Topic: Boxing

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alain Delon · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Katina Paxinou

Synopsis It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when he and his three brothers set out to Milan in...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Cathy Moriarty · Joe Pesci · Frank Vincent

Synopsis Raging Bull (1980) tells the turbulent life of Jake LaMotta, a middleweight boxer whose rage and insecurities fuel both his rise in the ring and his downfall outside it. The film explores his volatile relationships, particularly with his wife and...

Direction Satoshi Nishimura

Synopsis TV Series (2000-2002). 1 season. 75 episodes. Ippo, a timid highschooler, is one day saved from being beaten up by Takamura, a boxer. Enthralled by Takamura's skills Ippo begins to learn boxing, soon finding love for the sport and a...

Direction Jun Shishido

Synopsis TV Series (2009-2009). 1 season. 25 episodes. Ippo Makunouchi continues his boxing career and his goal on knowing the meaning of being strong, and the desire on fighting his idol Ichiro Miyata once again. Along him are pro boxers Takamura,...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Hilary Swank · Morgan Freeman · Anthony Mackie

Synopsis Million Dollar Baby (2004) follows Maggie Fitzgerald, a determined waitress who dreams of becoming a professional boxer. She seeks the mentorship of Frankie Dunn, a grizzled and reluctant trainer with a troubled past. Despite initial resistance, Frankie agrees to train...

Direction Jun Shishido

Synopsis TV Series (2013). 25 Episodes. Ippo the Japanese Featherweight champion will defend his title against amazing challengers. Takamura fights for the second WBC title in the middleweight class, and Aoki fights for the Lightweight title. This is "Hajime no Ippo:...

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Synopsis TV series (1970-1981). 2 seasons. 82 episodes. Ashita no Joe tells the tale of a wandering orphan named Joe Yabuki. He falls into one of Tokyo's slums and gets into a fight with a local gang and his street fighting...

Direction John Dower

Cast Muhammad Ali · Joe Frazier

Synopsis On October 1, 1975, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali was in the ring with his arch rival Joe Frazier for the third time. This fight in the Philippines, which has been nicknamed "Thrilla in Manila," is considered one of...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Paul Newman · Pier Angeli · Everett Sloane · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Robert Wise, who directed the classic boxing noir The Set-Up in 1948, also made this 1956 biopic about the life of Rocky Graziano, a one-time juvenile delinquent from New York's back streets who became World Middleweight Champion. Paul Newman, though...

Direction Leon Gast

Cast Muhammad Ali · George Foreman · Don King · James Brown

Synopsis In 1974, boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman came to the still-emerging and politically unstable African nation of Zaire for what Ali called the "Rumble in the Jungle," a highly publicized world heavyweight championship fight. Documentarian Leon Gast flew to...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Rod Steiger · Jan Sterling · Mike Lane

Synopsis Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Alexis Smith · Jack Carson · Alan Hale

Synopsis Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a "gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank clerk named...

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast John Garfield · Lilli Palmer · Hazel Brooks · Anne Revere

Synopsis Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he...

Direction Pete McCormack

Cast George Chuvalo · Henry Cooper · George Foreman · Joe Frazier

Synopsis Ten of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Ryan · Audrey Totter · George Tobias · Alan Baxter

Synopsis "Stoker" Thompson is getting ready to enter the ring. His wife, Julie, tells him that she won?t watch the fight and begs him to quit. Meanwhile, Thompson's seedy manager has taken money in payment for Stoker throwing the match after...

Direction Antoine Fuqua

Cast Muhammad Ali · Bill Cosby · Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Jim Brown

Synopsis One of the most iconic figures in athletic history, Muhammad Ali's incredible story from world champion boxer to inspiring social activist is explored through his own voice and never-before-seen archival material.

Direction Jean Rouch

Cast Amadou Demba · Karidyo Faoudou · Oumarou Ganda · Seydou Guede

Synopsis Treichville is a poor suburb of Abidjah, the capital of Ivory Coast and the destination of the two protagonists in this docudrama by Jean Rouch. The two men in question are originally from Niger, and they call themselves Eddie Constantine...

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Jackie Gleason · Mickey Rooney · Julie Harris

Synopsis 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...

Direction Peter Solan

Cast Stefan Kvietik · Manfred Krug · Valentina Thielová · Józef Kondrat

Synopsis In a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared when the commandant, a former prize-fighter, discovers the prisoner has amateur boxing ability. Ordered to train, he gradually sharpens his skills.

Direction Justin Zackham · Norberto Barba · Clark Johnson · Jean de Segonzac

Cast Holt McCallany · Stacy Keach · Catherine McCormack · Pablo Schreiber

Synopsis TV Series (2010-2011). 13 Episodes. An aging former Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion Patrick "Lights" Leary tries to find his identity after retiring from the sport he loved so much. After years of wear and tear in the ring, he is...