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This is a list of films about boxing, featuring notable sports films where boxing plays a central role in the development of the plot.
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[edit]Title | Year | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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Leonard-Cushing Fight | 1894 | Documentary | Silent film | |
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph | 1894 | Documentary | Silent film | |
Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest | 1896 | Documentary | Silent film | |
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight | 1897 | Documentary | A full-length version of 19th Century title bout. | |
The Gordon Sisters Boxing | 1901 | Documentary | Silent film | |
The Joe Gans – Battling Nelson Fight | 1906 | Archival Footage | Silent footage of most of the championship bout that lasted an astounding 48 rounds. The film company ran out of money – and film – in the 38th round and had to stop shooting | |
The Johnson-Jeffries Fight | 1910 | Documentary | Footage from bout between heavyweights Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries. | |
The Knockout | 1914 | Short, comedy | To show his girl how brave he is, Pug (Roscoe Arbuckle) challenges a champion. | |
The Third String | 1914 | Comedy | A man poses as a boxer to impress a barmaid and is forced to fight the champion. | |
The Champion | 1915 | Short, comedy | Charlie Chaplin puts a "good luck" horseshoe into his boxing glove and wins. | |
The White Hope | 1915 | Drama | An Earl's sister returns to a boxer in time to help him win. | |
Twenty-One | 1918 | Comedy | A young man trades places with a lookalike boxer and learns to fight for what he wants. | |
Square Joe | 1922 | Drama | An innocent boxer is convicted of killing a policeman during a raid on a gambling operation. He is sentenced to death and his friends attempt to locate the real murderer. | [1] |
The World's Champion | 1922 | Drama | To impress a British noblewoman, a man goes to America to put up his dukes. | |
The Leather Pushers | 1922 | Serial | After his father goes broke, a young man (Reginald Denny) fights for money. | |
Hogan's Alley | 1925 | Comedy | A knockout earns Lefty (Monte Blue) the title, but nearly costs him his girl. | |
Battling Butler | 1926 | Comedy | Silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. | |
One-Punch O'Day | 1926 | Comedy | A whole town's money is riding on Jimmy O'Day (Billy Sullivan). | |
The Shock Punch | 1926 | Drama | Randall Savage floors a boxing champ, then a construction boss to win a girl. | |
The Ring | 1927 | Drama | Alfred Hitchcock silent film about a pugilist known as "One-Round Jack." | |
Knockout Reilly | 1927 | Drama | Falsely convicted of a crime, Reilly (Richard Dix) fights the guy who framed him. | |
Night Parade | 1929 | Drama | A father tries to persuade his middleweight-champ son not to take a dive. | |
The Shakedown | 1929 | Drama | A boxer who makes a living losing fixed matches decides to turn his life around. | |
Hold Everything | 1930 | Comedy | Georges Carpentier's training is disrupted by an amateur called Gink (Joe E. Brown). | |
City Lights | 1931 | Comedy | A tramp (Charlie Chaplin) accumulates money by boxing to help a flower girl. | |
The Champ | 1931 | Drama | Story of a boy's love for a doomed ex-boxer. Academy Award for Wallace Beery. | |
Iron Man | 1931 | Drama | Lightweight contender Kid Mason is betrayed by his scheming wife (Jean Harlow). | |
Sidewalks of New York | 1931 | Comedy | Buster Keaton stars as a gymnasium owner. | |
Winner Take All | 1932 | Drama | Washed-up Jimmy Kane (James Cagney) fights to help a young widow. | |
The Big Timer | 1932 | Comedy | Cooky Bradford ends up fighting for, and falling for, his manager's daughter. | |
They Never Come Back | 1932 | Drama | A boxer framed for a crime fights to pay the debt of the friend who betrayed him. | |
The Life of Jimmy Dolan | 1932 | Drama | Believed to be dead, a boxer (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) tries to begin a new life. | |
