Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Movies about cycling

I am looking for some movies that have anything to do with cycling. I really don't know any.

American Flyers: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong

Thanks for the American Flyers. I'm watching it right now. Youtube, just add 1.

Hell on Wheels -Cycling's defining contest, the Tour de France, is caught in all its grueling glory in this gripping documentary from Academy Award-winning director Pepe Danquart. Top riders reveal their fears, hopes and dedication as they compete in the annual event that attracts millions of fans and viewers worldwide. Amid the high drama of the race, Danquart also goes beyond the spectacle to shed light on those who support the athletes behind the scenes.

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Hell_on_Wheels/70039429?trkid=438381&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=1802333037_0_0&personid=30034863

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and of course, the obvious...
Breaking Away

The Bicycle Thief. The beginning of this one is pretty hardcore if you've ever had a bike ripped off. Just the anticipation of it getting ripped off is VERY suspenseful.

Triplets of Belleville. A killer animated feature length. I was lucky enough to see it in a theatre.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure!!!!

This might be ruining the fun a bit, but here's a good list:
http://uk.geocities.com/mikstar123/films.html

The Flying Scotsman

hahaha the bicycle thief....oh man...and ET, dude! Bicycles.

I guess if ET is in this group, the Goonies, or Big

Butch Cassiday and Sundance Kid

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The animated The Triplets of Belleville (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/) has a great story… albeit unrealistic. It’s my all-time favorite cycling film. It’s set in the 1950s during the TdF and centers around a rider who’s not only obsessed with the sport but forms an unusually close relationship with his grandmother after losing his parents in WWII.

Of movies currently in theaters, The Reader (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/) isn’t a cycling movie but it has several scenes where the couple in love (a teenage boy having a secret affair with a 30-something ex-Nazi, played by a very hot Kate Winslet) sneak off on a cycling tour of 1950s Germany.

One Got Fat

More of a public service flic than a movie, but wildly entertaining nonetheless. Sort of explains why anyone who lived through the '60s is screwed up.

The 40 Year Old Virgin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422/), directed by Judd Apatow and starring Steve Carell: I don’t recommend it – it’s a comedy that I didn’t find very funny but it is interesting in that the filmmakers used the different bikes that he (the title character) rode to show how he changed from a total nerd who had no hope with women to a family guy to marginally cool guy.

Another comedy where they use a bike to tell you something the character: the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/), which I highly recommend. Brad Pitt plays a personal trainer who’s a little light between the ears. He rides his bike around DC as he attempts to extort an ex-CIA guy ("Osbourne Cox" played by John Malkovich).

"2 Seconds (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/)" is very bike oriented, about bike messengers. Actually a really good movie up until the very end.

I saw a little bit of "You, me and Dupree" yesterday and Owen Wilson's doing some Spinervals style video training in it. Looks really corny, but is on again in a half hour. I may just watch it...

The BBC made a 4 episode doc about this british guy!
"The Man Who Biked The World"

Cherry Hill High (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2583202304/tt0074306)

You Never Bike Alone (http://www.youneverbikealone.com/). A movie about critical mass in vancouver.

Beijing Bicycle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276501/)

It's like a Chinese version of the Bicycle Thief but with much more bicycle. Great movie.

not bad choices but you really need to watch
A Sunday in Hell (http://www.worldcycling.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HSTDHELL) and/or Stars and Watercarriers (http://www.worldcycling.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HSTDSTAR) for
some classic racing.

The Yellow Jersey is a novel about the Tour de France that was optioned by Dustin Hoffman who wanted to make the movie and star in it. He didn't make it happen. The cycling movie that almost was. You can still read the book. Early 1970's -- typical angst of the times, but still a good story with lots of Tour action.

I saw the Triplets of Belleville in the theater twice within the first three days it opened. That's how good it is. We bought the DVD on the day it was released.

I just watched it again when I needed some cheering up. Highly recommended. A couple of my friends call it the funniest movie they ever saw.

