The First Goal
...It’s pouring rain, and the football team can’t get onto the field, which has turned into a giant muddy puddle. The day after tomorrow, they have a game against the tough "southern" opponent.
...It’s pouring rain, and the football team can’t get onto the field, which has turned into a giant muddy puddle. The day after tomorrow, they have a game against the tough "southern" opponent.
Sergei Gurzo
Aleksandr Susnin
Pavel Kashlakov
Georgy Satini
Gennadiy Nilov
Lev Zhukov
Olga Avericheva
...It’s pouring rain, and the football team can’t get onto the field, which has turned into a giant muddy puddle. The day after tomorrow, they have a game against the tough "southern" opponent.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.