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- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsDaphne PollardCarole LombardLionel BelmoreA women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than in getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
- DirectorRobert C. DertanoStarsPeaches PageTimothy FarrellClara MortensenA money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnAldo RayPat is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEsther WilliamsVictor MatureWalter PidgeonBiopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
- DirectorJack KinneyClyde GeronimiBurt GillettStarsJune ForayWilliam WoodsonHoping for a son to redeem his name, Casey has several daughters instead who happen to be all dynamite baseball players themselves.
- StarsJune AdairLili BitterMildred BurkeCompilation of a feature film, Racket Girls (1951), and six women wrestling matches formerly available in 8mm films and then available in video as Wrestling Women (1981): Lily Bitter vs. June Beyers, Cora Combs vs. Laraine Johnson, Clara Mortensen vs. Rita Martinez, Lynn O'Connor vs. June Adair, Ella Waldeck vs. Jane Mull, and the tag team match Ida May and Violet Vian vs. Carrie Majors and Betty Hawkins.
- 20041h 23mNot Rated7.0 (343)TV Movie62MetascoreDirectorRuth LeitmanStarsGladys GillemJohn DalyMildred BurkeRing legends such as The Fabulous Moolah and Gladys "Kill 'Em" Gillem Long provide candid insights into the history of women's professional wrestling.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsPatty DukeJim BackusJane GreerA 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete finds herself caught between being beating boys at sports and having a boyfriend, while her conservative father opposes women's rights in his campaign for mayor.
- DirectorJirí SvobodaStarsLenka SkopalováVera GalatíkováLudek MunzarA 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal cord injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to look back on her life and her short sports career so far.
- StarsSuzy ChaffeeBill CosbyPhyllis DillerA comic and musical salute to women's sports coupled with an auction to raise money for the Women's Sports Foundation.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsSusan BlakelyRonee BlakleySarah CunninghamSusan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsSharon GlessFrank ConverseHelen HuntWith the support of her parents (Sharon Gless and Frank Converse), an Arizona adolescent (Helen Hunt) overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsDon MurrayBarbara BabcockDana ElcarTami, a young girl who has just moved to Oregon, stands up against her coach and the naysayers of her small town to prove that she's capable of being a talented football quarterback despite her gender.
- DirectorRobert TowneStarsMariel HemingwayScott GlennPatrice DonnellyThe intertwined lives and loves of three highly ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.
- DirectorJosé Antonio GarciaÍcaro MartinsStarsCarla CamuratiCristina MutarelliTânia AlvesA group of eleven women organize a soccer team, as a manifesto against sexism.
- DirectorKitty KinoStarsMarie ColbinRenée FeldenGerhard RühmkorfA woman breaks into one of the last domains of men's world: she learns competitive billiards.
- DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsMegan FollowsRick MoranisGail YoungsA female goalie player faces prejudiced opposition when she joins a boys hockey team in Parry Sound, Ontario.
- DirectorGeorge ButlerStarsBev FrancisRachel McLishLori Bowen RiceJudges and bodybuilders (Rachel McLish, Bev Francis, Carla Dunlap) try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsAlexandra PaulSandahl BergmanDavid NaughtonChubby Kendall's weight causes her to suffer from self-esteem issues. She decides to take up female bodybuilding and ends up competing with the pros for the championship. However, her boyfriend and dad don't like her new tough look.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsClaire TrevorSally ForrestCarleton G. YoungTennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
- DirectorKen HannamStarsBronwyn Mackay-PayneRon HaddrickBunney BrookeBiopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
- DirectorCraig GillespieStarsMargot RobbieSebastian StanAllison JanneyCompetitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
- DirectorKari SkoglandStarsJessalyn GilsigPeter OuterbridgeJuliette MarquisA single mom plays in the local ice hockey team. She plays pretty well - for a girl. Provoked, she bets that a woman's team can beat the local team of men. Can she build up a winning team in 4 weeks?
- DirectorMary WilsonStars'Pepper' Paire DavisMarge CallaghanHelen CallaghanDocumentary version that preceded the hit movie A League of Their Own. Meet the women pioneers who played professional baseball in the 1940s in a league that lasted for ten years.
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsTom HanksGeena DavisLori PettyTwo sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.
- DirectorJim C. HarrisStarsNancy LiebermanTom CampitelliMike O'DellBrad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method to improve his basketball team. He computes the perfect profile and after a long search finally finds Teri Williams. However there's a problem: she's a woman! Will she be the first professional female in NBA?
- DirectorFrank ClarkeStarsMargi ClarkeCarroll BakerKen HutchisonA Liverpudlian mother flees to New York in search of her father and finds female pro-boxing as a way to make ends meet.
- DirectorChristian ZerbibStarsAnne RichardPhilippe VolterSiemen RühaakPeu lui importent les hommes et la gloire, Catherine est une athlète qui court pour son plaisir. Elle y met toute sa fougue, tout son coeur, et ne fait d'entorses à sa passion que pour Olivier, le reporter sportif avec qui elle partage sa vie. Un jour cette passion tourne à l'aveuglement lorsque "l'injustice" d'une blessure, à quelques semaines d'une importante compétition, fait accepter à Catherine ce qu'elle a toujours refusé : un médicament qui cache la douleur et lui permet de continuer à courir. Le mot "dopage" est oublié lorsque le succès arrive : Catherine est championne de France du 800 mètres. Elle file vers le Championnat d'Europe et les Jeux Olympiques. L'engrenage, Catherine ne peut l'éviter. Elle oublie les risques de sanctions et les risques physiques. Elle accepte des médicaments qui la transforment mais la déforment. Elle repousse les mises en garde d'Olivier et fonce vers sa destruction. Elle court, toujours plus vite, toujours plus fort, toujours plus loin... Mais c'est peut-être la mort qui va la rattraper...
