Best cycle films?

speedy641
speedy641 Posts: 89
edited May 2009 in The bottom bracket
I really enjoyed this...

Belleville Rendez-Vous...

if you haven't seen it treat yourself.

So suggestions from anyone??

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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    Breaking Away.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Breaking Away

    American Flyers

    A Sunday in Hell

    Overcoming

    BMX Bandits

    ET

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Breaking Away is a quality film!
  • rjh299
    rjh299 Posts: 721
    American Flyers is a shocking film. Maybe i'm a bit young, but is such cheesy 80s tripe. Try The Flying Scotsman, it's story of Graham Obree.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I like the start of American flyers, where the younger brother is cycling in his cowboy hat and denim jacket and he cycles into his flat, pure cheesy cack but it makes me smile... 8)
  • huggy
    huggy Posts: 242
    +1 for Overcoming
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    +1 for American Flyers......the final race is good and some excellent montages and cheesy rock anthems.
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  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Roam - runs back to the MTB section.
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    ..aint there a documentary called Brain Power? Even with a Philip Glass-style of soundtrack. I was trying to find it on DVD (or doov-da, as that matey on telly calls it), its about the TdF. :)
  • Animal100
    Animal100 Posts: 55
    flying scotsman - its brilliant, even my wife liked it!
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    +1 for Belleville Rendez-Vous...
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    Headhuunter wrote:
    +1 for Belleville Rendez-Vous...
    and again.

    Clay Porters The Tipping Point.....again ducks and runs back to the MTB section
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  • gordoncp
    gordoncp Posts: 994
    2 Seconds
  • matthewbradford
    matthewbradford Posts: 44
    Hell on Wheels
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Talking of flying Scotsman, Graham Obree used to have a bike shop in Irvine in the eighties and he fixed my grifter.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    edited May 2009
    A timely one....


    Totò al Giro d'Italia

    The plot: Captivated by an attractive fellow judge at a beauty pageant, Toto attempts to woo her, but her response on finding he's not much of a cyclist is to say she'll marry him if he wins the Giro. Ignoring this brush off, he enters the race and, after selling his soul to the Devil in return for superhuman strength, promptly beats all the great cyclists of the day, such as Coppi, Bartali, Bobet, Kubler, et al -- played by themselves -- in stage after stage of the race, despite numerous mishaps and delays...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFDOvZmkbA&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEg0tmF2bTI&feature=related
    :)

    In one scene, the professionals, by now suspicious of Toto's superhuman strength, force their way into his hotel room to confront him and find out his secret. At that moment the Devil, disguised as room service, enters with a large box of fat 'Regalia' cigars that Toto is partial to, and they conclude it must be the tobacco he's been smoking. So, on the start line the next morning they are all puffing away like mad, Coppi's being of a particularly monstrous size, reflecting his over-riding determination to win the race.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZGdcjhSu8&feature=channel_page

    coppi_cigar.jpg

    Needless to say it all goes wrong, but Toto is ultimately saved from his debt to the Devil by the resourcefulness of his quick-thinking mama -- so Italian!
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • johndf
    johndf Posts: 250
    Stars and Water Carriers

    Its a film about the 1973 Giro. Supposed to be one of the best cycling films ever according to the blurb. Well it is quite good but the commentary is a bit staid compared to more recent stuff. Still, it shows Merckx at his best.
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    The Bicycle Thieves. Old black and white Italian film 1948 set in post war Rome still in the throws of depression. Well worth the effort to watch and read all the sub-titles. A very well made allegory for it's time or any time for that matter. Poignant and beautifully shot. Up there with another Great Depression classic Papermoon with Ryan and daughter Tatum O'Neil althought this was not a cycling filum.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/ The Bicycle Thieves

    I got the film from my local library in Cambridge and it was free :D .
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    P-Jay wrote:
    Roam - runs back to the MTB section.

    Roam is brill. Seasons is good but not quite up to the standard of Roam IMO...
  • barriecusvein
    barriecusvein Posts: 34
    has anyone seen road to roubaix? it looked pretty good but i'm not sure i want to spend the ~ $30 plus shipping from the states
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  • johndf
    johndf Posts: 250
    johndf wrote:
    Stars and Water Carriers

    Its a film about the 1973 Giro. Supposed to be one of the best cycling films ever according to the blurb. Well it is quite good but the commentary is a bit staid compared to more recent stuff. Still, it shows Merckx at his best.

    I was watching Stars and Water Carriers to relieve the boredom whilst I was on the turbo when my video chewed it up. Can't have been that good then!

    So it's the 2002 tour instead for me now.
  • berliner
    berliner Posts: 340
    Hell on Wheels. Mostly in German and French but some classy photography with stunning shots in the Alps. The tears and strains for Zabel and the heat... the damned heat.

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