5 Sports Movies For People Who Don't Like Sports

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Sports movies are one of the mainstay genres in Hollywood. The more traditional ones tend to lean heavily into the inspirational elements, showcasing an athlete or a team who has to persevere through some hardship before becoming victorious in the end and all being better people for it. These kinds of movies are often beloved by people who are really into sports, and the best ones can even intrigue those who have little to no knowledge of athletics. Other times, however, the movies can focus a little too much on the sports jargon and end up alienating viewers who aren’t as interested in the subject.

There are quite a few “sports movies” out there that are a lot more palatable to non-sports fans because the sports are actually secondary to the story rather than the main focus. These kinds of movies often use sports or an athlete as a sort of framing device for a story about relationships or personal struggles that happen both outside of and around the sport itself. While some only loosely fit the description of “sports movies”, these are the films that are not often discussed when the genre is brought up, but they deserve just as much recognition for being sports movies that can even appeal to those who aren’t athletes.

The Greatest Sports Anime Of All Time

This movie is a biopic about the infamous figure skater Tonya Harding, who was involved in a massive scandal around an assault of fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan. I, Tonya tells Harding’s life story from childhood until the famous Kerrigan incident, and is more about Harding and her intense and frankly quite traumatizing life than it is about skating (though obviously skating still plays a fairly big role, because it was a big part of her life). Harding is a fascinating