Most Popular Basketball Team Movies and TV Shows
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1. Grease (1978)
PG | 110 min | Musical, Romance
Good girl Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
Votes: 230,225 | Gross: $188.76M
2. Grown Ups (I) (2010)
G | 102 min | Comedy
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Chris Rock
Votes: 222,899 | Gross: $162.00M
3. John Tucker Must Die (2006)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.
Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Ashanti, Arielle Kebbel, Sophia Bush
Votes: 78,164 | Gross: $41.01M
4. Space Jam (1996)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
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.
Director: Joe Pytka | Stars: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Manner Washington
Votes: 157,516 | Gross: $90.46M
5. Coach Carter (2005)
PG | 136 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Rick Gonzalez, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown
Votes: 122,312 | Gross: $67.26M
6. Teen Wolf (1985)
91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An ordinary high school student discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself turning into a werewolf.
Director: Rod Daniel | Stars: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine
Votes: 44,404 | Gross: $33.09M
7. Semi-Pro (2008)
14A | 91 min | Comedy, Sport
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.
Director: Kent Alterman | Stars: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, Maura Tierney
Votes: 77,177 | Gross: $33.47M
8. Better Off Dead... (1985)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier.
Director: Savage Steve Holland | Stars: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade
Votes: 40,415 | Gross: $10.30M
9. Hoosiers (1986)
PG | 114 min | Drama, Sport
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 championship.
Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley
Votes: 41,835 | Gross: $28.61M
10. The Basketball Diaries (1995)
18A | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Director: Scott Kalvert | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio
Votes: 99,324 | Gross: $2.42M
11. Glory Road (2006)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
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.
Director: James Gartner | Stars: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight
Votes: 42,027 | Gross: $42.64M
12. Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
14A | 106 min | Horror
Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa
Votes: 56,916 | Gross: $35.67M
13. Half Nelson (2006)
R | 106 min | Drama
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
Director: Ryan Fleck | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Jeff Lima
Votes: 82,946 | Gross: $2.69M
14. Cutting Class (1989)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.
Director: Rospo Pallenberg | Stars: Donovan Leitch Jr., Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 4,355
15. Extracurricular Activities (2019)
86 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A mature, intelligent high school student has a side job arranging "accidental" deaths (no 2 alike) of fellow students' parents. A cop detective notices this student being connected to all the kids of dead parents. Who wins the face-off?
Director: Jay Lowi | Stars: Patrick Fabian, Angela Kinsey, Colin Ford, Darlene Vogel
Votes: 843
16. The Great Santini (1979)
PG | 115 min | Drama
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.
Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky
Votes: 5,514
17. Hang Time (1995–2000)
30 min | Comedy, Sport
Seven teenagers (three girls and four boys) try to make it through life as members of the Deering High School basketball team.
Stars: Daniella Deutscher, Megan Parlen, Adam Frost, Amber Barretto
Votes: 721
18. Koi... Mil Gaya (2003)
PG | 171 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A developmentally disabled young man tries to continue the work his father did in communicating with extra-terrestrials from outer space, which leads to something miraculous and wonderful.
Director: Rakesh Roshan | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Rekha, Preity Zinta, Rakesh Roshan
Votes: 20,435 | Gross: $0.68M
19. Eddie (1996)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Sport
Coincidences lead to the New York Knicks, getting its loudest fan, Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg), as coach. Season victory?
Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Langella, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins
Votes: 9,113 | Gross: $31.36M
20. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
G | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 7,556
21. Celtic Pride (1996)
G | 91 min | Comedy, Sport
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.
