Boxing films

388 films, oldest first within each decade.

1890s (1)

• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) – Enoch J. Rector

1910s (5)

• In the Last Stride (1916) – Martyn Keith
• Kent, the Fighting Man (1916) – A.E. Coleby
• Jack and Jill (1917) – William Desmond Taylor
• The Happy Warrior (1917) – Floyd Martin Thornton
• The Egg Crate Wallop (1919) – Jerome Storm

1920s (21)

• A Son of David (1920) – Hay Plumb
• For His Mother's Sake (1922)
• The Leatherpushers (1922) – Edward Laemmle
• Firpo-Dempsey (1923) – Quirino Cristiani
• In the Blood (1923) – Walter West
• The Abysmal Brute (1923) – Hobart Henley
• The Knockout (1923) – Alexander Butler
• Battling Bunyan (1924) – Paul Hurst
• Dynamite Dan (1924) – Bruce M. Mitchell
• The Great White Way (1924) – E. Mason Hopper
• Big Pal (1925) – John G. Adolfi
• Blarney (1925) – Marcel De Sano
• Fighting Youth (1925) – B. Reeves Eason
• The Happy Warrior (1925) – J. Stuart Blackton
• Battling Butler (1926) – Buster Keaton
• Broadway Billy (1926) – Harry Joe Brown
• The Winning Wallop (1926) – Charles Hutchison
• The Ring (1927) – Alfred Hitchcock
• Hold Everything (1929) – Roy Del Ruth
• Night Parade (1929) – Malcolm St. Clair
• Speakeasy (1929) – Benjamin Stoloff

1930s (41)

• Love in the Ring (1930) – Reinhold Schünzel
• Bobby Gets Going (1931) – Harry Piel
• Iron Man (1931) – Tod Browning
• The Champ (1931) – King Vidor
• Battling Bosko (1932) – Hugh Harman
• They Never Come Back (1932) – Fred C. Newmeyer
• Winner Take All (1932) – Roy Del Ruth
• King for a Night (1933) – Kurt Neumann
• Money Talks (1933) – Norman Lee
• The Big Chance (1933) – Albert Herman
• The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) – Archie Mayo
• The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) – W. S. Van Dyke
• Palooka (1934) – Benjamin Stoloff
• Punch Drunks (1934) – Lou Breslow
• The Personality Kid (1934) – Alan Crosland
• Knockout (1935) – Karel Lamač
• The Irish in Us (1935) – Lloyd Bacon
• Cain and Mabel (1936) – Lloyd Bacon
• Conflict (1936) – David Howard
• Excuse My Glove (1936) – Redd Davis
• Orphan of the Wilderness (1936) – Ken G. Hall
• The Milky Way (1936) – Leo McCarey
• Toby Tortoise Returns (1936) – Wilfred Jackson
• Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936) – Gordon Wiles
• Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937) – Maclean Rogers
• Flying Fists (1937) – Robert F. Hill
• Keep Fit (1937) – Anthony Kimmins
• Kid Galahad (1937) – Michael Curtiz
• The Kings of Sport (1937) – Pierre Colombier
• When's Your Birthday? (1937) – Harry Beaumont
• Count Me Out (1938) – Ben Hardaway
• Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) – David Howard
• Little Orphan Annie (1938) – Ben Holmes
• Porky & Daffy (1938) – Bob Clampett
• Spirit of Youth (1938) – Harry L. Fraser
• The Crowd Roars (1938) – Richard Thorpe
• The Kid Comes Back (1938) – B. Reeves Eason
• Golden Boy (1939) – Rouben Mamoulian
• I, His Father (1939) – Mario Bonnard
• Keep Punching (1939) – John Clein
• There Ain't No Justice (1939) – Pen Tennyson

1940s (43)

