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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 386 films · Page 6.
Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Mike Tyson grows up a troubled youth, who aspires to become a professional boxer. Manager and trainer Cus D'Amato begins turning the young Tyson into an undefeated fighter. However, Tyson becomes a difficult pupil who is often exposed and …
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Diana Guzman is a Brooklyn teenager whose hot temper gets her into trouble at school as she repeatedly gets into fights with other students. Her frustration stems from her unhappy home life; she lives in a public housing estate with her br…
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Event Documentary, boxing film, documentary film
Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
In 1940, the Great Depression is over and World War II has just begun. Fargo Gondorff is released from prison and reassembles his cronies for another con, out to avenge the murder of his lifelong pal and fellow con artist Kid Colors. Gondo…
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Drama, Horror, Komödie, comedy film, drama film, horror film
After being humiliated by members of the London Theatre Critics Guild at an awards ceremony, Shakespearean actor Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart is seen apparently committing suicide by diving into the Thames from a great height. He actua…
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Action, Adventure, Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, adventure film, boxing film, drama film, war film
Alain Lefèvre is a French boxer in 1925 in Marseille, France. His brother Maxim has asked for him to throw a fight so that both can live on the money. Lucien Galgani, the mobster who forced him to do so, requests him to do it in the second…
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Komödie, Sport, boxing film, comedy film
James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans), the undefeated heavyweight boxing champ of the world, defeats his latest challenger with ease and visits an after-party thrown by Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson), a conniving and manipulat…
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Action Comedy, Martial-Arts, action film, comedy film, martial arts film
A reporter covers a story in an Anatolian village where many people have seemingly died of pneumonia while a team of scientists try to find a cure. They are attacked and killed by a terrorist group disguised as farmers. Days later, a forme…
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Komödie, boxing film, fantasy film, romantic comedy
On May 11, 1941, boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton, affectionately known as "the Flying Pug", flies his small aircraft to his next fight in New York City but crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is retrieved by 7013, an offici…
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Komödie, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, buddy film
Two friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, need to quickly find a way to raise funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka. It is incumbent on Billy to find the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lo…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film
The film runs two narratives simultaneously: the preparation for the escape and the escape itself. Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. When Perry receives his first letter in f…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film
Drama, Political Thriller, Psychodrama, drama film, thriller film, trial film
Hungarian immigrant Michael J. Laszlo faces a trial and having his U.S. citizenship revoked after being accused of war crimes during the Second World War.
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Social Study
Over eighteen months, a documentary crew follows Lowell, Massachusetts natives Dicky Eklund, Gary "Boo-Boo" Giuffrida, and Brenda in their daily exploits to get high on crack cocaine. Once the United States' first planned textile town, Low…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
The story of Cassius Clay, who became heavyweight champion as Muhammad Ali. Tracing his rise from his Olympic gold medal as a light-heavyweight at Rome in 1960, his conversion to Islam, his refusal to serve in the Vietnam war, to his retur…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, Sport, boxing film, comedy film, drama film
After being released from prison in Winfield, Georgia, con man Gabriel Caine gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Daniel Patrick O'Shannon "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, travel to a small town near the prison: Diggstown, a city obses…
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Action, Drama, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, kung fu film, martial arts film, sport film, teen film
Present day New York City: Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) is a street hustler. One day while selling counterfeit goods at the corner of Radio City Music Hall, a group of young men attempt to force Shawn to relocate with his merchandise. …
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Komödie, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film
Charlie "Goodtimes" Bontempo and his wife, Grace, run a legal brothel known as the Love Ranch on a large, remote property near Reno, Nevada. Grace's mother had been a prostitute, so Grace knew the business, but it was Charlie who persuaded…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romantic comedy
While driving his Dual-Ghia from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, lecherous, heavy-drinking pop singer Dino is forced to detour through Climax, Nevada. There, he meets the amateur songwriting team of Barney Millsap, a gas station attendant, and p…
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Horror, horror film
Cousins Leonard "Spike" Johnson and Hoax Arthur Wilmoth are teenagers who live with Hoax's overtly religious and domineering mother, Lucy Wilmoth. While Spike is the neighborhood motorcycle bad boy, Hoax is an introverted nerd. Even though…
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Thriller, action film, thriller film
An anonymous criminal plants a bomb under the chair of an ex-hacker, and forces him to break into high-level banking institutions. The bomber forces Orlando to carry out a series of increasingly complex cyber-intrusions, threatening to det…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, film noir, neo-noir
Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. In a desert town near Palm Springs he meets widow Fay Anderson who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her husband left and lets him sleep in a …
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Komödie, boxing film, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film
Aging prizefighters and longtime best friends Vince Boudreau and Cesar Dominguez always regretted not getting one last shot. Out of the blue, such an opportunity comes their way, but it is to fight each other. Boxing promoter Joe Domino ha…
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Drama, Romance Film, boxing film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=10|The Ring (1927) A previously undefeated fairground boxer named "One Round" Jack Sander (Carl Brisson) is beaten in the ring by a mysterious challenger, who later is revealed to be Australian Heavyweight champion Bob Corb…
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