List of films about ice hockey
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The following is a list of films about ice hockey, a subset of the sports film genre.
| Year | Title | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | King of Hockey | Drama | A teammate's punch causes hockey star Gabby Dugan to go blind. |
| 1937 | Idol of the Crowds | Drama | John Wayne as a hockey player who wants to buy a chicken farm. |
| The Game That Kills | Drama | After a player dies during a game, coach's daughter Rita Hayworth digs for the truth. | |
| 1938 | The Duke of West Point | Drama | A misunderstood London-raised athlete is shunned by other cadets before game vs. Canadians. |
| 1940 | Olympic Honeymoon | Comedy | A honeymooner is mistaken for a hockey player and invited to play for England. |
| 1946 | Gay Blades | Comedy | A talent scout discovers and distracts Andy Buell, the star player of the Duluth Rustlers. |
| 1953 | White Lightning | Drama | Criminals offer bribes to the Red Devils' hockey stars to deliberately lose games. |
| 1965 | The Hockey Players | Drama | Film about the challenges of aging in professional hockey, focusing on 30-year-old team captain Anatoly Duganov, who fights against stereotypes. |
| 1970 | Love Story | Romance | A Harvard hockey player (Ryan O'Neal) loves, then loses a doomed young woman. |
| 1971 | Face-Off | Romance | A Toronto Maple Leafs rookie and his relationship with a musician. |
| 1973 | Paperback Hero | Drama | A big-time hockey star (Keir Dullea) ends up in a tiny Saskatchewan town. |
| 1977 | Slap Shot | Comedy | Starring Paul Newman as the player-coach of a rowdy, raunchy minor-league team. |
| The Deadliest Season | Drama | TV film with Michael Moriarty and Meryl Streep about hockey's violence. | |
| 1978 | Ice Castles | Drama | Alexis "Lexie" Winston is a sixteen-year-old girl from Waverly, Iowa who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. Her boyfriend, Nick Peterson, dreams of being a hockey player. |
| 1980 | The Boy Who Drank Too Much | Drama | TV film with Scott Baio as a high school hockey player, well-liked and respected despite being an alcoholic. |
| 1981 | Miracle on Ice | Drama | A television film on the 1980 Miracle on Ice at the Lake Placid Olympics. |
| 1984 | Hockey Night | Drama | Cathy Yarrow tries out for the local boys' team |
| 1986 | Youngblood | Drama | Rob Lowe is an American teen assigned to a Canada junior league. |
| Touch and Go | Romance | A National Hockey League player (Michael Keaton) falls for a young single mom. | |
| 1992 | The Mighty Ducks | Comedy | Disney family yarn about a youth team coached by Emilio Estevez. |
| The Cutting Edge | Romance | The ultimate love/skate relationship between a figure skater and a hockey player | |
| 1993 | Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer | Drama | A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer |
| 1994 | D2: The Mighty Ducks | Comedy | Sequel, with Ducks players competing in Junior Goodwill Games. |
| 1995 | Net Worth | Drama | The story of the early years of the NHL and the off ice battle between the owners and players |
| Sudden Death | Action | A lone fire marshal is pitted against extortionists who hold unsuspecting NHL players and fans for ransom during game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. | |
| 1996 | D3: The Mighty Ducks | Comedy | Ducks enroll in an elite academy, receiving a rude welcome. Second sequel. |
| Happy Gilmore | Comedy | A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house. | |
| 1997 | Les Boys | Comedy | Quebec story of boys from a low-level amateur team. |
| 1998 | Les Boys II | Comedy | Quebec sequel, story of boys from a low-level amateur team. |
| The Ice Rink | Comedy | A film crew uses an ice hockey game as the backdrop for a love story | |
| 1999 | H-E Double Hockey Sticks | Family comedy | Satan's apprentice tempts a young hockey player. |
| Mystery, Alaska | Drama | Alaska team led by Russell Crowe plays an outdoor game against the New York Rangers. | |
| Genius | Comedy | A teen genius juggles the roles of college student and junior high bad boy while growing up in a hockey family. | |
| 2000 | MVP: Most Valuable Primate | Comedy | Family fare about a hockey-playing chimp. |
| 2001 | Les Boys III | Comedy | Quebec sequel, story of boys from a low-level amateur team. |