• City for Conquest (1940) – Anatole Litvak
• Golden Gloves (1940) – Edward Dmytryk
• The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940) – Oscar Micheaux
• Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941) – Wallace Fox
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) – Alexander Hall
• Knockout (1941) – William Clemens
• Ringside Maisie (1941) – Edwin L. Marin
• The Art of Self Defense (1941) – Jack Kinney
• The Miracle Kid (1941) – William Beaudine
• The Pittsburgh Kid (1941) – Jack Townley
• Gentleman Jim (1942) – Raoul Walsh
• Sunday Punch (1942) – David Miller
• Harlem (1943) – Carmine Gallone
• Kid Dynamite (1943) – Wallace Fox
• The Champion (1943) – Carlo Borghesio
• The Man from Down Under (1943) – Robert Z. Leonard
• To Duck or Not to Duck (1943) – Chuck Jones
• The Contender (1944) – Sam Newfield
• Come Out Fighting (1945) – William Beaudine
• The Great John L. (1945) – Frank Tuttle
• Champion Without a Crown (1946) – Alejandro Galindo
• Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) – Cy Endfield
• Joe Palooka, Champ (1946) – Reginald LeBorg
• Mr. Hex (1946) – William Beaudine
• The First Glove (1946) – Andrey Frolov
• The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) – Norman Z. McLeod
• Body and Soul (1947) – Robert Rossen
• Fright Night (1947) – Edward Bernds
• Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1947) – Reginald LeBorg
• Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947) – Reginald LeBorg
• Killer McCoy (1947) – Roy Rowland
• Leather Gloves (1948) – William Asher
• Rabbit Punch (1948) – Chuck Jones
• Whiplash (1948) – Lewis Seiler
• Champion (1949) – Mark Robson
• Diez segundos (1949) – Alejandro Wehner
• Duke of Chicago (1949) – George Blair
• Fighting Fools (1949) – Reginald LeBorg
• Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (1949) – Cy Endfield
• Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949) – Reginald LeBorg
• No Way Back (1949) – Stefan Osiecki
• Ringside (1949) – Frank McDonald
• The Set-Up (1949) – Robert Wise

1950s (27)

• Right Cross (1950) – John Sturges
• Fighting Blood (1951) – Clive Ross
• Iron Man (1951) – Joseph Pevney
• Roaring City (1951) – William Berke
• Flesh and Fury (1952) – Joseph Pevney
• Glory Alley (1952) – Raoul Walsh
• Kid Monk Baroni (1952) – Harold D. Schuster
• Pepe the Bull (1952) – Ismael Rodríguez
• The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford
• The Ring (1952) – Kurt Neumann
• 99 River Street (1953) – Phil Karlson
• Canvas Back Duck (1953) – Jack Hannah
• Naam (1953) – A. Kasilingam
• Off Limits (1953) – George Marshall
• The Joe Louis Story (1953) – Robert Gordon
• The Square Ring (1953) – Basil Dearden
• Air of Paris (1954) – Marcel Carné
• The Boys from Leningrad (1954) – Semyon Timoshenko
• Fling in the Ring (1955) – Jules White
• It's Always Fair Weather (1955) – Gene Kelly
• Killer's Kiss (1955) – Stanley Kubrick
• The Square Jungle (1955) – Jerry Hopper
• Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) – Robert Wise
• The Harder They Fall (1956) – Mark Robson
• The Leather Saint (1956) – Alvin Ganzer
• World in My Corner (1956) – Jesse Hibbs
• Monkey on My Back (1957) – André de Toth

1960s (9)

• And the Same to You (1960) – George Pollock
• Rocco and His Brothers (1960) – Luchino Visconti
• Golden Gloves (1961) – Gilles Groulx
• Kid Galahad (1962) – Phil Karlson
• Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) – Ralph Nelson
• The Boxer and Death (1963) – Peter Solan
• Belarmino (1964) – Fernando Lopes
• Walkover (1965) – Jerzy Skolimowski
• Legendary Champions (1968) – Harry Chapin

1970s (29)

