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1. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
Director: Prachya Pinkaew | Stars: Tony Jaa, Phetthai Vongkumlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol, Suchao Pongwilai
Votes: 78,229 | Gross: $4.56M
2. Damage (2009)
R | 102 min | Action, Drama
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Director: Jeff King | Stars: Steve Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura Vandervoort, Donnelly Rhodes
Votes: 7,611
3. City Lights (1931)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
Votes: 196,251 | Gross: $0.02M
4. Hard Times (1975)
PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
The saga of a drifter who turns to illicit bare-knuckle boxing in Depression-era New Orleans.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin
Votes: 12,125 | Gross: $8.72M
5. Ip Man 2 (2010)
R | 108 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.
Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Xiaoming Huang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Lynn Xiong
Votes: 111,105 | Gross: $0.21M
6. Donnybrook (2018)
R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two men prepare to compete in a legendary bare-knuckle fight where the winner gets a $100,000 prize.
Director: Tim Sutton | Stars: Michael Agee, Adam Bartley, Jamie Bell, Chris Browning
Votes: 2,480 | Gross: $0.03M
7. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young Italian man who is a virtuoso on the violin wishes to become a champion boxer to make a fortune for his family. But what is the road to success and happiness, and what is the price?
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,183
8. Crossing the Line (1990)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Unemployed Scottish miner Danny Scoular (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Billy Connolly
Votes: 1,436 | Gross: $0.06M
9. 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
10. Tomorrow's Joe (2011)
131 min | Drama, Sport
What does a young orphan urchin do in the slums of Tokyo? He gets into trouble, into brawls, into fights and eventually he lands in jail. Except this one is not just beating, he has a raw ... See full summary »
Director: Fumihiko Sori | Stars: Tomohisa Yamashita, Karina, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûsuke Iseya
Votes: 1,351
11. Spin a Dark Web (1956)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into the gang's activities. When he ... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Faith Domergue, Lee Patterson, Rona Anderson, Martin Benson
Votes: 331
12. Right Cross (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Sport
Two boxing promoters compete to sign up Mexican-American prizefighter Johnny Monterez who, despite his talent, is ashamed of his heritage and boxes on borrowed time due to a permanent hand injury.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 530
13. Killer McCoy (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
Following a mishap in the ring, hard-nosed lightweight Tommy "Killer" McCoy gets mixed up with a big time gambler and falls for his educated daughter Sheila, against her father's better wishes.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn
Votes: 505 | Gross: $2.00M
14. Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
When the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari
Votes: 814
15. The Ultimate Game (2001)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Sport
"SATO" a sinister Asian warlord puts up $1 million dollar prize and attracts martial arts fighters to his remote island. He entraps them as they fight to the death.
Director: Jack Kaprielian | Stars: J.D. Rifkin, Paul Logan, T.J. Storm, Jennifer Doubleday
Votes: 77
16. Fists of Steel (1989)
R | 94 min | Action, Sport
Street violence, drugs and terrorists. This is the story of one man who has had enough.
Director: Jerry Schafer | Stars: Carlos Palomino, Marianne Marks, Henry Silva, Alexis Arguello
Votes: 42
17. Born to Fight (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out.
Director: Charles Hutchison | Stars: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Jack La Rue, Frances Grant
Votes: 90
18. Blood Ring (1991)
90 min | Action
Max, a prize boxer who has developed a drinking habit after his girlfriend Susan left him, gets involved in dirty business once she asks him to help her find her missing husband.
Director: Teddy Page | Stars: Dale Cook, Andrea Lamatsch, Don Nakaya Neilsen, Steve Tartalia
Votes: 105
19. Leather Gloves (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sport
Dave Collins (Cameron Mitchell) is a prizefighter on the skids, who thumbs his way from town to town, looking for a chance to make some money, even if he is bribed to lose a fight. A former... See full summary »
Directors: William Asher, Richard Quine | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Grey, Jane Nigh, Sam Levene
Votes: 16
20. The Leather Saint (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college-days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelly. Gil declines when fight manager Gus MacAuliffe offers to ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero
Votes: 79
21. Prize Fighter (1993 Video Game)
MA-13 | Sport
You're the Kid, a promising rookie prize-fighter. Fight Honeyboy Hernandez, Mega Joe Falco, T. Rex Hawkins and heavyweight champion Nuke 'The Duke' Johnson to win the title and help a young fan overcome his debilitating trauma.
