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The Featherweight (2023)
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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:
psychological, captivating, realistic, thrilling, emotional, melancholic, period piece, historical drama, tense
Plot:
boxing, biopic, boxer, based on real people, comeback, character study, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, family problems, marital problem, athlete's life, loneliness, legacy, redemption, family drama, realism, resilience, regret, retirement, drug addiction, nostalgia, identity crisis, underdog, intimate ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, 1960s
Place:
connecticut
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Most similar movies to The Featherweight
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, emotional, realistic and inspirational films with plots about boxing, boxer, biopic, ambition, athlete's life, redemption and underdog mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like The Featherweight: Hands of Stone (2016), Raging Bull (1980), Full Out (2015), Gensan Punch (2021), Kid Kulafu (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Panama, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Style:
realistic, captivating, period piece, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
boxing, boxer, boxing match, sex scene, bare breasts, fight, rags to riches, contests and competitions, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, martial arts ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, year 2016, 70s ...
Place:
panama
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his ...
Style:
bloody, breathtaking, depressing, harsh, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
boxing, character study, redemption, rise and fall, boxer, violent, bad temper, brutality, mafia, jealousy, dysfunctional family, rage ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1980, 60s ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, chicago, italy, florida ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the true life story of California gymnast Ariana Berlin. As she zoned in on her Olympic goals, 14 year old Ariana Berlin's life took a sharp turn when she was involved in a debilitating car accident. Gaining her confidence and movement ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, intense
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
gymnastics, dancing, family relations, hopes, adaptation, comeback, rivalry, real life, strong female lead, women, student athlete, biopic ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Philippines, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nao Tsuyama, a disabled athlete, refuses to let his articifical leg hinder his dream to become a professional boxer. His remarkable journey takes him from Japan to the Philippines, and specifically the celebrated ‘Gensan’ quarter which has ...
Style:
inspirational, captivating, realistic, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
boxing, resilience, perseverance, determination, boxer, disability, boxing training, blind ambition, aspiration, coping, athlete's life, direction and purpose ...
Place:
japan, the philippines
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Philippines, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he discovers his natural talent for boxing, he embarks ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
boxing, boxer, ambition, athlete's life, biopic, champion, historical character, ambitious man, athlete and trainer, historical figure, family drama, poverty ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
boxing, boxer, boxing match, basketball coach, boxing trainer, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, problem, coach, ambition, sport team, personal trainer ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
30%
10K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, exciting, serious, dramatic ...
Plot:
baseball, journey, baseball player, father son relationship, underdog, sports man, athlete's life, sport team, professional athlete, baseball team, professional sports, perseverance ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1973
Similarity:
29%
1K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This film covers the story of this Legend's journey from homeless child in the streets of Layari,Karachi to become Olympian for his country PAKISTAN.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, emotional, dramatic, historical drama
Plot:
boxing, olympics, biopic, perseverance, determination, ambition, courage, poverty, sports history, urban, legacy, working class ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who after a near fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports most incredible comebacks.
Style:
realistic, rough, exciting, serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
boxing, underdog, comeback, boxer, passion, hopes, training, car accident, car rollover, rivalry, adaptation, fight ...
Time:
year 1988
Place:
rhode island, boston, new york, las vegas
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
At 59, Mike Flynt may be too old to be on a college football field, but not too old to feel the weight of unfinished business. After nearly four decades, he returns to his alma mater to take the hit that changed everything. Bruised, doubted, and ...
Style:
motivational, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
football, perseverance, college football, resilience, redemption, comeback, second chance, biopic, personal growth, healing, sacrifice, underdog ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxer, athlete's life, rise and fall, follow your dream, boxing, tough heroes, family relations, youth, hopes, parents and children, fight, competition ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, inspirational
Plot:
boxing, boxer, boxing match, boxing champion, olympics, preacher, boxing trainer, champion, title bout, prizefighter, athlete's life, middle aged ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s, year 1968, year 1967
Place:
texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Italy, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
boxer, hopes, boxing, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, rise to the top, contests and competitions, prodigy, underdog, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century
Place:
italy, new york, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Plot:
boxing, boxer, biopic, entrepreneur, gangster, urban ghetto, power relations, athlete and trainer, hopes, rise and fall, life is a bitch, rise to the top ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
24%
5K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Explore the wild, tragic and controversial life and career of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson - one of the most polarizing figures in sports culture.
Style:
intense, controversial, dramatic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
boxing, prison, boxer, biopic, police, champion, criminal, arena, career, athlete's life, controversy, sports man ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new york, las vegas
Similarity:
24%
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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:
24%
406K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
boxing, boxer, addiction, underdog, biopic, athlete's life, drug abuse, drug addiction, change of luck, white trash, fight, working class ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, new jersey, usa ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
biopic, character study, family drama, father son relationship, social commentary, poverty, life is a bitch, social problems, past, confronting the past, social issues, class conflict ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 90s, 80s
Place:
yale university
Similarity:
23%
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659
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Terry Sawchuk biopic.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, hockey player, professional sports, male protagonist, biopic, lifestyle, sports man, life, legacy, dedication, addiction ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 20th century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, motivational, uplifting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, underdog, human spirit, great depression, boxer, biopic, athlete's life, roman empire, poverty, fight scenes, depression, protective male ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2006, 1920s ...
Place:
netherlands, usa, new jersey, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous 'Phantom Punch' by Cassius Clay which effectively ended his career, the movie spans the years from 1950 to Liston's mysterious and ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, rough, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxer, boxing, black american, infidelity, prison, rise and fall, discrimination, racism, prison life, lifestyle, downfall, athlete's life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 50s, 1950s, 70s
Place:
usa, missouri
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
Pro football star Jake Walker is living the dream, or so he thinks. The veteran tight end is a fan favorite and on pace to set the all-time receiving yards record that will guarantee a spot in the Hall of Fame. While working out at training camp, ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
american football, family drama, father son relationship, football, kids and family, dysfunctional family, family problems, family life, lifestyle, family relations, athlete and trainer, athlete's life ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
Style:
captivating, historical drama, multicultural, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, ethnicity, biopic, wrestler, discrimination, ethnic slur, social issues, fight, social relations, ethnic stereotype, fighting the system ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 50s
Place:
tokyo, usa, seoul
Similarity:
22%
Movie in collections
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:
22%
3K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxer, boxing, rags to riches, athlete's life, biopic, african american, professional sports, strength, muscleman, bare chested male, world champion, professional athlete ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jericho Rosales portrays Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as he struggles out of poverty to become a champion and national hero. Yet when the pressures of his sport, his personal life and the high expectations of his countrymen take their toll, he ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, motivational, tense, tagalog
Plot:
boxing, comeback, biopic, male protagonist, redemption, rise and fall, national hero, celebrity, gym, sacrifice, athletic training, poverty ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
When champion amateur boxer and lifelong fighter Lola falls in love and has a baby, she struggles to give up her championship and leave the ring with her career unfinished.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, boxing, female boxer, boxer, female protagonist, sacrifice, prizefighter, lifestyle change, boxing training, changing lives, athlete and trainer, problem ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An obese multiple sclerosis patient takes up his late Father's sport of boxing to overcome personal tragedy and find inner peace. "Bobcat Moretti" was filmed over the course of ten months, during COVID-19, allowing our lead actor to ...
Style:
captivating, serious, exciting, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, illness, boxer, inspiration, redemption, fighting illness, fight, obesity, disease, gym, obese, multiple sclerosis ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling ...
Style:
southern gothic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, female protagonist, literary, illness, mother daughter relationship, writer's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, lifestyle, character study, ambition ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
21%
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