Director: Tom DeCerchio | Stars: Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd, Gail O'Grady
Votes: 9,413 | Gross: $9.26M
22. Tårtgeneralen (2018)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Directors: Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Cynthia Akinyi, Tommy Andersson, Peter Apelgren
Votes: 3,308
23. Tall Story (1960)
91 min | Comedy, Sport
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, also a student, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly
Votes: 782 | Gross: $12.00M
24. Fast Break (1979)
107 min | Comedy, Sport
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good... See full summary »
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Michael Warren, Bernard King
Votes: 687
25. Hurricane Season (2009)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Sport
A year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Isaiah Washington, Shad Moss, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 2,626
26. NBA 2K16 (2015 Video Game)
Sport
In MyCareer, you must fight your way through high school, college, and eventually the NBA in order to be named the greatest player of all time.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Sarunas J. Jackson, Michelle Mitchenor, Gina Breedlove, Arthur Richardson
Votes: 584
27. Playboy: Girls in Uniform (1997 Video)
55 min | Adult
Director: Styx Jones | Stars: Joy E. Behrman, Daphne Duplaix, Christine Sheffner, Jessica Garvin
Votes: 60
28. Patients (2016)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Patients is the story of a rebirth, a chaotic journey of victories and defeats, tears and bursts of laughter, but above all encounters: we do not heal alone.
Directors: Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade | Stars: Pablo Pauly, Soufiane Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly, Nailia Harzoune
Votes: 1,685
29. Fireball (2009)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama
Tai, a young man arrested on a crime charge, is discharged thanks to his twin brother Tan's dogged help. After being set free, he finds Tan in a coma with severe injuries. Tan's girlfriend,... See full summary »
Director: Thanakorn Pongsuwan | Stars: Preeti Barameeanat, Khanutra Chuchuaysuwan, Kumpanat Oungsoongnern, Phutharit Prombandal
Votes: 919
30. Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero: Dracula in Brianza (1975)
100 min | Comedy
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Rossano Brazzi, Sylva Koscina, Moira Orfei
Votes: 196
31. Superfantagenio (1986)
95 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Updating of the old "Aladdin" Arabian Nights tale, as a teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Bud Spencer, Luca Venantini, Janet Agren, Julian Voloshin
Votes: 2,857
32. Church Ball (2006)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Sport
Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players in his church but the bishop has demanded that he lead the team... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Hale | Stars: Andrew Wilson, Amy Stewart, Clint Howard, Fred Willard
Votes: 435 | Gross: $0.46M
33. The Slim Shady Show (2001 Video)
R | 55 min | Animation, Comedy
Slim Shady, along with his friends, Ken Kaniff, Marshall, Big D and others, go through wicked adventures across Detroit.
Directors: Mark Brooks, Peter Gilstrap | Stars: Mark Brooks, Eminem, Peter Gilstrap, Janet Ginsburg
Votes: 713
34. Night of the Dribbler (1990)
87 min | Comedy, Horror
The Watergate Plumbers, a poorly-performing college basketball team, lose their best players one by one to death and dismemberment at the hands of a mysterious masked stalker.
Director: Jack Bravman | Stars: Fred Travalena, Gregory Calpakis, Flavia Carrozzi, Cynthia Mantel
Votes: 137
35. The Other Dream Team (2012)
89 min | Documentary, Sport
The incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and - with help from the Grateful Dead - triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
Director: Marius A. Markevicius | Stars: Sarunas Marciulionis, Arvydas Sabonis, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Jonas Valanciunas
Votes: 3,417 | Gross: $0.13M
36. The Witching of Ben Wagner (1987 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Ben Wagner and his family are moving to a new town. On the shores of Lake Ontario, he meets Regina. Strange things start to happen whenever Regina is around. Ben wonders if the rumors are true: could she come from a family of witches?
Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Sam Bottoms, Harriet Hall, Bettina Rae, Justin Gocke
Votes: 171
37. Hot Times (1974)
R | 84 min | Comedy
Sex comedy about Archie Anders, a horny teen who can't help but think about sex all day. When even his own sister starts looking attractive to him, Archie realizes it's high time to leave the house and find the right girl for himself.
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Henry Cory, Amy Farber, Gail Lorber, Steve Curry
Votes: 116
38. La finale (2018)
85 min | Comedy
A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.
