UPDATED MARCH 7, 2025.
A research project years in the making, your fellow bike nerds are glad to present you with what we consider to be the ultimate list of cycling movies.
What's in the List
Our scope for this list is feature-length films: documentary or fictional, that prominently feature the bicycle in some way.
We include anime, lots of documentaries, and feature films about bicycling. Perhaps controversially, we do include some "borderline" feature films where the bike plays an important role to the character or plot even if it's not the primary theme (justifications for their inclusion in the synopsis).
We enlisted the help of the r/cycling community to help us fill it in. Our post on Reddit garnered over 135 comments, and thanks to them our list has grown to over 80 films!
The "Best" Cycling Movie of All Time?
We thought we were just biased, because writer Valerie is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington.
But Redditors independently agreed: if there's only one film you watch, it should probably be the 1979 classic, Breaking Away.
Featuring a young Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern, it's a light-hearted love and class story centered around the Little 500 race in Bloomington, Indiana.

How to Use This List
We put the list into a "view-only" Google Sheet.You can download your own copy (File > Download) and make it your own: sort, filter, and add notes by what's important to you.
In the list, we included:
- Year of release
- Language
- Movie genre
- Cycling genre (Urban, Professional Racing, Long Distance, BMX, Downhill Racer, and Mountain Biking)
- Links to current streaming options and sources for watching if known
- Synopsis
We haven't watched them all yet, but we intend to fill in private watch notes and ratings as we do. We're also still finding new ones every day!

Over 80 Bicycle Movies To Get You Through the Rainy Days
Do you know one that's missing? Email us and we'll add it to the list!
Feel free to share it with fellow bike nerds (File > Share).
Access the Google Sheet and save your own copy. You can filter by language, year, genre, and more, or save it as a PDF for easier printing.

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January 03, 2024
There is a cool movie made in the past year or so about Greg LeMond. It is a documentary.