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Boxing Movies
Movies from The Shelf connected to Boxing.
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Boxing
The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall exposes the corruption behind professional boxing in mid-century America. Humphrey Bogart, in his final film, plays a sportswriter turned press…
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Boxing
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Requiem for a Heavyweight follows Mountain Rivera, a fading boxer forced to retire after years of punishment, as he struggles to find a life…
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Boxing
Thrilla in Manila
Thrilla in Manila revisits the third fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, held in the Philippines on October 1, 1975. Director John Dower…
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Boxing
Girlfight
Girlfight gives Diana Guzman's anger a setting where force must become a skill. Boxing does not make her circumstances disappear, but it offers rules,…
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Boxing
Rocky V
Rocky V moves the franchise's central problem away from winning another championship and toward living after the identity of champion becomes difficult to sustain.…
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Boxing
Creed III
Creed III gives Adonis Creed an opponent who knows the life he lived before success made it easier to leave parts of that story…
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Boxing
Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa begins with a former champion whose most familiar stories are becoming a way of staying close to what he has lost. Returning…
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Boxing
Rocky IV
Rocky IV makes a boxing match carry the weight of a geopolitical fantasy. Rocky Balboa confronts Ivan Drago in a story where training methods,…
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Boxing
Rocky III
Rocky III turns success into a problem of perception. Rocky Balboa has learned how to live as a champion, but the comforts surrounding him…
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Boxing
Rocky II
Rocky II asks what happens after a career-defining performance fails to provide a workable everyday life. Rocky Balboa has become famous for lasting against…