Madison Square Garden | 1932 | Drama | After a boxer (Jack Oakie) takes a beating, his fellow fighters come to his rescue. | |
The Bermondsey Kid | 1933 | Drama | A British newsboy ends up in a fight contest against a friend. | |
The Prizefighter and the Lady | 1933 | Romantic Comedy | Real-life boxer Max Baer co-stars in a glove story with Myrna Loy. | |
Palooka | 1934 | Comedy | Joe Palooka leaves rural life to follow a trainer (Jimmy Durante) to the big city. | |
The Personality Kid | 1934 | Drama | Ritzy McCarty (Pat O'Brien) wins fixed fights, cheats on wife. | |
Excuse My Glove | 1936 | Comedy | A meek British man accepts a dare to step into a boxing ring at a fair. | |
Conflict | 1936 | Drama | John Wayne as a con man who loses bareknuckle bouts on purpose. | |
The Milky Way | 1936 | Comedy | A milkman (Harold Lloyd) who can deliver a punch becomes an overnight sensation. | |
Prison Shadows | 1936 | Drama | Out on parole, a boxer called "Killer" ends up with most of his opponents dead. | |
Two-Fisted Gentleman | 1936 | Drama | A fast-rising prizefighter jilts his girlfriend and takes up with a blonde. | |
Keep Fit | 1937 | Comedy | A department store employee (George Formby) takes up boxing. | |
Kid Galahad | 1937 | Crime, drama | Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) turns a young bellhop into boxer Kid Galahad. | |
The Duke Comes Back | 1937 | Drama | Duke Foster weds a rich girl, then fights to aid her embezzler father. | |
Hollywood Stadium Mystery | 1938 | Mystery | A crimefighter and writer both try to solve a murder in a boxing ring. | |
The Crowd Roars | 1938 | Drama | Accidentally killing a friend in-ring, "Killer" McCoy must save woman he loves. | |
Kid Nightingale | 1939 | Drama | A singing waiter punches a customer, becomes a prizefighter. | |
Golden Boy | 1939 | Drama | A promising violinist (William Holden) risks his hands by prizefighting. | |
Winner Take All | 1939 | Drama | Rodeo cowpoke turned pugilist fights for a female sportswriter (Gloria Stuart). | |
There Ain't No Justice | 1939 | Drama | An aspiring boxer (Jimmy Hanley) discovers corruption in the sport. | |
The Kid from Kokomo | 1939 | Comedy | A manager (Pat O'Brien) helps a Hoosier palooka find his mother. | |
They Made Me a Criminal | 1939 | Drama | Accused of murder, a boxing champ (John Garfield) becomes a fugitive. | |
City for Conquest | 1940 | Drama | James Cagney as a fighter who is blinded in the ring. | |
Golden Gloves | 1940 | Drama | A sportswriter sets out to clean up amateur boxing. | |
Pride of the Bowery | 1940 | Comedy | The East Side Kids turn to the boxing ring to help a friend. | |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan | 1941 | Comedy | A fighter taken too soon is reincarnated in a new body. Remade in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait, using American football as backdrop instead of boxing. | |
Knockout | 1941 | Drama | Arrogant boxer Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) has a manipulative manager. | |
Bowery Blitzkrieg | 1941 | Comedy | The East Side Kids end up in Golden Gloves bouts in this Bowery Boys tale. | |
Ringside Maisie | 1941 | Romance | Ann Sothern falls for the manager of a fighter blinded in the ring. | |
The Pittsburgh Kid | 1941 | Drama | Real-life boxer Billy Conn plays a contender falsely accused of a murder. | |
Sunday Punch | 1942 | Rom-Com | A janitor and a medical student become pals, then rival prizefighters. | |
Treat 'Em Rough | 1942 | Comedy | The Panama Kid (Eddie Albert) learns his father's accused of embezzling. | |
Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Biographical | Light-hearted biopic, with Errol Flynn as heavyweight champ James J. Corbett. | |
The Great John L. | 1945 | Biographical | Boston strong boy John L. Sullivan wins the belt, battles the bottle. | |
Joe Palooka, Champ | 1946 | Comedy | First of 11 Monogram films featuring comic-strip character. | |
The Kid from Brooklyn | 1946 | Comedy | Remake of 1936 milkman tale, this time with Danny Kaye. | |
Body and Soul | 1947 | Film noir | John Garfield is a boxer involved with corrupt promoters. Three Oscar nominations. | |
Killer McCoy | 1947 | Drama | Mickey Rooney fights to pay off his dad's gambling debts. | |
