Movies about cycling

[spock]

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

[JBHoren]

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

[spock]

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

[rcummings1]

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...sonid=30034863

[maddmaxx]

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[spock]

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[jan12]

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[classic1]

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[LesterOfPuppets]

Quicksilver
and of course, the obvious...
Breaking Away

[LesterOfPuppets]

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.

[LesterOfPuppets]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure!!!!

[LesterOfPuppets]

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

[Mr B]

The Flying Scotsman

[TriEngineer]

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

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

[deanp]

Butch Cassiday and Sundance Kid

[timothy002]

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[FastFreddy]

The animated The Triplets of Belleville 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 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.

[downtube42]

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.

[FastFreddy]

The 40 Year Old Virgin, 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, 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).

[Brillig]

"2 Seconds" is very bike oriented, about bike messengers. Actually a really good movie up until the very end.

[LesterOfPuppets]

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...

[Hahob]

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

[LesterOfPuppets]

Cherry Hill High

[Silent Otto]

You Never Bike Alone. A movie about critical mass in vancouver.

[buzzman]

Beijing Bicycle

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