An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Casts Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Lola Albright, Luis van Rooten, Harry Shannon, John Daheim, Ralph Sanford
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Nacho Libre
Jerry Maguire
Steps / Qayler
The Savages
I've Loved You So Long
Summer Hours
Howards End
Rocco and His Brothers
Sprinter
Part of the Game
Legends of the Fall
Viridiana
Strider
Box Office Poison
Blue Crush
The Longest Yard
The Hustler
Elevator to the Gallows
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In My Father's Den
SIMILAR MOVIES
Nacho Libre
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2006
Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed.Jerry Maguire
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1996
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.Steps / Qayler
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1962
The meeting of a journalist and a doctor revives the memories of the war where they had first met.The Savages
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2007
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.I've Loved You So Long
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2008
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.Summer Hours
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2008
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.Howards End
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1992
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.Rocco and His Brothers
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1960
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.Sprinter
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2019
Sprinter tells the story of Akeem Sharp who is set to be Jamaica's next big track-and-field sensation. Akeem hopes to rise in the track and field world will take him to the U.S. to reunite him with his mother who has supported the family while living as an illegal resident for over a decade. But Akeem's rising star is weighed down by turmoil at home: a volatile father, and an unruly older brother who insinuates himself into Akeem's career as a means of escaping - or perhaps enhancing - his scam artist hustle. Not only does Akeem have to prove to himself and everyone that he can succeed, but also overcome the struggles that may ultimately bring him down.Part of the Game
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2004
Legends of the Fall
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 1994
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.Viridiana
IMDB 7.6 | Apr , 1962
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.Strider
IMDB 3 | Jun , 2020
Jody, a lonely teenage girl, joins forces with Hannah, a disgraced track coach, and together they spend a summer training for the Pinnacle Games, the biggest track-and-field competition on the East Coast.Box Office Poison
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2024
A has-been actress spends her days performing with her masochistic nurse. Things take a dark turn when their fun pastimes take method acting to the next level.Blue Crush
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2002
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene - until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along...The Longest Yard
IMDB 6.7 | May , 2005
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.The Hustler
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 1961
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.Elevator to the Gallows
IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 1958
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.The Wind That Shakes the Barley
IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 2006
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.In My Father's Den
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2004
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.