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Netflix
86
83
8.0
/12410/
82
/812/
78
/497/
4.2
/65876/
100
/47/
99
/30/
79
/10/
8.7
/33534/
cc age 10+

The First Slam Dunk (2022)
Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. In his second year of high school, Ryota plays with the Shohoku High School basketball team along with Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui as they take the stage at the Inter-High School National Championship. And now, they are on the brink of challenging the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.
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Amazon Prime Video
79
7.1
/94923/
68
/1479/
66
/918/
3.6
/76160/
91
/157/
82
/5415/
85
/31/
cc age 16+

Half Nelson (2006)
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
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Netflix
78
7.3
/160394/
75
/6435/
77
/2723/
3.6
/393812/
94
/174/
93
/10/
68
/41/
cc age 16+

Hustle (2022)
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
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Kanopy
78
7.5
/143769/
73
/2770/
72
/1827/
4.0
/110736/
79
/220/
78
/10453/
68
/36/
cc age 17+

Doubt (2008)
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
poster
74
7.5
/2288/
72
/107/
74
/49/
3.6
/1618/
77
/6/
cc age 12+

Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot (2014)
This documentary chronicles the life story of the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki and his inspiring journey from Germany to superstardom in the NBA.
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Starz Apple TV Channel
74
6.9
/54298/
71
/1185/
67
/766/
3.6
/48768/
82
/65/
83
/1375/
64
/21/
cc age 17+

He Got Game (1998)
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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Netflix
72
6.7
/55886/
69
/3739/
66
/1285/
3.3
/73621/
85
/215/
84
/629/
66
/40/
cc age 16+

The Way Back (2020)
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.
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Netflix
72
7.3
/188021/
76
/5340/
75
/3168/
3.8
/255085/
63
/146/
85
/10576/
57
/36/
cc age 14+

Coach Carter (2005)
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.
poster
71
70
6.9
/32516/
68
/209/
71
/30/
3.3
/16610/
65
/20/
88
/38/

Sitaare Zameen Par (2025)
A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach a team of players who are intellectually disabled as part of community services. Gulshan has apprehensions at first and feels out of place but soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.
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Netflix
79
70
7.4
/12199/
75
/613/
74
/150/
3.6
/27004/
93
/14/
94
/11/
76
/5/
cc age 14+

The Redeem Team (2022)
Using unprecedented Olympic footage and behind-the-scenes material, The Redeem Team tells the story of the US Olympic Men's Basketball Team’s quest for gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing following the previous team’s shocking performance four years earlier in Athens.
poster
Apple TV
69
5.5
/28454/
61
/2571/
55
/375/
2.8
/111153/
83
/230/
84
/579/
74
/47/
cc age 15+

Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
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Kanopy
69
6.4
/2321/
67
/117/
60
/57/
3.6
/9523/
97
/71/
40
/24/

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
poster
Disney Plus
69
7.2
/50718/
74
/1086/
74
/766/
3.4
/21673/
55
/150/
81
/5830/
58
/33/
cc age 10+

Glory Road (2006)
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.
poster
68
6.5
/2174/
68
/32/
56
/24/
3.2
/788/
78
/9/
73
/27/

One on One (1977)
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's scholarship.
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Hoopla
69
66
6.3
/6308/
62
/265/
66
/156/
3.3
/19940/
93
/14/
64
/46/
71
/4/

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
poster
75
66
7.2
/12778/
76
/1296/
75
/759/
3.3
/22620/
79
/14/
85
/13/

Champions (2018)
A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach Los Amigos, a team of players who are intellectually disabled, and soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.
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Fandango at Home Free
65
6.8
/35574/
71
/2402/
67
/466/
3.1
/59666/
59
/132/
94
/544/
50
/34/
cc age 13+

Champions (2023)
A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.
poster
70
65
7.2
/10224/
70
/173/
69
/135/
3.4
/6337/
78
/9/
77
/256/
59
/6/

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
poster
65
6.4
/4258/
65
/92/
63
/49/
3.1
/1586/
69
/150/
59
/1098/
66
/29/
cc age 15+

American Teen (2008)
A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
poster
Disney Plus
65
5.6
/103464/
66
/6128/
65
/4707/
3.3
/646110/
67
/21/
74
/38333/
cc age 8+

High School Musical (2006)
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
poster
64
7.3
/130243/
73
/2875/
74
/2119/
3.8
/236583/
46
/41/
76
/2213/
46
/19/
cc age 16+

The Basketball Diaries (1995)
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
poster
64
6.5
/227026/
69
/10915/
68
/6260/
3.3
/436445/
44
/87/
63
/16861/
57
/31/
cc age 7+

Space Jam (1996)
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
poster
Hulu
62
6.4
/229538/
64
/6994/
63
/5313/
2.9
/407074/
57
/148/
67
/14500/
48
/27/
cc age 13+

