Best Sport movies of 1979

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jon Voight, Jack Warden, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon, Charles Durning,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Actors : Meadowlark Lemon, Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters, Jack Kehoe,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Ryan O'Neal, Whitman Mayo,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.

Actors : William Smith, Nicholas Campbell, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

The famous drag racer Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson is the star of the Fast Company, managed by the corrupt Phil Adamson Lonnie is the mentor of the promising funny car racer Billy 'The Kid' ...

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Dorothée Jemma, France Dougnac, Maurice Barrier,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also ...

Actors : Bernard King, Harold Sylvester, Gabe Kaplan, Michael Warren,
Directors : Jack Smight,

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...

Actors : Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Thommy Pollard, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Hazel Spears,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's ...

Actors : Susan Anspach, Eugene Levy, Michael Douglas, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him...

Actors : Kristine DeBell, Wally Ann Wharton, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A bus-load containing three cheer-leading teams from 3 different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Maximilian Schell, Dean Paul Martin, Pancho González,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?

Actors : Leslie Caron, Susan Anton, Curd Jürgens, James Coburn,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

A neo-Nazi doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised, and conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.

Actors : Susan Blakely, Tim Matheson, Jack Warden, Richard B. Shull,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

Up and coming professional bowler trying to win a tournament against a grizzled veteran bowler.

Actors : Olga Ageyeva, Natalya Fateeva, Boris Zajdenberg, Galina Belyaeva,
Directors : Viktor Sadovsky,

The story of a Russian record-breaking female swimmer, Nadya Privalova, who suffered from a stage fright syndrome.

Actors : Bert Convy, Lynda Day George, Edie Adams, Phil Silvers,
Directors : David Winters,

Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.

Actors : John Zenda, Crystal Ramar, Bob Louden, Mark Schneider,
Directors : Graham Meech-Burkestone,

Troubled teenager Scott aspires to be a professional drag race car driver. Scott makes several faltering attempts to break into the world of drag racing with the help of his affluent ...

Actors : Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Ron Haddrick, Bunney Brooke, Tom Richards,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

Actors : Pola Raksa, Bogusz Bilewski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Roman Wilhelmi,
Directors : Filip Bajon,

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony ...