The Hurricane

1999-09-17

prison, new jersey, 1970s, boxer, boxing school, biography, based on memoir or autobiography, 1960s, boxing, legal thriller

A Prayer Before Dawn

2018-05-24

prison, based on novel or book, prisoner, thailand, biography, based on a true story, muay thai, kick boxing, based on memoir or autobiography, drugs, outsider, boxing, thai boxing, ladyboy, chiang mai

Coming Out of the Ice

1982-12-31

biography, based on memoir or autobiography

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956-07-04

new york city, parent child relationship, biography, marriage, army, convertible, based on memoir or autobiography, juvenile delinquent, fighting, policeman, boxing, abusive father

The Brawler

2018-01-19

new jersey, 1970s, boxer, biography, sports, champ

Pound for Pound

2017-06-15

boxing

Mary Kom

2014-09-05

boxer, training, biography, sports, based on a true story, boxing, women boxer

Chuck

2017-05-05

heavy weight, biography, boxing

Boxing Club

2012-11-22

boxing school, boxing

The Bromley  Boys

2018-06-01

1970s, football (soccer), based on memoir or autobiography

Legal Aid

2009-05-06

Wild

2014-01-16

wilderness, biography, hiking, based on a true story, memory, based on memoir or autobiography, divorcee, llama, 1990s

A Sense of Freedom

1979-10-19

scotland, glasgow, scotland, based on memoir or autobiography, prison brutality

Blaze

2018-08-17

country music, musician, biography, based on a true story, based on memoir or autobiography, songwriter

Reversal of Fortune

1990-10-05

coma, based on novel or book, biography, murder, lawyer, based on memoir or autobiography, law student, socialite, diabetes

El Inca

2016-11-25

suicide, drug addiction, biography, violence against women, based on a true story, murder, boxing

The Basketball Diaries

1995-04-21

new york city, heroin, sports, basketball, addiction, friends, based on memoir or autobiography, drugs, 1960s, school suspension

Quartet

1981-10-25

prison, theft, based on memoir or autobiography, couple, 1920s

Champion

1949-04-09

sibling relationship, boxer, sports, noir, boxing

Boxing

1892-01-01

boxing

Glass Chin

2014-04-19

buddhism, new jersey, restaurant, boxer, murder, manhattan, new york city, neo-noir, christmas, boxing

Triumph of the Spirit

1989-01-01

concentration camp, world war ii, jew persecution, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, boxer, biography, 1940s, boxing

Remember the Name

2016-05-28

boxing

The Thick-Walled Room

1956-10-31

prison, prisoner, based on memoir or autobiography, post war japan, crime against humanity

Prison Shadows

1936-07-17

boxer, murder

The Square Ring

1953-07-13

boxer

Fellini's Casanova

1976-12-07

venice, italy, biography, casanova, based on memoir or autobiography, 18th century, libertine, memoir

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

2002-06-14

1970s, zoo, puma, prank, heist, based on memoir or autobiography, catholic school, mountain lion

BlacKkKlansman

2018-07-30

ku klux klan, based on novel or book, 1970s, black panther party, biography, based on a true story, undercover cop, racism, based on memoir or autobiography, revisionist history, white supremacy, แบล็คแคลนซ์แมน

Journeyman

2018-03-30

sports, boxing

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

2008-05-09

boxer, biography, sports, boxing

Gejagt bis zum Morgen

1957-12-06

based on memoir or autobiography

Day of the Fight

1951-04-26

new jersey, boxer, twin brother, catholic, boxing

Tennessee Champ

1954-03-03

boxing

A Nice Girl Like You

2020-07-18

based on memoir or autobiography

The Fight Rules

2017-01-26

sports, boxing

The C-Word

2015-05-03

cancer, based on memoir or autobiography, blogger

Baby It's You

1983-04-03

new jersey, high school, independent film, class differences, school play, 1960s, jersey shore

Split Decisions

1988-06-11

boxer, conflict, boxing

Crown Heights

2017-08-25

biography, based on a true story, wrongful conviction, miscarriage of justice

Heavy Weight

2016-06-09

sports, fighting, boxing

The Theory of Everything

2014-11-26

husband wife relationship, biography, physicist, based on a true story, based on memoir or autobiography, fictional biography, motor neuron disease, als

Upside Down Boxers

1898-01-01

Fighter

2017-10-14

boxer, down syndrome, fighter, short

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008-10-02

new york city, journalist, failure, magazine, based on memoir or autobiography, starlet

Esquivar y pegar

2010-05-21

biography, color, boxing

Gorillas in the Mist

1988-09-23

africa, gorilla, rwanda, photographer, mountain, menace, congo, biography, poacher, murder, tracker, jungle, based on memoir or autobiography, sympathy, extinction, anthropologist

Tekken

1990-11-23

boxer

Papillon

1973-12-13

prison, prison escape, jungle, solitary confinement, based on memoir or autobiography, labor camp, devil's island, prison brutality, guyana, 1930s

Abzurdah

2015-06-04

based on novel or book, biography, argentina, based on memoir or autobiography, internet chat, troubled teen, woman director, internet culture

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

2018-04-04

portland, oregon, biography, based on a true story, car accident, drawing, based on memoir or autobiography, alcoholic, paralyzed

Svenska Floyd

1961-07-10

based on play or musical, boxing

Love Ranch

2010-06-30

nevada, brothel, boxer

Toast

2010-12-30

adolescence, cooking, nostalgia, autobiography, based on memoir or autobiography, cookies, woman director, 1960s, mother son relationship, gay

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017-11-17

1970s, biography, liverpool, cancer, based on memoir or autobiography, older woman younger man relationship, fading star

Cry Freedom

1987-11-06

journalist, 1970s, male friendship, south africa, apartheid, biography, police corruption, racism, based on memoir or autobiography, newspaper editor, cape town south africa, asylum seekers, lesotho

Last Rampage

2017-09-22

1970s, based on a true story, escaped prisoner, prison break

Doin' Time

1985-05-19

prison, penitentiary, ethnic stereotype, parody, wrongful imprisonment, boxing

The Perfect Patient

2019-09-20

Longford

2006-10-26

1970s, biography, 1960s, convicted murderer

84 Charing Cross Road

1987-02-13

london, england, bookshop, based on play or musical, based on memoir or autobiography, correspondence, 1950s, 1960s

Making Luck

2019-02-08

fight, luck, ring, boxing, short

Not Fade Away

2012-12-21

new jersey, rock band, country club, 1960s

The Naked Civil Servant

1975-12-17

london, england, homophobia, world war ii, biography, based on memoir or autobiography, lgbt, 1940s, 1930s

My Father's Glory

1990-08-29

parent child relationship, provence, southern france, biography, teacher, rural area, summer, based on memoir or autobiography, hill, turn of the century, early 1900s

J.T. LeRoy

2019-04-26

based on a true story, impersonator, writer, based on memoir or autobiography, male impersonator

On the Basis of Sex

2018-12-25

1970s, biography, supreme court, based on a true story, lawyer, justice, harvard law school, woman director, 1960s, supreme court justice

My Punch-Drunk Boxer

2019-10-09

boxer, boxing, pansori

Behind the Walls

2008-04-30

approved school , orphan, based on memoir or autobiography, 1930s

Beautiful Boy

2018-10-12

san francisco, california, based on novel or book, drug addiction, biography, based on a true story, drug rehabilitation, methamphetamine, based on memoir or autobiography, father son relationship, 2018, domenica

Whiplash

1948-12-24

boxer, noir

The Great White Hope

1970-10-11

sports, based on play or musical, boxing

Behind the Candelabra

2013-05-26

based on novel or book, celebrity, based on a true story, in the closet, las vegas, based on memoir or autobiography, gay

Malcolm X

1992-11-18

islam, new york city, prison, assassination, ku klux klan, muslim, police brutality, beach, koran, jail guard, prison cell, bible, civil rights, biography, martin luther king, nation of islam, mekka, pilgrimage, cabriolet, police, historical figure, based on memoir or autobiography, malcolm x, african american history

My Sassy Girl

2001-07-27

subway, student, based on memoir or autobiography, stranger, boyfriend girlfriend, drunkenness

Girl, Interrupted

1999-03-24

based on novel or book, suicide attempt, identity, puberty, female friendship, biography, insanity, borderline personality disorder, based on a true story, psychiatric hospital, escape, female protagonist, mental institution, based on memoir or autobiography, psychiatrist, hanging, mental illness, journal, psychiatric ward, self mutilation, 1960s

Breakthrough

2019-04-10

based on novel or book, based on memoir or autobiography