Movies like The Prize Fighter

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The Prize Fighter (1979)
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The Prize Fighter (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: "Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
Style: funny
Plot: boxing, boxer, exploitation, hooligan, mafia, champion, great depression, fistfight, illegal fistfight, underground tournament, boxing match, fixed fight, gangster, bully, farce, ring, boxing ring, boxing gloves, transporter, hoodlum
Time: year 1979, 1930s
Keyword: gangsters, sport

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Most similar movies to The Prize Fighter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, independent film, realistic and semi serious films with plots about boxing, gangster, disorder, satire, exploitation, friendship and mafia mostly in Comedy, Mystery and Family genres. Some movies like The Prize Fighter: The Longshot (1986), The Private Eyes (1980), Take the Hit, Kid! (2016), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013), Dorf's Christmas Specials (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Longshot (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
Style: independent film, realistic, exciting, humorous
Plot: horse race, ambition, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, gambling, gangster, horse, mafia, mob boss ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Private Eyes (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, old dark house, chase, investigation, supernatural, police investigation, whodunit, satire, exploitation, murder mystery, dystopia, screwball ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: scotland, europe, england, london, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Take the Hit, Kid! (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A funny story about the adventures of two tween sisters - TV star and boxing champion.
Style: light, funny, captivating, humorous, entertaining
Plot: university student, athlete's life, sister sister relationship, female boxer, boxing match, love, friendship, family relations, relationships, social relations, twin sister, security guard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, parody, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, disorder, criminal heroes, confined, undercover, working undercover, small town life, prison life, small town, partner, escape ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mike Tyson's one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown. Directed by ...
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, talky, hood ...
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, ambition, rise and fall, self destructing, ex athlete, boxer, blaxploitation, biopic, stand up comedy, mixed martial arts, stand up
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Dorf's Christmas Specials (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: This Christmas extravaganza is filled with sidesplitting short films and joyous comedy sketches starring Santa's favorite elf, Dorf (Tim Conway.
Plot: snow, holiday, elf, santa claus, reindeer, sketch, christmas, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, family comedy, spoof ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: humour, partner, orphan, goofy hero, heroes, rivalry, gang, going straight, bank, heist, family life, disorder ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Ricky 1 (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this parody of the Rocky films, Ricky Wanero is a male gigolo and stripper who sets out to beat "The Champ" in the boxing ring.
Style: spoof, parody, independent film
Plot: boxing, boxer, oral sex, punched in the face, godfather
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Sgt. Bilko (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, hilarious, captivating ...
Plot: gambling, revenge, camp, soldier, u.s. army, grudge, anti hero, feud, african american, irreverence, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, greenland, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Bully (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A coming-of-age comedy about Jimmy, a quiet, heavy-set high school kid who is constantly tormented by the resident school bully Miles and his cronies. After an altercation on his way home from school lands him a chance meeting with former ...
Style: semi serious, satirical, psychological, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: bully, bullying, boxer, boxing trainer, athlete's life, competitor, athlete and trainer, coping, humour, teenager, teenage life, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: coming of age, jewish family, dysfunctional family, great depression, boy, stage play, past, family relations, breaking the fourth wall, gambling, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Doin' Time (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Style: independent film, parody, slapstick, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: prison, boxing, wrongful imprisonment, ethnic stereotype, reformatory, nudity, criminal heroes, dishonesty, confined, society, false accusation, frame up ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Love God? (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Abner Peacock's (Knotts) beloved bird-watcher's magazine, "The Peacock," is in financial crisis. Desperate to stay afloat, Abner takes on new partners who have an agenda of the own: to publish a sexy gentleman's magazine. ...
Style: sex comedy
Plot: playboy, humour, transgender, magazine, satire, male female relationship, love, sex, dancehall girl, protest, suicidal thoughts, gangster ...
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It's a tidal wave of laughs When "CHESTY" puts her deadly weapons into action!
Style: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot: sexploitation, exploitation, female soldier, gangster, female nudity, bare breasts, friend, nudity, catfight
Time: year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.
Style: retro, psychotronic, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: disco, skater, nightclub, pizza, contest, dancing, male protagonist, exploitation, dj, vietnam veteran, roller skater, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fatherhood, baby born, pregnancy, friendship, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, youth, love and romance, buddies, custody ...
Time: year 2004
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of ...
Style: independent film, gay cinema
Plot: boxing, lesbian mother, cocaine, gay parent, mafia, lesbian, shoplifting
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Most Offensive Comedy Ever Made (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: From the twisted mind of Bill Zebub (ASSMONSTER), this film goes beyond BORAT and farther than FREDDY GOT FINGERED. But THE MOST OFFENSIVE COMEDY EVER MADE isn't content to just get laughs and gasps from the audience. Instead, it investigates ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female nudity, kidnapping, masturbation, exploitation, mafia, incest, gross out humor, racism, anti semitism, jewish stereotype, child molestation, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. ...
Style: black and white, funny, talky, clever, touching ...
Plot: screwball, showbiz, gangster, thanksgiving, mafia, female protagonist, art, comedian, girlfriend, artist, profanity, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 4K
Real Life (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Style: mockumentary, satirical, funny, humorous, witty ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, society, family relations, dark humor, lifestyle, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, fictional reality show, satire, husband wife relationship, showbiz ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Father of the Year (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two college grads return to their hometown, where a hypothetical question -- whose dad would win in a fight? -- leads to mass mayhem.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, light, absurd ...
Plot: father son relationship, dispute, fistfight, best friend, humour, friendship, dark humor, youth, young couple, father, kickass, stoner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
Style: independent film
Plot: hypnosis, youth, exploitation, quitting smoking, parent child relationship, boot camp, parents, couples, children, subliminal message
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Quick Pick (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eddie, a lovable loser who's strapped for cash and on the verge of getting evicted from his apartment, thinks he's lost the 135 million dollar winning lottery ticket and enlists the help of his two best friends to help him search for it ...
Style: feel good, captivating, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot: lottery ticket, gangster, money problems, escapades, friends, mishap, humour, relationship problems, satire, financial problem, group of friends, misfit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Swim Team (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
Style: grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: swimming, swimming pool, summer, beer, female nudity, bikini
Time: year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Witchipoo and the Wicked Witch of the West give Paul Lynde three wishes for Halloween. KISS performs three songs. Florence Henderson sings a disco version of "That Old Black Magic."
Style: spoof
Plot: halloween, disco, sister sister relationship, christmas, valentine's day, truck driver, cult music band, witch, sheik, arm wrestling, easter, housekeeper ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: mafia, conspiracy, gangster, violent content, unlikely criminals, assassination, dishonesty, criminal heroes, breakup, down on your luck, murder, job ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 335
Jimmy the Kid (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
Style: independent film
Plot: exploitation, animal mask, con game, son, songwriter, child's point of view, con men, high society, spoiled brat, wealth, criminal, on the run ...
Time: year 1982
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26%
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 2K
The Sting II (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: gambling, gangster, boxing, vengeance, boxer, friends, cons and scams, revenge, mobster, caper, casino, buddy ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, 80s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, culture clash, hidden identity, fish out of water, gangster, misfit, society, teenage life, starting over, buddies, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, nebraska, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, not serious ...
Plot: restaurant, chef, cooking and food, farce, mentor, food, boss and employee, workplace, power relations, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, obnoxious boss ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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