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1. A View to a Kill (1985)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
The recovery of a microchip from the body of a fellow British secret agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist scheming to cause massive destruction.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones
Votes: 104,865 | Gross: $50.33M
2. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 65,864 | Gross: $58.97M
3. Black Beauty (1994)
G | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Director: Caroline Thompson | Stars: Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Docs Keepin Time, Alan Cumming
Votes: 10,675 | Gross: $4.63M
4. National Velvet (1944)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere
Votes: 7,998
5. Moulin Rouge (1952)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Director: John Huston | Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier
Votes: 6,518 | Gross: $11.81M
6. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,582
7. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 2,410
8. Anna Karenina (1935)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 5,792 | Gross: $0.87M
9. The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
The schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books; as they try to get rich quick, they are abetted by the headmistress' brother.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley
Votes: 2,935
10. Paan Singh Tomar (2012)
Not Rated | 135 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of Paan Singh Tomar, an Indian athlete and seven-time national steeplechase champion who becomes one of the most feared dacoits in Chambal Valley after his retirement.
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Rajesh Abhay, Hemendra Dandotiya
Votes: 37,859 | Gross: $0.04M
11. Champions (1984)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous recovery and goes on to win the 1981 Grand National steeplechase on the horse Aldaniti.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: John Hurt, Gregory Jones, Mick Dillon, Ann Bell
Votes: 747 | Gross: $0.17M
12. Lucky Partners (1940)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings".
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Spring Byington
Votes: 1,104
13. Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Drama about life at Rugby School in Victorian England. The headmaster is fair but not effective and life is brutal for the young boys because of bullying and its consequences. The acting ... See full summary »
Director: David Moore | Stars: Julian Wadham, Alex Pettyfer, Stephen Fry, Jemma Redgrave
Votes: 1,078
14. Under My Skin (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
On the run from gamblers he double-crossed, expatriate jockey Danny Butler tries to justify his son's faith in him as a winner.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: John Garfield, Micheline Presle, Luther Adler, Orley Lindgren
Votes: 390
15. The Derby Stallion (2005)
PG | 99 min | Drama
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Director: Craig Clyde | Stars: Charles Black, Sarah Blackman, Preston Wigasi Brant, K.C. Clyde
Votes: 1,208
16. National Velvet (1960– )
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Velvet Brown lives on a dairy farm with her parents Martha and Herbert, her brother Donald, her sister Edwina, and ex-jockey Mi Taylor; Edwina has a boyfriend named Teddy. Velvet owns a ... See full summary »
Stars: Lori Martin, Ann Doran, James McCallion, Arthur Space
Votes: 127
17. Dark Horse (2015)
PG | 85 min | Documentary, Drama, Sport
An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse
Director: Louise Osmond | Stars: Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian 'Daisy' Vokes, Angela Davies
Votes: 1,325
18. The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles
Votes: 522
19. Captain Boycott (1947)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, History
In 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Alastair Sim
Votes: 430
20. Sergeant Murphy (1938)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A horse is offered for sale to the cavalry but is rejected as unfit for service. A cavalry private buys the horse, and trains it to be a champion racer. When he thinks it's ready, he ... See full summary »
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Votes: 190
21. The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides but Vance suspects hypnosis and foul play.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, Douglas Walton
Votes: 626
22. Maryland (1940)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne
Votes: 170
23. Going Places (1938)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 429
24. Dead Cert (1974)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies... See full summary »
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Nina Thomas
Votes: 234
25. A Yank at Eton (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Family
During World War II, an American boy named Timothy Dennis is unwillingly sent to Eton College in the UK where he is frequently confused by the many differences between the two cultures.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter, Freddie Bartholomew
Votes: 468
26. Wall Street Cowboy (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Music, Western
Roy Rogers and his pals go to New York City to prevent a Wall Street conglomerate from taking their land. The land is rich in a mineral used for making steel and some greedy power brokers will stop at nothing to get it.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Raymond Hatton, Ann Baldwin
Votes: 139
27. Straight Place and Show (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Director: David Butler | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz
Votes: 158
28. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Romance, Drama
The story of Sir Miles O'Hara and his daughter, who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Louis Payne
Votes: 205
29. Being AP (2015)
103 min | Documentary, Sport
'Being AP' premiered at Toronto Film Festival 2015, and documents one of Northern Ireland's greatest ever sportsmen during his last racing season. The story of AP's final season is a ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Wonke | Star: Tony McCoy
Votes: 333
30. The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Dunbar, Gardner James, Nigel Barrie
Votes: 18
31. The Steeple Chase (1933)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey is set to ride Thunderbolt in the big race; his owner, the Colonel, has bet everything. But the stable-hands goof off and incapacitate the horse. In desperation, Mickey rents a horse... See full summary »
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
Votes: 310
32. Pride of the Blue Grass (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
Based on the story of the steeplechase-winning blind jumping horse, Elmer Gantry aka Gantry the Great, owned by Eleanor Getzendaner. The horse plays himself.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates, Aldrich Bowker
Votes: 89
33. The Winner's Circle (1950)
84 min | Drama
A cruel depiction of the passage from childhood to adolescence.