Director: Robin Sykes | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Rayane Bensetti, Émilie Caen, Lyès Salem
Votes: 399
39. Boys Klub (2001)
96 min | Comedy, Family
Mario is a boy in his early teens who has been looking forward to spending the summer on a camping trip with his father. But when dad lands a new job just as school lets out in June, their plans are put on the back burner.
Director: Lee Librado | Stars: Jack Scalia, Beau Bridges, Chauncey Leopardi, R.D. Robb
Votes: 181
40. Inside the Girls Locker Room (2004 Video)
76 min | Comedy
The Midnight Owls women's basketball team has just won a hard fought victory over their main rivals. Now it's time to hit the locker room to shower and give each other massages. Ace student... See full summary »
Director: C.H. Armstrong | Stars: Kelly Blue, Cameron, Charlie, Hallie
Votes: 15
41. The Heart of the Game (2005)
PG-13 | 97 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls' high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player's fight to regain her eligibility to play.
Director: Ward Serrill | Stars: Darnellia Russell, Bill Resler, Ludacris, Devon Crosby Helms
Votes: 906 | Gross: $0.44M
42. Dear Boys (2003– )
24 min | Animation, Drama, Sport
A defunct high school basketball team finds a new student and things may start looking up for them.
Stars: Carol-Anne Day, Jeremiah Yurk, Victor Atelevich, Angie Beers
Votes: 47
43. Holly's Heroes (2005– )
25 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Holly McKenzie is a 14-year-old New Zealander who moves to the Australian seaside town of Woolich with her family.She is determined to fulfil her dream of playing basketball by forming her own team, the "Outlaws".
Stars: Dominique Crawford, Kane McNay, Greta Larkins, Michael Harrison
Votes: 77
44. The Iran Job (2012)
90 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary that follows one year in the life of American pro basketball player Kevin Sheppard, who signed on to play for the upstart Iranian Super League team A.S. Shiraz.
Director: Till Schauder | Stars: Kevin Sheppard, Eunice Sheppard, Leah Sheppard, Gholam Reza Khajeh
Votes: 572 | Gross: $0.02M
45. NBA 2K12 (2011 Video Game)
Sport
As you make your way in the NBA you have many choices to make. How will you do as an NBA player.
Stars: Tony Azzolino, Peter Barto, Damon Bruce, Doris Burke
Votes: 371
46. Shirts & Skins (2008– )
30 min | Reality-TV
A reality series that follows the players from San Francisco's star gay basketball team on and off the court.
Stars: John Amaechi, Sheryl Swoopes, Francis Broome, Pete Hannibal
Votes: 12
47. Max Minsky und ich (2007)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Justice | Stars: Zoe Moore, Emil Reinke, Adriana Altaras, Jan Josef Liefers
Votes: 160
48. First Day High (2006)
110 min | Comedy, Mystery
A group of freshmen university students go to their first college sports game which turns for the mysterious when an incident occurs. Five of the freshmen decide to help solve their ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Cornejo | Stars: Geoff Eigenmann, Jason Abalos, Maja Salvador, Kim Chiu
Votes: 67
49. Wooly Booly 2: Ang titser kong alien (1990)
96 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story continues with Wooly Booly living happily on earth with his human girlfriend. One day his girlfriend from his planet decides to visit earth with the aim of taking Wooly Booly back home.
Director: Ben Feleo | Stars: Jimmy Santos, Mariz, Vina Morales, Raymart Santiago
Votes: 8
50. Bola (2012)
95 min | Drama
An indie film called BOLA is currently making waves as it delves into the controversial subject of corruption in the setting of small-time barangay basketball leagues.BOLA stars newcomer ... See full summary »
Director: Lemuel Lorca | Stars: Kenneth Salva, Arnel Ignacio, Simon Ibarra, Suzette Ranillo
Votes: 6