Ram-30's Top 40 Hockey Movies
A list of my favourite films about the great game of hockey.
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- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsDarcy FehrMelissa DionisioAmy StewartIt's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her hairdresser/abortionist mother Liliom. Innocent Veronica, caught in the middle, is treated to both services! Meanwhile poor, dithering, cowardly Guy can only stand by and watch.
- DirectorStephen S. CampanelliStarsAjuawak KapashesitWayne BakerSladen PeltierFollows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsDaniel KashPeter MacNeillLinda GoransonA look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off because of his temper. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's life both before and after his death.
- DirectorRick MoranisDave ThomasStarsRick MoranisDave ThomasMax von SydowCanada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
- DirectorJerry CiccorittiStarsAidan DevineKevin ConwayRobin GammellThe story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
- DirectorZale DalenStarsThomas PeacockeFrances HylandBarry MorseIt's the winter of 1940. Father Athol Murray - "Pere" to most that know him - is an opinionated, chain-smoking, hard drinking parish priest at Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. His strong opinions include his disdain for socialism as epitomized by the CCF party in Saskatchewan and the current war which has claimed too many lives including those of former students, needing to raise money to operate the College by whatever means, and not wanting others to emulate his vices - especially not wanting the students and women to smoke - while he blissfully enjoys those vices himself. Despite these views, he is beloved by most that know him, although he often is the cause for consternation of the area's bishop, Bishop Williams. Pere may face backlash in the form of Ron Fryer, a new student to the College. Despite needing to "triumph over adversity" - his unofficial motto - every day in operating the College on a shoestring, a hockey game between the College's team, the Hounds, against the Moose Jaw Canucks, and the events immediately following may test Pere's resolve in dealing with adversity, and how it affects his students, including Fryer.
- DirectorPeter PearsonStarsKeir DulleaElizabeth AshleyJohn BeckA hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality, and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsRoy DupuisStephen McHattieJulie LeBretonA story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
- 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?
- StarsMark A. OwenSonia LaplanteDavid BerniCANADA RUSSIA '72 is shot in a fluid documentary style that effectively captures all the immediacy of the '72 hockey summit's intrigues.
- DirectorSheldon CohenStarsRoch CarrierJean-Guy MoreauA French Canadian boy endures the terrible shame when he receives the hockey sweater of the wrong team.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanMichael OntkeanStrother MartinA failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
- DirectorMichael McGowanStarsJohn McDermottNoah ReidHawksley WorkmanA teenage hockey player becomes a national sensation.
- StarsJared KeesoSarah ManninenAidan DevineChronicles the life of Don Cherry, from playing minor league hockey to coaching the NHL's Boston Bruins.
- DirectorLouis SaiaStarsMarc MessierRémy GirardPatrick HuardEver wanted to know what guys say when they get together? This light- hearted comedy explores the male world through an amateur hockey team. Every male stereotype is analyzed, comically of course.
- DirectorLaurie LyndStarsTom CavanaghBen ShenkmanNoah BernettEric, a sports announcer and former hockey player, doesn't know how to deal with the flamboyant young boy to whom he and his partner suddenly become guardians.
- DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsMegan FollowsRick MoranisGail YoungsA female goalie player faces prejudiced opposition when she joins a boys hockey team in Parry Sound, Ontario.
- DirectorJay RoachStarsRussell CroweBurt ReynoldsHank AzariaThe residents of a small town get over-excited when their hockey team gets chosen to host a televised event.
- DirectorPeter MarkleStarsRob LoweCynthia GibbPatrick SwayzeA 17 year old farm boy is offered an ice hockey tryout. His brother drives him to Canada. He has fast legs, slow fists, but is chosen. Will he learn to use his fists and play ice hockey the Canuck way? Will he get the coach's cute daughter?
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsBruce ArmstrongEric CrydermanDon AllenA young hockey player becomes an overnight star of the Toronto Maple Leafs and falls in love with a beautiful young singer. Their relationship is plagued by his "jock" nature and decadent lifestyle.
- DirectorStephen HerekStarsEmilio EstevezJoss AcklandLane SmithA self-centered Minnesota lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team.
- DirectorGavin O'ConnorStarsKurt RussellPatricia ClarksonNathan WestThe true story of Herb Brooks, the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Soviet squad.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsScott BaioLance KerwinEd LauterA popular high school hockey player hides the fact that he is an alcoholic.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsStanley ClementsBarbara BestarSteve BrodieThe Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan (Steve Brodie), is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to bribes being accepted from gamblers by the star player. When the team is joined by cocky Mike Connors (Stanley Clements), a boyhood friend of Jack's, they begin to regain their former winning ways. Mike becomes a star who cannot be stopped, but is disliked by his teammates becuase of his selfish play. Jack tries to keek Mike away from his sister Margaret (Barbara Bestar), who is in love with him, which leads to a bloody fight between the two men. The angry Mike accepts a bribe from gambler Rocky Gilbratar (Lyle Talbot) to throw the big final game. But during the game, an appeal from a young boy who idolizes him, Davey (Duncan Richardson), sets Mike on the right road, and his unselfish play helps win the game.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsDavid SutcliffeAlexander De JordyDanny MagsThe Boxers from Brockton, MA and the Canadiens from Fredericton, NB are two teams at a 2003 Montréal junior hockey tournament. The Boxers almost didn't attend because of the rising global tensions due to the US initiated Iraq War. After arriving in Montréal, the Boxers wished they hadn't attended as they face anti-US sentiments time after time, some bordering on the potentially violent. This situation is especially troubling for the family of the Boxers' star forward Michael Carver, whose twenty year old brother Chris Carter gave up his own hockey life to enlist and is scheduled to head over to Iraq soon. One half of the Canadiens star first line, coach Neil Martin's twelve year old son Jordan Martin, doesn't like the treatment shown to the American team. Although distracted by his parent's crumbling marriage whose problems are due primarily to competing careers, Jordan decides to do his small but seemingly insurmountably problematic part in fixing the wrong that has been done. Regardless of if Jordan can pull off his plan which may be at the expense of his own promising hockey career, his actions may show others that bridging gaps in other aspects of life are worth attempting.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsPaul HorruzeyEric PetersonBernard HopkinsPresented as a TV news investigation report, it follows some episodes of a pro hockey player, Felix Batterinsky, from his troubled teen years as a junior hockey leaguer in rural Ontario, to his actual coaching job in Finland. However, his inner demons of violence has haunted his career all along, trying to redeem something to his father, his stint as an NHL player, and bringing the violent North American Style of hockey up in Europe...
