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The Great White Hype(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 40 votes)

When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

Directed by Reginald Hudlin - With Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, Corbin Bernsen, Peter Berg, Jon Lovitz, ...

Against the Ropes(2004)

1h 46min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.5/5 (with 50 votes)

A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.

Directed by Charles S. Dutton - With Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington, Charles S. Dutton, ...
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Kid Galahad(1937)

1h 42min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Harry Carey, ...
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Night and the City(1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Crime, Drama
2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.

Directed by Irwin Winkler - With Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Alan King, Eli Wallach, Jack Warden, Barry Primus, ...

Shiner(2000)

1h 39min | Drama, Action, Crime
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

Directed by John Irvin - With Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Andy Serkis

By Rook Or By Left Hook(2021)

1h 43min | Documentary

In 2003, Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh became the first World Champion of Chessboxing. This brain-busting combination of alternating rounds of chess and boxing was in fact an art performance calling for more balance in a world of extremes, and the audience reaction was so electric that it inspired Rubingh to push it as a real sport. Rubingh’s methodical ability to achieve balance in the ring is put to the test outside of it when impulsive British TV Producer Tim Woolgar takes up the sport and his opposing vision for success creates a rift between them, endangering chessboxing’s future.

The Leather Pushers(1940)

1h 4min | Comedy, Adventure

A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.

Directed by John Rawlins

Fairtex 'The Real Deal'(2023)

2h 17min | Drama, Action, Documentary, TV Movie
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A traveler finds Muaythai as a hobby in the land of smiles, thailand. Following a visit at fairtex gym, meeting the fighters at the gym, he finally realizes the life; Pattaya has to offer. Mastering Muaythai, with his statement ' Where Borne fighters appear, legends are made', he soon learned the arts of the fighting style and as a freelance legendary fighter his nickname evolve to "The Real Deal".