This is a list of films about bicycles and cycling, featuring notable films where bicycles and cycling play a central role in the development of the plot.
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This is a list of films about bicycles and cycling, featuring notable films where bicycles and cycling play a central role in the development of the plot.
| Title | Year | Genre | Type | Notes |
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| 6 Day Bike Rider | 1934 | Comedy | Velodrome | To impress a girl, a clumsy bumpkin (Joe E. Brown) enters a marathon indoor race. |
| Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Drama | Bicycle theft | A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle |
| Cinq Tulipe Rouges (Five Red Tulips) | 1949 | Murder mystery | Tour De France | During the Tour de France, five champions, all wearing the yellow jersey, are assassinated. Each time, the murderer leaves a red tulip close to the victim as a signature. (French, no subtitles) |
| Skid Kids | 1953 | Drama | Cycle speedway | A Children's Film Foundation film. 'Swanky' and his chums take on bike thieves. |
| Onna Keirin-ō | 1956 | Keirin | ||
| Vive le Tour | 1962 | Short | Tour De France | |
| For A Yellow Jersey | 1965 | Short | ||
| A Sunday in Hell | 1977 | Documentary | Road racing | Chronicles the 1976 Paris–Roubaix race. |
| Breaking Away | 1979 | Comedy-drama | Road racing and Little 500 | Four Bloomington, Indiana friends team up in Little 500 race. Golden Globe winner and five Oscar nominations. |
| BMX Bandits | 1983 | Adventure | BMX racing | Australian children's film, featuring Nicole Kidman. |
| American Flyers | 1985 | Drama | Road racing | Kevin Costner as a world-class long-distance racer. |
| Rad | 1986 | BMX racing | A boy risks college future to enter Helltrack race. | |
| Quicksilver | 1986 | Kevin Bacon as a paperboy and becomes a bicycle messenger | ||
| The Cyclist | 1987 | Drama | Iranian film. | |
| Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar | 1992 | Drama | Indian movie about sporting rivalry between three schools. | |
| Il grande Fausto | 1995 | Road racing | ||
| The Unknown Cyclist | 1998 | |||
| 2 Seconds | 1998 | |||
| Downhill racing | Laurie takes a job as a bike courier in Montreal after being fired from her previous job as a professional downhill racer. | |||
| El Amateur | 1999 | Road racing | Argentina film. | |
| Road to Paris | 2001 | Documentary | Road racing | A look at the training and success of Lance Armstrong. |
| Cyclomania | 2001 | Road racing | Finland film. | |
| Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert | 2001 | Comedy | Road racing | The story of Lambert, a modest Belgian bike racer in the '70s. |
| Nasu: Summer in Andalusia | 2003 | Anime | Road racing | Japan film. |
| Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Animated | A grandmother seeks a kidnapped Tour de France cyclist. | |
| Cycling Chronicles; LandScape The Boy Saw | 2004 | |||
| Hell on Wheels | 2005 | Documentary | Road Racing | Germany film about 2003 Tour de France. |
| Overcoming | 2005 | Documentary | Road racing | |
| The Flying Scotsman | 2006 | Drama | Track Cycling | Based on life and career of Scottish amateur cyclist Graeme Obree. |
| Island Etude | 2006 | Drama | Taiwan film. | |
| Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes | 2006 | |||
| Clorophilla | 2006 | Freeride | Italy film. | |
| The Cycling Genius Is Coming | 2008 | |||
| Bicycle Dreams | 2009 | Documentary | Road racing | A look at 3,000-mile Race Across America. |
| The Birth of Big Air | 2010 | Documentary | BMX | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Chronicles the life and career of Mat Hoffman. |
| Ride the Divide | 2010 | Documentary | Endurance racing | Race along the Great Divide from Banff, Canada, to the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| The Last Kilometer | 2012 | Documentary | Road racing | A portrait of road cycling. With Ignazio & Francesco Moser, Davide Rebellin, Gianni Mura, Didi Senft. |
| Premium Rush | 2012 | Action Film | Messenger biking | Follows a bicycle messenger chased around New York City by a corrupt police officer who wants an envelope the messenger has. |
| Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist | 2013 | Documentary | Road racing | [1] |
| The Armstrong Lie | 2013 | Documentary | Road racing | A portrait of Lance Armstrong as he trains for his eighth Tour de France victory and the events leading to his downfall. |
| La grande boucle | 2013 | Comedy | Road racing | A French amateur cyclist decides to take part in the Tour de France. |
| Bicycle | 2014 | Documentary | History | The rise and fall of the bicycle and bicycle culture in Great Britain from its origins to modern day. |
| Slaying the Badger | 2014 | Documentary | Road racing | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Examines rivalry between Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault ("The Badger") as teammates during 1986 Tour de France. |
| Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE | 2014 | Animated | Road racing | |
| To the Fore | 2015 | Drama | Road racing | Hong Kong-Chinese film. |
| Yowamushi Pedal Re: ROAD | 2015 | Animated | Road racing | |
| Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie | 2015 | Animated | Road racing | |
| The Program | 2015 | Drama | Road racing | An adaptation of David Walsh's book Seven Deadly Sins depicting his battle to expose Lance Armstrong. |
| Le Ride | 2016 | Documentary | Road racing | A look back at the 1928 Tour de France, and particularly the four-member Australasian team that rode in it, interspersed with a modern-day attempt by the film's director Phil Keoghan and a riding partner to retrace the 1928 route, holding to the original race schedule and riding on 1928-vintage racing bikes. |
| Blood Road | 2017 | Documentary | Mountain biking | Covers the 2015 ride of mountain bike endurance champion Rebecca Rusch to visit the site where her father died when his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War—a 1,200-mile journey along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. |
| Tour de Pharmacy | 2017 | Comedy | Road racing | HBO mockumentary short film starring Andy Samberg, about a 1980s Tour de France competition beset by doping and bad behavior. |
| Time Trial | 2017 | Documentary | Road cycling | British documentary film about the final season of David Millar's professional cycling career. |
| The Ride | 2018 | Drama | BMX | Based on a book with the same title, the inspiring true story of extreme sports legend John Buultjens, The Ride follows John McCord, an athletically gifted youth who triumphs over a troubled upbringing. Starring Ludacris. |
| The Climb | 2019 | Comedy | Road cycling | |
| LANCE | 2020 | Documentary | Road racing | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Two-part examination of the life, career, and controversies of Lance Armstrong. |
| The Racer | 2020 | Sports film | Road racing | At the start of what will probably be his last Tour de France, Dom is unceremoniously expelled from the team he dedicated his whole life to. As he prepares to return home, a massive doping scandal knocks another teammate out of the Tour and Dom has to get back in the saddle. |
| The Limit is Just Me | 2022 | Documentary | Endurance | The film follows adventurer and multiple world record holder Jonas Deichmann as he completes the longest triathlon of all time. |
| Tour de France: Unchained | 2022 | Documentary | Tour de France | Behind-the-scenes Netflix documentary following some of the sport’s leading teams. [2] |
| The Last Rider | 2022 | Documentary | Road racing | Documentary about the career of Greg Lemond, and the 1989 Tour de France |
| Kurangu Pedal | 2022 | Drama - Tamil | Love of cycling | A heartfelt drama that explores a child's quest to learn cycling against the backdrop of a father's unfamiliarity with it, highlighting a generation's emotional bond with bicycles and evoking nostalgia through the innocence and camaraderie of childhood. |
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