Topic: Athletics

Direction Leni Riefenstahl

Plot Riefenstahl's film of the 11th Olympic Games which took place in Berlin from August 1st to August 16th, 1936, has won numerous awards and is widely considered by film critics...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Tom Courtenay · Michael Redgrave · James Bolam · Avis Bunnage

Plot A Borstal boy has nothing going for him except the ability to run. He is selected to compete against a public school and starts a training programme, during which he...

Direction Jon Dunham

Plot The first ever feature-length film to capture the essence, drama and unique spectacle of the famed 26.2-mile race, the production features five runners - three amateurs and two elites -...

Direction Chung Yoon-chul

Cast Cho Seung-woo · Lee Ki-young · Baek Sung-Hyun · Ahn Nae-sang

Direction Rakesh Omprakash Mehra

Cast Farhan Akhtar · Sonam Kapoor · Rebecca Breeds · Pavan Malhotra

Plot The true story of the "Flying Sikh" - world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh -- who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and...

Direction Jerry Rothwell

Plot Town of Runners is a feature documentary about young runners from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, home to the current Olympic and World Champions Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele....

Direction Kazuya Nomura

Plot TV Series (2018-2019). 23 Episodes. Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also...

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Buster Keaton · Anne Cornwall · Harold Goodwin · Snitz Edwards

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Laurence Olivier · Roy Scheider · William Devane

Plot As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled...

Direction Rodrigo Moro

Direction Martin Desmond Roe

Plot After six months of scientifically advanced training, three of the world's most elite distance runners set out to break the two-hour marathon barrier. These pioneers go on a global trek...

Direction Hugh Hudson

Cast Ben Cross · Ian Charleson · Nigel Havers · Cheryl Campbell

Plot This is the true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a...

Direction Gaël Leiblang

Cast Usain Bolt

Plot In this extraordinary film, director Gael Leibland spends a year chronicling every minute of the life of athletics champion and cultural icon Usain Bolt. Granted unprecedented access, Leibland follows Bolt...

Direction Jimmy Wan

Cast Louis Cheung · Chin Siu-Ho · Chung-Hang Leung · Lo Hoi-Pang

Plot This film is based on the story of So Wa Wai, the medal-winning Paralympic athlete. It teaches audiences that even people who “lose on the starting line” can achieve victory...

Direction Miquel Galofré

Cast Usain Bolt

Direction Takeshi Koike

Plot An athlete, Dan, breaks out of the matrix through a feat of strength and gets a brief glimse of the real world outside his existance.

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Santo Polimeno · Gian Maria Volonté · Diego Abatantuono · Thérèse Liotard

Plot A BOY FROM CALABRIA is the story of 13-year-old Mimi (Santo Polimeno), who achieves earthly ecstasy whenever he is running... and always in bare feet, like his hero, the Ethiopian...

Direction Mischa Kamp

Cast Gijs Blom · Ko Zandvliet · Jonas Smulders · Ton Kas

Plot BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national...

Direction Robert Towne

Cast Billy Crudup · Donald Sutherland · Monica Potter · Jeremy Sisto

Plot The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later...

Direction Leo Burley

Cast Mo Farah

Plot Sir Mo Farah reveals the shocking truth about his childhood, the journey he made from Somaliland to the UK as a young boy, and the subsequent years that led to...