Whiplash | 1948 | Film noir | A painter adopts the ring name "Mike Angelo" when he fights for a sadistic club owner. | |
The Big Punch | 1948 | Drama | Refusing to take a dive, an honest kid (Gordon MacRae) gets framed for a murder. | |
The Set-Up | 1949 | Film noir | A has-been boxer's manager bets on him to lose, with dire consequences if he doesn't. | |
Fighting Fools | 1949 | Comedy | The Bowery Boys work at a boxing arena | |
Champion | 1949 | Film noir | An arrogant fighter (Kirk Douglas) makes it to the top, alienating all who care about him. Six Oscar nominations. | |
Duke of Chicago | 1949 | Comedy | Chicago's retired Jim Brody makes a comeback against champ Killer Bronski. | |
Right Cross | 1950 | Romance | June Allyson takes over dad's fight promotions, handles boxer Ricardo Montalbán. | |
The Golden Gloves Story | 1950 | Drama | An amateur boxer falls in love with a referee's daughter. | |
Iron Man | 1951 | Drama | A coal miner turned prizefighter loses control inside the ring. | |
Day of the Fight | 1951 | Documentary | Stanley Kubrick's first film, a documentary on middleweight Walter Cartier. | |
The Quiet Man | 1952 | Romance | A visiting American ex-boxer (John Wayne) meets an Irish lass (Maureen O'Hara) and literally has to fight for her. Seven Oscar nominations. | |
The Fighter | 1952 | Drama | A story by Jack London about a fighter during the 1910 Mexican rebellion. | |
Flesh and Fury | 1952 | Drama | A deaf boxer (Tony Curtis) wins the title, undergoes an operation so he can hear. | |
The Ring | 1952 | Drama | A young Mexican (Lalo Ríos) seeks respect of Americans and love of a beauty (Rita Moreno). | |
Glory Alley | 1952 | Drama | Socks Barbarossa (Ralph Meeker) bolts from a New Orleans ring one night, without explanation. | |
The Joe Louis Story | 1953 | Biographical | The life and career of the longtime champ, played by Coley Wallace. | |
Off Limits | 1953 | Comedy | A boxer (Mickey Rooney) is drafted into the Army, so his manager (Bob Hope) enlists. | |
It's Always Fair Weather | 1953 | Musical | Fight manager Gene Kelly discovers his contender is about to take a dive. | |
The Flanagan Boy | 1953 | Drama | British film about a rising ring star who falls for a millionaire's wife. | |
The Square Ring | 1953 | Drama | British film about one night's events inside a boxing arena. | |
Champ for a Day | 1953 | Drama | After his manager is murdered, a heavyweight schemes to get even. | |
Tennessee Champ | 1954 | Drama | A devoutly religious boy mistakenly believes he killed a boxer (Charles Bronson). | |
The Long Gray Line | 1955 | Biographical | A look at the 50-year career of Martin Maher who served as boxing instructor at West Point | |
The Harder They Fall | 1956 | Film noir | A former sportswriter (Humphrey Bogart) works for a mobster who fixes fights. | |
Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | Biographical | Two-time Oscar-winner based on life of Rocky Graziano, played by Paul Newman. | |
The Square Jungle | 1956 | Drama | A grocery clerk (Tony Curtis) fights his way to the middleweight title. | |
World in My Corner | 1956 | Drama | New Jersey boy (Audie Murphy) seeks fame, fortune to impress millionaire's daughter. | |
The Leather Saint | 1956 | Drama | A young Episcopalian minister (John Derek) boxes to raise funds for his church. | |
Monkey on My Back | 1957 | Biographical | Barney Ross's boxing career leaves him with a morphine habit. | |
The Crooked Circle | 1957 | Drama | A sportswriter (Steve Brodie) helps a contender cope with criminals. | |
And the Same To You | 1960 | Comedy | Film adaption of the 1958 ITV Play of the Week episode, "The Chigwell Chicken." | |
Requiem for a Heavyweight | 1962 | Drama | A punchy fighter (Anthony Quinn) is betrayed by his manager (Jackie Gleason). | |
Kid Galahad | 1962 | Musical | A young Catskills car mechanic (Elvis Presley) turns out to pack quite a punch. | |
Legendary Champions | 1968 | Documentary | Harry Chapin's look at boxers of yesteryear. | |
The Great White Hope | 1970 | Romantic drama | Based on Jack Johnson, story of black prizefighter in early 20th century. Oscar-nominated performances by James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander. | |
