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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 386 films · Page 10.
boxing film, drama film
After lightweight prizefighter Kid Mason loses his opening fight, golddigging wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains seriously and starts winning. Naturally, Rose returns and worms her way back into his life, …
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boxing film
A singer-turned-boxer signs a contract with a shady promoter. The boxer turns against the promoter and seeks revenge when the promoter's thugs kill his girlfriend when he tries backing out of the contract.
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Action, Drama, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film
Following ten years in a Louisiana prison after being wrongly convicted of assault and murder of a police officer, NCAA champion wrestler Dillon is paroled. Back in his home neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his friend Jake is in dee…
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Crime, action film, boxing film, crime film
The story centers on Billy "Shiner" Simpson, a boxing promoter banned from legitimate fights until he finds a promising start in his son Eddie. The night of the fight sees Eddie killed, and Simpson suspects rival Frank Spedding. Billy seek…
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LGBTQ-related film, boxing film
Set in Toronto, Ontario, the film tells three distinct but interrelated stories about Black Canadian life in the impoverished Regent Park neighbourhood of the city. One focuses on "The General" (Maurice Dean Wint), a drug dealer trying to …
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Sean O'Malley, a wheelchair-using fight promoter once known as the best in his business, has lost his professional stature and is now in poor health. His daughter Pat has taken many of his responsibilities and is romantically involved with…
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boxing film, drama film, independent film
Black Cloud, a young Navajo man, must take a journey of personal growth to prepare himself for a chance at boxing in the Olympics. When Eddie returns to town with the rodeo and wants to rekindle his relationship with Black Cloud's girlfrie…
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Splatstick, boxing film, comedy film
Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan works for the American company Sunflower Dairies. Two drunk men try to chat up Mae, Sullivan's sister, and he chances by. In an ensuing brawl, Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion, gets knocked o…
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Action, action film, boxing film
Roo Marcus has recently been released from the inhumane conditions of a mental institution and enters into the world of underground bare-knuckle fighting.
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film, film noir
Coal miner Coke Mason is encouraged by his gambler brother to become a boxer. However, Coke is consumed by a murderous rage whenever he enters the ring.
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Drama, boxing film, drama film
Donnie Rose (Rossif Sutherland) plays a former boxer who is released from prison after serving time for a vicious assault on a Black teen that left the teen physically and mentally disabled. The beating of the teen sparked outrage and furt…
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Romantic Comedy, boxing film, crime film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy
While working as a barroom bouncer, sailor Steve Morgan impresses alcoholic ex-boxing manager "the Professor" with his skills. The Professor talks Steve into entering a prize fight with an up-and-coming boxer to make money for both of them…
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Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film
Private detectives Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a journey from their native Peoria, Illinois to Mexico City with the intent of apprehending the notorious criminal Hattie Blake, widely recognized as "Larceny Nell". Meanwhile, Amer…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In 1936, African American boxer Joe Louis, trained by Jack Blackburn, is undefeated and apparently invincible. Then Jewish-American boxing manager Joe Jacobs obtains a film of his fight against Paulino Uzcudun in Madison Square Garden. Jac…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Vic Bealer, a young boxer from a small town in Texas known by his ring name "The Bomber," seems to be on his way to big things, remaining undefeated as an amateur with a possibility of making the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Without any expla…
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Action, Drama, action film, boxing film
Strength and Honour tells the story of an Irish-American boxer, Sean Kelleher (Michael Madsen), who accidentally kills his friend in the ring and promises his wife that he will never box again. However, years later, when he discovers that …
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boxing film, documentary film
Drama, Sport, boxing film, teen film
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, tries to get the young people off the street and into doin…
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boxing film, drama film
The film focuses on a young Mexican-American named Tomas Cantanios, who boxed under the pseudonym Tommy Kansas, a resident of Los Angeles's poor Chicano neighborhood. He feels constrained due to his inability to thrive in a white-dominated…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film
boxing film, buddy film
Set in the 1930s, Bags, an ex-boxer and Shake, his manager have bottomed out as fight trainers. Their latest fighter has lost and fired them. Without a home or even money for food.
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biographical film, boxing film
Tiger is inspired by the true story of Pardeep Singh Nagra, a practicing Sikh man who was banned from the sport of boxing due to his religious beliefs. Pardeep fights back with the support of his coach and mentor (Mickey Rourke) and a comm…
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boxing film, comedy film
The Stooges are boxing managers overseeing the career of the formidable pugilist, Chopper Kane. Their financial stakes in Chopper's success prompt them to wager their entire capital on his upcoming bout. However, their aspirations are impe…
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boxing film, documentary film