Topic: Swimming

Direction Leni Riefenstahl

Plot Riefenstahl's film of the 11th Olympic Games which took place in Berlin from August 1st to August 16th, 1936, has won numerous awards and is widely considered by film critics...

Direction Philippe Lioret

Cast Vincent Lindon · Firat Ayverdi · Audrey Dana · Patrick Ligardes

Plot Bilal is 17 and comes from Iraq. He left his native land shortly after his girlfriend emigrated to England and is now in the midst of an adventurous journey across...

Direction Robert Connolly

Cast Matt Nable · Elias Anton · Ben Kindon · Victoria Haralabidou

Plot Danny Kelly is a talented swimmer attends a prestigious Melbourne private school on a sporting scholarship. Working class, half Greek and half Scottish, he cops his fair share of harassment...

Direction Frank Perry

Cast Burt Lancaster · Janice Rule · Janet Landgard · Tony Bickley

Plot Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He...

Direction John Maringouin

Cast Martin Strel

Plot To be titled "Big River Man", the film will follow Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles in what is being billed as the world's longest swim. Strel, who...

Direction Julie Gautier

Cast Julie Gautier

Plot Ama is a silent film. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestions. I wanted to...

Direction Sally El Hosaini

Cast Manal Issa · Nathalie Issa · Matthias Schweighöfer · Ali Suliman

Plot A story of the miraculous journey made by swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini who fled as refugees from war-torn Syria all the way to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Direction Céline Sciamma

Cast Adèle Haenel · Louise Blachère · Pauline Acquart · Marie Gili-Pierre

Plot Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local...

Direction Hiroko Utsumi

Plot TV Series (2013-2018). 3 Seasons. 37 Episodes. The story revolves around Nanase Haruka, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before...

Direction Pascal Plante

Cast Katerine Savard · Ariane Mainville · Pierre-Yves Cardinal · Hilary Caldwell

Plot While young and in her prime, Nadia (two-time Olympian Katerine Savard) decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her...

Direction Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · Jimmy Chin

Cast Annette Bening · Jodie Foster · Rhys Ifans · Ethan Jones Romero

Plot At the age of 60, and 30 years after giving up long-distance swimming for a prominent career as a sports journalist, Diana Nyad becomes obsessed with accomplishing the feat that...

Direction Nora Twomey

Plot Cúilín Dualach lives in a small town in the west of Ireland. He is the apple of his mother’s eye, yet his father shows him little affection. Everywhere he goes,...

Direction Jean Vigo

Cast Jean Taris

Plot Jean Vigo’s second film is partly a homage to French swimming champion Jean Taris (who appears in the film as himself) but mainly as an experiment into the possibilities of...

Direction Lynne Ramsay

Cast Tom Litten · Niall Burton · Curtis Coker

Plot A young man swims across the rivers and lakes of Britain to a soundtrack of assorted nationalistic music. As he passes people on the banksides including children,lovers and a tramp...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Plot Peter Greenaway's celebration of water, and the human relationship with it, choreographed to Michael Nyman music and culminating with a synchronised swimming sequence!

Direction Wannes Destoop

Cast Janis Vercaempst · Johan Heldenbergh · Wim Opbrouck · Lies Pauwels

Direction Sunu Gonera

Cast Terrence Howard · Bernie Mac · Tom Arnold · Kimberly Elise

Plot Based on true events, Lionsgate's PRIDE tells the inspiring story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic schoolteacher in the 1970s who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team...

Direction Fabrice Cazeneuve

Cast Julien Baumgartner · Julia Maraval · Jérémie Elkaïm · François Comar

Plot When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school, he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes, and redefine his relationships with his friends...

Direction Russell Mulcahy

Cast Geoffrey Rush · Judy Davis · Jesse Spencer · Tim Draxl

Plot "SWIMMING UPSTREAM" tells the compelling and inspirational true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Based on...

Direction Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Chikara Yamamoto · Naoto Takenaka · Yuji Suzuki

Plot The swimming team of Tadano High School is in big trouble, the only active member; Suzuki is giving up any hope that the team will survive until the next Tadano...