Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Hands of Stone (2016)

Summary: The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

Release Date: August 26, 2016

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Writer: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fuego Films, Epicentral Studios, La Piedra Films, Panama Cinema, Vertical Media, Large Screen Cinema Productions, Keller Edde Studios

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Starz / Anchor Bay

Countries: Panama, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,712,792

International: $ 265,561

Ali (2001)

Summary: A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Release Date: December 25, 2001

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Gregory Allen Howard

, Stephen J. Rivele

, Christopher Wilkinson

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Forward Pass, Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), Moonlighting Films, Overbrook Entertainment, Peters Entertainment, Picture Entertainment

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, CBS, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 107,000,000

Domestic: $ 58,203,105

International: $ 29,609,624

I Spy (2002)

Summary: A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.

Release Date: November 01, 2002

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Betty Thomas

Writers: Morton S. Fine

, David Friedkin

, Marianne Wibberley

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Tall Trees Productions, C-2 Pictures

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video

Countries: United States, Hungary

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,561,137

International: $ 17,825,340

Southpaw (2015)

Summary: After a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction, a champion boxer fights to get custody of his daughter and revive his professional career.

Release Date: July 24, 2015

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Writer: Kurt Sutter

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Escape Artists, Hill District Media, Riche Productions

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Hotstar, KVH Media Group

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,421,953

International: $ 39,548,874

Payback (1999)

Summary: After a successful heist, Porter is left for dead. Once he recovers, he seeks vengeance and wants his share of the money.

Release Date: February 05, 1999

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Brian Helgeland

Writers: Donald E. Westlake

, Brian Helgeland

, Terry Hayes

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Icon Entertainment International, Icon Productions

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, The WB Television Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 90,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,526,121

International: $ 80,100,000

A Bronx Tale (1993)

Summary: Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri give captivating performances in this intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.

Release Date: October 01, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Robert De Niro

Writer: Chazz Palminteri

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Price Entertainment, Penta Entertainment, Tribeca Productions

Distributor: USA Network, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,287,898

Out of Sight (1998)

Summary: A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Release Date: June 26, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Writers: Elmore Leonard

, Scott Frank

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Jersey Films

Distributor: CBS, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 48,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,562,568

International: $ 40,183,398

The Set-Up (1949)

Summary: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Release Date: April 02, 1949

Genres: Crime, Sport, Film-Noir

Director: Robert Wise

Writers: Art Cohn

, Joseph Moncure March

Runtime: 1 h 13 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: C&C Television Corporation, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Girlfight (2000)

Summary: Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.

Release Date: October 06, 2000

Genres: Drama, Sport

Director: Karyn Kusama

Writer: Karyn Kusama

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Green/Renzi, Independent Film Channel (IFC)

Distributor: Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,565,852

International: $ 100,176

Harlem Nights (1989)

Summary: During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Release Date: November 17, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Eddie Murphy

Writer: Eddie Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Eddie Murphy Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, WGN

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 60,864,870

Wyatt Earp (1994)

Summary: From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, a man becomes a myth in this thrilling journey of romance, adventure, and desperate heroic action.

Release Date: June 24, 1994

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Biography

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Writers: Dan Gordon

, Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 3 h 11 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Tig Productions, Kasdan Pictures

Distributor: Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 63,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,052,000

Undisputed (2002)

Summary: When heavyweight champion George "Iceman" Chambers lands in prison, the resident gangster arranges a boxing match with the reigning prison champ.

Release Date: August 23, 2002

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Walter Hill

Writers: David Giler

, Walter Hill

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: A Band Apart, RadicalMedia, Amen Ra Films, Hollywood Partners, Millennium Films, Miramax, Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA), Undisputed Productions

Distributor: Millennium Films, Miramax, Hulu

Countries: United States, Germany, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,764,657

International: $ 2,181,493

Against the Ropes (2004)

Summary: A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.

Release Date: February 20, 2004

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Charles S. Dutton

Writers: Jackie Kallen

, Cheryl Edwards

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: ATR Films, Cort/Madden Productions, MMP Erste Filmproduktions, Moviemakers Productions (MMP), Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 39,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,884,190

International: $ 712,321

Jubilee (1978)

Summary: Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Derek Jarman

Writer: Derek Jarman

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Megalovision, Whaley-Malin Productions

Distributor: Libra Films, Mystic Fire Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000