• Jack Johnson (1970) – Jimmy Jacobs
• The Great White Hope (1970) – Martin Ritt
• The Super Fight (1970) – Murray Woroner
• a.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970) – Jimmy Jacobs
• I due assi del guantone (1971) – Mariano Laurenti
• My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971) – Ettore Scola
• Fat City (1972) – John Huston
• Ripped Off (1972) – Franco Prosperi
• Pattikaattu Ponnaiya (1973) – B. S. Ranga
• The All-American Boy (1973) – Charles K. Eastman
• Los Golpes bajos (1974) – Mario Sábato
• Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1974) – William Klein
• Hard Times (1975) – Walter Hill
• Let's Do It Again (1975) – Sidney Poitier
• Mandingo (1975) – Richard Fleischer
• Rocky (1976) – John G. Avildsen
• Rocky (1976) – John G. Avildsen
• The Greatest (1977) – Tom Gries
• Every Which Way but Loose (1978) – James Fargo
• Matilda (1978) – Daniel Mann
• Movie Movie (1978) – Stanley Donen
• Thayige Thakka Maga (1978) – V. Somashekhar
• Flesh and Blood (1979) – Jud Taylor
• Goldie and the Boxer (1979) – David Miller
• Penitentiary (1979) – Jamaa Fanaka
• Rocky II (1979) – Sylvester Stallone
• The Champ (1979) – Franco Zeffirelli
• The Main Event (1979) – Howard Zieff
• The Prize Fighter (1979) – Michael Preece

1980s (27)

• Any Which Way You Can (1980) – Buddy Van Horn
• Hurricane Rosy (1980) – Mario Monicelli
• Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese
• Body and Soul (1981) – George Bowers
• Puli Bidda (1981) – V. Madhusudhan Rao
• Bomber (1982) – Michele Lupo
• Main Intaquam Loonga (1982) – Tatineni Rama Rao
• Penitentiary II (1982) – Jamaa Fanaka
• Rocky III (1982) – Sylvester Stallone
• Olle Henry (1983) – Ulrich Weiß
• The Last Fight (1983) – Fred Williamson
• Tough Enough (1983) – Richard Fleischer
• Boxer (1984) – Raj N. Sippy
• Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story (1985) – Richard Michaels
• Rocky IV (1985) – Sylvester Stallone
• Born to Defence (1986) – Jet Li
• Streets of Gold (1986) – Joe Roth
• Heart (1987) – James Lemmo
• Last Man Standing (1987) – Damian Lee
• Teen Wolf Too (1987) – Christopher Leitch
• Homeboy (1988) – Michael Seresin
• Spike of Bensonhurst (1988) – Paul Morrissey
• Split Decisions (1988) – David Drury
• The Opponent (1988) – Sergio Martino
• Dotsuitarunen (1989) – Junji Sakamoto
• Thunderground (1989) – David Mitchell
• Triumph of the Spirit (1989) – Robert Milton Young

1990s (36)

• Kaboria (1990) – Khairy Beshara
• Lionheart (1990) – Sheldon Lettich
• Rocky V (1990) – John G. Avildsen
• Behind the Last Line (1991) – Nikolai Stambula
• Blonde Fist (1991) – Frank Clarke
• Diggstown (1992) – Michael Ritchie
• Far and Away (1992) – Ron Howard
• Gladiator (1992) – Rowdy Herrington
• Jigar (1992) – Farogh Siddique
• Night and the City (1992) – Irwin Winkler
• The Power of One (1992) – John G. Avildsen
• The Steak (1992) – Pierre Falardeau
• Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993) – Barbara Kopple
• Percy & Thunder (1993) – Ivan Dixon
• Dear Goddamned Friends (1994) – Mario Monicelli
• Pugili (1995) – Lino Capolicchio
• Rude (1995) – Clement Virgo
• Tokyo Fist (1995) – Shinya Tsukamoto
• Tyson (1995) – Uli Edel
• Kids Return (1996) – Takeshi Kitano
• The Great White Hype (1996) – Reginald Hudlin
• When We Were Kings (1996) – Leon Gast
• Don King: Only in America (1997) – John Herzfeld
• The Boxer (1997) – Jim Sheridan
• Twenty Four Seven (1997) – Shane Meadows
• Body and Soul (1998) – Sam Henry Kass
• Die Bubi Scholz Story (1998) – Roland Suso Richter
• Legionnaire (1998) – Peter MacDonald
• Like It Is (1998) – Paul Oremland
• City of the Rising Sun (1999) – Kim Sung-su
• New Waterford Girl (1999) – Allan Moyle
• On the Ropes (1999) – Nanette Burstein
• Play It to the Bone (1999) – Ron Shelton
• Rocky Marciano (1999) – Charles Winkler
• Thammudu (1999) – P. A. Arun Prasad
• The Hurricane (1999) – Norman Jewison

