Strike the White Ball (1980)

Un antiguo campeón de ping pong es reclutado por el gobierno de los EE.UU. para participar en un torneo en China tras el cual se esconde una supuesta red criminal. (FILMAFFINITY)

Forrest Gump es un chico con deficiencias mentales no muy profundas y con alguna incapacidad motora que, a pesar de todo, llegará a convertirse, entre otras cosas, en un héroe durante la Guerra del Vietnam. Su persistencia y bondad le llevarán a conseguir una gran fortuna, ser objeto del clamor popular y a codearse con las más altas esferas sociales y políticas del país. Siempre sin olvidar a Jenny, su gran amor desde que era niño.

Una pelota blanca de ping-pong va flotando por un riachuelo hasta que la encuentra Bilgee, un niño de Mongolia. Su abuela le dice que es una perla resplandeciente que ha caído del cielo. Él se cree la historia y se pasa toda la noche en la pradera con sus dos mejores amigos: Ergotor, que no sabe montar a caballo, pero sabe conducir una moto, y Dawaa, que es muy pequeño, pero nunca se rinde. Sin embargo no llegan a ver el ansiado resplandor de la pelota y todo lo que consiguen es que sus padres les den una paliza cuando regresan a casa. Durante el festival anual de Nadam, los niños confunden la «perla resplandeciente» de Bilgee con la pelota de golf que ven en una película. El proyeccionista les sacará de la confusión y provocará el desencanto de los niños.

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.

Les D'Arcy is a living legend. At 89 years old, he's obviously not received the memo about slowing down, and is going for gold, literally. He's headed to China to compete in the over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. A seven time world champion, he still lifts weights to train - something he's been doing for decades, after surviving a sickly childhood. Of course compared to some, Les is a spring chicken. Australian legend Dorothy deLow is 100, and finds herself a mega celebrity in this rarefied world. She'd better watch out though- Texan Lisa Modlich is fifteen years her junior and is determined to do what it takes to win her first gold. Director Hugh Hartford follows eight players from five countries, as they prepare to compete in this extraordinary sporting event that is as much about the tenacity of the human spirit as it is about taking home the title.

Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.

Es el año es 1985 y Rad Milagro es un tímido chico blanco de 13 años de edad que está obsesionado con dos cosas:. el Ping pong y el hip hop. Durante las vacaciones de verano de su familia en Ocean City, Maryland, Rad hace un nuevo amigo, experimenta su primer amor verdadero, se convierte en el blanco de los matones ricos locales racistas, y encuentra un mentor inesperado en su vecino paria.

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.

Basada en una historia real, en la que dos jugadoras de ping-pong, una de Corea del Norte y otra de Corea del Sur, compitieron juntas en el campeonato mundial de 1991, en Japón.

An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of all, it is a film about their style, about the artistic culmination that is ping-pong at its best, it records China's comeback into the international sports world.

A chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reisman's life. A table tennis champion turned hustler. Pursuing notoriety and motivated by his love of fame and ping pong, he has to face his biggest fear: mortality.

A man plays table tennis with a robot. During the course of the game the robot increasingly take on human mannerisms and becomes competitive. Soon, they both realize the game is no longer about winning.

The sporting journey of Team Santos, three athletes from Brighton Table Tennis Club, as they prepare to represent Great Britain at the European Down's Syndrome Championships.

Everyday a woman feverishly practices ping pong by herself. She play ping pong to distract herself from the reality of her life which includes the occasional sexual harrasment at work. A chance encounter one night slowly begins to change her world.

Tres adolescentes norteamericanos se dedican con esfuerzo y perseverancia al ping pong con la esperanza de participar en las Juegos Olímpicos. Ariel Hsing (una joven campeona nacional), su amiga y rival Lily Zhang y el joven Michael Landers revelan la pasión con la que entrenan para conseguir su meta a pesar de que el tenis de mesa es uno de los deportes más subestimados de América y que los deportistas chinos de esta especialidad tienen un nivel casi inalcanzable. La dedicación de estos jóvenes sorprende porque además no descuidan su formación académica y se preparan para la universidad.

To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.

A table tennis documentary about the work the Swedish national team did in the 70's and 80's leading trying to find a way to break the seemingly impenetrable Chinese Wall.

With dreams bigger than his small stature, a rural rabbit named Robb hurls himself in pursuit of his province’s biggest prize, a storied ‘Jade Table’ awarded annually to the finest ping pong player in the land. Standing in his path is the fact that rabbits don’t play ping pong, and the province’s perennial champion is a ruthless monkey who uses the Jade Table to amass power and wealth, with no plans to relinquish either. Robb must prove that rabbits will no longer run scared, and that his improbable ping pong dreams will change not only his future, but also the fate of his entire province.

A young journalist befriends a businessman and learns that after his dream of becoming a Ping-Pong player was cut short, he escaped to Hong Kong in search of a better life. Inspired by his story, the journalist decides to pursue her dreams.

Ping pong is this girl’s entire world. But away from home and on her own in college, she makes the bold move to share her family tradition with a special new someone.