Best boxing movies: As a boxing fan I love watching anything with boxing in it from classics to new releases. The titles listed below include boxing highlights, dramas, documentaries and boxing instructional DVDs that I have seen and liked the best. Many of the boxing movies are available on DVD, some as video downloads or you can catch them on TV when they are rerun.
- Against the Ropes
(2004) Starring: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Director Charles S. Dutton - Alfred Hitchcock: Ten O'Clock Tiger
(1962) (Season 7) Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, Frankie Darro, Karl Lukas, Robert Keith, Director: Bernard Girard - Ali
(2001) Starring: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Director Michael Mann - Anapolis
(2006) Starring: James Franco, Donnie Wahlberg, Director: Justin Lin - Battlestar Galactica: In Unfinished Business
(2003) (Season 3, Episode 9) Starring: Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, Writer: Michael Taylor, Director: Robert Young (III) - Before the Fall
(2004) Starring: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Director: Dennis Gansel - Body and Soul
(1947) Starring: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Director: Robert Rossen - Broken Noses
(1987) Starring: Andy Minsker, Sean Bedwell, Director: Bruce Weber - Carman The Champion
(2001) Starring: Carman, Michael Nouri, Director: Lee Stanley - Champ
(1979) Starring: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Director: Franco Zeffirelli - Champion
(1949) Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Director: Mark Robson - Champions Forever: The Latin Legends
(1997) Starring: Julio Cesar Chavez, Kid Gavilan, Director: Lee Librado - Champions Forever: World Heavyweight Champs
(1989) Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Director: Dimitri Logothetis - Championship Training / Heart of a Champion
(2005) Starring: Roy Jones Jr. - Cinderella Man
(2005) Starring: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Director: Ron Howard - City for Conquest
(1940) Starring: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Director: Anatole Litva - Cock & Bull Story
(2003) Starring: Brian Austin Green, Bret Roberts, Director: Billy Hayes - Dempsey
(1983) Starring: Treat Williams, Sam Waterston, Director: Gus Trikonis - Diggstown
(1992) Starring: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Director: Michael Ritchie - Don King - Only in America
(1997) Starring: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Director: John Herzfeld - Fat City
(1972) Starring: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Director: John Huston - Fight For The Title
(1957) Starring: Michael Landon, Don Haggerty - Fighting Tommy Riley
(2005) Starring: Eddie Jones, J.P. Davis, Director: Eddie O'Flaherty - Gentleman Jim
(1942) Starring: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Director: Raoul Walsh - Girlfight
(2000) Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Director: Karyn Kusama - Gladiator
(1992) Starring: James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr, Director: Rowdy Herrington - Golden Boy
(1939) Starring: Barbara Stanwick, William Holden, Director: Rouben Mamoulian - Hollywood Stadium Mystery
(1938) Starring: Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Director: David Howard - I Love Lucy, "Ricky and Fred Are TV Fans"
(1939) (Season 2 Episode 66) Starring: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Director: William Asher - Kid Galahad
(1962) Starring: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Director: Phil Karlson - Knockout
(2000) Starring: Sophia Luke, Eduardo Yanez, Director: Lorenzo Doumani - Legends of the Ring - Sugar Ray Robinson - Pound for Pound
(1996) - Million Dollar Baby
(2005) Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Director: Clint Eastwood - Muhammad Ali - The Whole Story
(1996) Starring: Muhammad Ali, Khalilah Belinda Ali, Director: Joseph Consentino, Sandra Consentino - Night and the City
(1992) Starring: Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Director: Irwin Winkler - On the Ropes
(1999) Starring: Sam Doumit, Martin Goldman, Director: Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen - On the Waterfront
(1954) Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Director: Elia Kazan - One Step Beyond: The Last Round
(1961) Starring: Charles Bronson, Director: John Newland - Play it to the Bone
(2000) Starring: Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Director: Ron Shelton - Price of Glory
(2000) Starring: Jimmy Smits, Maria del Mar, Director: Carlos Avila - Raging Bull
(1980) Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Director: Martin Scorsese - Requiem for a Heavyweight
