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Boxer (2024)
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Original name: Bokser
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
With only his wife by his side, a promising young boxer flees communist Poland to chase his dream of becoming the greatest fighter in history.
Style:
dark, intense, emotional, period piece, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
boxing, immigration, escape, determination, underdog, survival, exile, corruption, desperation, rise and fall, moral dilemma, realism, resilience, identity, political oppression, betrayal, tragedy, loyalty, alienation, urban, redemption, working class, family drama, marriage, assimilation ...
Time:
70s
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Most similar movies to Boxer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, intense, realistic and independent film films with plots about redemption, underdog, urban, boxing, determination, resilience and boxer mostly in Drama, Sport and Action genres. Some movies like Boxer: Sparring (2017), Underdog: Part Two (2020), Fighter (2020), Chavez Cage of Glory (2013), La Máquina (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Steve Landry, an aging boxer with more losses than wins, accepts to become a sparring partner for an emerging champion in a last-ditch attempt to stay relevant.
Style:
realistic, intense, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
boxing, determination, redemption, perseverance, resilience, character study, comeback, regret, identity, underdog, realism, urban ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he finds a worthy opponent in Omura, an up-and-coming wunderkind who is trying to escape his violent past. The men's fight for redemption ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, intense, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
boxing, fight, prizefighter, underdog, rivalry, redemption, determination, perseverance, resilience, ambition, ambitious man, champion ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
87%
612
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben is a tormented young man who escapes abuse, his life in crime streets to spend, with the result that he was in prison ends. If Ben is released, he comes back as a boxer, with the help of his mentor, Joe, a bokstrainer. Have a new found love ...
Style:
realistic, uplifting, serious, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, rivalry, boxer, ambition, desire for fame, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, vengeance, contests and competitions, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
83%
110
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After a few months of social adjustment training, the North Korean refugee Jina moves to a small studio in Seoul and starts her new life. To bring her father to South Korea, she needs money but no matter how hard she works, the discrimination ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, female protagonist, boxing, father daughter relationship, struggle, resilience, perseverance, female boxer, boxing training, boxer, lifestyle change, coping ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
korea, seoul
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Barely being able to make ends meet and doing everything he can possibly do to cover his ill son's growing medical bills, Hector Chavez turns to his fighting roots in the underbelly of LA. His amateur Mixed Martial Arts videos go viral grabbing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
martial arts, rivalry, hospital, ambition, doctors and patients, fight, mixed martial arts, violence, father son relationship, underdog, sacrifice, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
After a devastating loss, Esteban “La Máquina” Osuna is at a low point in his boxing career. Lucky for him, his manager and best friend Andy Lujan is determined to get him back on top. But when a nefarious organization rears its head, the ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, intense, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, comeback, resilience, family drama, final showdown, underdog, organized crime, redemption, danger, urban, character study, violent ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save Raymundo, his wife and their child.
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
boxing, boxer, redemption, mother and daughter, daughter, wife, combat, child, father and daughter, child in peril, husband and wife, young daughter ...
Similarity:
68%
3K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The worlds of three ordinary people converge during a historic cricket match, ultimately forcing them to make life-altering decisions.
Style:
intense, emotional, tense, suspense
Plot:
cricket, moral dilemma, family conflict, realism, social commentary, redemption, identity, community, slice of life, urban, betrayal, friendship ...
Similarity:
64%
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153
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young cape-verdean fighter will have to enter a dangerous boxing match to try to save his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, tension, intense, independent film
Plot:
boxing, boxing match, father son relationship, coming of age, underdog, redemption, poverty, urban, determination, decision, sacrifice, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader, falls in disgrace when she gives birth to her second child out of wedlock.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
boxing, female boxer, single mother, mentor protege relationship, poverty, underdog, determination, strong female character, family conflict, motherhood, female protagonist, roma ...
Place:
hamburg germany, romania
Similarity:
57%
251
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
MMA fighter loses everything due to some bad life choices. Now local gangster make him back to the sports. But this time he will fight in the boxing ring.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
boxing, mixed martial arts, gangster, fight, boxer, rivalry, competition, redemption, comeback, second chance, criminal, wrestler ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly ...
Style:
dark drama, bleak, neorealism, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
social realism, boxing, brother sister relationship, organized crime, survival, barfly, addiction, siblings, working class, slice of life, family drama, desperation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bucharest, romania
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Amidst the chaos of massive budget cuts and school closures, a young female teacher introduces men's rugby to an inner-city North Philadelphia high school.
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban, resilience, perseverance, teacher, determination, high school, underdog, teamwork, education, struggle, rugby, friendship ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
56%
876
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, intense, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fitness, running, olympics, marathon, runner, divorce, athlete, perseverance, determination, endurance, ambition, sacrifice ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, year 1976
Place:
new york
Similarity:
55%
1K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In this adrenaline-fueled story, the world of women's mixed martial arts is rocked by an explosive showdown between reigning champion Cassady Jones and rising star Alexa Star. The clash of these two titans sends shockwaves through the EFC, as ...
