World champion movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant world champion movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational, sincere and cult classic films and TV shows about / with world champion, rivalry, athlete's life, ambition, boxer, contests and competitions, athlete, boxing, competition and fight plots mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as world champion: Rush (2013), Rocky (1976), Surf's Up (2007), Fist of the Reich (2010), Rocky II (1979), Kunlun Fight (2014), Rocky V (1990), Rocky III (1982), Bokser (2011), Creed III (2023).

List of world champion movies

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 8.1
 510K
Rush (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style: inspirational, realistic, motivational, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: racing, race, car race, race car, racecar driver, rise to the top, motor sport, success, formula 1, car racing, world champion, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: europe, britain, australia, usa, monte carlo ...
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 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
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 6.7
 90K
Surf's Up (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Cody is a surfing penguin from Shiverpool who dreams of making it big and being like his idol Big Z. On his journey he discovers his talents are not all he thinks they are and he must learn to accept that their is more to surfing than fame and ...
Style: mockumentary, entertaining, humorous, inspirational, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: surfing, competition, talking animal, penguins, world champion, surf, sea, friendship, storytelling, catastrophe, island, athlete's life ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, fictional island
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Fist of the Reich (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: Germany, Croatia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, world champion, anti semitism, boxing, fighting the system, hopes, athlete's life, against humanity, society, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, new york, hamburg germany, berlin germany, germany ...
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 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
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Kunlun Fight (2014)
Genre: Sport
Country: China
TV show
Story: Kunlun Fight is a leading kickboxing promotion. Started in 2014 the events are broadcast worldwide and include the best fighters and biggest stars in the sport like Buakaw Banchamek and Artur Kyshenko
Style: captivating, breathtaking, uplifting, inspirational, non fiction
Plot: kickboxing, mixed martial arts, fight, professional sports, martial arts, competition, hand to hand combat, tournament, entertainment, champion, world champion, boxing ...
Place: china, asia
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 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
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 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 ...
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 5.3
 121
Bokser (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to his seriously ill daughter. There were unexpected complications during the surgery and Saleta ...
Style: touching, suspense, tense, psychological
Plot: boxer, dysfunctional marriage, parent child relationship, kickboxing, world champion, fight, illness, male female relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, athlete, hospital ...
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 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
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The Rack Pack (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.
Style: light, disturbing, captivating, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: snooker, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, professional sports, british, self destructing, professional athlete, family man, manager, rivalry, husband wife relationship, world champion ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1982
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 9.4
 7
Flip Turn (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An autistic high school boy emulates the swim style of his Olympic gold medalist grandfather to become a swimming champion himself.
Style: captivating, dramatic, inspirational, exciting, serious ...
Plot: swimming, boy, autism, championship, champion, athlete's life, professional sports, grandfather, world champion, world championship, olympic athlete, grandfather grandson relationship ...
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Dream Team 1935 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Latvia, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: basketball, coach, basketball team, historical event, team, world champion, basketball player, satire, basketball coach, competition, contests and competitions, athlete's life ...
Place: latvia, europe, switzerland
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 6.2
 220
Dempsey (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and ...
Style: serious, uplifting, sexual, realistic, silent
Plot: boxing, biopic, boxer, world champion, violent content, profanity, power relations, crumbling marriage, uncover truth, crime gone awry, ambition, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 1920s
Place: utah
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 6.2
 2K
Tyson (1995)
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: realistic, serious, captivating, sincere
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxer, boxing, rags to riches, biopic, athlete's life, entrepreneur, athlete, fight, martial arts, black, death of mother, funeral ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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 7.6
 90K
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style: touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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 5.0
 792
95 (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
Plot: ice hockey, coach, friendship, nationalism, sports fan, terminal illness, dream, stress, poverty, confidence, world champion, death ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: finland, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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 7.1
 231K
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, touching, melancholic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly, family outing
Plot: boxing, father son relationship, boxer, athlete's life, life, comeback, training, aging, fight, life philosophy, against the odds, determination ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, las vegas
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Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eric and Kurt Sloane are the descendants of a well-known Venice, California-based family of martial artists. Kurt, the younger of the two, has always been in his brother Eric’s shadow, and despite his talent has been told he lacks the instinct ...
