Top Basketball Movies

Two basketball hustlers, black Sidney Deane and white Billy Hoyle, join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts as well as in a tournament.

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.

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

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

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.

A basketball scout discovers a phenomenal street ball player while in Spain and sees the prospect as his opportunity to get back into the NBA.

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.

A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.

In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.

During a pro basketball lockout, a sports agent pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business proposition.

A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.

Biography of pro basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich, who died suddenly in 1988 at age 40 from a heart attack.

A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.

Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

An update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with a young cast, set in an upper class prep school, and centered around basketball player Odin.

An anti-ageist comedy about a man's dream to win the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem.

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

Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.

Coincidences lead to the New York Knicks, getting its loudest fan, Edwina "Eddie" Franklin, as coach. Season victory?

A basketball coach travels to Africa to recruit a new star.