A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

Before the Fall (2004)

Summary: Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.

Release Date: January 13, 2005

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Sport

Director: Dennis Gansel

Writers: Dennis Gansel

, Maggie Peren

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Olga Film, Constantin Film, SevenPictures Film

Distributor: Picture This! Entertainment, Palisades Pictures

Country: Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 144,254

International: $ 3,619,965

The Chocolate War (1988)

Summary: The Vigils are a gang of students at Trinity Catholic School... part of the tradition. They control the other boys by intimidation and the threat of violence.

Release Date: November 18, 1988

Genre: Drama

Director: Keith Gordon

Writers: Robert Cormier

, Keith Gordon

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Management Company Entertainment Group (MCEG)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Domestic: $ 303,624

Borstal Boy (2000)

Summary: Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.

Release Date: December 08, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Peter Sheridan

Writers: Brendan Behan

, Nye Heron

, Peter Sheridan

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, British Screen Productions, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), Dakota Films, Full Schilling Investments, Hell's Kitchen Films, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 87,400

The Sergeant (1968)

Summary: A story of a brilliant master sergeant with a great career behind him and transferred to yet another post, his attraction to a younger man eventually overrides him, to a point where his latent homosexuality, finally emerges.

Release Date: December 25, 1968

Genre: Drama

Director: John Flynn

Writer: Dennis Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Robert Wise Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Mandingo (1975)

Summary: An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

Release Date: July 25, 1975

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Richard Fleischer

Writers: Kyle Onstott

, Jack Kirkland

, Norman Wexler

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Legend Films, Olive Films, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,433,010

No News from God (2001)

Summary: Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Release Date: November 30, 2001

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes

Writer: Agustín Díaz Yanes

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Flamenco Films, Tornasol Films, Cartel Films, DMVB Films, Evescreen, Vía Digital, Antena 3 Televisión, France 2 Cinéma, TPS Cinéma, TF1 International, Tele, Altavista Films, Eurimages

Distributor: Palisades Pictures

Countries: Spain, France, Italy, Mexico

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 77,858

International: $ 3,262,524

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

The Learning Tree (1969)

Summary: A bittersweet, idyllic story about a year in the life of 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor Black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and immorality.

Release Date: March 13, 1970

Genre: Drama

Director: Gordon Parks

Writers: Gordon Parks

, Genevieve Young

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Winger

Distributor: Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

The Greatest (1977)

Summary: Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Directors: Tom Gries

, Monte Hellman

Writers: Muhammad Ali

, Herbert Muhammad

, Richard Durham

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, EMI Films, John Marshall Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Columbia TriStar Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,284,000

Fear City (1984)

Summary: Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Release Date: July 18, 1984

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Abel Ferrara

Writer: Nicholas St. John

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Zupnik-Curtis Enterprises, Rebecca Productions

Distributor: Aquarius Releasing, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Castle Hill Productions, Chevy Chase, BDF International Partners, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Showtime Networks, Thorn EMI/HBO Video, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Coonskin (1974)

Summary: Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.

Release Date: August 20, 1975

Genres: Action, Comedy, Animation

Director: Ralph Bakshi

Writer: Ralph Bakshi

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bakshi Productions, Paramount Pictures, Ruddy Productions

Distributor: Bryanston Distributing, Academy Entertainment, Xenon Entertainment Group, California Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

I, Tonya (2017)

Summary: Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

Release Date: January 19, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Craig Gillespie

Writer: Steven Rogers

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: AI-Film, Clubhouse Pictures (II), Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, LuckyChap Entertainment, beIN Media Group

Distributor: 30WEST, Neon, KVH Media Group, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,014,539

International: $ 23,924,758

Nana (2016)

Summary: The filmmaker retraces her grandmother's Auschwitz survival story and investigates how her life-long fight against intolerance can be passed on to new generations in the 21st century.

Release Date: November 06, 2016

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Serena Dykman

Writers: David Breger

, Serena Dykman

, Corentin Soibinet

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

Production: Adleek USA, Dyamant Pictures

Distributor: First Run Features

Countries: United States, Belgium, Poland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,784

Celebrity (1998)

Summary: The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Release Date: November 20, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sweetland Films, Magnolia Productions

Distributor: Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,078,660