Boxing Comedy films
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1. Any Which Way You Can (1980)
PG | 116 min | Action, Comedy
A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.
Director: Buddy Van Horn | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith
Votes: 20,994 | Gross: $70.69M
2. Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
PG | 114 min | Action, Comedy
The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde.
Director: James Fargo | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo
Votes: 30,062 | Gross: $106.00M
3. The Knockout (1914)
TV-G | 27 min | Short, Comedy
To show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Dan Albert
Votes: 1,474
4. Let's Do It Again (1975)
PG | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.
Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos
Votes: 3,301
5. The Main Event (1979)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Whitman Mayo
Votes: 3,285 | Gross: $42.80M
6. Matilda (1978)
G | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Elliott Gould, Clive Revill, Harry Guardino, Roy Clark
Votes: 511
7. The Great White Hype (1996)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Sport
The boxing champ's promoter thinks, change is needed. He finds the one man who's beaten his black champ (at 17), a white man now in a rock band. Like Rocky, he trains heavily whereas the champ slacks.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, Peter Berg
Votes: 10,655 | Gross: $7.87M
8. Grudge Match (2013)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout, thirty years after their last match.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin
Votes: 62,887 | Gross: $29.81M
9. Movie Movie (1978)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Eli Wallach
Votes: 1,281
10. Night and the City (1992)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama
The story about a cheating and incompetent lawyer (Harry Fabian) who suddenly gets obsessed on becoming a boxing promoter.
Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King
Votes: 5,202 | Gross: $6.20M
11. Play It to the Bone (1999)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Two best friends and former middleweight contenders travel to Las Vegas to fight each other for the first time.
Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich, Marie Park
Votes: 12,390 | Gross: $8.43M
12. The Prize Fighter (1979)
PG | 99 min | Comedy
A mobster tricks an ex-boxer and his manager to take part in a series of (fixed) fights as part of a scheme to get his hands on an old boxing gym.
Director: Michael Preece | Stars: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, David Wayne, Robin Clarke
Votes: 395
13. Ricky 1 (1986)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Sport
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.
Director: William T. Naud | Stars: Michael Michaud, Maggie Hughes, Hawthorne James, Lane Montano
Votes: 756
14. The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy
The owner of a Miami restaurant indebted to the mob institutes a contest to see what waiter can earn the most money in one night.
Director: Kevin Heffernan | Stars: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Jeff Chase
Votes: 15,533 | Gross: $0.04M
15. Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid aspiring 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... See full summary »
Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne DeSalvo, Sylvia Miles
Votes: 469 | Gross: $0.62M
16. Teen Wolf Too (1987)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Todd Howard is a struggling college student. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand
Votes: 12,455 | Gross: $7.89M
17. The Hammer (2007)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
A 40-year-old who gave up a promising amateur boxing career 21 years ago is offered a path to the Olympics.
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld | Stars: Adam Carolla, Oswaldo Castillo, Heather Juergensen, Harold House Moore
Votes: 6,278 | Gross: $0.44M
18. 1 beon-ga-eui gi-jeok (2007)
113 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
1st Street is a curious neighborhood untouched by the aids of modern living like proper plumbing and Internet. Pilje cruises into 1st Street with the intention to drive out its inhabitants ... See full summary »
Director: JK Youn | Stars: Chang Jung Lim, Ha Ji-Won, Hyeon Ju, Tae-ho Goh
Votes: 454
19. Bomber (1982)
101 min | Comedy, Action, Crime
Bud "Bomber" Graziano (Bud Spencer) retired from boxing as heavyweight champion and has sworn to never fight again. While living his life on a ship he meets Jerry Cala' (Jerry Cala) who ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Bud Spencer, Jerry Calà, Stefano Mingardo, Kallie Knoetze
Votes: 4,414
20. Cari fottutissimi amici (1994)
110 min | Comedy
During the Allies liberation of Tuscany in 1944, a former boxer organizes rigged matches to make some money.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Ceccherini, Vittorio Rap, Marco Graziani
Votes: 644
21. I due assi del guantone (1971)
97 min | Comedy
Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups ... See full summary »
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mario Carotenuto, Paola Tedesco
Votes: 58
22. My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
Rocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Lauren Hutton, Tom Reed, Margot Novak
Votes: 221
23. Isi & Ossi (2020)
TV-MA | 113 min | Comedy, Romance
To realize their culinary and boxing dreams, the daughter of a billionaire forms a mutually beneficial alliance with the son of a struggling single mom.
Director: Oliver Kienle | Stars: Livia Renner, Lisa Vicari, Christina Hecke, Hans-Jochen Wagner
Votes: 9,830
24. The Calcium Kid (2004)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Sport
Following a bizarre series of events, Jimmy, a local amateur boxer, finds himself pitted in a match against the world champion.
Director: Alex De Rakoff | Stars: Mark Heap, Michael Lerner, Michael Peña, Julian Zapata
Votes: 4,782
25. On the Ropes (2011)
94 min | Comedy
When a documentary maker covers a story on a 'proper fighting gym', little does he know how events will unfold as his attention is drawn to a rival gym with a unique fighting style, owned by a self-professed karate expert.
Directors: Mark Noyce, Hamdy Taha | Stars: Joe Egan, Mark Noyce, Ben Shockley, Steve Coleman
Votes: 55
26. Fight Lah! Kopitiam (2020)
97 min | Comedy
A gang of Kopitiam workers by coincidence involving in a boxing match
Director: Matt Lai | Stars: Jack Lim, Wai Fun Wan, Cedric Loo, Mike Chuah
Votes: 21
27. TwentyFourSeven (1997)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience,... See full summary »
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, Toby, Bruce Jones
Votes: 2,722
28. Snatch (2000)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones
Votes: 911,394 | Gross: $30.33M
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