The Square Jungle
β 6.1 Β· 1955 Β· 86m Β· Drama
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
More Like This
Ring of Passion
1978 Β· β 7
Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.
More info β
Connection
2021 Β· β 6.3
The biggest boxing fight of 1960 takes an unexpected turn with the help of a powerful twin connection.
More info β
Gladiator
1992 Β· β 7.6
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing β where punches can kill.
More info β
The Tender Hook
2008 Β· β 5.5
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
More info β
Rokudenashi BLUES
1992 Β· β 4.2
Trouble finds Maeda, a good-for-nothing outcast with dreams of becoming a boxing champ, soon after enrolling at Teiken High School. His cavalier clumsiness has a way of attracting attention from gang leaders, school staff, and the precocious schoolgirl Chiaki. When a dangerous new gang leader threatens to upend order in the school, Maeda puts his training to work β along with every brain cell he can muster β to protect the balance of power.
More info β
The Boxer
1997 Β· β 6.7
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
More info β
Fat City
1972 Β· β 7.1
The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fortunes head in opposite directions.
More info β
The Set-Up
1949 Β· β 7.4
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
More info β
My Life as a Dog
1985 Β· β 7.2
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
More info β
Against the Ropes
2004 Β· β 5.1
A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
More info β
Ali
2001 Β· β 6.7
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
More info βThe Harder They Fall
1972 Β· β 6
A Czech TV film adaptation of Budd Schulberg's novel The Harder They Fall, which had previously been made as the 1956 US movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger.
More info β