(1962) Starring: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Director: Ralph Nelson - Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
(2005) Starring: Emile Griffith, Howie Albert, Director: Ron Berger, Dan Klores - Rocky
(1976) Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Director: John G. Avildsen - Rocky II
(1979) Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Director: Sylvester Stallone - Rocky III
(1982) Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Director: Sylvester Stallone - Rocky IV
(1985) Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Director: Sylvester Stallone - Rocky V
(1990) Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Director: John G. Avildsen - Rocky Balboa aka Rocky VI
(2006) Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Geraldine Hughes, Antonio Tarver, Director: Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Marciano
(1999) Starring: Jon Favreau, Penelope Ann Miller, Director: Charles Winkler - Shadow Boxers
(1999) Starring: Michael Bentt, Lucia Rijker, Director: Katya Bank - Somebody Up There Likes Me
(1956) Starring: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Director: Robert Wise - Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion
(1999) Starring: Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Director: Jeff Lieberman - Southpaw: The Francis Barrett Story
(2000) Starring: Francis Barrett, Chick Gillen, Director: Liam McGrath - Spike of Bensonhurst
(1988) Starring: Sasha Mitchell, Director: Paul Morrissey - Split Decision
(2000) Starring: Jesus Chavez, Director: Marcy Garriott - Split Decisions
(1988) Starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Beals, Director: David Drury - Straight Right
(2000) Starring: Brent Smith, Lynn Evans, Director: P. David Ebersole - Streets of Gold
(1986) Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Director: Joe Roth - The Big Chance
(1933) Starring: Mickey Rooney, John Darrow - The Boxer
(1997) Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Daragh Donnelly, Director: Jim Sheridan - The Fighter
(1952) Starring: Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb - The Fighter
(1983) Starring: Gregory Harrison, Glynnis O'Connor Director: David Lowell Rich - The Great White Hope
(1970) Starring: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Director: Martin Ritt - The Great White Hype
(1996) Starring: Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Damon Wayans - The Harder They Fall
(1956) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Director: Mark Robson - The Hurricane
(2000) Starring: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Director: Norman Jewison - The Joe Louis Story
(1953) Starring: Coley Wallace, Hilda Simms, Director: Robert Gordon - The King of Iron Town
(2004) Starring: Mickey Fisher, Kate Arrington, Director: Mickey Fisher - The Kings of the Ring
(1995) Starring: Muhammad Ali, Louis Gossett Jr. - The Last Round - Chuvalo vs Ali
(2003) Starring: George Chuvalo, Muhammad Ali - The Main Event
(1979) Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Director: Howard Zieff - The Perfect Punch
(1999) Starring: Lennox Lewis, Prince Naseem Hamed - The Power of One
(1992) Starring: Nomadlozi Kubheka, Agatha Hurle, Director: John G. Avildsen - The Prizefighter and the Lady
(1933) Starring: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Director: W.S. Van Dyke - The Set-Up
(1948) Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, Director: Robert Wise - The Speed Bag Bible - Two Hour Training Program
(2003) Starring: lan Kahn - The Superfight - Marciano vs Ali
(1970) Starring: Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali - The Twilight Zone: Steel
(1963) Starring: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell, Chuck Hicks, Writer: Richard Matheson, Creator: Rod Serling, Director: Don Weis - The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish
(1960) Starring: Walter Burke, Ivan Dixon, Writer: Rod Serling, Director: Ron Winston - They Made Me A Criminal
(1939) Starring: John Garfield, The Dead End Kids, Director: Busby Berkeley - Tough Enough
(1983) Starring: Dennis Quaid, Director: Richard Fleischer - Triumph of the Spirit
(1989) Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Director: Robert M. Young - Ultimate Boxing Lessons - Complete 8 DVD Boxed Set, Starring Boxing Coach Christopher Getz
(2003) Starring: Chritopher Getz, Director: Joe Jennings - Undisputed
(2002) Starring: Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Director: Walter Hill - Undisputed II - Last Man Standing
(2006) Starring: Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Director: Isaac Florentine - When We Were Kings
(1997) Starring: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Director: Leon Gast
Also see boxing books for recommendations.