17 Again (2009)
On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.
poster
61
6.5
/8224/
61
/113/
60
/96/
3.3
/2562/
61
/89/
57
/513/
54
/25/

Lonesome Jim (2005)
After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.
poster
59
6.3
/16110/
67
/380/
60
/197/
3.3
/12511/
41
/29/
51
/298/
54
/21/

Blue Chips (1994)
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn'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.
poster
Netflix
58
6.7
/6370/
72
/466/
77
/296/
2.7
/4153/
59
/17/
98
/2301/
17
/5/
cc age 10+

Overcomer (2019)
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.
poster
79
58
8.3
/3743/
79
/47/
72
/24/
3.7
/687/
88
/32/
88
/43/
69
/15/

The Other Dream Team (2012)
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.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
6.1
/953/
59
/20/
48
/9/
3.2
/567/
56
/6/

Fast Break (1979)
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. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.
poster
Fandor
58
56
5.2
/4971/
58
/240/
52
/117/
3.0
/15050/
82
/17/
43
/58/
65
/5/

The Visitor (1979)
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
poster
Hoopla
56
5.9
/65510/
62
/2379/
60
/1670/
2.6
/40007/
40
/98/
48
/2356/
45
/26/
cc age 15+

The Possession (2012)
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
poster
56
55
5.7
/12782/
61
/358/
52
/62/
2.0
/3992/
40
/5/
87
/158/

Lady Ballers (2023)
A once-great basketball coach is on a journey back to victory by reuniting his former high school championship basketball team, but this time, he’s challenging them to play like girls.
poster
54
6.1
/1532/
65
/202/
69
/27/
2.7
/1179/
26
/19/
95
/20/
cc age 11+

Sweetwater (2023)
In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals himself to be Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first African Americans to play in the NBA.
poster
54
5.7
/1891/
51
/35/
56
/23/
2.9
/2615/
62
/13/
22
/37/

Drive, He Said (1971)
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
poster
fuboTV
53
5.7
/1426/
64
/130/
58
/69/
3.0
/808/
36
/28/
47
/10/
46
/13/
cc age 16+

Wolves (2016)
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.
poster
52
4.5
/85660/
55
/6271/
67
/4149/
1.9
/242998/
25
/228/
79
/690/
36
/46/
cc age 7+

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.'s digitized champions on the court. It's Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life.
poster
MGM Plus
52
6.1
/64666/
66
/2558/
62
/1220/
2.9
/72223/
46
/35/
52
/1859/
25
/5/
cc age 13+

Teen Wolf (1985)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
51
6.6
/3440/
64
/103/
66
/65/
3.1
/1378/
69
/41/

Hurricane Season (2010)
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins, gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs.
poster
Hulu
51
5.7
/53198/
62
/2176/
56
/881/
2.8
/72721/
36
/56/
43
/8290/
48
/17/
cc age 13+

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
poster
Hulu
47
5.2
/11586/
61
/923/
63
/284/
2.7
/44093/
26
/88/
59
/124/
40
/23/
cc age 16+

White Men Can't Jump (2023)
Seemingly opposite street hoopers, Jeremy, an injury prone former star, and Kamal, a has-been prodigy, team up to take one final shot at living out their dreams.
poster
Hoopla
50
47
5.0
/7012/
58
/555/
60
/626/
2.1
/54236/
42
/25/
cc age 8+

Zapped (2014)
Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command. But she soon learns that it isn't the cure-all she had hoped for.
poster
48
45
5.6
/9831/
61
/282/
61
/157/
2.7
/4549/
22
/27/
35
/226/
cc age 11+

The Air Up There (1994)
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
5.7
/75542/
62
/2787/
62
/1745/
2.8
/81286/
25
/126/
38
/6591/
36
/29/

Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.
poster
44
5.2
/11775/
59
/304/
54
/169/
2.6
/4135/
17
/36/
36
/290/

Eddie (1996)
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
poster
70
43
6.7
/5347/
69
/94/
60
/44/
3.4
/1915/
89
/2/

The Cake General (2018)
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.
poster
MGM Plus
48
39
5.4
/3865/
62
/230/
56
/221/
2.7
/2011/
15
/4/

Aladdin (1986)
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.
poster
42
39
5.3
/11115/
57
/245/
53
/148/
2.6
/5366/
12
/25/
32
/217/
34
/17/

Celtic Pride (1996)
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.
poster
62
37
5.9
/606/
67
/129/
64
/241/
3.0
/1478/

In the Game (2018)
A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.
poster
37
4.7
/54531/
54
/1702/
51
/1403/
2.0
/22560/
11
/117/
30
/7249/
30
/16/
cc age 16+

The Unborn (2009)
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.


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