Movies like The Ring
If The Ring's mix of love triangle, boxer and woman between two men stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Ring's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · Directed by F. W. Murnau · 94 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, silent film · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1920s)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Wings
1927 · Directed by William A. Wellman · 144 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, silent film · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1920s)
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I.
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The Boxer
1997 · Directed by Jim Sheridan · 114 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing · Also drama and romance
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill.
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Southpaw
2015 · Directed by Antoine Fuqua · 123 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing, boxing ring
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle.
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Rocky II
1979 · Directed by Sylvester Stallone · 119 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to…
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Casablanca
1943 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 102 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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The Crowd
1928 · Directed by King Vidor · 98 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: silent film · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1920s)
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous,…
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Days of Heaven
1978 · Directed by Terrence Malick · 94 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 132 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life.
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Rocky
1976 · Directed by John G. Avildsen · 120 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing
Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a…
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Real Steel
2011 · Directed by Shawn Levy · 127 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: prizefight, boxing
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
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Creed III
2023 · Directed by Michael B. Jordan · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: boxing
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is…