Fat City | 1972 | Drama | A broke, broken-down fighter (Stacy Keach) tries a comeback as a young one (Jeff Bridges) learns the ropes. Oscar nomination for Susan Tyrrell.[2] | |
All American Boy | 1973 | Drama | The young boxer Vic Bealer (Jon Voight) in search for some direction in his life. | |
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest | 1974 | Documentary | Photographer William Klein's look at Muhammad Ali. | |
Hard Times | 1975 | Drama | Illegal bare-knuckle bouts in Louisiana, starring Charles Bronson. | |
Let's Do It Again | 1975 | Comedy | Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier as Atlanta men who rig a match for a good cause. | |
Rocky | 1976 | Drama | Academy Award winner for Best Picture about a Philadelphia pug (Sylvester Stallone) who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.[3] | |
The Greatest | 1977 | Drama | Biographical film with Muhammad Ali as himself. | |
Every Which Way but Loose | 1978 | Comedy | A trucker (Clint Eastwood) with a pet orangutan fights bare-knuckle brawls for money. | |
Matilda | 1978 | Comedy | A promoter (Elliott Gould) pits a man against a boxing kangaroo. | |
Movie Movie | 1978 | Comedy | Spoof of old boxing films, with palooka Harry Hamlin managed by George C. Scott. | |
The Champ | 1979 | Drama | Remake of '30s melodrama about a child who worships a has-been boxer (Jon Voight). | |
The Main Event | 1979 | Comedy | Headstrong woman (Barbra Streisand) owns contract of cocky boxer (Ryan O'Neal). | |
Penitentiary | 1979 | Drama | Blaxploitation story set in a prison, featuring Leon Isaac Kennedy. | |
Rocky II | 1979 | Drama | Rocky Balboa gets a rematch with Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). | |
Marciano | 1979 | Drama | Made for TV biopic about undefeated heavyweight Rocky Marciano. | |
Ashita no Joe | 1980 | Animated | Japanese film. | |
Raging Bull | 1980 | Biographical | Biopic on Jake LaMotta, with Oscar-winning performance by Robert De Niro. | |
Any Which Way You Can | 1980 | Comedy | In sequel to 1978 film, mobsters coax bare-knuckle brawler Clint Eastwood into one more fight. | |
Ashita no Joe 2 | 1981 | Animated | Japanese film. | |
Body and Soul | 1981 | Drama | Based on 1947 version, with Leon Isaac Kennedy and then-wife Jayne Kennedy. | |
Penitentiary II | 1982 | Drama | Blaxploitation, sequel to 1979 film. | |
Honeyboy | 1982 | Drama | Made for TV story with Erik Estrada and Morgan Fairchild. | |
Rocky III | 1982 | Drama | Now champ, Rocky is challenged by vicious Clubber Lang, played by Mr. T. | |
Dempsey | 1983 | Biographical | Treat Williams stars in made-for-TV biopic of Jack Dempsey. | |
The Fighter | 1983 | Drama | A Vietnam vet turns to boxing to raise money. | |
Tough Enough | 1983 | Drama | A "toughman" tournament is entered by a Texas musician (Dennis Quaid). | |
The Sting II | 1983 | Comedy | Con man Jackie Gleason fixes a fight to double-cross a couple of crooks. | |
Boxer | 1984 | Drama | Indian film. | |
Rocky IV | 1985 | Drama | Rocky goes to the Soviet Union to battle Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). | |
Streets of Gold | 1986 | Drama | Two amateur boxers are trained by a Russian (Klaus Maria Brandauer). | |
Teen Wolf Too | 1987 | Comedy | Sequel to werewolf comedy, this time starring Jason Bateman. | |
Heart | 1987 | Drama | A punchy fighter gets set up by a shady promoter (Steve Buscemi). | |
Split Decisions | 1988 | Drama | Gene Hackman as a trainer and father of two totally different sons. | |
Triumph of the Spirit | 1988 | Drama | In Auschwitz concentration camp, a Jewish boxer (Willem Dafoe) fights for his life. | |
Homeboy | 1988 | Drama | Mickey Rourke as a down-and-out boxer who risks death in the ring. | |
Kaboria | 1990 | Drama | A young man dreams of representing his country in boxing at the Olympics but fails to achieve his goal. However, he establishes boxing rings to promote the sport. | |
Rocky V | 1990 | Drama | A bankrupt Balboa trains up-and-coming heavyweight (real-life boxer Tommy Morrison). | |
Diggstown | 1992 | Drama | A con man (James Woods) wagers his fighter can defeat 10 men in 24 hours. | |
