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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 386 films · Page 12.
Drama, boxing film, drama film
Tommy McCoy is a tough city boy, who makes money as a pool hustler and street newsboy, while his father, a former song-and-dance man, wastes the family's money on drink while waiting for vaudeville to come back. Performing with his father …
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Pat Quaid, an alcoholic San Francisco widower, ends up in jail. His grocery-clerk son, Eddie, needs $25 to bail him out. When he can't borrow it, Eddie enters an amateur fight contest and wins it.
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boxing film, drama film
Dreaming of making it as a professional, ambitious small-town boxer Charlie Davis (Ray Mancini) travels to Reno, Nevada with his unwavering friend Tiny O'Toole (Michael Chiklis). However, during his ascent to the top, he loses himself and …
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boxing film, drama film, romance film
Rising boxer Jimmy Kane is sent from New York City to the Rosario Ranch and Hot Springs in New Mexico to regain his health after spending too much time with women and drink. There he meets young widow Peggy Harmon and her son Dickie. She e…
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Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, drama film
Following a relationship breakup, David Kappel, a twentysomething school teacher, visits what turns out to be a training camp for a religious cult. At the camp, everything is done in groups, including chanting and singing. There is also a …
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action film, boxing film
A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a match with "the man" - the mysterious king of bare-knuckled boxing. There are no rules for t…
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boxing film, drama film
In 1946, Joe Gallagher, WWII veteran, is a down-on-his luck boxer whose life and career undergo a change when an orphaned, little girl named Goldie is left in his care.
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biographical film, boxing film
The film details the life of Ray Mancini, a World Boxing Association world lightweight champion boxer from 1982 to 1984, Hollywood actor and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
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Drama, boxing film, drama film
Boxing fan Sonya Bartow and manager Pop Richardson are impressed when they watch amateur Paul Callan win a fight. They later discover that Paul is deaf. Pop agrees to train Paul, although Pop is still grieving the loss of a friend who did …
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boxing film, drama film, romance film
Pat Glendon is a former lumberjack turned bare-knuckle boxer who travels the countryside as part of gambling scam operated by Gus "Knockout" Carrigan for a New York City syndicate. Glendon arrives ahead of the travelling boxing exhibition,…
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boxing film, comedy film
boxing film, romantic comedy
left|thumb|The animated opening sequence directed by Bob Clampett Dustin Willoughby is a prizefighter and believer in astrology who only wins when the stars are in alignment.
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Documentation, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, documentary film
Komödie, boxing film, comedy film
Stuck with the nickname "Dreadnought", Dickie Marchant feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. However, to mollify his uncle, Marchant pretends to be the soul of religiosity, while his tough-talking manager, Walter "Wally…
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boxing film
Jack Dempsey starts out fighting in bars for half the take. He wins his first professional fight. After a later bout, he and his manager are held up at gunpoint and robbed of the purse.
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boxing film, drama film
Tommy McCoy becomes a boxer, not for love of the sport but for the money. He has to put up with his alcoholic, gambling father Brian. Just before his first major fight, Tommy learns that his opponent has been injured and has been replaced …
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boxing film, drama film
In 1880, when bareknuckle fighting is still condoned, John L. Sullivan chooses boxing over baseball and becomes known as "the Boston Strong Boy" after his victory over established prizefighter John Flood. Sullivan's sweetheart, Kathy Harkn…
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boxing film, drama film
Tommy Shea, a boxer from Jersey City, is sponsored by millionaire Robert Mallinson. He falls for Mallinson's daughter Dorothy, who wants freedom from her father's controlling ways and to pursue her writing career. In order to acquire enoug…
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boxing film
boxing film, comedy film
The Stooges work as trainers for boxer Chopper Kane, under the shady oversight of Big Mike, a crooked figure tied to boxing and organized crime. Though they back Chopper, Big Mike secretly bets on his rival, Gorilla Watson, and pressures t…
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boxing film, musical comedy, musical film
Gink Schiner (Joe E. Brown) is a third-rate fighter who is at the same training camp as Georges La Verne (Georges Carpentier), a contender for the heavyweight championship. Although he needs to be concentrating all of his energies on the u…
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boxing film, drama film
Six stories that take place mainly in the locker room prior to and after various bouts during a single evening at a cheap boxing stadium: ex-champion Kid Curtis (the Docker Starkie role in the original play) attempting a comeback; Eddie Ll…
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Drama, Musical, boxing film, drama film
New Orleans newspaper columnist Gabe Jordan, nearing retirement, tells the story of boxer Socks Barbarossa. One night, just before a championship bout, Socks abruptly flees the ring and runs to the locker room. He angrily announces to his …
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Documentation, Sport, boxing film, documentary film