Movies and TvShows featuring "marathon-runner" theme.

While training for a marathon, a man becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal, leading to a series of violent encounters and a pursuit for revenge.

Marathon is the story of a young man with autism who becomes a long-distance runner. As he trains and participates in marathons, he defies societal expectations and proves his abilities. The film explores themes of determination, perseverance, and the power of the human spirit.

Zátopek is a biographical drama that tells the story of Emil Zátopek, a legendary Czech marathon runner who achieved great success in the 1940s and 1950s. The film focuses on Zátopek's journey from a young athlete to becoming a role model and mentor for others. It explores his training, competitions, and the impact he had on the international running scene. The plot also highlights Zátopek's participation in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games and his notable performance at the Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics. Throughout the film, Zátopek's endurance, determination, and passion for running are showcased, along with the challenges he faced both on and off the racecourse.

The Robber follows the story of a former marathon runner and ex-convict who becomes a career criminal, robbing banks and engaging in violent robberies. Inspired by a true story, the film explores the loner's dark and intense life as he faces the consequences of his actions and tries to escape from police custody.

From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.

Free to Run tells the amazing story of the running movement over the past five decades, the struggle for the right to run - especially for women – against conservative Federations, the explosion of grass roots road races and marathons, until the boom of running as a vast business enterprise.

Running for Good: The Fiona Oakes Documentary follows the inspiring journey of Fiona Oakes, a vegan marathon runner and animal sanctuary owner. Despite facing challenges such as a knee injury and a broken kneecap, Fiona sets world records in long-distance races and becomes a world record holder. The film showcases her determination, passion for veganism, and efforts to make a positive impact on the world.

Running Movie is a documentary film that focuses on Israeli long-distance runner Ayele Seteng (a.k.a. Haile Satayin), the oldest marathon runner to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and his efforts to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Satayin has been a long-distance runner since he was a young boy in Ethiopia, but he only became a marathon runner after immigrating to Israel in the early 1990s. Now, at the age of 55, he keeps on running. We follow him as he practices in Ethiopia, far from his wife and eight children, and witness his moments of victory and defeat, as he competes in marathons around the world—from Berlin, Germany, to Tiberias, Israel.

This short documentary revisits the 1976 Olympic Marathon. A modern-day addition to the Games, the marathon commemorates the soldier who ran cross-country, in 490 B.C., to announce the Greek victory at Marathon and then died. Here, great film footage of the 1976 Summer Olympics captures the physical demands of the race, while its emotional counterpart is related by Waldemar Cierpinski, the event’s 1976 gold medalist. This emotion-charged film proves that although the winner of the Decathlon is the best all-round athlete, the “toughest” is the winner of the Marathon

In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world by becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year, each race completed in under three hours. From 2015-2020, his daughter, filmmaker Lex Helgerson, follows him with a camera in order to attempt intimacy with the man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties and his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he trains for the Boston Marathon. Uniquely piecing together dozens of voicemails and old home movies, universal questions about the parent child relationship drive the story. Helgerson offers a complex portrait of a man, her father: a Coca Cola guzzling, pizza loving, never-stretched-a-day-in-his-life-marathoner. Ripe with humor and heart, Age Group Winner reminds us there is beauty in pain, and in getting to know our parents, we may better understand ourselves.