Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with boxing genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 386 films · Page 9.
boxing film, drama film
Arturo Ortega is a man with enduring aspirations of being a competitor in professional boxing. Arturo had the intellect, ambition, and agility to be a professional, but his career proved to be a short one. After a living out his fifteen mi…
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Action, Drama, Romance Film, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film, romance film
boxing film, drama film
Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he is Jewish. One day, he meets two young amateur boxers named Roland Jenkins and Timmi Boyle and begins to coach them.
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Animation
Smith is recorded as having given the following exposition of Heaven and Earth Magic: "The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows…
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Coming Of Age, Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Beautiful Boxer is a film about the life story of Thai boxer Nong Toom, who realizes early on that he is in the wrong body. He becomes one of the best Thai boxers in the country and uses the prize money to finance a sex change operation. A…
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Film Noir, boxing film, drama film, film noir
The film opens with a middle-weight bout in Madison Square Garden (1925) in New York City where Mike Angelo battles a seemingly superior opponent. He's going down for the count when he's saved by the bell. Cut to Mike Gordon, a happy-go-lu…
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Drama, Komödie, mockumentary
L. M. Kit Carson plays David, a young white man living alone in his modest studio apartment on Manhattan's West 71st Street during July 1967.
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Splatstick
Facing financial hardship, Ollie orchestrates a boxing match between Stan and Thunderclap Callahan, offering a cash prize of $500 to the victor. Stan, fighting under the alias "Canvasback Clump," inadvertently knocks out Callahan in the in…
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Documentation, boxing film, documentary film
The documentary is a self-discovery of a Mike Tyson, who reflects on his highly controversial public life. It begins with clips of 20-year-old Tyson's convincing World Boxing Council Heavyweight Championship win over Trevor Berbick, then e…
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boxing film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Dan Barnes (Steve Austin) is a former pro boxer who retired after growing weary of his violent existence. While Matthew learns how to box and stand up to his tormentors, one of whom is the school boxing champ Hector Torres (Jaren Brandt Ba…
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Drama, boxing film, trial film
Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Lenny McLean is a 27 year old undefeated bare-knuckle boxer who competes in unsanctioned street fights in the East End of London in the late 1970s. During one morning, Lenny spots a poster of undefeated boxer Roy Shaw, dubbed 'the Guv'Nor'…
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Komödie, Sport, boxing film
thumb|left|On location in San Fernando Valley Jerry Ferro is turning 40 years old and leading a mediocre life. He works part-time in construction as a carpenter and part-time as a boxing instructor at a fitness center near Los Angeles. He …
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Long Term Documentary, boxing film, documentary film
This film follows 12 years in the lives of three Irish Traveller families (Joyces, Nevins, and Quinn-McDonaghs) and their bitter feuds and fights. The film explores the reasons why they hold these fights and explores in-depth these familie…
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boxing film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
Agnes-Marie "Mooney" Pottie is a 15-year-old girl and black sheep of her family who is sick of her life in the isolated coastal community of New Waterford. She is considered an exceptional student by her depressive, semi-alcoholic English …
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Komödie, Musical, boxing film
Well-meaning and mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Kaye) meets Polly Pringle (Mayo), a beautiful, but out-of-work, singer, whilst on his rounds early in the morning. He tries to get her a job at the club where his sister Susie (Vera…
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Film Noir, boxing film, crime film, drama film, film noir
Ernie Driscoll is a New York taxi driver and former boxer who retired from the ring after sustaining a severe injury. His unhappy wife Pauline is having an affair with well-heeled jewel thief Victor Rawlins. An arrangement that Rawlins mad…
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Horror, horror film
Jessica Burns (Carolyn Kearney), a young woman who claims to have psychic powers, lives on a California dude ranch with her Aunt Flavia (Peggy Converse). When Jessica is called upon to dowse in search of a groundwater spring, she instead d…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
Ten years earlier, a man on a phone call is killed gruesomely, after the person at the other end of the line accuses him of stealing an important archaeological artifact. Present time, college student Ben inherits a mysterious mechanical b…
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Drama, boxing film, crime film, drama film
On the east side of New York City, boxing trainer Danny McGuinn is trying to prepare one of his sons, Eddie, to earn a chance to fight in the Olympic Games, while his other son, Ray, has fallen in with shady men from organized crime. After…
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Komödie, boxing film, comedy film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=15|Battling Butler (1926) thumb|Battling Butler ad in Motion Picture News, 1926 Alfred Butler is a scion of a wealthy family, but an embarrassment to his father as Alfred is a slight, gentle young man, accustomed to ea…
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Action, Sport, boxing film
Set in Kirkby, Liverpool, the plot centres around Ronnie O'Dowd, a single mother born to a Scottish father who championed in street boxing and her more gentle, ‘ladylike’ mother who dislikes her husband participating in street boxing. Ronn…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Sport, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Boxing manager Big Sid is told by the head of a crime syndicate that a shipment of heroin is arriving, and in turn, Sid instructs his henchman Brenner to oversee the shipment. At the dock where the shipment is to arrive, a dock worker name…
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boxing film, documentary film