- DirectorGeorge ErschbamerStarsNicholle TomTara LipinskiNancy KerriganA popular hockey player and an ice skater die on the same day. The soul of the skater goes to heaven but the hockey player is reborn in the body of the ice skater.
- DirectorRobert MarkowitzStarsMichael MoriartyKevin ConwayMeryl StreepGerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
- DirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsD.B. SweeneyMoira KellyRoy DotriceA temperamental figure skater and an arrogant former hockey player attempt to win the Olympic Gold Medal as a figure skating pairs team.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsCharles QuigleyRita HayworthJohn GallaudetTom Ferguson, star left wing of the Indians hockey team, is killed during a game in an "accident" with Dick Adams and Bill Drake, two of his own teammates. His brother, Alec Ferguson, is not convinced it was and accident, and goes to New York to uncover the truth. Posing as a fellow townsman named Steve Moreau who is unable to accept an offer to play with the Indians because of an injury, Alec wins a place with the team. He learns that the team, a member of a nation-wide professional league, has been throwing games on the orders of a gambling ring. He meets Betty Holland, the pretty daughter of team coach Joe Holland and falls in love with her. He plays along with Adams and Drake and learns that the owner, Rudy Maxwell, is the head of the gambling ring and has Coach Holland under control because of bad checks written to pay off gambling losses. Reporter Sam Erskine suspecting that the games are being thrown and talks Betty into accepting a job on the Chronicle to find out what she can to protect her father's name. Maxwell discovers Alec's true identity and orders Betty kidnapped, thus ensuring that Alec's play will lead to an Indians' defeat in an important game.
- DirectorDwayne BeaverStarsGabrielle RoseCurtis BechdholtDeanna MilliganA story of a Canadian family and one son's journey to make it to play in a professional hockey league. Supported and hindered by his immediate family, Stephan Kanachowski experiences a world of emotions in the up and down life of a hockey player.
- DirectorDean BennettStarsTom McCamusVictoria SnowTara Spencer-NairnBased on the book written by Walter Gretzky, recounting his recovery from a stroke which left him without any memory of his son Wayne.
- DirectorRocky LaneStarsEryn CollinsCory FryJoey GoeujonRobbie Steele, ambitious Vancouver attorney, wants to win at all costs. She needs a former pro hockey star to sign with her client's struggling team.
- DirectorDavid FleerErik MoePeter RudyStarsJim GaffiganIan BrennanT.J. Jagodowski30-year-old Owen Fenby loves his girlfriend. But he loves high school hockey more. Or does he? One by one, his friends are deserting his annual pilgrimage to the Wisconsin State High School Hockey Tournament, forcing him to confront some harsh truths about his bizarre obsession.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsAllan LaneJean RogersEdward AshleyNew York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hunk lead in "The Behemoth" but he would prefer she quit her job and become his wife.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsJean-Claude Van DammePowers BootheRaymond J. BarryA former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsGeorge FormbyKay WalshBetty StockfeldGeorge plays an aspiring news photographer that gets pictures by way of a spy camera in his bow tie. Comic confusion and chases arise from his inadvertently taking blackmail-able snaps of an important editor,and on-ice confrontations with his figure-skating love interest's jealous boyfriend, including in the middle of a professional hockey match.
- DirectorRobert BoydStarsCatherine FitchRebecca JenkinsScott RendererLizette, Carol and Cheryl-Ann work as waitresses in Joe's donut shop located in the small town of Stayner, Ontario. While naive and perpetually smiling Cheryl-Ann, whose outwardly happy existence is despite her mother being seriously ill, considers Lizette her best friend, irresponsible Lizette - who is the bane of Joe's existence - finds Cheryl-Ann annoying. That is why it is with reluctance that Lizette asks Cheryl-Ann to be the replacement fourth for an ill Carol in tonight's double date, thirty-fifth birthday celebration for Lizette to the Dan Hill concert in Toronto. Terry (Lizette's exterminator husband) and Terry's exterminator partner Simon are the other two in the foursome. Lizette needed to find that fourth as Simon, who just broke up with his fiancée Pam, would not go without a date, and Terry wouldn't go without Simon, as both men really would prefer to stay in town and go to the local hockey game. The events of the evening, which don't go according to plan, begin the process of each examining their relationships with the other three as well as with other townsfolk including Lizette's younger sister Darlene who has self-image issues, and Johnny "The Polak", the enforcer for the local hockey team.
- DirectorWarren P. SonodaStarsJim AnnanJason BlickerLiam CardPuck Hogs follows a men's recreational hockey team, The Puck Hogs, through a brutally hilarious weekend tournament. In the tradition of the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, Puck Hogs is a hocku-mentary comedy about ice-prone boys turning into real-life men, and stick handling the puck over the goal line of life.
- DirectorMichael DowseStarsSeann William ScottJay BaruchelAlison PillLabeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.