The animator painstakingly drew a bicycle wheel in rotation, with the crossed spokes correctly depicted. He said it was the hardest part of the movie to animate. There is also a lot of cycling stuff on the wallpaper in the boy's home. Lots and lots of stuff to notice the second and viewing.

It's a French/Canadian/Belgian collaboration. There's no dialogue, so there's no language barrier.

American Flyers: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong


FWIW it's worth, AMERICAN FLYERS is in the $5 bin at Walmart. Well worth $5. Story is OK, bike riding footage is great.

I saw the Triplets of Belleville in the theater twice within the first three days it opened. That's how good it is. We bought the DVD on the day it was released.

I just watched it again when I needed some cheering up. Highly recommended. A couple of my friends call it the funniest movie they ever saw.

The animator painstakingly drew a bicycle wheel in rotation, with the crossed spokes correctly depicted. He said it was the hardest part of the movie to animate. There is also a lot of cycling stuff on the wallpaper in the boy's home. Lots and lots of stuff to notice the second and viewing.

It's a French/Canadian/Belgian collaboration. There's no dialogue, so there's no language barrier.

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I stumbled onto this movie by accident when a non-cycling friend loaned the DVD to me. Those are the finest movie-watching moments for me, when an unexpected gem is found.

Anyone who doesn't watch The Triplets of Belleville is missing out, big time.

"2 Seconds (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/)" is very bike oriented, about bike messengers. Actually a really good movie up until the very end.

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Anyone who doesn't watch The Triplets of Belleville is missing out, big time.

Right you are! Action on two continents, amazing music and absolutely no dialogue.

BMX Bandits (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085204/)
Rad (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091817/)

One Got Fat


LOL!!! you seen the RiffTrax version of it?

I take it Triplets of Bellville is the same film as Belleville Rendezvous?

Also, Klunkerz!!! more of a documentary but very interesting.

New one called 127 Hours has a little biking in it...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWWcQC0ZxIM

Samoan Wedding has a bike courier character in it.
(http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Samoan-Wedding/70060042?strackid=48401b3f0c4d4c57_0_srl&strkid=2079620084_0_0&trkid=438381)

+1 on triplets of belleville, very enjoyable. I also liked Flying Scotsman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_C4TD5E7eA
klunkers trailer

I don't know if this one has been mentioned, but
A Ride With George Hincapie Documentary

Triplets of Belleville. A killer animated feature length. I was lucky enough to see it in a theatre.

I found a DVD of the Triplets of Belleville at Goodwill for $3. It's one of our favorites.

also:
Share The Road, an indy film about a coast to coast bike tour.

The Nine Ball Diaries (http://cyclocrossworld.stores.yahoo.net/noname2.html) about cyclocross racer Tim Johnson was pretty good. It's on Netflix steaming btw

"2 Seconds (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/)" is very bike oriented, about bike messengers. Actually a really good movie up until the very end.

+1. Also has short, thrilling footage of mountain bike race at start of the movie. Lots about biking to like about this.

BMX the movie

try the horror 'Blood Trails'

Butch Cassiday and Sundance Kid

And 40 yr old vergin :lol:

I found a DVD of the Triplets of Belleville at Goodwill for $3. It's one of our favorites.
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Is this movie a cartoon? I have a copy, thats a cartoon...same movie?

Is this movie a cartoon? I have a copy, thats a cartoon...same movie?

Yours might be called 'Belleville Rendevous' same movie. Yes, it's a cartoon.

I saw it in a town in Kerry (Ireland)as part of a local festival. It was shown out-doors and was powered by volunteer cyclists from the audience generating electricity on four spinning bikes set up facing the screen. Very appropriate given the movie plot.

It was a touring show to promote energy saving when using electricity.

Premium Rush (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1547234/), coming in 2012.

Happy Go Lucky has the heroine of the story riding a folder, Raleigh twenty maybe, in the opening sequence.

It's. Up on Hulu ATM