Gladiator | 1992 | Drama | Cuba Gooding, Jr. and James Marshall take part in illegal fights. | |
Night and the City | 1992 | Drama | A shyster (Robert De Niro) defies a mobster to become a boxing promoter. | |
Tyson | 1995 | Biographical | HBO biopic of Mike Tyson (played by Michael Jai White), co-starring George C. Scott. | |
The Great White Hype | 1996 | Comedy | An out-of-shape champ steps into the ring against an out-of-his-league chump. | |
When We Were Kings | 1996 | Documentary | Oscar-winner on 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. | |
The Boxer | 1997 | Drama | Daniel Day-Lewis as an Irish boxer recently released from prison. | |
Don King: Only in America | 1997 | Biographical | An ex-con becomes a famous promoter, with Ving Rhames as King. | |
The Kid | 1997 | Drama | A teen boxes while keeping it a secret from his parents. Stars Rod Steiger. | |
Legionnaire | 1998 | War | Frenchman (Jean-Claude Van Damme) wins fight he was told to lose, joins Foreign Legion. | |
Play It to the Bone | 1999 | Comedy | Best friends (Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson) fight each other in Las Vegas. | |
Rocky Marciano | 1999 | Biographical | A television film with Jon Favreau portraying the undefeated champ. | |
On the Ropes | 1999 | Documentary | A coach takes three young boxers under his wing. | |
The Hurricane | 1999 | Biographical | False imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, played by Oscar nominee Denzel Washington. | |
Thammudu | 1999 | Drama | A wayward youth takes up boxing in place of his injured elder brother. A Telugu film. | |
The Opponent | 2000 | Drama | An abused woman learns to defend herself, then turns pro. | |
King of the World | 2000 | Biographical | A television film with Terrence Howard as young Cassius Clay. | |
Girlfight | 2000 | Drama | A young woman from Brooklyn (Michelle Rodriguez) trains to become a boxer. | |
Price of Glory | 2000 | Drama | A trainer (Jimmy Smits) teaches three of his sons how to fight. | |
Ali | 2001 | Biographical | A dramatization of Muhammad Ali's success and controversy, with Will Smith. | |
Carman: The Champion | 2001 | Action | A former boxing champion is blackmailed back into the ring. | |
Undisputed | 2002 | Drama | Heavyweight champ fights a fellow prison inmate. Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes co-star. | |
Joe and Max | 2002 | Biographical | The 1930s rivalry between heavyweights Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. | |
Beautiful Boxer | 2002 | Drama | Biographical film about a transsexual fighter from Thailand. | |
Champion (Korean: 챔피언) | 2002 | Drama | Biographical South Korean film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, about South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim, portrayed by Yu Oh-seong. | |
Hajime No Ippo: Champion Road | 2003 | Animated | Japanese film. | |
Hajime No Ippo: Mashiba Vs Kimura | 2003 | Animated | Japanese film. | |
Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Drama | Oscar-winner for Best Picture and Best Actress about a trainer (Clint Eastwood) who reluctantly teaches a poor waitress (Hilary Swank) how to fight. | |
Against the Ropes | 2004 | Drama | Based on a true story; Meg Ryan as manager of a young fighter (Omar Epps). | |
The Calcium Kid | 2004 | Mockumentary | Orlando Bloom in a satire of boxing films. | |
Shadowboxing | 2005 | Drama | Russian film about boxer Artyom Kolchin. | |
Cinderella Man | 2005 | Biographical | Depression-era comeback of heavyweight contender James J. Braddock, starring Russell Crowe; three Oscar nominations. | |
Fighting Tommy Riley | 2005 | Drama | A boxer and a gay manager clash, with tragic consequences. | |
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | 2005 | Documentary | A look at a welterweight champ who killed an opponent in the ring. | |
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | 2005 | Documentary | Emmy-winner by Ken Burns about Jack Johnson's battles in and out of ring. | |
Pacquiao: The Movie | 2006 | Biographical | A look at the life and career of Manny Pacquiao. | |
Rocky Balboa | 2006 | Drama | Sixth in the Rocky series, with widower Rocky stepping into ring one more time. | |
