Top ten cycling movies.

[Paulus]

A Sunday in hell. The film follows the 1976 Paris-Roubaix. Great film of Eddy Merckx, Roger de Flaeminck, Freddy Maertens and others. The film shows the brutal ride in all it's glory. At the end, the shower scene shows how the riders had no creature comforts at all.

 

[Maz]

Anyone watched Death on the Mountain (more a documentary than a film)?
Quite harrowing at times but equally compelling.

 

[Paulus]

Anyone watched Death on the Mountain (more a documentary than a film)?
Quite harrowing at times but equally compelling.

I found it a really good film/documentary. Having read about Uncle Tom, I thought the film was well done.

 

[mrBishboshed]

Anyone watched Death on the Mountain (more a documentary than a film)?
Quite harrowing at times but equally compelling.

I have just watched it. Very Good, I had not heard of Tom Simpson before this. Link to doc:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGJsxGFhxg

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've got that late 60's(??) Eddy Merckx documentary/film & 'High Life' somewhere on video, great films

Might have 'Course En-Tette'(?) the Paris-Roubaix film too.... possibly??

What about (was it??) 'Breaking Away', or (Graham Obree) 'The Flying Scotsman'

 

[mrBishboshed]

What about (was it??) 'Breaking Away', or (Graham Obree) 'The Flying Scotsman'

"Breaking Away" keeps cropping up so i think i will try that one today. Wasn't "The Flying Scotsman" the film where they made a bike from washing machine parts? I vaguely remember that.

 

[mrBishboshed]

Is "Overcoming" (2005) any good?

 

[Dayvo]

Is "Overcoming" (2005) any good?

Yes, very good, IMO.

Jens Voigt is the star.

 

[swee'pea99]

"Breaking Away" keeps cropping up so i think i will try that one today. Wasn't "The Flying Scotsman" the film where they made a bike from washing machine parts? I vaguely remember that.

Indeed. Except that it wasn't 'they', it was 'he' - a classic British nutter, who smashed up his washing machine to get at the bearings, incorporated them into a bike he built himself, then broke some track racing world record on it.

 

[trampyjoe]

Whilst not a cycling movie in any way shape or form, the bike chase scene in Project A (I think) with jackie Chan is one of the best chase scenes ever (closely tied with the one with Wallace, Gromett and Feathers McGraw in 'The Wrong Trousers').

Edit: Yep, Project A -

View: http://youtu.be/2SggXYXM0c8

 

[gnvqsos]

There is Carlton of the FO,Trek or Treat,and I Was a Fugitive From A Chaingang.

 

[Renard]

A Sunday in hell. The film follows the 1976 Paris-Roubaix. Great film of Eddy Merckx, Roger de Flaeminck, Freddy Maertens and others. The film shows the brutal ride in all it's glory. At the end, the shower scene shows how the riders had no creature comforts at all.

Indeed! All the other suggestions pale into insignficance compared to this one!! Flying Scotsman is not bad. Belleville is fun and things like Breaking away are really not worth bothering about.

 

[mrBishboshed]

I will agree that Breaking Away was not very good.
Just found a link for "A Sunday in Hell"
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20924403zBshk7AE?h1=A+sunday+in+hell

 

[Pato Donald]

Just watched Quicksilver last night for the first time and it was absolutely terrible!

Has anyone seen Premium Rush? I liked it enough.

 

[Monsieur Remings]

I will agree that Breaking Away was not very good.
Just found a link for "A Sunday in Hell"
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v20924403zBshk7AE?h1=A sunday in hell

A friend of mine is the son of the narrator, he gave me the heads up on this whilst I was in France and only got round to watching it through this link above, so thanks for that fella. Probably, cycling aside, one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.