Last night I got to see a sneak preview of a movie called Saint Ralph, set in the 50’s. it’s about a 14-yr old boy who believes that if he wins the Boston Marathon his mother will wake up out of her coma. It was a good movie, but also got me thinking about what other movies are there about running or in which running plays a major role. So far all I have come up with are:
Pre
Chariots of Fire
Gallipoli
Holy Moly, can an Admin fix that thread title, pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top.
Marathon Man (proving running is a more useful skill than dentistry) :eek:
Running Brave, featuring that great Native American actor, Robby Benson.
The Candidate?
Oops…wrong kind of running.
Then how about Forrest Gump?
Without Limits is another movie about 1972 Olympian Steve Prefontaine, starring Billy Crudup as Prefontaine and Donald Sutherland as his coach Bill Bowerman.
Chariots of Fire
Sorry. That’s what I get for skimming the OP.
How about Run Lola Run?
Without Limits was pretty good (and may be the same movie as Pre, or did they make two movies about the same guy. The one I saw had Donald Sutherland).
Stretching here, but the Animatrix had a cool short about a runner who ran himself straight out of the Matix.
Prefontaine was released in 1997, with Jared Leto in the title role.
This picture here shows that casting Robby Benson wasn’t so far off as it might seem.
My friend is the daughter of Billy Mills. He’s spoken at our kids’ school. Brings his gold medal to show the kids and gives inspirational speeches. He’s a great guy.
No IMDB listing unfortunately, but there is also The Bob Lomatta Story.
Running on the Sun is a documentary about the Badwater Ultramarathon.
Endurance (1999) is a documentary involving Haile Gebrselassie and the Olympic 10K.
Personal Best, which has the side benefit of some girl/girl action! 
I don’t really remember how good it was, but The Terry Fox Story was a made-for-TV, true-story movie about an amputee (one leg due to cancer) who runs across Canada to raise cancer awareness.
The Running Man, natch.
It had a lot of flexing in it, too.