List of Sports Films - Wrestling

Wrestling

Note: Lucha films are not included in this list. Although they feature luchadores (Mexican professional wrestlers) as the lead characters, the luchadores typically portray heroes (often superheroes) within non-wrestling stories (such as action, horror, or sci-fi).

Title Year Genre Discipline Notes
Night and the City 1950 Crime Pro wrestling A hustler (Richard Widmark) tries to promote a match in England.
Racket Girls 1951 Crime Pro wrestling A gangster ends up managing women wrestlers.
Mr. Universe 1951 Romantic comedy Pro Wrestling
Rikidōzan monogatari dotō no otoko 1955 Puroresu
The Wrestler 1974 Action drama Pro wrestling Fictional story produced by and starring Verne Gagne.
Paradise Alley 1978 Drama Pro wrestling Cosmo Carbone (Sylvester Stallone) and his brothers try the wrestling racket.
The One and Only 1978 Comedy Pro wrestling Out-of-work actor (Henry Winkler) invents a Gorgeous George-style character.
Take Down 1979 Comedy-drama Scholastic wrestling Lorenzo Lamas as a high school wrestler.
Below the Belt 1980 Comedy Pro wrestling
...All the Marbles 1980 Drama Pro wrestling Peter Falk manages a beautiful female tag team.
Lurich 1984 Drama Biographical film on the career of Georg Lurich.
Vision Quest 1985 Drama Scholastic wrestling Matthew Modine as a high school wrestler.
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie 1985 Pro wrestling
Over the Top 1987 Action drama Arm wrestling Truck driver Sylvester Stallone enters an arm-wrestling competition.
Body Slam 1987 Comedy Pro wrestling A music promoter accidentally ends up in business with a wrestler (Roddy Piper).
No Holds Barred 1989 Action Pro wrestling Hulk Hogan as "Rip," a mean dude only inside the ring.
Spooner 1989 Drama Scholastic wrestling Made for TV, premiered on the Disney Channel, stars Robert Urich.
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows 1998 Documentary Pro wrestling Direct-to-video. Follows Bret Hart in the final year of his 1980s–1990s World Wrestling Federation run, culminating in one of the most famous events in professional wrestling history, the Montreal Screwjob.
Beyond the Mat 1999 Documentary Pro wrestling
Ready to Rumble 2000 Comedy Pro wrestling David Arquette and Scott Caan as buddies of a WCW star.
Reversal 2001 Romantic drama Scholastic wrestling Story of a Pennsylvania high school athlete.
The Backyard 2002 Documentary Backyard wrestling
Rikidōzan 2004 Drama Puroresu Biographical film on the seminal Japanese wrestler Rikidōzan.
Sting: Moment of Truth 2004 Drama Pro wrestling Biographical film on the career of Sting.
Going to the Mat 2004 Family Comedy Scholastic wrestling Made for TV, premiered on the Disney Channel, stars Andrew Lawrence.
Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling 2005 Documentary Pro wrestling
Nacho Libre 2006 Comedy Lucha libre Jack Black comedy loosely based on the career of luchador Fray Tormenta.
The Absolute Truth About Pro Wrestling 2006 Documentary Pro wrestling
Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy 2007 Romantic comedy Pro wrestling
God's Tackle Box 2007 Documentary Pro wrestling
Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero 2008 Documentary Pro wrestling Explores the career and outside-the-ring life of Canadian wrestler Vampiro.
The Wrestler 2008 Drama Pro wrestling Mickey Rourke in an Oscar-nominated role as a physically ailing wrestler.
From Parts Unknown 2009 Pro wrestling
Bloodstained Memoirs 2009 Documentary Pro wrestling
Legendary 2010 Drama Scholastic wrestling Oklahoma teen is coached by his older brother (John Cena).
Win Win 2011 Comedy/Drama Scholastic wrestling Broke lawyer Paul Giamatti becomes a boy's coach and guardian.

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Famous quotes containing the word wrestling:

    There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
    Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    We laugh at him who steps out of his room at the very moment when the sun steps out, and says: “I will the sun to rise”; and at him who cannot stop the wheel, and says: “I will it to roll”; and at him who is taken down in a wrestling match, and says: “I lie here, but I will that I lie here!” And yet, all laughter aside, do we ever do anything other than one of these three things when we use the expression, “I will”?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)