| 2002 | Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice | Comedy | Direct-to-video follow-up to 1977 film, with new cast plus the Hanson Brothers. |
| 2004 | Miracle | Drama | Based on the 1980 Miracle on Ice, with Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks. |
| The Chiefs | Documentary | Documentary follows the Laval Chiefs, a semi-pro team that plays in the LHSPQ | |
| 2005 | The Rocket (Maurice Richard) | Drama | Biographical film on National Hockey League legend Maurice "The Rocket" Richard. |
| Go Figure | Comedy | The Disney story of a figure skater turned hockey player | |
| Waking Up Wally | Biographical | Based on the book written by Walter Gretzky recounting his recovery from a stroke which left him without any memory of his son Wayne. | |
| Les Boys IV | Comedy | Quebec sequel, story of boys from a low-level amateur team featuring NHL all-time greats | |
| 2006 | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | Comedy | Buddy cop film in which two Canadians investigate murders related to hockey. |
| National Lampoon's Pucked | Comedy | Frank Hopper (Bon Jovi) is a former lawyer who receives a credit card in the mail and believes he's hit the jackpot. It's not long before he's working his way toward financing his dream – an all-woman hockey team. He's also put himself in debt for more than $300,000. He winds up in court when his plan backfires. | |
| In the Crease | Documentary | Documents the inspirational true story of a teenage hockey team and their quest to win a national championship. | |
| 2008 | The Love Guru | Comedy | Toronto Maple Leafs owner hires a guru (Mike Myers) to advise her star player. |
| Slap Shot 3: The Junior League | Comedy | The Hanson Brothers are back to whip a youth league team into shape | |
| Pond Hockey | Documentary | Examines the changing culture of sports through insightful interviews with hockey stars, experts, journalists and local rink rats alike. | |
| Junior | Documentary | Film chronicling a year in the life of Baie-Comeau Drakkar of the Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League. | |
| 2010 | Broad Street Bullies | Documentary | Documentary about the Philadelphia Flyers NHL team |
| Score: A Hockey Musical | Musical comedy | A home-schooled 17-year-old becomes a pro hockey player. | |
| Tooth Fairy | Comedy | Derek Thompson (Dwayne Johnson) is a minor league hockey player nicknamed the "Tooth Fairy" who becomes a real tooth fairy | |
| Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story | Drama, comedy | Hockey player Don Cherry spends years in the minor leagues, then lands a job as coach of the Boston Bruins in the 1970s. | |
| Den Brother | Comedy | Star high school hockey player needs to help his sister with girl scouts in this Disney film | |
| 2011 | Breakaway | Drama | A hockey-playing Sikh teen falls in love with coach Rob Lowe's sister. |
| Goon | Comedy | A bar bouncer (Seann William Scott) becomes a hockey team's enforcer. | |
| Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II | Drama Comedy | Sequel, The Don Cherry story continues | |
| 2012 | The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life | Drama Comedy | The film centers on the Lynx, a junior hockey team in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, who are preparing for their league's top tournament. |
| 2013 | Big Shot | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. How young businessman John Spano struck a deal to buy the New York Islanders, only to be later revealed as a fraud. |
| Legend № 17 | Drama | Based on the career of Russian legend Valery Kharlamov. | |
| Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story | Biographical | The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of 44 to play on the same team with his sons Marty and Mark. | |
| 2014 | Red Army | Documentary | A look at Russia's hockey dominance during the Cold War. |
| 2015 | Of Miracles and Men | Documentary | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Tells the story of the rise of the Soviet Union as a hockey power, leading up to an exploration of the Miracle on Ice from the Soviet team's point of view. |
| 2016 | The Swap | Comedy | A Disney hockey story following a rhythmic gymnast and an ice hockey player switching bodies. |
| Hello Destroyer | Drama | A young junior hockey player's life is shattered by an in-game act of violence. | |