- DirectorKaryn KusamaStarsMichelle RodriguezDouglas SantiagoJamie TirelliDiana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
- DirectorEugene JareckiStarsErika EleniakJames ColbyAunjanue Ellis-TaylorPatty, a victim of domestic abuse, meets her match in Tommy, a former boxing hopeful looking for a new star to put in the ring. But he never could have imagined it would be Patty.
- DirectorMichael MilehamStarsMimi LesseosEidan HanzeiVerrel ReedMagnificent Mimi is a woman with a destiny and a bright future ahead of her. She is the world's greatest female wrestling champion, she has a loving boyfriend and loyal family members who care and love her. But things take a turn for the worst when Mimi's boyfriend Nick is wounded and her younger brother is shot to death for trying to stiff local druglord Harry Lee. Lee is the toughest and meanest criminal figure in all of Southern California and if you double-cross him, you won't live to see the sun set. Not only does Lee rule his own empire, he also runs the Kumite, a gladitorial fight ring where warriors battle to the death. Mimi knows the police can't touch Lee with a ten foot pole and so she enlists the aid of her martial arts friend Master Vern to teach her kickboxing and tai chi so she can prepare for combat. Vern doesn't think Mimi is ready for Kumite, as it is a place where only one warrior can be left standing and breathing and the one who loses dies. Against his own judgement, he teaches Mimi the art of kickboxing and tai chi to help her gain revenge. After months of training, Mimi is ready to infiltrate the Kumite and to take down Lee for his heinous crimes. But to get to him, Mimi must face other female combatants, including the lethal amazonian kickboxing queen Inga, who has never been defeated, nor has she met a warrior capable of being called her equal. After Mimi's cover is blown and she's forced to watch as Terry is brutally and mercillesly beaten and killed by the powerful Inga, things get really personal and Mimi must combat more warriors, including Inga herself without the guidance of Master Vern, who has been abducted by Lee's goons. Without Vern's guidance, can Mimi succeed where others before her have failed?
- DirectorJean StewartStarsArmin Mueller-StahlNthati MosheshPaterson JosephA failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win.
- DirectorYaron ZilbermanStarsHanni LuxJudith HaspelAnni LamplThe story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish womens swim team of the 1930s, their forced separation, and their reunion decades later.
- DirectorWard SerrillStarsDarnellia RussellBill ReslerLudacrisA documentary Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls' high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player's fight to regain her eligibility to play.
- DirectorMira NairStarsMadina NalwangaDavid OyelowoLupita Nyong'oA Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
- DirectorJenny MackenzieStarsMighty Cheetahs Soccer TeamThe story of what happens when "The Mighty Cheetahs," an undefeated all-girls soccer team, competes in the boys division. With humor and candor this documentary gets at the heart of the boy-girl issues and explores what "Kick Like A Girl" really means on and off the playing field. Kick Like A Girl reminds us all of the lessons learned in competitive athletics and how sports has been one of the most effective instruments of social change in our lifetime.
- DirectorMelissa JohnsonNO LOOK PASS is the coming-of-age American Dream story of Emily 'Etay' Tay, a first generation Burmese immigrant and basketball superstar living a double life at Harvard who strives to play professionally in Europe. Etay's dreams are no slam dunk -- sexuality, family, race, and the U.S. military conspire against her, firing her passions on and off the court.
- DirectorOded Parness3 women athletes compete in the Israeli triathlon.
- DirectorLou QuillStarsPhillipa RasidiBlood, Sweat and Sequins follows three women as they face daily preconceptions about who they are and what they do, as they battle it out for the title of Miss Pole Dance Australia. This is a chance to change their lives and challenge the stereotypical views even some loved ones hold.
- DirectorTony OssoStarsAudrey SmaltzThe Devotion Project is a series of short documentary portraits celebrating LGBTQ love. Gail Marquis, an Olympic medalist (Montreal '76), met Audrey Smaltz when she was 43 and Smaltz, a former model, was 61. They'd each had other relationships, Marquis with women and Smaltz with men, but until they met it had never 'clicked.' Smaltz, an entrepreneur who works in fashion, didn't miss a beat when telling friends about her new love, and they soon became inseparable. Their story will resonate with the 'late bloomers' among us as it tracks the course of these women's incredible lives, each rich with accomplishment, and celebrates their love story.
- DirectorAndrea SedláckováStarsJudit BárdosAnna GeislerováRoman LuknárThe 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The young talented sprinter Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As a part of the preparation she is placed in a secret "medical programme" where she's getting doped with anabolic steroids. Her performance is getting better, but after she collapses at the training, she learns the truth about the drugs. Anna decides to continue in her training without the steroids even though her mother (Anna Geislerova) is worried that she won't be able to keep up with other athletes and might not qualify for the Olympics, which she sees as the only chance for her daughter to escape from behind the Iron Curtain. After Anna finishes the last in the indoor race, her mother informs the coach (Roman Luknar) that Anna is no longer using steroids. They decide to apply the steroids to Anna secretly, pretending it's nothing but doses of harmless vitamins.
- DirectorLaura McGannAn unflinching and poignant insight into the trials and tribulations, both personal and sporting, of the women on the forefront of Ireland's burgeoning Roller Derby scene.
- DirectorCarmen VincentStarsClaire ConnonThis documentary follows Claire Connon as she gives a personal look into her life as a disabled athlete.
- DirectorFiori CarmenStarsDavid E. BallardCooper HardinA young girl trains in secret to prepare for the try outs of her father's all-boys American football team.