:58 |
Characters | Friends, Partners |
Plot | Gambling, Basketball, Friendship, Debts, Rivalry |
Place | Los Angeles |
Style | Light |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Characters | Trainers, Singers |
Plot | Basketball, Justice, Competitions, Rivalry |
Style | Inspirational, Tense |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:58 |
Characters | Trainers |
Plot | On real events, Basketball, Competitions, Rivalry |
Place | College, Texas |
Style | To cry, Inspirational, Soulful, Touching, Serious |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
Characters | Teens, Werewolf, Friends, Losers |
Plot | Basketball, Surfing |
Place | School, College |
Style | Light, Fascinating |
When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 02:11 |
Characters | Disabled people, Trainers |
Plot | Sports, Basketball, KGB, Rivalry |
Style | Inspirational, Atmospheric, Fascinating |
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 tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | comedy, sport |
Country | China, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
Duration | 01:39 |
Characters | Alcoholics, Orphans |
Plot | Time travel, Kung Fu, Martial Arts, Basketball, Rivalry |
Place | China, Asia, Night Clubs |
Style | Exciting |
Shi-Jie is a brilliant martial artist from the Kung Fu School. One day, he encounters a group of youths playing basketball and shows off how easy it is for him, with his martial arts training, to do a Slam Dunk. Watching him was Chen-Li, a shrewd businessman, who recruits him to play varsity basketball at the local university.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | comedy, sport |
Country | USA |
Characters | Lesbians, Bikers, Friends |
Plot | Basketball, Friendship, Rivalry |
Place | Texas, USA, Small cities |
Style | Light, To cry, Fascinating |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:14 |
Characters | Knights |
Plot | Basketball, Rivalry |
Place | College |
Style | Unexpected ending, Action, Tense, Serious |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:54 |
Plot | On real events, Basketball, Competitions |
Place | Small cities |
Style | Exciting, Inspirational, Soulful, Fascinating, Serious |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | USA, Canada |
Characters | Trainers |
Plot | Sports, Basketball |
Style | Heavy |
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.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:50 |
Characters | Friends, Trainers, Poor |
Plot | Travel, Basketball, Friendship |
Place | Ghetto, College |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating, Makes me think, Serious |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 01:42 |
Characters | Teens, Friends, Trainers |
Plot | On real events, Basketball, Drug addict, Uprising |
Place | New York |
Style | Heavy, Depressive, Serious |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | USA |
Characters | Teens, Friends, Trainers |
Plot | Gambling, Basketball, Friendship |
Place | Trains, New York |
Style | Action, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing |
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:16 |
Plot | Basketball, Hip Hop |
Place | Prison, College, New York |
Style | Inspirational, Fascinating, Heavy, Makes me think, Touching |
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | comedy, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
Characters | Friends, Partners |
Plot | Basketball, Hostage, Missing people, Justice |
Style | Light, For men |
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...
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
Characters | Friends, Trainers |
Plot | Basketball, Death, Hip Hop, Rivalry |
Place | Ghetto |
Style | Action, Gloomy, Touching, Serious, Disturbing |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
Characters | Disabled people, Losers |
Plot | On real events, Sports, Soccer, American Football, Friendship |
Place | Rugby, Small cities |
Style | To cry, Touching, Serious |
High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, family, sport |
Country | USA |
Characters | Students, Trainers |
Plot | Love, Fight, Friendship, Funeral |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating |
After reluctantly agreeing to coach cross-country, high school basketball Coach John Harrison helps the least likely runner attempt the impossible in the biggest race of the year.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | drama, sport |
Country | USA |
Plot | Basketball |
Style | Fascinating |
Alfred “Boogie” Chin is a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals and the burden of expectation.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family, sport |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:38 |
Characters | Dogs, Animals, Clowns, Family |
Plot | Basketball, Friendship, Rivalry |
Place | Small cities |
Style | Light, Inspirational, Touching |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, sport |
Country | USA |
Characters | Horses, Friends, Surgeons, Partners |
Plot | Basketball, Money, Baseball, Inheritance, Rivalry |
Place | Party |
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.
Duration | 02:23 |
Characters | Friends |
Plot | Basketball, Friendship, True love, Rivalry |
Place | Los Angeles |
Style | Exciting, To cry, Touching, Serious |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, family, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Characters | Teens, Family |
Plot | Basketball, Body exchange, Supernatural, Fulfillment of desires |
Place | USA |
Style | Light, Soulful |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
Plot | Basketball, Life, Death, Ghosts, Family life |
Place | College |
Style | Inspirational, Tense, Touching |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | documentary, biography, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
Plot | Basketball |
This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James' journey to fame.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, biography, sport |
Country | USA |
Plot | Basketball |
Place | New York |
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.