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51. I'll Sell My Life (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Stanley Fields, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 61
52. Unmarried (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When his manager, Pins Streaver, is killed attempting to rob a safe after losing all his money betting on a fight, third-rate fighter Slag Bailey leaves New York to investigate Streaver's ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley
Votes: 73
53. Hot News (1953)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After fighter Jim O'Hara is killed during a bout against a much heavier opponent, Mark Miller, a former boxer who left the profession to become a sportswriter, learns that a gambling ring ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Stanley Clements, Gloria Henry, Ted de Corsia, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 37
54. Woman-Wise (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Crooks use prizefights as setups and local sports editor (Whalen) is out to stop them.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Michael Whalen, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 18
55. Treat 'Em Rough (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Eddie Albert, Peggy Moran, William Frawley, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 24
56. Chinatown: Sa kuko ng dragon (1988)
Action
TONY FERRER PLAYS AN ANTI-HERO, THE CHINESE PETER WANG, HEAD OF A MYSTERIOUS SYNDICATE OPERATING IN BINONDO.
Director: Pepe Marcos | Stars: Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr., Tony Ferrer, Eddie Garcia, Aurora Sevilla
Votes: 9
57. The Contender (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Sport
In order to get some extra money to send his son to military school, a truck driver turns amateur boxer. His success in that field convinces him take up the sport full-time, and he soon ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Donald Mayo
Votes: 104
58. Secrets of a Nurse (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport
When battered prize-fighter Lee Burke is taken to the West Side hospital, nurse Katherine MacDonald leaves her romantically-inclined patient, wealthy attorney John Dodge to take care of ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack, Dick Foran, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 22
59. The Rise and Fall of Bigtime Berto (1982)
Crime, Drama
A loveable small man is a big spender.
Director: Angel Labra | Stars: Berting Labra, Vivian Velez, Paquito Diaz, Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia
60. Prison Shadows (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Lucille Lund, Joan Barclay, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 170
61. Patron (1988)
Drama
LIFE IN OUT OF CRIME, IT SEEMS, NEEDS SOME SORT OF PATRONAGE.
Director: Jose 'Kaka' Balagtas | Stars: Dante Varona, Paquito Diaz, Lola Rodriguez, Maritess Samson
Votes: 34
62. Belarmino (1964)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Interview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.
Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Belarmino Fragoso, Jean Pierre Gebler, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Bernardo Moreira
Votes: 481
63. It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, Robert Armstrong, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 67
64. Keep Punching (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father ... See full summary »
Director: John Clein | Stars: Henry Armstrong, Willie Bryant, Mae E. Johnson, Hamtree Harrington
Votes: 41
65. The Social Lion (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Olive Borden
Votes: 51
66. Straight Right (2000)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
Kalib is ready for one of the fights of his life, he's going up for boxings Lightweight Championship Title of the world, but when trouble erupts-his life takes an awkward turn. Kalib who ... See full summary »
Director: P. David Ebersole | Stars: Brent Smith, Lynn Evans, Zeke Rippy, Bob White
Votes: 115
67. 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: 101
68. Sweetheart of the Navy (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Singer struggles to make her new nightclub succeed in a naval port after her partner leaves with the funds but not the bills.
Director: Duncan Mansfield | Stars: Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhof, Bernadene Hayes
Votes: 35
69. She Has What It Takes (1943)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink a Broadway producer into starring... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Jinx Falkenburg, Tom Neal, Constance Worth, Douglas Leavitt
70. Lisensyadong kamao (2005)
Action, Comedy, Sport
Director: Tony Bernal | Stars: Manny Pacquiao, Aubrey Miles, Eddie Garcia, Juliana Palermo
Votes: 16
71. Flying Fists (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Jeanne Martel, Fuzzy Knight, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 58
72. Broadway Billy (1926)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Drama, Romance
After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Herrick, Hazel Howell
73. The World's Champion (1922)
50 min | Drama, Romance
Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Rube Miller
74. The Big Timer (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
An up-and-coming boxer (Ben Lyon) runs into problems when he takes on a female fight manager (Constance Cummings). Ben Lyon is once again playing with Tom Dugan; they co-starred in "The Hot... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings, Thelma Todd, Tom Dugan
Votes: 268
75. PrXde (2015)
4 min | Short, Action, Drama
A no-holds-barred fighting syndicate. Two fighters in, one fighter out. Take a fall, and get the payday. But are you willing to sacrifice your pride?
