Movies like Sandbag

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Sandbag (2017)
 6.3
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Sandbag (2017)
Original name: Sambá
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sports drama about redemption through the metaphor of life and boxing.
Plot: boxing, woman, prison, burglar, hip hop, male nudity, street fight, streetfighting, juvenile delinquent, debt, drug dealing, fixed match, sick mother, overheard conversation, erectile dysfunction, italian immigrant, purse snatcher, boxing training, mobster, father son reconciliation, gay slur, bandit, blow job, smoking after sex, dildo ...
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Most similar movies to Sandbag

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and captivating films with plots about boxing, boxer, rivalry, boxing match, fighting, athlete's life and fight mostly in Drama, Sport and Action genres. Some movies like Sandbag: Tomorrow's Joe (2011), The Challenger (2015), Sugar (2008), Girlfight (2000), Creed III (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tomorrow's Joe (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki (Tomohisa Yamashita) lives in a run-down low income ara. There, alcholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange (Teruyuki Kagawa) notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer. But then, Joe gets into trouble and is sentenced into ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: boxer, boxing, prisoner, boxing training, boxing trainer, boxing match, orphan, prison, japanese man, rivalry, street fighter, jail ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Challenger (2015)
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: captivating, inspirational, tense, realistic
Plot: boxer, boxing, determination, working class, fight, against the odds, sparring, rise to the top, rivalry, society, african american, competition ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.2
 5K
Sugar (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sugar is a 2008 sports drama film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull ...
Style: atmospheric, uplifting, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, immigrant, athlete, culture clash, follow your dream, rags to riches, fish out of water, american dream, ambition, against the odds, character study, rookie ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: iowa, africa, new york, puerto rico, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.7
 11K
Girlfight (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
Style: uplifting, independent film, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: boxing, female boxer, contests and competitions, bullying, athlete's life, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, mentor, female fight, lifestyle, human spirit, violent content ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 91K
Creed III (2023)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damien Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that ...
Style: psychological, captivating, interesting
Plot: boxing, boxer, orphan, boxing champion, boxing match, professional sports, world champion, boxing training, african american, male protagonist, title bout, boxing trainer ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 2020s
Place: philadelphia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.3
 150K
Rocky V (1990)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky's career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.
Style: inspirational, realistic, serious, action packed, saga ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens, family outing
Plot: boxing, boxer, fight, gym, betrayal, underdog, rocky, bullying, coach, champion, training, fight scenes ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.6
 395
Body and Soul (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, independent film, rough, sincere ...
Plot: boxing, boxer, black, power relations, rich and poor, love affair, rise to the top, ambition, life is a bitch, athlete's life, rivalry, redemption ...
Time: year 1981, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.8
 9K
The Champ (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. ...
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, heartfelt, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, boy, coming of age, father, gambling, death, father son relationship, underdog, redemption, bittersweet, fight ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, florida, ireland, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.0
 5K
Journeyman (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A boxer suffers a serious head injury during a fight, and must deal with the consequences.
Style: rough, inspirational, sentimental, exciting, art house ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, rise and fall, rivalry, courage, transformation, rage, ambition, violence, boxer, medicine, memory loss ...
Place: usa, england, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.6
 225
The Fight (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time jobs and three children. Determined to ditch the ...
Style: emotional, captivating, psychological, realistic
Plot: boxing, female boxer, bullying, dysfunctional family, self confidence, family relations, crumbling marriage, rivalry, society, introspection, female fight, bully ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.6
 815
Gipsy Queen (2019)
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: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, sincere, emotional
Plot: boxing, female boxer, underdog, strong female character, mentor protege relationship, family conflict, single mother, poverty, husband wife relationship, athlete's life, friendship, female hero ...
Place: hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Boxer and Death (1963)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of ...
Plot: world war two, boxing, boxer, nazi, prisoner, escape, concentration camp, starvation, nazism, prizefight, fighting
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Tiger, Blood in the Mouth (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Boxing drama / romance.