Style: inspirational, suspenseful, exciting, tense, intense ...
Plot: martial arts, revenge, mixed martial arts, vengeance, brother brother relationship, martial arts training, master warrior, mentor, fistfight, muscleman, hand to hand combat, athlete and trainer ...
Place: thailand, venice beach california
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 7.1
 4K
I Am Bolt (2016)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fully authorized, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt – officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be ...
Style: inspirational, twisted
Plot: track and field, jamaican, game, real life, conference, black, black history, olympic athlete, race, runner, champion, athlete ...
Time: year 2016, year 2008, year 2015, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place: jamaica, beijing china, rio de janeiro
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Let's Go, Jets! (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Female students, including Hikari Tomonaga, from a high school cheerdance club follow strict instructions from their teacher Kaoruko Saotome. They compete at the USA Cheerdance Championship.
Plot: cheerleader, sexy girl, hot chick, pretty girl, school, competition, coach, boss, teenager, school club, teenage girl, teacher ...
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 7.2
 10K
Grand Prix (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his team after a crash at Monaco that injures his teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, Aron begins to drive for another team, and starts dating Stoddard's wife.
Style: cynical, retro, technicolor, realistic, serious ...
Plot: formula 1, car race, racing, motor sport, auto racing, car, car racing, car chase, car crash, race car, motor racing, race ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: europe, italy, england, netherlands, france ...
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 7.0
 149K
Foxcatcher (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, bleak, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: mental illness, murder, wrestling, olympics, eccentricity, ambition, biopic, character study, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, wrestler, domination ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2014, 2010s, year 1988 ...
Place: usa, pennsylvania, seoul, phoenix arizona
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Tracks of Glory (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 184 min.
TV show
Story: Racial barriers are broken in circa-1900 Australia by Major Taylor, who becomes a world-champion bicycle racer.
Plot: bicycle, black history, biopic, cycling, african american, husband wife relationship, wedding, marriage, television, glory, discrimination, prejudice ...
Time: turn of the century, 1900s
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, canada, south australia
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 6.5
 1K
Joe and Max (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, crying
Plot: racism, boxer, boxing, world war two, interracial relations, friendship, contests and competitions, against the odds, discrimination, ambition, against humanity, follow your dream ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: america, chicago, harlem, new york, paris france ...
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 6.5
 1K
Local Boys (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On Skeet’s twelfth birthday his older brother Randy buys him his first surfboard. Suddenly his summer turns to the endless search for the perfect wave, wild times and beach parties and eventually, finding his own daring adventures when Randy’s ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, disturbing
Audience: kids
Plot: surfing, youth, boy, coming of age, gang, brother brother relationship, friendship, father figure, best friend, parents and children, teenage love, love triangle ...
Place: california, usa, mexico
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Bamboo Gods and Iron Men (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Jefferson’s honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Jefferson is a ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: blaxploitation, kung fu, honeymoon, boxer, martial arts, buddha, attempted rape, mute, partner, good versus evil, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time: 70s
Place: hong kong, asia, the philippines
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 6.1
 34K
Undisputed (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten ...
Style: suspense, intense, talky, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, boxing, fight, african american, hip hop, prison fight, violence, jail, gangster, martial arts, prison life, boxer ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, mojave desert, las vegas, nevada
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Mr. Fifteen Balls (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Francesco Di Narnali is a world champion billiards Italian and American, with a particular talent for spectacular performances, in particular to be able to pit fifteen balls to the pool with a broom instead of a stick; hence the nickname "Mr. ...
Plot: billiards, world champion, flowers, single, prostitution, small town, cemetery, ghost
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 6.5
 29K
Rollerball (1975)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Style: futuristic, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, violence, corporation, fighting the system, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, courage, resentment, conspiracy, fistfight, tournament ...
Time: future, near future, 70s, year 1975, 2010s ...
Place: houston texas, geneva switzerland, new york, tokyo
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