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23 movies and shows

Space Jam

Fri, 15 Nov 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.

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

Fri, 18 Jun 2004

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.

Forget Paris

Fri, 19 May 1995

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.

WrestleMania

Sun, 31 Mar 1985

WrestleMania, sequentially known as WrestleMania I, was a 1985 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the inaugural WrestleMania and took place on March 31, 1985, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The attendance for the event was 19,121. The event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television, making it the largest PPV showing of a wrestling event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.

WrestleMania 2

Mon, 07 Apr 1986

Emanating from New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, WrestleMania 2 features Hulk Hogan defending the WWF Championship against King Kong Bundy inside a steel cage. Mr. T battles "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a Boxing Match. The British Bulldogs challenge The Dream Team for the WWF Tag Team Championship and much more.

Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul

Tue, 30 Aug 2022

Years after serving time for betting on games he officiated, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy revisits the scandal that shook up the league.

The Referees

Mon, 10 Aug 2009

How can a few crucial minutes in a football match change the life of an entire family? How do the "men in black" feel when they are attacked by supporters? Kill the Referee unveils the lives of several professional football referees at the EURO 2008 championship; amongst them, the English referee Howard Webb, who provoked incredible controversy when he gave a penalty to Austria just before the end of the match with Poland, and the Italian Roberto Rosetti, who refereed the final.

Dark Horse

Fri, 13 May 2005

A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.

Jack of All Trades, Master of None

Mon, 30 Sep 1963

Thanasis Vengos plays a poor young man that comes to Athens looking for a job. We watch as he tries many different jobs; druggist, photographer, even wrestling referee. The result is always hilarious and explosive!

They Never Come Back

Tue, 10 May 1932

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

Indian Mirror

Tue, 01 Jan 1985

A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its residents try to ensure the success by bribing the referee.

Dirty Games: The Dark Side of Sports

Thu, 02 Jun 2016

An expedition to the dirty abyss of professional sports. The award winning investigative journalist Benjamin Best (CNN Journalist of the Year 2011) takes a global look behind the scenes at the colourful world of sports and exposes the bitter taste behind the multi-billion sports business.

Alice's Channel Swim

Mon, 13 Jun 1927

Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee.

Dangerous Dan McFoo

Sat, 15 Jul 1939

An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?

The Fuhrer Runs Amok

Fri, 12 Apr 1974

France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.

Play on!

Sat, 11 Nov 2023

Follow two passionate football referees, Mariano and Luciana, as they navigate the challenges of their job, revealing the deep love they have for the football game and the struggles they need to go through while dealing with mistakes and self-criticism.

At Home With ... Nick Mullins

Sat, 04 Dec 2021

The “At Home with…” team spends some time with football referee Nick Mullins, a man who has dreamt of being a referee since he was a child. We follow Nick as he copes with life in lockdown during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has kept him away from his beloved job. Nick opens up and gives us an insight into his life, his passions and his dreams for the future.