Director: Mike Ware | Stars: Karrueche Tran, Jazzma Crofton, Cameron Mitchell Mason, Chris Lewandowski
Votes: 18
76. Slapsie Maxie's (1939)
Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
When a waiter accidentally KOs boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's nightclub, Rosenbloom arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Maxie Rosenbloom, Johnnie Davis, Frank Faylen, Cully Richards
Votes: 111
77. Breaking In (1925)
Passed | Short, Biography, Sport
The first of a series of two-reel short based on "Flying Fists" in the "Saturday Evening Post" stories written by Sam Hellman on the Flyweight Boxing Champion of the world, Benny Leonard. ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence C. Windom | Stars: Benny Leonard, Diana Allen, Frank Evans, Tammany Young
78. Fighting Fate (1925)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The first of a series of twelve-proposed features starring ex-prizefighter Billy Sullivan. He plays a washed-up, drifting fighter, reduced to the job of a cook in a small-town diner. But ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Billy Sullivan, John Sinclair, Nancy Deaver, Tom McGuire
Votes: 25
79. Uppercutlets (1936)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy
Walter Catlett's wife bribes the training gym not to let her out-of-condition husband become a prize fighter.
Director: Al Boasberg | Stars: Walter Catlett, Kitty McHugh, Ethel Sykes, Lew Kelly
Votes: 10
80. La place (2001)
28 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
A stunning documentary about wrestling in Montreal's inner-city.
Director: Janick Morin
Votes: 8
81. Angelo
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
A young man struggles in life, Hustling drugs to underground cage fights, to support his mother and his self, he becomes known as a successful fighter where thats the turning point of his life.
Director: Rime Hakkou
82.
The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode:
Take the Odds
(1953)
Drama
The son of a washed-up professional boxer tries shield his father from the neighborhood kids ridicule.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Charles Bronson, Ann Summers
83.
The Forest Rangers (1963–1966)
Episode:
Reluctant Prize Fighter
(1964)
26 min | Family
A prize fighter agrees to fight a trained boxing bear at the fort.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ralph Endersby, Peter Tully, Susan Conway, George Allan
84.
Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode:
Eden Is the Place We Leave
(1970)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A tormented Samoan boxer accidentally kills an opponent in the ring and goes into hiding. His sponsor Ironside tries to persuade the fighter's family leader to let the young man give up the sport.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell
Votes: 53
85.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
The Contender: Part 1
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Phelps & Co. go after a crooked fight promoter who has gained a stranglehold over boxing and wants to extend the Syndicate's influence into other sports worldwide. The promoter is ruthless,... See full summary »
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris
Votes: 231
86.
Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode:
The Canvas Bullet
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A washed-up boxer needs fast money and desperately wants to get back into the ring to earn it despite knowing his health is at risk.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: James Franciscus, Harry Bellaver, Harry Guardino, Diane Ladd
Votes: 50
87.
Route 66 (1960–1964)
Episode:
Cries of Persons Close to One
(1964)
TV-Y7 | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Tod and Linc, driving along the Eastern Coast of Florida, make the acquaintance of an uneducated alcoholic boxer and his faithful girlfriend after a melee. While Tod is hardly sympathetic, ... See full summary »
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Martin Milner, Glenn Corbett, Michael Parks, Ellen Madison
Votes: 64
88.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
Ring of Terror
(1961)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When boxer Joey McGrath dies in the ring, the medical examiner reports no special circumstances and the Press put it down to a tragic accident. A lab technician in the ME's office informs ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Robert Stack, Harold J. Stone, John Crawford, Richard Karlan
Votes: 74
89.
Pokémon (1997–2023)
Episode:
Hand-to-Hand Fighting Pokémon! Big Battle!
(1997)
TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While moving on his journey, Ash feels a need to catch a new Pokémon. But while trying to catch Hitmonchan they meet a girl named Rebecca who asks for their help to get her father back. To help, Ash uses his Primeape against her father in a fighting Pokemon tournament. Will he win?
Director: Masamitsu Hidaka | Stars: Junko Asami, Madeleine Blaustein, Megumi Hayashibara, Rodger Parsons
Votes: 581
90.
The Last Detective (2003–2007)
Episode:
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
(2007)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
On the same day a notorious crime kingpin Jimmy Vincent is released from prison, there is a daring armored car diamond heist of diamonds using his m.o.
Director: Nicholas Laughland | Stars: Peter Davison, Gwenllian Davies, Matthew Davis, Anthony Valentine
Votes: 118
91.
Lost Empires (1986)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1986)
52 min | Drama
With the help of an ex-heavyweight boxer, Tommy Beamish exacts his revenge on Julie. The incident prompts Uncle Nick to come to the aid of his nephew and Jule to react unexpectedly.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Colin Firth, Emil Wolk, Mike Edmonds, Ted Morris
Votes: 21
92.
Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)
Episode:
Dangerous
(2017)
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama
In a daring cat and mouse chase, will Tommy be outwitted by his enemies? And with the return of an old friend, Tommy tries to distract himself with other pursuits.
Director: David Caffrey | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Tom Hardy
Votes: 7,910