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing | 2006 | Action | Sequel to 2002 film but with entirely new cast. | |
Annapolis | 2006 | Drama | Boxing story set at Naval Academy starring James Franco. | |
Shadowboxing 2: Revenge | 2007 | Drama | Russian sequel to 2005 film about boxer Artyom Kolchin. | |
Jump In! | 2007 | Family | Disney Channel comedy on Golden Gloves boxer's kid in rope-jumping contest. | |
Poor Boy's Game | 2007 | Drama | Tempers and racial tensions flare in Nova Scotia story, starring Danny Glover. | |
Apne | 2007 | Drama | Bollywood film. | |
Miracle on 1st Street | 2007 | Comedy | South Korea film. | |
Muay Thai Chaiya | 2007 | Drama | Thailand film. | |
Resurrecting the Champ | 2007 | Drama | A sportswriter believes homeless man (Samuel L. Jackson) is former boxing star. | |
The Hammer | 2007 | Comedy | A 40-year-old carpenter (Adam Carolla) gets shot at U.S. Olympic boxing team. | |
Blue Blood | 2007 | Documentary | Five Oxford students attempt to make Amateur Boxing Club. | |
Shamo | 2007 | Documentary | Adaptation of the manga of the same name | |
Assault in the Ring | 2008 | Documentary | A controversial 1983 fight between Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto, in which trainer Panama Lewis tampered with Resto's gloves, causing injuries so severe Collins never fought again. | |
Joe Louis: American Hero... Betrayed | 2008 | Documentary | An HBO production profiling boxing legend Joe Louis | |
Facing Ali | 2009 | Documentary | A look at the life of Muhammad Ali as told from the perspectives of many of his opponents. | |
Muhammad and Larry | 2009 | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Examines 1980 fight between Ali and Larry Holmes. | |
Phantom Punch | 2009 | Biographical | Ving Rhames' portrayal of former heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. | |
From Mexico with Love | 2009 | Action/drama | Kuno Becker portrays a worker with boxing great abilities. | |
The Fighter | 2010 | Biographical | Story of Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and half-brother Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale). Oscars for Bale and Melissa Leo. | |
Max Schmeling | 2010 | Biographical | A look back at 1930s German heavyweight who twice fought Joe Louis. | |
One Night in Vegas | 2010 | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores friendship between Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur, leading up to Shakur's 1996 murder after Tyson's fight with Bruce Seldon. | |
Lahore | 2010 | Drama | Bollywood film. | |
Shadowboxing: Final Round | 2011 | Drama | Third installment in Russian film trilogy. | |
Ashita no Joe | 2011 | Drama | Japanese film. | |
The Real Rocky | 2011 | Documentary | Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Profiles Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. | |
Knockout | 2011 | Drama | A janitor (Steve Austin) teaches boxing skills to a student who's up against bullies. | |
Real Steel | 2011 | Science fiction | Boxing robots, starring Hugh Jackman. | |
Klitschko | 2011 | Documentary | Lives of Ukraine brothers who both became world heavyweight champions. | |
26 Years: The Dewey Bozella Story | 2012 | Documentary | Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Profiles Dewey Bozella, who found purpose in boxing while imprisoned for 26 years. | |
When Ali Came to Ireland | 2012 | Documentary | Irish film about how Muhammad Ali was persuaded to make his first visit to the country for a 1972 fight, and depicting his later interactions with Ireland. | |
Grudge Match | 2013 | Comedy | Washed-up boxers (Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone) square off one last time. | |
No Más | 2013 | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Examines controversial ending to No Más Fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán. | |
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | 2013 | Drama | A dramatization of the champion's refusal to serve in Vietnam. | |
The Trials of Muhammad Ali | 2013 | Documentary | Another look at the champion's refusal to fight in Vietnam, also focusing on his conversion to Islam. | |
