Movies about weightlifting

Movies about weightlifting
List of the best films about weightlifting according to the audience: Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu, Pain & Gain, American Flyers, Over the Top, Triumph, The Rage: Carrie 2, Goat, Lost in Paris, Bodybuilder, Remember the Titans.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryTurkey

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

    Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her. But Rachel has something else that separates her from the rest, a secret amazing ability to move things with her mind. Sue Snell, the only survivor of Carrie White's rampage twenty-two years ago, may hold the key to helping Rachel come to terms with her awesome, but unwanted power. But as Rachel slowly learns to trust, a terrible trap is being laid for her. And making her angry could prove to be fatal.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryFrance

    Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, family, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:06

      Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:25

        Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, sport
        CountryRussia
        Duration02:11

        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.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:27

        The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryNew Zealand, Japan, USA
        Duration02:07

        The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:42

          In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrecomedy, drama, biography
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
          Duration01:58

          A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:37

          Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:00

            A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

            Markimdb: 8.3
            Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:21

            Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genredrama, biography, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:26

            The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genreaction, comedy, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:52

            After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genredrama, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Qatar
            Duration02:00

            Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:18

            The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
            CountrySouth Africa, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:51

              Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

              The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor. If called to serve, what would you do?

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrefantasy, drama, family, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:47

              Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genredrama, sport
              CountryRussia

              Following her divorce, Marina thinks that she’ll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she’ll find the love of her life in freediving, one of the most extreme sports in existence, built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath. In the vast, mysterious realm of the sea, Marina not only regains her sense of peace and well being, but also redefines her existence.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genredrama, crime, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:02

              A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:55

              A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, military
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:00

              Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrecomedy, drama, music
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:50

              Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

              Markimdb: 5.5
              Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:50

                Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genrethriller, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:08

                Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, Germany
                Duration02:04

                Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:02

                In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.

                Markimdb: 5.6
                Genreaction, thriller, crime
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration02:18

                Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.

                Markimdb: 5.6
                Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:35

                Ex-special operative MacGruber (Forte) is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Kilmer), who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.

                Markimdb: 5.3
                Genrecomedy, sport
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:26

                Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.




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