Personal Best (1982)

Mariel Hemingway plays as an Olympic-caliber pentathlete, and Scott Glenn is her demanding coach. The film excels at presenting the beauty and grace of the athletes through slow motion and the complications of girlfriends competing against each other.

d: Robert Towne | imdb.com | Arm wrestling | the first part

Urban Cowboy (1980)

John Travolta rounds out his dance trilogy (“Saturday Night Fever,” “Grease”) with a two-step at Gilley’s, a real-life country bar with Charlie Daniels and a mechanical bull, which Travolta rides right out of his volatile marriage to sexy Debra Winger.

d: James Bridges | imdb.com | trailer | You wanna get married?
Bud and Sissy get married. | Sissy rides the bull. | Swallow his pride.