2000s (67)

• A Fighter's Blues (2000) – Daniel Lee
• Ali: An American Hero (2000) – León Ichaso
• Girlfight (2000) – Karyn Kusama
• King of the World (2000) – John Sacret Young
• Price of Glory (2000) – Carlos Avila
• Shiner (2000) – John Irvin
• Snatch (2000) – Guy Ritchie
• The Opponent (2000) – Eugene Jarecki
• Ali (2001) – Michael Mann
• Badri (2001) – P. A. Arun Prasad
• Born Wild (2001) – Patrick Leung
• Knockout (2001)
• The Comeback (2001) – Franco Angeli
• Yuvaraja (2001) – Puri Jagannadh
• Champion (2002) – Kwak Kyung-taek
• Joe and Max (2002) – Steve James
• The Boxing Prince (2002) – Gerd Kroske
• Undisputed (2002) – Walter Hill
• Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi (2003) – Puri Jagannadh
• Beautiful Boxer (2003) – Ekachai Uekrongtham
• Champion (2003) – Ravi Kinagi
• Katha Deithili Maa Ku (2003) – Himanshu Parija
• Against the Ropes (2004) – Charles S. Dutton
• Before the Fall (2004) – Dennis Gansel
• Black Cloud (2004) – Ricky Schroder
• Fighting Tommy Riley (2004) – Eddie O'Flaherty
• M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi (2004) – M. Raja
• Maurya (2004) – S. Narayan
• Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Clint Eastwood
• The Calcium Kid (2004) – Alex De Rakoff
• About a Girl (2005) – Catharina Deus
• Cinderella Man (2005) – Ron Howard
• Crying Fist (2005) – Ryoo Seung-wan
• Shadowboxing (2005) – Aleksey Sidorov
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005) – Ken Burns
• Aryan (2006) – Abhishek Kapoor
• Blue Blood (2006) – Stevan Riley
• Fly, Daddy, Fly (2006) – Choi Jong-tae
• Pacquiao: The Movie (2006) – Joel Lamangan
• RevoLOUtion: The Transformation of Lou Benedetti (2006)
• Rocky Balboa (2006) – Sylvester Stallone
• Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006) – Isaac Florentine
• Apne (2007) – Anil Sharma
• Jump In! (2007) – Paul Hoen
• Miracle on 1st Street (2007) – Yoon Je-kyoon
• Poor Boy's Game (2007) – Clement Virgo
• Resurrecting the Champ (2007) – Rod Lurie
• Shadowboxing 2: Revenge (2007) – Anton Megerdichev
• Strength and Honour (2007) – Mark Mahon
• The Comeback (2007) – Maximilian Plettau
• The Hammer (2007) – Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
• Assault in the Ring (2008) – Eric Drath
• Carnera - The Walking Mountain (2008) – Renzo Martinelli
• Fight Night (2008) – Jonathan M. Dillon
• Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008) – Charles Officer
• Phantom Punch (2008) – Robert Townsend
• Sucker Punch (2008) – Malcolm Martin
• The Broken Line (2008) – Louis Choquette
• The Little Panda Fighter (2008) – Michelle Gabriel
• Two Fists, One Heart (2008) – Shawn Seet
• Tyson (2008) – James Toback
• Cartagena (2009) – Alain Monne
• Facing Ali (2009) – Pete McCormack
• From Mexico with Love (2009) – Jimmy Nickerson
• Raise Your Head (2009) – Alessandro Angelini
• Sons of Cuba (2009) – Andrew Lang
• The Slammin' Salmon (2009) – Kevin Heffernan

2010s (67)