I Am Ali | 2014 | Documentary | Explores the life of Muhammad Ali, with a starting point of personal voice recordings made by Ali himself in the 1970s. | |
Maan Karate | 2014 | Comedy | A man takes part in a boxing tournament to impress his sports-loving girlfriend, despite knowing nothing about boxing. An Indian Tamil film. | |
Mary Kom | 2014 | Biographical | An Indian biopic about five-time World Boxing Champion and Olympic bronze medalist Mary Kom. | |
Manny | 2014 | Documentary | On life and career of longtime champion Manny Pacquiao. | |
Chasing Tyson | 2015 | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores the years Evander Holyfield spent trying to arrange his first fight with Mike Tyson. | |
Creed | 2015 | Drama | Evolution of the Rocky series, with Rocky serving as trainer for Apollo Creed's son. | |
Mr. Calzaghe | 2015 | Documentary | On undefeated champion Joe Calzaghe and relationship with his father and trainer Enzo. | |
Shah | 2015 | Drama | Shah is a 2015 Pakistani biographical sports film directed and written by Adnan Sarwar based on the Story of Pakistani Boxer, Hussain Shah, who won Bronze during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. | |
Southpaw | 2015 | Drama | A boxer (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his wife, then loses custody of his daughter. | |
Caring and Killing | 2015 | Drama | An up-and-coming boxer must face his past and present demons with the help of his coach | |
Bleed for This | 2016 | Biographical | The story of Vinny Paz (Miles Teller), focusing especially on his comeback from a broken neck suffered in an auto accident. | |
Chuck | 2016 | Biographical | Another look at Chuck Wepner, focusing on 1975 fight with Muhammad Ali. | |
Hands of Stone | 2016 | Biographical | A dramatization of Roberto Durán's career, featuring Robert De Niro. | |
Uppercut | 2016 | Drama | A young boxer raised in Queens rises up the ranks. | |
Irudhi Suttru | 2016 | Drama | Indian film about a boxing coach training a young woman who sells fish. | |
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | 2016 | Biographical | Dramatization of a 1962 fight in Helsinki between a featherweight from Finland and the American star Davey Moore. | |
Mukkabaaz | 2017 | Drama | A lovestory of a boxer who also faces several other hardships. | |
42 to 1 | 2018 | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Chronicles the shocking knockout of previously unbeaten Mike Tyson by journeyman Buster Douglas in 1990. | |
Creed II | 2018 | Drama | Adonis Creed facing the son of the fighter who killed his father in the ring. | |
Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston | 2019 | Documentary | Made-for-TV examination of the rise, fall, and untimely death of Sonny Liston. | |
Knuckle City | 2019 | Crime, Drama | An aging, womanizing professional boxer and his career-criminal brother take one last shot at success and get more than they've bargained for. | |
Doda | 2019 | Biographical | This first balochi language pakistani feature boxing film for cinemas in pakistan all time. | |
In Full Bloom | 2020 | Drama | An American boxer defends his honor, as he faces off against an undefeated Japanese champion. | |
Sarpatta Parambarai | 2021 | Action, Drama | Set in a village where boxing is a cult championship. A boxing fan, who made his entry successful, turned into a henchman and also an unfit boxer. Did he make his successful career again? | |
Almighty Zeus | 2022 | Action | A young boxer goes viral after fighting off the attacker of a hate crime. | [4] |
Mister Knockout | 2022 | Drama | Biopic about Soviet olympic champion Valeri Popenchenko | |
Creed III | 2023 | Drama | Most recent entry in the Rocky series, with Adonis Creed fighting a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy. | |
Big George Foreman | 2023 | Drama | Biopic about heavyweight champion George Foreman | |
The Featherweight | 2024 | Drama | Biopic on the late career comeback of featherweight champion Willie Pep, the winningest boxer in the history of the sport. | |
The Fire Inside | 2024 | Biographical | Biopic about Claressa "T-Rex" Shields. |
See also
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