Movies and TvShows featuring "long-distance-swimmer" theme.

Crawl is set in Brittany and tells the story of the emerging romance between Martin, a small-time crook, and Gwen, a mysterious girl who lives on her own and goes swimming everyday in the high sea.

Swimmer is a visual poem that tells the story of a young boy who befriends a long-distance swimmer. Shot entirely without dialogue, the film explores themes of love, friendship, and the power of determination. As the boy and the swimmer navigate their way through an amusement park, they encounter various challenges and obstacles, including an arrow shot, a spear thrown, and swimming underwater. Ultimately, the film celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the triumph of the human will.

This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.