We can truly call 2025 a “golden year” for sports movies and streaming. Movie studios and platforms showed many films that are much more than just classic stories about becoming famous. This year, we saw the return of famous comedies, big life stories (biographies), and exciting documentary projects. All the best sports movies of 2025 are in our collection. Enjoy.
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Stick
IMDb: 7.2/10
2025, Sports Comedy (Series)
United States, TV-MA
Director: Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
Top Cast: Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron
Pryce Cahill is a former professional golfer. His career was ruined many years ago because of a public breakdown and a big failure. Since then, he lives hidden by his shame and doubts.
Pryce gets a chance to correct his mistakes when he starts training his new client, Santi Wheeler. Santi is a very gifted young golfer who taught himself to play. He comes from a poor area and has never played in professional competitions.
F1: The Movie
IMDb: 7.7/10
2025, Sports Drama, Action
United States, PG-13
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Top Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem
Sonny Hayes is a legendary Formula 1 racer who stopped his career many years ago because of a terrible accident. Sonny, who had already left professional sports, gets an amazing chance to make a comeback.
He is invited to join a struggling team called APXGP, which always finishes in last place in the championship. Sonny takes on two jobs: he is a driver and also a teacher for a young racer named Joshua Pearce. Joshua is talented but emotionally unstable.
Chad Powers
IMDb: 7.6/10
2025, Sports, Comedy
United States, TV-14
Director: Tony Yacenda
Top Cast: Glen Powell, Perry Mattfeld, Steve Zahn
Russ Holliday is an arrogant and star quarterback on a university American football team. Because of his behavior, Russ is banned from playing for the whole season. However, he must secretly stay in shape and keep playing to keep his chance of getting into the professional league.
Russ invents another personality: he creates the character of Chad Powers — an eccentric, simple, but incredibly talented new player, whom he joins the team as a walk-on player.
Happy Gilmore 2
IMDb: 6.1/10
2025, Comedy, Sport
United States, PG-13
Director: Kyle Newacheck
Top Cast: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen
The story happens many years after the first movie. The main character, Happy Gilmore, is now a successful but tired professional golfer who suffers from alcoholism. His career and personal life are failing.
His old enemy, Shooter McGavin, who is now rich, threatens to buy the retirement home where Happy’s mother lives. To save the retirement home, Happy must fix his personal problems and return to competitive golf. His goal is to win a big tournament to get the money and fight Shooter McGavin one last, final time.
WWE: Unreal
IMDb: 8.0/10
2025, Documentary Series, Sports
United States, TV-14
Director: Erik Powers
Top Cast: WWE Superstars and Staff
This is a documentary series that gives an honest look behind the scenes and at the history of the world’s biggest professional wrestling company, the WWE. The series talks about the crazy travel schedule, the constant injuries, and the personal sacrifices that wrestlers make. The athletes themselves tell the whole truth about the backstage life of the sport, without making it look better than it is.
Giant
IMDb: 7.2/10
2025, Biographical, Sports Drama
United Kingdom, United States, R
Director: Rowan Athale
Top Cast: Amir El-Masry, Pierce Brosnan, Katherine Dow Blyton
Naseem Hamed is a gifted but poor young man of Yemeni origin from Sheffield, UK. He started boxing in a tiny gym with his coach and mentor, Brendan Ingle, who became like a father to him.
The film follows his quick and unusual path to the top of world boxing in the 1990s, where he becomes the featherweight champion.
Voetbalouders
IMDb: 6.2/10
2025, Comedy
Netherlands, TV-MA/PG
Director: Ilse Warringa, Albert Jan van Rees
Top Cast: Ilse Warringa, Eva van Gessel, Mariana Aparicio
The creators of the series share their funny and critical view of the world of youth football. The focus is not on the children who play, but on their parents. The parents' committee for the children’s football team gets out of control. They put their own failed dreams and problems onto their children. They constantly argue about the coach’s decisions, collecting money, who does what job on the team, and social status.
Olympo
IMDb: 6.0/10
2025, Teen Drama, Sports, Mystery
Spain, TV-MA
Director: Ibai Abad, Laia Foguet, Jan Matheu
Top Cast: Clara Galle, Agustín Della Corte, Nuno Gallego
The series tells the story of students at a famous sports academy in Spain called “Olympo.” This academy is for training future Olympic champions in different sports, from swimming to tennis. The children face huge pressure because they are always competing against each other.
Faster
IMDb: 6.4/10
2025, Action, Romance, Sport
France, PG-13
Director: Morgan S. Dalibert
Top Cast: Paola Locatelli, Alban Lenoir, Anne Marivin
Julia is a talented girl who is a mechanic and a racer. She dreams of getting into the elite world of Formula 1. She has a natural talent for cars and speed, but she faces huge problems in the traditional, male world of racing.
She meets Max, a former professional racer who now works for a small team. A strong feeling starts between them, and they become a professional team.
Together, they fight against the corruption and the elite people in the racing world to prove Julia’s talent and help Max get his old fame back.
Him
IMDb: 5.1/10
2025, Psychological Supernatural Horror, Sport
United States, R
Director: Justin Tipping
Top Cast: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox
Cameron Cade is a talented young basketball player who is obsessed with the dream of becoming the best of the best. His father, Isaiah White, who was an Olympian, tries to guide his ambition.
However, when Cameron starts training with incredible, almost supernatural focus, he meets an evil, mysterious being from another world. This being offers him huge success in sports, but in return, it asks for a terrible payment.
