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The Power of One (1992)
, 2h7Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films
Actors Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Gielgud, Morgan Freeman, Daniel Craig, Simon Fenton
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed Englishwoman on a homestead in rural Natal, little Peter Philip is schooled in the ways of England by his mother and the ways of Africa by a Zulu nanny (Nomadlozi Kubheka), whose son Tonderai is also his best friend. Their easy life is forever shattered, however, when the farm's cattle are claimed by rinderpest. PK's mother succumbs to a nervous breakdown, and he is sent away to a conservative Afrikaans boarding school while she recovers.
Real Steel (2011)
, 2h7Directed by Shawn Levy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action
Themes Sports films, Films set in the future, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise, Robot films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis
In 2020, human boxers are replaced by robots. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a former boxer, owns "Ambush", but loses it in an arranged fight against a bull belonging to promoter and carnival owner, Ricky (Kevin Durand), who sees Charlie as a joke, partially because he beat Charlie up the last time they competed in the ring. Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now has a debt to Ricky—which he runs out on.
Rocky Balboa (2006)
, 1h42Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Hughes, Tony Burton, Geraldine Hughes
In 2006, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has been retired from boxing for twenty years and lives a quiet life as a widower. His wife Adrian Pennino Balboa (Talia Shire) had died from cancer four years earlier. He runs a small but very successful Italian restaurant named after her, where he regales his patrons with stories of his past. He also battles personal demons involving his grief over Adrian's death, the changing times, and his eroding relationship with his son Robert (Milo Ventimiglia), a struggling corporate employee. Paul "Paulie" Pennino (Burt Young), Rocky's brother-in-law and best friend, continues to keep by his side, but is tired of reliving the past.
Creed II (2018)
, 2h10Directed by Steven Caple Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Phylicia Rashād
Trois ans après le match contre le champion du monde qui l'a fait connaitre du public, Adonis Creed s'est fait un nom sous le mentorat de Rocky Balboa. Le jeune boxeur devient champion du monde dans la catégorie « poids lourds », récupérant le titre à « Stuntman » Wheeler. Adonis est sur un nuage et vit sereinement avec sa petite-amie chanteuse, Bianca. Mais tout s'assombrit à Philadelphie lorsqu'Ivan Drago, le boxeur russe qui a tué son père Apollo il y environ 30 ans, arrive sur le sol américain avec son fils Viktor, pour défier Adonis.
100 Yen Love (2014)
, 1h53Directed by Masaharu Take
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Sakura Andō, Toshie Negishi
Ichiko, âgée de 32 ans, vit toujours chez ses parents, sans aucune activité constructive, jusqu'à ce que sa petite sœur récemment divorcée décide de revenir y habiter aussi avec son jeune fils. La cohabitation entre les deux sœurs se passe mal et Ichiko finit après une dispute par quitter brutalement le domicile, et doit prendre un petit boulot de nuit dans un « 100 Yen shop » pour subvenir à ses besoins. Elle se prend d'affection pour le boxeur Yuji Kano qui s’entraine à proximité, et passe régulièrement au magasin acheter des bananes. Elle se rapproche petit à petit de lui, et finit par se trouver entrainée elle-même dans le monde de la boxe.
The Hammer (2007)
, 1h28Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Adam Carolla, Heather Juergensen, Constance Zimmer, Tom Quinn, Jane Lynch, John Enos III
Jerry Ferro is turning 40 years old and is not what you would call a success. He works part-time in construction as a carpenter and part-time as a boxing instructor at a fitness center near Los Angeles. He drives a beat-up pickup truck and loses both the construction job and the woman in his life.
Beautiful Boxer (2003)
, 1h58Origin Thailande
Genres Drama, Biography, Action
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Films about school violence, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sorapong Chatree, Nong Toom
L'histoire est basée sur la vie de Parinya Charoenphol, dite Nong Toom, une boxeuse de muay-thaï katoï. Le film relate l'enfance de Nong Toom, enfant sensible, aimant jouer avec les filles et pour cela souffre-douleur de certains de ses camarades. Adolescente, alors encore considérée comme un homme, elle accepte le défi de participer à un combat de boxe qui lui montre que la volonté est plus forte que les aléas de la vie. Elle décide de s'entraîner sérieusement et, après bien des difficultés, progresse jusqu'à devenir championne, tout cela sans renier son identité de genre qui lui permet de se démarquer de ses adversaires à son avantage. Mais le désir profond qui l'anime est de transitionner, ce qu'elle fait au sommet de sa carrière.
TwentyFourSeven (1997)
, 1h36Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Bob Hoskins, James Hooton, Annette Badland, Karl Collins, James Corden, Frank Harper
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in; boxing. Soon, he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organise a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tightly-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
The Battle of the Century (1927)
, 19minutesDirected by Clyde Bruckman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Noah Young, Eugene Pallette, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin
Hardy enrolls Laurel at a boxing competition. Laurel, however, is too weak, and unfortunately loses. Hardy then seeks advice from an insurer on how to easily earn a lot of money: Laurel has to have an injury, so that Hardy can then pocket the insurance money. Hardy places a banana peel on a sidewalk, bringing Laurel there. But a pastry chef stumbles on the peel, and gets angry with Hardy, throwing a pie in his face. Hardy responds to the provocation, and soon the entire city block is involved in an epic battle of pies.
On the Ropes (2011)
Directed by Mark Noyce
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Mark Noyce, Ben Shockley, Ben Dover, Alex Vincent
The Boxer (1997)
, 1h53Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Lorraine Pilkington, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley
Former Irish pugilist & Provisional IRA member Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns home to Belfast from a 14-year stint in prison at the age of 32. Weary of the unbroken cycle of violence in Northern Ireland, he attempts to settle down and live in peace. After meeting his drink-sodden old trainer Ike (Ken Stott), Danny starts up a non-sectarian boxing club for boys in an old gymnasium. While fixing up the old building, however, he runs across a cache of Semtex hidden underneath the stage. He throws the cache into the river.
Battling Butler (1926)
Directed by Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Walter James, Snitz Edwards, Francis McDonald, Budd Fine
Alfred's father wants him to make a man of himself so sends him off on a hunting and fishing trip. He doesn't catch or shoot anything, but he does fall in love with a mountain girl. When her father and brothers laugh at this they are told that he is Alfred "Battling" Butler, the championship fighter. From there on the masquerade must be maintained.
Don King: Only in America (1997)
Directed by John Herzfeld
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Lou Rawls, Darius McCrary, Keith David
Un portrait cinématographique du célèbre promoteur de combat et manager de boxe.
Tokyo Fist (1995)
, 1h27Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Naoto Takenaka, Tomorowo Taguchi, Chu Ishikawa, Julie Dreyfus
The film tells about a Japanese door-to-door insurance salesman, Tsuda Yoshiharu, who takes up boxing after some chance meetings with a former high school friend, Kojima Yakuji. Tsuda lives a more or less uneventful life. He has a fiance, Hizuru, who one day invites Kojima in to Tsuda's apartment. Kojima comes onto Hizuru, who rejects him. Still, Tsuda finds out and gets enraged at Kojima, but Kojima beats Tsuda to a pulp and humiliates him to the point where it strains his relationship with Hizuru. Hizuru is intrigued by the animalistic Kojima, and ends up moving in with him. She also starts to pierce herself and get tattoos. She wants to box, but is denied that life by the surprisingly cowardly Kojima, who says she is a scary freak of a woman.
Schizo (2004)
, 1h26Origin Kazakhstan
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Viktor Soukhoroukov
Tagline: In fights without rules, there is no rule that says: "Until first blood!"