| Big George Foreman (2023) | 6.7 | |
| Snatch (2000) | 8.2 | |
| Rocky V (1990) | 5.4 | |
| Rocky Balboa (2006) | 7.1 | |
| The Hurricane (1999) | 7.6 |
Boxer movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
New films
| New Wave (2025) | 7.3 | |
| La Tahzan (2025) | 5.8 | |
| V de Victor (2024) | 5.0 | |
| The Cage (2024) | 6.5 | |
| The Smashing Machine (2025) | 6.4 |
List of boxer movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Byung-gu, a once-famous former professional boxer, makes ends meet doing odd jobs at the gym. While eager to start boxing again, he gets diagnosed with "punch drunk syndrome," a condition caused by cerebral concussions. One day, a new ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
boxing, boxer, friendship, boxing champion, prizefighter, male female relationship, master warrior, athlete's life, changing lives, martial arts, sparring, boxing match ...
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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
Is relevant?
173
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Yoo Ji-Cheol used to be a top boxer, but he lost everything in a moment. All of his money and fame vanished and his life was ruined. He decides to gain control of his life through mixed martial arts.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, detective, crime drama ...
Plot:
mixed martial arts, boxer, father, boxing, redemption, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, escapades, money problems, police detective, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Fai, once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a boxing match. Fai becomes Qi's mentor and rediscovers his passion to fight not only in the ring ...
Style:
tense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, boxing, fight, boxer, training, opponent, contests and competitions, rivalry, boxing match, loan shark, athlete and trainer, fight for supremacy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
martial arts, prison, boxing, redemption, accidental death, boxer, martial artist, hand to hand combat, tough heroes, epic battle, widow, religion ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter ...
Style:
rough, tense, inspirational, powerful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, boxer, opponent, career, rivalry, athlete's life, life is a bitch, change of luck, title bout, manager, ex boxer, athlete and trainer ...
Place:
usa
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107K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Style:
touching, inspirational, factual, thought provoking, sociological ...
Plot:
boxing, prison, prison life, racism, courtroom, legal, injustice, death penalty, african american, discrimination, justice, lawyer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, 70s, 1940s ...
Place:
new jersey, africa, canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
female boxer, boxer, fight, criminal underworld, female fighter, strong female lead, female protagonist, sister, gang, sisters, problem, revenge ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After reuniting with his love of life, Sha Sha, underground boxer Gao Yuan escapes from the gangster who controls him. Hao Ge kidnaps Sha Sha so Gao Yuan would return to the game.
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
martial arts, gangster, boxer, fistfight, fight, underground fighting, boxing, conflict between friends, battles, friends, master warrior, martial arts school ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Vanished genius boxer Kwon-sook and cold-hearted agent Tae-young risk all to defy match-fixing's clutches.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
female boxer, boxer, boxing, female protagonist, sporting event, sport competition, professional athlete, sports man, athlete and trainer, professional sports, female athlete, breaking point ...
Place:
seoul
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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 ...
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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
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, touching, tense, romantic drama
Plot:
machismo, invisibility, invisible, supernatural romance, bare chested male, male objectification, boxer, private investigation, amateur sleuth, female detective, invisible man, family relations ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
'Knock Knock' tells the story of down-on-his-luck former boxer Sam Grant, who one night finds himself caught in a whirlwind of conjecture and conundrum as his colorful and quirky neighbors come to him with scary tales of their ...
Style:
humorous, scary, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
boxer, vampire, estranged son, killing, curses spells and rituals, youth, vengeance, society, peril, victim, murder, rescue ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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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, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot:
boxer, boxing, prisoner, boxing training, boxing match, boxing trainer, rivalry, japanese man, jail, prison, orphan, street fighter ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
concentration camp, boxer, boxing champion, military camp, world war two, prizefighter, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, camp, prisoner of war camp, professional sports, life is a bitch ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, psychedelic, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, boxer, identity crisis, boxing, self discovery, suburbs, family tragedy, violence, search for father, male protagonist, murder, hallucination ...
Place:
hamburg germany
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An expelled boxing champion, who now is a high-school teacher, witnesses intolerable violence and throws her first punch to build justice against it, while putting on a mask.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, action drama, intense ...
Plot:
hidden identity, justice, teacher, boxing, female protagonist, martial arts, high school, master warrior, boxer, lynching, ex boxer, revenge ...
Place:
korea
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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
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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
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman. The song "Greatest Love of All", later remade by Whitney Houston, was written for this film and ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
boxing, racism, boxing champion, muhammad ali, ambition, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rising to stardom, religions or cults, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, foreign legion, martial arts, combat, soldier, french foreign legion, military, battlefield, behind enemy lines, hitman, master warrior, tough heroes ...
Time:
1920s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
morocco, africa, france, paris france, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two friends are torn apart by passion and ambition in the violent world of amateur boxing.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, boxing, homoeroticism, gay athlete, friendship, hypocrisy, athlete's life, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, working class, society ...
Place:
chicago, usa, beverly hills, las vegas
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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, second chance, social worker, aging, boxing match, drunkenness, troubled, martial arts, wrestling, champion, prizefight ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, disturbing, harsh, touching ...
Plot:
boxing, nazi, friendship, nazi germany, boarding school, german soldier, anti semitism, pow, boys' school, youth, military school, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, cape town south africa, london ...
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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:
nazi germany, world war two, world champion, anti semitism, boxing, dictator, fighting the system, athlete's life, hopes, against humanity, society, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, new york, hamburg germany, berlin germany, germany ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, sincere
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxing, boxer, fight, martial arts, ambition, conflict, hopes, vengeance, contests and competitions, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
boxing, boxer, singer, underdog, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rise and fall, blind ambition, rising to stardom, rivalry, follow your dream, ambition ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging trainer and a young fighter, both in need of a second chance, team-up to overcome the demons of their past...and chase the dreams of their future.
Style:
psychological, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
unrequited love, boxing trainer, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, hopes, lgbt, boxer, gay athlete, introspection, self loathing, boxing ...
Time:
21st century
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