Style:
intense, emotional, dramatic, action packed
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female empowerment, underdog, mixed martial arts, fight, rivalry, champion, championship, arena, determination, training camp, redemption, tournament ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This is a story about Denis Marković, a young talented football player with a problematic temperament, who from an early age, due to his talent, became a target of various interests.
Style:
emotional, intense, realistic, inspirational
Plot:
football, talent, ambition, athlete, soccer, coming of age, competition, urban, self discovery, exploitation, underdog, rivalry ...
Place:
balkan, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets a job fighting in a gym run by Napoleon. Roo is often tormented by memories of shock treatment and inhumane conditions. His friends, Capser and ...
Style:
psychological, action drama, brutal, noir, psychological horror ...
Plot:
boxing, underground fighting, mental institution, trauma, redemption, electroshock therapy, violent, friendship, revenge, tough guy, anti hero, machismo ...
Similarity:
49%
381
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
tennis, underdog, second chance, redemption, coaching, championship, rivalry, father son relationship, family conflict, bookies, resilience, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Singer-turned-boxer Andy 'Kid' Clave signs a contract with a shady promoter Joaquin Vargas. But Clave turns against Vargas when the promoter's thugs kill Clave's girlfriend when he thinks about backing out of the contract. While ...
Style:
emotional, tension, dark, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
boxing, revenge, gangster, violence, determination, loss of loved one, boxer, betrayal, organized crime, corruption, underdog, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Martial arts champion Andre Lima's fighting days ended with his wife's death. The past nine years Andre has struggled to rebuild his world around his two children. When his daughter's health suddenly fails, his finances collapse.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, serious, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
martial arts, cage fighting, family drama, father daughter relationship, grief, single father, loss, redemption, financial difficulty, resilience, second chance, comeback ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Sport
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It is the story of a boxer names shibaji. Who was a hero and inspiration for every indian but suddenly he falls down and everyone forgets him. The film is about how he rises up again.
Style:
motivational, intense, emotional
Plot:
boxing, perseverance, resilience, determination, comeback, underdog, redemption, male protagonist, competition, inspiration, athlete, rivalry ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wealthy guy hires Oscar to cheer for his team which happens to be arch rival of the team he previously supported along with his brother. Oscar accepts the offer and fight kicks off between him and his brother along with other supporters. The fight ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, emotional, art house, inspirational
Plot:
football, soccer, hooliganism, rivalry, fan culture, violence, loyalty, moral dilemma, realism, brotherhood, family conflict, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in 1965, Pep is living in relative obscurity in his hometown of Hartford. Amidst personal troubles, and with the need to earn, Pep, at the age of 42, makes a stunning return to the ring
Style:
thrilling, captivating, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, biopic, boxer, based on real people, comeback, character study, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, marital problem, athlete's life ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 20th century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
anti semitism, exile, emigration, youth, political persecution, moral dilemma, identity crisis, political oppression, cold war, escape, family conflict, nationalism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
42%
1K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle has to be fought outside the ring.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, motivational, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, female boxer, fight club, boxing trainer, underdog, coach, direction and purpose, ambition, athlete and trainer, boxer, aspiration, athlete's life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
42%
306
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two workers are having a leisurely conversation. More and more often people see in the sky red tails of comets, wonder creatures appear from nowhere and a roar is said to be coming from the underground. What is the meaning of it all? – asks one of ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic
Plot:
debt, poverty, loyalty, female protagonist, sacrifice, resilience, perseverance, struggle for survival, family drama, corruption, survival, desperation ...
Similarity:
40%
948
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Victor aka Hammer is an MMA champion with the world title fight ahead. After running into the mobster Shark Hammer gets injured but is still determined to win. Victor doesn't know Shark will stick at nothing to make Victor lose.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
rivalry, mixed martial arts, determination, comeback, wrestler, professional wrestler, combat, fight, mafia, showdown, criminal, ambition ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
875
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A practicing Sikh is banned by the boxing commission for refusing to back down from his religious beliefs. Through racial profiling and stereotypical threats, he does what any strong American would do: fight back.
Style:
inspirational, period piece
Plot:
boxing, fight for justice, courtroom drama, racial injustice, resilience, perseverance, courage, determination, racial tension, legal battle, redemption, social commentary ...
Time:
70s
Place:
america
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A legendary trainer comes out of retirement to help an underdog boxer fight his way to a better life.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot:
boxer, boxing, working class, determination, fight, against the odds, sparring, rise to the top, rivalry, society, bare chested male, african american ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Thappu Thalangal is a saga of emotional and selfish world of human feelings. Devu, a local thug whose weapon of choice is a bicycle chain he sports casually around the neck. On one of his nightly rounds, Devu is pursued by a cop and seeks refuge at ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, intense, period piece
Plot:
redemption, societal hypocrisy, social realism, tragedy, prostitution, moral dilemma, gangster, sacrifice, regret, star crossed lovers, loss, forbidden love ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
38%
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