Boxing films (Film Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 94. Chapters: Rocky, The Quiet Man, Raging Bull, Rocky IV, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Champ, Rocky III, Champion, Rocky V, The Hurricane, Ali, List of films based on sports books, Rocky Balboa, The Fighter, Million Dollar Baby, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, Fighting Tommy Riley, Cinderella Man, Every Which Way but Loose, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Set-Up, Rocco and His Brothers, Kid Galahad, Fat City, Lahore, Triumph of the Spirit, Undisputed II: Last Man Standing, Gladiator, Against the Ropes, The Super Fight, The Hammer, Day of the Fight, Rabbit Punch, The Great White Hype, The Harder They Fall, Hard Times, Real Steel, Killer's Kiss, The Milky Way, Teen Wolf Too, Strength and Honour, Legionnaire, When We Were Kings, Resurrecting the Champ, The Man from Down Under, The Notorious Elinor Lee, Play It to the Bone, The Main Event, Bokator, Let's Do It Again, There Ain't No Justice, Hold Everything, Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Like It Is, The Boxer, Mandingo, The Great White Hope, Kids Return, Golden Gloves, Gentleman Jim, Crying Fist, Beautiful Boxer, Body and Soul, Tyson, Rocky Marciano, Tokyo Fist, Conflict, Kid Monk Baroni, Night and the City, The Calcium Kid, City for Conquest, When's Your Birthday?, Right Cross, Two Fists, One Heart, Speakeasy, Fighting Fools, A Fighter's Blues, The Ring, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The Prizefighter and the Lady, Miracle on 1st Street, Golden Boy, The Joe Louis Story, Aryan, Matilda, Blood of a Champion, On the Ropes, Don King: Only in America, The Miracle Kid, Das Boxende Känguruh, Off Limits, The Crowd Roars, The Greatest, The Contender, Thunderground, Cain and Mabel, Dynamite Dan, Phantom Punch, Monkey on My Back, Tough Enough, They Never Come Back, Undefeated, Blue Blood, The Kid from Brooklyn, The Big Timer, Dotsuitarunen, Johnny Flynton, Toby Tortoise Returns, Excuse My Glove, Fifty-Shilling Boxer, Glenroy Bros.,. Excerpt: On occasion, sports books have been used as source material for film adaptations. Popular sports in the United States such as baseball and American football have been adapted to film. Books about sports such as boxing, bullfighting, cockfighting, football, hockey, hunting have also been adapted. (Popular and legal in Mexico) Professional, college, high school (Terrorism became a regular part of news reports in the early 1970s, and this theme was extended to popular fiction.) Professional and university (Lacrosse is the official national (summer) sport of Canada) (Yachting) (Court tennis) Pages with the same format Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Martin Scorsese, and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the Jake La Motta memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a middleweight boxer whose sadomasochistic rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite exceeded the boundaries of the prizefight ring, and destroyed his relationship with his wife and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta's well intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons; and Cathy Moriarty as his abused wife. The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, and Frank Vincent. Scorsese was partially convinced by De Niro to develop the project, though he eventually came to relate to La Motta's story. Schrader re-wrot...