Director: Ron Stein | Stars: Ben Hernandez Bray, Billy D. Lucas, Manny Perry, Jimmy Nickerson
Votes: 37
22. Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Joe and Anne go off on their honeymoon while Knobby books him into a charity fight which Lord Cecil tries to wreck.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Robert Coogan, Pamela Blake
Votes: 53
23. The Golden Gloves Story (1950)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur prizefighters) contestants Nick Martel, a ... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: James Dunn, Dewey Martin, Gregg Sherwood, Kevin O'Morrison
Votes: 39
24. They Never Come Back (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Regis Toomey, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Woods, Greta Granstedt
Votes: 101
25. Sporting Life (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Sport
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Bert Lytell, Marian Nixon, Paulette Duval, Cyril Chadwick
Votes: 20
26. The Patent Leather Pug (1925)
50 min | Drama
The morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Ruth Dwyer, J.P. McGowan, Gloria Grey
27. One-Round Hogan (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"One-Round' Hogan is a heavyweight prizefighter with a knockout punch contending for a championship bout who, because of the death of a friend, almost wrecks his own career by holding back.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Monte Blue, Leila Hyams, James J. Jeffries, Frank Hagney
28. The Fighting Demon (1925)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
John Drake, a college athlete, starts for South America, where he has been promised a good job on the strength of his knowledge of the construction of safes and vaults. Aboard ship, he ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Lorraine Eason, Dick Sutherland, Peggy Shaw
Votes: 16
29. Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949)
Approved | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, Marcel Journet
Votes: 32
30. It's in the Air (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Sport
Calvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, "Clip" McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Jack Benny, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 100
31. The Swellhead (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his ... See full summary »
Director: James Flood | Stars: James Gleason, Johnnie Walker, Marion Shilling, Natalie Kingston
32. Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Joe Kirkwood Jr., Leon Errol, Elyse Knox, John Hubbard
Votes: 34
33. The Fear Fighter (1925)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Billy Griffin, who is in love with Catherine Curtis, the daughter of fight promoter James Curtis, must fight her father in order to win her hand in marriage. Despite his ignorance of boxing... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Ruth Dwyer, J.P. McGowan, Gunboat Smith
34. Battling Bunyan (1924)
Passed | 53 min | Comedy
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Hurst | Stars: Wesley Barry, Frank Campeau, Molly Malone, Landers Stevens
Votes: 13
35. Winner Take All (1924)
60 min | Drama
When Perry Blair's foreman fires him for fighting, fight promoter Charles Dunham hires him and takes him east to enter the boxing ring. Perry becomes a star boxer but breaks his contract ... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Buck Jones, Peggy Shaw, Edward Hearn, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 20
36. The Heart Punch (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Marion Shilling, George J. Lewis, Mae Busch
Votes: 32
37. The Big Fight (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Lola Lane, Ralph Ince, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 34
38. Kings of the Ring (1999 TV Special)
92 min | Documentary, Sport
Director: Jean-Christophe Rosé | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Max Baer, Jack Benny, Trevor Berbick
39. The Referee (1922)
50 min | Drama
The career of middleweight champion John McArdle is short-lived when he sustains injuries in a motor accident that prevent him from fighting, and he becomes known as Honest John McArdle, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Conway Tearle, Anders Randolf, Gladys Hulette, Gus Platz
40. The Ring and the Belle (1941)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Andy Clyde, Vivien Oakland, Jack Roper, Dudley Dickerson
Votes: 15
41. The Windjammer (1926)
50 min | Action, Drama
After graduating from college, timid young Billy Tanner is told by his guardians that his late father had worked in a circus, and he must now enter the family trade. Sometime later, Billy ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Thelma Hill, Billy Franey
42. The Challenge (I) (1922)
7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
After waking a snoring Max, the Inkwell Clown battles the artist's avatar in a boxing match.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 21
43. Hurray for Hooligan (1937)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Promoters Buster and Tom pick up a prizefighter with a knock-out punch but learn that he won't put up a fight unless he is mad, and the only thing that makes him mad is the sight of a ... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Tom Patricola, Buster West, Andy Anderson's Orchestra, Ed Garvie
Votes: 8
44. The Pugilist (2008)
36 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Brent Montgomery | Stars: David Chattam, Nick Currier, John Ferguson, Scott Ferguson
Votes: 6
45. The Sporting Age (1928)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Romance
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Belle Bennett, Holmes Herbert, Carroll Nye, Josephine Borio
46. The Knockout Parade (1953)
Approved | 48 min | Action, Sport
A compilation film taken from fight-clips of the International Boxing Club. The film has sports-announcer Bill Corum prefacing and narrating clips from top boxing bouts of the past. ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Roberts | Stars: Bill Corum, Ezzard Charles, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano
47. Putting It Over (1922)
Comedy, Drama
State political power James Merritt gives his wayward son, Bob, a 13th chance to make good by defeating Arnold Norton in the coming Carterville mayoral election. Bob tries his mightiest ... See full summary »
Director: Grover Jones | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Doris Pawn, Tom Ricketts, Harry von Meter
48. The Canvas Kisser (1925)
Action, Drama
Jimmy, a prizefighter of considerable prowess, earns an easy living by betting on his opponents and intentionally losing. He is reformed by the exacting influence of his girl friend, Ruth, ... See full summary »
Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Ashton Dearholt, Ruth Dwyer, Garry O'Dell, Edward Cecil
49. Womanpower (1926)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Johnny Bromley, a rich young idler, goaded by the sneering laughter of Dot, a vamp, and by his father's open contempt, retires to a prizefighters' training camp for rehabilitation. There he... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Ralph Graves, Katherine Perry, Margaret Livingston, Ralph Sipperly
50. Rabbit Punch (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
It's the night of the Big Fight between Tommy Tortoise and Michael "Moe" Hare. Tommy takes a beating at first and "Moe" knocks him through the "screen" onto the the animator's table, where ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Tendlar, Bill Hudson | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 20