| Ice Guardians | Documentary | Documentary directed and written by Brett Harvey about ice hockey enforcers. | |
| Soul on Ice | Documentary | Documentary about the Colored Hockey League and the history of Black players in ice hockey.[1] | |
| 2017 | Indian Horse | Drama | Follows 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. |
| Goon: Last of the Enforcers | Comedy | Sequel to 2011 film. | |
| Major Junior (Junior Majeur) | Drama | A sequel to the 2012 film The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3d: L'hiver qui a changé ma vie), the film centres on Janeau Trudel and Joey Boulet, who are now playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the QMJHL and hopeful of getting chosen in the NHL entry draft. | |
| 2018 | Ahockalypse | Comedy, Horror | After winning the championship cup, Jonsey and his team must survive the zombie apocalypse. |
| Frozen In Love | Drama, Romance | A struggling bookshop owner and a troubled hockey player are paired together to improve their public image. | |
| 2019 | Red Penguins | Documentary | |
| Goalie | Biographical | A look at the life of goaltender Terry Sawchuk. | |
| 2020 | Odd Man Rush | Drama, comedy | Coming-of-age dramedy about Harvard hockey player chasing NHL dream in the European minor leagues. Based on Bill Keenan's memoir Odd Man Rush. |
| 2021 | Nebesnaya komanda | Drama | The film tells about the fans of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey club, who go to Minsk to support their favorite team. |
| Untold: Crimes & Penalties | Documentary | focuses on the now defunct United Hockey League (UHL) ice hockey team the Danbury Trashers, which was bought by James Galante, a mafia-connected trash kingpin. | |
| 2022 | Hockeyland | Documentary | Hockey in the heart of Minnesota's North Country. |
| Black Ice | Documentary | History of the Colored Hockey League. | |
| The Cannons | Documentary | Follows two Black teenage hockey players who play for the Fort Dupont Cannons in Washington, D.C., and their coach, Neal Henderson.[2] | |
| 2023 | I'm Just Here for the Riot | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. An examination of the 2011 riot in Vancouver that followed the Canucks' loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. |
| Ice Queens | Documentary | The history of Black women in ice hockey.[3] | |
| 2024 | Saving Sakic | Documentary | Tells the story of how Harrison Ford helped keep Joe Sakic in Denver with the Colorado Avalanche.[4] |
| The Late Game | Comedy | A new guy knocks off the rust as he suits up in a late night beer league hockey game.[5] | |
| Inside Out 2 | Drama, comedy | A 13-year-old girl named Riley balances her childhood friendships and trying to succeed at Hockey Camp. | |
| 2025 | Youngblood (2025 film) | Drama | An adaptation of the 1986 film of the same name, the story of Dean Youngblood, a young Black hockey player from Detroit who joins a team in Hamilton, Ontario. |
Highest grossing ice hockey films
The following is a list of ice hockey films that surpassed $1 million.
Inside Out 2 is the highest grossing ice hockey film of all time, the highest grossing sport film, the 3rd highest-grossing animated film and the 10th highest grossing film of all time. All of the films have had a theatrical run (including re-releases) since 1975 and films that have not played during this period do not appear on the chart because of ticket-price inflation, population size and ticket purchasing trends not being considered.
| Rank | Film | Worldwide gross | Year | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside Out 2 | $1,698,863,816 | 2024 | [6] |
| 2 | Love Story | $173,400,000 | 1970 | [7] |
| 3 | Tooth Fairy | $112,462,508 | 2010 | [8] |
| 4 | Miracle | $64,445,708 | 2004 | [9] |
| 5 | The Mighty Ducks | $50,755,845 | 1992 | [10] |
| 6 | D2: The Mighty Ducks | $45,610,410 | 1994 | [11] |
| 7 | The Love Guru | $40,877,556 | 2008 | [12] |
| 8 | Slap Shot | $28,000,000 | 1977 | [13] |
| 9 | The Cutting Edge | $25,105,517 | 1992 | [14] |
| 10 | Youngblood | $15,448,384 | 1986 | [15] |
| 11 | D3: The Mighty Ducks | $22,955,097 | 1996 | [16] |
| 12 | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | $12,735,126 | 2006 | [17] |
| 13 | Goon | $6,985,158 | 2011 | [18] |
| 14 | Indian Horse | $2,097,362 | 2017 | [19] |
| 15 | Touch and Go | $1,254,040 | 1986 | [20] |
| 16 | MVP: Most Valuable Primate | $1,248,746 | 2000 | [21] |