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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 386 films · Page 8.
Drama, Justice Drama, Sport, War Film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Salamo Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiancée Allegra in 1943 and interned in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow p…
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Komödie, boxing film, comedy film
Jimmy Connelly is a milkman who is thrust into the spotlight after a brutal fighter, Pete Wright, gets injured. Under manager Herbie Bush, Jimmy must fight the middleweight champion of the world, Jose Mendez. Within the lead up to the figh…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
At a young age, Jackie Kallen learns about boxing with her father and uncle in a small gym. Later, she becomes assistant to a Cleveland boxing promoter. Her boss then begins doing business with Sam LaRocca, a sports manager, during a middl…
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Drama, boxing film, drama film, romance film
Promising young violinist Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) wants to be a professional prizefighter, “to own things and to give things” that a career in music cannot provide. Joe brings Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), an almost bankrupt fight man…
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
In the mid-1980s, Danny Scoular marries Beth. Several years later, the couple have two children and Danny is a striking miner, who is sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting a police officer during a protest. Upon his release, the…
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blaxploitation film, boxing film
Martel Gordone had been wandering aimlessly through the desert when he is finally picked up by an African-American woman driving a van dubbed the "Shaggin' Wagon". The woman, Linda, who picks him up is actually a prostitute on her way to s…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, thriller film
Veteran mercenary Samson Gaul (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is retired from combat when his actions resulted in the deaths of helpless victims, but now he's the last hope for a desperate father. Mixed martial artist, Andrew Fayden (Joe Flanigan)…
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action film, boxing film
boxing film, drama film
Leon Johnson (Leon Isaac Kennedy) is a boxer who plans to study medicine, but, with his ailing sister, Kelly (Nikki Swasey), in need of costly care, he decides to earn a living in the ring. His rise is rapid, but Leon's newly extravagant l…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Sport, biographical film, boxing film
The film shows Rocco's childhood through his fight with his hero Joe Louis. After the Louis fight it flashes forward to his post career, leading up to his death in a 1969 plane crash. The film is noted for its "...blow-by-blow account of t…
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Matty Burton is the ageing Middleweight boxing champion of the world, living a comfortable life with his wife, Emma, and daughter, Mia. He is scheduled to defend his title against the controversial and outspoken Andre Bryte. Bryte is brash…
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Dance Film, drama film, melodrama
To beat the world's best dance crew at a dance-off in Paris, France, German streetdancer Ash (Falk Hentschel) and new friend and manager Eddie (George Sampson), gather the greatest streetdancers from around Europe, whilst hoping to add a L…
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In 1950, Liston was serving a prison sentence in Missouri State Penitentiary. After knocking out the prison boxing champ Big Lester in a brawl over cigarettes, the prison athletic director Father Alois coached him to hone his boxing skills…
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Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, comedy film, drama film, teen film
Set in 1979 Syosset, Long Island, New York, Lymelife follows two families, the Bartletts and the Braggs, who crumble when tangled relationships, real-estate problems, and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia. 15-year-old Scott Ba…
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Biographical documentary, boxing film, documentary film
boxing film, documentary film
The documentary examines a 1983 boxing match that took place between the undefeated fighter Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto. The fight was on the undercard occurring before the headline or "main event" between Multi-Division World Champio…
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Drama, boxing film, crime film, drama film
In Florida, boxing promoter Nick Donati gets double-crossed by his boxer, who throws a fight for a $25,000 bribe from gangster Turkey Morgan. Nick and his girlfriend "Fluff" decide to throw a wild, days-long party with the money they have …
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boxing film, comedy drama
Spike Fumo is a young Italian-American man who lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and aspires to be a boxer. He hopes to impress the local mob boss, Baldo Cacetti, so that he will become his sponsor. However, Cacetti knows Spike only competes …
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Drama, boxing film, crime film, drama film
A vagabond arrives in New York and is instantly enamored with the city. Traveling through the poorer side of town, he meets Danny Kenny, who shows a talent for boxing but does not aspire to become a professional fighter. Danny's girlfriend…
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blaxploitation film, boxing film, drama film, prison film
Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone earned his parole from jail by winning a prison boxing tournament. All Too Sweet wants to do is start a peaceful life, but a condition of his release is that he work for a boxing promoter. Too Sweet has no intere…
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Splatstick, boxing film, comedy film
Moe, a struggling boxing manager, has a lunchtime confrontation with three of his fighters, who are angry that he has not paid them and threaten to abandon him. The disgruntled fighters begin physically bullying their timid waiter, Curly. …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
In 1887 San Francisco, boxing is illegal. James J. Corbett (Errol Flynn), a brash young bank teller, attends a match with his friend Walter Lowrie (Jack Carson).
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Action, Drama, boxing film, drama film
Jimmy (Johnny Harris) is an alcoholic at a difficult time in life, single and about to be homeless. However, he has the ability to fight and utilises his skill to engage in a dangerous but well-paid illegal bout that offers him a chance to…
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Action, action film, boxing film, martial arts film
Jet (Jet Li) returns to his hometown of Qingdao after fighting the Japanese. He and his fellow soldiers discover that much has changed since the end of the war, and American soldiers are taking all the glory for the victory achieved, and t…
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