6 Best Televised Game and Competition Show Movies

By Vlad Zakh · June 15, 2026

Televised competition is manufactured spectacle with moral compromises. The Hunger Games has a young woman volunteering for a deadly broadcast, Series 7 has contestants hunting each other, and Quiz Show exposes a rigged quiz scandal. Slumdog Millionaire, The Running Man and Death Race 2000 round out the six.

The Hunger Games (2012)

IMDb ★ 7.2 RT 84% Metacritic 68

A teenager volunteers to fight to the death in a televised contest that keeps her district in line.

Directed by Gary Ross · 2h 22m · Rated PG-13

Won 1 BAFTA Award34 wins & 49 nominations total

Where to watch

Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

TMDB ★ 7.7

A rags-to-riches structure told through game-show trivia.

Directed by Danny Boyle · 2h 01m · Rated R

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Apple TV Store

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Series 7 (2001)

TMDB ★ 6.3

Ordinary citizens are randomly selected to hunt and kill each other on a deadly reality game show.

Directed by Daniel Minahan · 1h 27m

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Quiz Show (1994)

TMDB ★ 7.2

A rigged 1950s television quiz show scandal exposes the corruption behind America's biggest new medium.

Directed by Robert Redford · 2h 13m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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The Running Man (1987)

TMDB ★ 6.5

A wrongly convicted man is forced to compete on a deadly game show where escaped criminals are hunted for sport.

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser · 1h 41m · Rated R

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Death Race 2000 (1975)

TMDB ★ 6.2

Competitors in a brutal cross-country race score points by running down innocent pedestrians.

Directed by Paul Bartel · 1h 20m · Rated R

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Cultpix, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Best of British Tv Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Televised Game and Competition Show Movies

The Hunger Games (2012)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Series 7 (2001)

Quiz Show (1994)

The Running Man (1987)

Death Race 2000 (1975)

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