Director: René Wheeler | Stars: Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Votes: 31
34. Porky and Teabiscuit (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky accidentally buys an old horse at an auction and must enter him in a race to recoup his loss.
Directors: Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig, Earle Hodgins, Joe Twerp
Votes: 417
35. His First Command (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish
Votes: 52
36. Warner Bros. Sports Parade: Heart of a Champion (1954)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Sport
When Herod Play, the famous race-horse, suffered a broken leg, it was thought his career was over. However, Tom Blackinston, famous horse trainer, took over the training with the intent of ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin E. Olsen | Stars: Knox Manning, Tom Blakiston, Herod Play
38. Marvels of Motion, Issue D (1925)
Documentary, Short, Comedy
Photography is manipulated in slow-motion, reverse-motion, and freeze-frame to analyze the movement of horses, chickens, typing fingers, an Olympic long-jumper, and a lump of sugar dropped into milk.
Star: Robert LeGendre
39. Sporting Chance (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: William Collier Jr., Claudia Dell, James Hall, Eugene Jackson
Votes: 27
40. Dostih (1982)
90 min | Drama, Sport
In the main race on Sunday afternoon, Titan and his rider Pecenka will win in Chuchle, while jockey Sochor is last as usual. Trainer reproaches Sochor the next day that he can't live off ... See full summary »
Director: Jaroslav Soukup | Stars: Ladislav Mrkvicka, Pavel Zednícek, Gabriela Osvaldová, Jirí Tomek
Votes: 14
42. Marvels of Motion: A (1930)
12 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
Slow-motion, reverse-motion, and trick photography adds extra amusement to scenes of galloping horses, leaping dogs, and various rodeo acts.
Stars: Allan McDonald, Buff Brady, Little Joe Hetzer, Ranger
43. Adelaide Advances (1954)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Hugh Alexander, Bern Gandy, Joan Long | Stars: David Low, Hans Heysen
44. Tweedledum Wants to Be a Jockey (1910)
4 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Marcel Perez | Star: Marcel Perez
Votes: 41
45. Where the World Meets (1952)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Sport
Part one of the official film of XV Olympics in Helsinki 1952.
Director: Hannu Leminen | Stars: Carl-Erik Creutz, Reino Palmroth, Usko Santavuori, Trygve Lie
Votes: 84
46. Dynamite (1989)
86 min | Family
Director: Milan Cieslar | Stars: Frantisek Svihlík, Jan Dejmek, Miroslav Etzler, Vlastimil Fantura
Votes: 14
49. Outboard Stunting (1931)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The outboard motor created many novel uses by boaters, many of those crazy innovations captured here on a Florida lake
Director: Jack Eaton | Star: Dick Pope
50. Le Grand Steeple de Paris (1946)
Documentary, Short, Sport
Director: Robert Mariaud | Stars: Georges Briquet, Marcel Henocque