Comments
Suggestions of similar film to A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.
There are 3 films with the same actors, 65932 with the same cinematographic genres (including 8455 with exactly the same 2 genres than
A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.), 4182 films with the same themes (including 258 films with the same 3 themes than
A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price.), to have finally
70 suggestions of similar films.
If you liked
A man from humble origins becomes a famous boxer, but fame has its price., you will probably like those similar films :
, 1h44
Directed by Anatole Litvak,
Jean NegulescoOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors James Cagney,
Ann Sheridan,
John Arthur Kennedy,
Frank Craven,
Anthony Quinn,
Elia KazanRating71%
Cagney plays a truck driver named Danny Kenny, who starts as a New York boxing contender. Ann Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Being successful as a boxer, Danny decides to financially help his brother Eddie (Arthur Kennedy) to become a professional musician. Peggy on the other hand, loses her heart to Murray Burns (Anthony Quinn), a professional dancer, and she turns down Danny's proposal in order to go for a dancing career. Embittered by Peggy's refusal, Danny continues to work as a boxer and eventually gets blinded by his opponent during a fight, who has placed some rosin dust onto his gloves. Now blind, Danny works as a newspaper stand operator, while Peggy's career as a dancer did not materialize. The movie ends with Eddie becoming a successful composer who dedicates his first major symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother, who is listening to the concert on the radio from his newsstand., 1h23
Directed by Phil KarlsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors John Payne,
Evelyn Keyes,
Brad Dexter,
Frank Faylen,
Peggie Castle,
Jay AdlerRating73%
Ernie Driscoll is a former boxer who had to give up prize fighting after sustaining an injury in the ring and is now a New York taxi driver., 1h23
Directed by Francesco ProsperiOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors Robert Blake,
Ernest Borgnine,
Catherine Spaak,
Francesco Prosperi,
Gabriele Ferzetti,
Tomás MiliánRating53%
Un jeune boxeur est accusé du meurtre de son manager corrompu. Pour lui, la seule solution est de trouver lui-même le vrai meurtrier., 1h42
Directed by Howard Hawks,
W. S. Van DykeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors Myrna Loy,
Vince Barnett,
Robert McWade,
Walter Huston,
Otto Kruger,
Arthur HoytRating62%
While working as a barroom bouncer, sailor Steve Morgan (Max Baer) impresses alcoholic ex-boxing manager "the Professor" (Walter Huston) with his skills. The Professor talks Steve into entering a prize fight with an up-and-coming boxer to make money for both of them., 1h12
Origin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors Terence De Marney,
Eleanor Summerfield,
Jack Raine,
Anthony ValentineRating56%
Johnnie Thompson, a veteran and popular boxer known as "The Croucher" for his distinctive fighting style, enters the ring against a much younger opponent Tommy McGovern. Despite his years of hard living, Thompson remains confident of winning but soon finds himself in trouble. Drawing on all his reserves he is able to knock his opponent down but not out. McGovern gets up and then knocks Thompson out for a ten count. , 1h35
Origin USAGenres Drama,
Documentary,
Action,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Le boxe anglaiseActors Craig Sheffer,
Jeff Fahey,
Gene Hackman,
John McLiam,
Jennifer Beals,
Carmine CaridiRating52%
On the east side of New York, boxing trainer Dan McGuinn is trying to prepare one of his sons, Eddie, to earn a chance to fight in the Olympic Games, while his other son, Ray, has fallen in with shady men from organized crime. As further information rears into view Eddie has found out who had killed his brother. Vengeance in return for his brother's death. Eddie enters the ring with Pedroza, the murderer, and defeats him late in the midst of the rounds., 1h4
Directed by Fred C. NewmeyerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors Regis Toomey,
Dorothy Sebastian,
Edward Woods,
Earle Foxe,
Gertrude Astor,
Jack RichardsonRating52%
This script must be run from the command line, 2h49
Directed by Luchino ViscontiOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
Rape in fiction,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Le boxe anglaiseActors Alain Delon,
Renato Salvatori,
Claudia Cardinale,
Annie Girardot,
Katína Paxinoú,
Alessandra PanaroRating81%
After the death of his father, Rocco Parondi (Alain Delon), one of the five sons of a poor rural Italian family travels north from Lucania to join his older brother Vincenzo in Milan by the matriarch Rosaria(Katina Paxinou). She is the "hand to which the five fingers belong" as she states in the film and she has a powerful influence on her sons. Presented in five distinct sections, the film weaves the story of the five brothers Vincenzo, Simone, Rocco, Ciro and Luca Parondi as each of them adapt to their new lives in the city., 1h33
Directed by Walter HillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Le boxe anglaiseActors Charles Bronson,
James Coburn,
Jill Ireland,
Strother Martin,
Bruce Glover,
Margaret BlyeRating71%
Chaney (Charles Bronson), a mysterious, down-on-his luck drifter during the Great Depression, arrives in town in the boxcar of a freight train. He comes upon a bare-knuckled street fight run by gamblers. After the bout, he approaches one of the fight's organizers, the fast-talking "Speed" (James Coburn), and asks Speed to set up a fight. Betting his few dollars on himself, Chaney wins with a single punch.