• Lahore (2010) – Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan
• Max Schmeling (2010) – Uwe Boll
• Risen (2010) – Neil Jones
• The Fighter (2010) – David O. Russell
• Boxing Gym (2011) – Frederick Wiseman
• Klitschko (2011) – Sebastian Dehnhardt
• Knockout (2011) – Anne Wheeler
• Knuckle (2011) – Ian Palmer
• Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011) – Michael Jai White
• On the Ropes (2011) – Mark Noyce
• Real Steel (2011) – Shawn Levy
• Shadowboxing 3: Last Round (2011) – Aleksey Sidorov
• Tatanka (2011) – Giuseppe Gagliardi
• Acqua Fuori Dal Ring (2012) – Joel Stangle
• China Heavyweight (2012) – Yung Chang
• Ein deutscher Boxer (2012) – Eric Friedler
• The Philly Kid (2012) – Jason Connery
• Grudge Match (2013) – Peter Segal
• Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) – Stephen Frears
• The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini (2013) – Jesse James Miller
• The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013) – Bill Siegel
• Unbeatable (2013) – Dante Lam
• 100 Yen Love (2014) – Masaharu Take
• A Fighting Man (2014) – Damian Lee
• Champs (2014) – Bert Marcus
• Glass Chin (2014) – Noah Buschel
• I Am Ali (2014) – Clare Lewins
• Maan Karate (2014) – Krish Thirukumaran
• Manny (2014) – Leon Gast
• Mary Kom (2014) – Omung Kumar
• Boologam (2015) – N. Kalyanakrishnan
• Boxer (2015) – Preetham Gubbi
• Brothers (2015) – Karan Malhotra
• Creed (2015) – Ryan Coogler
• Kid Kulafu (2015) – Paul Soriano
• Oxford Gardens (2015) – Obi Emelonye
• Shah (2015) – Adnan Sarwar
• Southpaw (2015) – Antoine Fuqua
• The Challenger (2015) – Kent Moran
• Valiyavan (2015) – M. Saravanan
• Warrior (2015) – Aleksey Andrianov
• Bleed for This (2016) – Ben Younger
• Chuck (2016) – Philippe Falardeau
• El Inca (2016) – Ignacio Castillo Cottin
• Hands of Stone (2016) – Jonathan Jakubowicz
• Irudhi Suttru (2016) – Sudha Kongara Prasad
• Punch Line (2016) – Kati Zambito
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016) – Juho Kuosmanen
• Tuntari (2016) – Kumar Nagendra
• Versus (2016) – Nurbek Egen
• A Prayer Before Dawn (2017) – Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
• Champ (2017) – Raj Chakraborty
• Guru (2017) – Sudha Kongara Prasad
• Jawbone (2017) – Thomas Napper
• Journeyman (2017) – Paddy Considine
• My Name Is Lenny (2017) – Ron Scalpello
• Pandigai (2017)
• Boxer (2018)
• Boxing Libreville (2018) – Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou
• Creed II (2018) – Steven Caple Jr.
• Jungleland (2018) – Max Winkler
• Mr. Chandramouli (2018) – Thiru
• Mukkabaaz (2018) – Anurag Kashyap
• Tiger (2018) – Alister Grierson
• First Love (2019) – Takashi Miike
• Gipsy Queen (2019) – Hüseyin Tabak
• Pailwan (2019) – S. Krishna

2020s (15)

• Isi & Ossi (2020) – Oliver Kienle
• Kimi no me ga toikaketeiru (2020) – Takahiro Miki
• One Night in Miami... (2020) – Regina King
• The Champion (2020) – Maciej Barczewski
• Boxballet (2021) – Anton Dyakov
• The Survivor (2021) – Barry Levinson
• Mister Knockout (2022) – Artem Mikhalkov
• Small, Slow But Steady (2022) – Shō Miyake
• Big George Foreman (2023) – George Tillman, Jr.
• Creed III (2023) – Michael B. Jordan
• The Featherweight (2023) – Robert Kolodny
• Boxer (2024) – Mitja Okorn
• Team Havnaa (2024) – Bård Breien
• The Fire Inside (2024) – Rachel Morrison
• Christy (2025) – David Michôd

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