Style: sincere, captivating, light, erotic, crying
Plot: boxing, boxer, erotica, unfaithful husband, extramarital affair, illicit affair, older man younger woman sex, oral sex, attempted seduction, love affair, boxing training, infidelity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 7.3
 10K
Fat City (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, neo noir, serious, captivating ...
Audience: manly
Plot: boxing, boxer, friendship, comeback, boxing match, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, fighter, unfulfillment, introspection, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: california, usa, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.4
 704
Sparring (2017)
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.
Plot: boxing, nudity, bare chested male, pianist, cigarette smoking, father daughter relationship, money, piano, beach, male nudity, tattoo, boxing match ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.3
 230K
Rocky II (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. ...
Style: inspirational, rough, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: manly, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, fight, underdog, bodybuilding, rocky, brutality, violence, training, world champion, championship, comeback ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: boxing, deaf, boxing trainer, female boxer, boxer, deafness, prizefighter, professional sports, deaf mute, female protagonist, deaf woman, loss of eyesight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.8
 210K
Rocky III (1982)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: manly, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, comeback, rocky, tough heroes, martial arts, training, coach, fame, defeat, victory, world champion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, los angeles, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his ears turned to cauliflower, his speech slurred from "being hit a million times," ...
Style: black and white, bleak, atmospheric, retro, contemplative ...
Audience: manly
Plot: boxing, boxer, aging, second chance, social worker, drunkenness, troubled, martial arts, wrestling, boxing match, prizefight, champion ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.0
 108
Pepe and Fifi (1994)
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 ...
Plot: nightclub, pimp, boxer, homelessness, brother sister relationship, beggar, urban setting, male female relationship, friend, boxing, friendship, politics ...
Place: bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Power of One (1992)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with the motto “fight with your fists and lead with your heart”. ...
Style: touching, inspirational, intense, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: boxing, bullying, friendship, youth, racism, apartheid, world war two, discrimination, injustice, hopes, orphan, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.8
 513
Walkover (1965)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Plot: boxing, renaissance, surrealism, train, cultural conflict, 30 year old, graduate, old friend, choice, runaway, engineer, decision ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.9
 225K
Rocky IV (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
Style: inspirational, tense, suspenseful, action packed, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot: boxing, boxer, training, underdog, christmas, victory, rocky, tough heroes, endurance, workout, machismo, martial arts ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: philadelphia, las vegas, pennsylvania, nevada, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
 6.9
 8K
Diggstown (1992)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ...
Style: cult classic, witty, neo noir, comedy drama, semi serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: boxing, gambling, con men, boxer, social criticism, racing, cannon, casino, poker, bad guys win, bet, con man ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: montana, southern usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Back in the Day (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his mother dies and his father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: boxing, boxer, mafia, mob boss, unrequited love, coping, rising to stardom, athlete's life, life is a bitch, direction and purpose, unfulfilled love, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.7
 21K
Redbelt (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes ...
Style: realistic, serious, talky, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: betrayal, instructor, martial arts, movie star, conspiracy, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, rivalry, hollywood, financial problem, kung fu, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.5
 10K
Gladiator (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story of two teenagers trapped in the world of illegal underground boxing. One is fighting to save his fathers life and using the money pay off gambling debts accumulated by his father. The second is fighting for the money to get out of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, harsh, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: boxing, friendship, underdog, contests and competitions, urban ghetto life, against the odds, human spirit, hopes, athlete and trainer, unlikely friendships, ambition, boxer ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, cuba, british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.1
 903
Price of Glory (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, tense
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, ego clash, tough heroes, athlete and trainer, obsession, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 8.1
 624K
Rocky (1976)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Rocky teams up with ...
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, motivational, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, kids, family outing, teens
Plot: boxing, fight, underdog, boxer, self esteem, rocky, character study, training, love story, pride and honor, violence, fistfight ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Nun and the Torture (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. ...
Style: detective
Plot: oral sex, female nudity, nun, male nudity, prison, nudity, gay rape, prison rape, cunnilingus, gun, labia, dildo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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