Movies like Rumble
If Rumble's mix of sports, deaf and boxer stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Rumble's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Creed III
2023 · Directed by Michael B. Jordan · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: sports, deaf, 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…
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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 132 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: sports, 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: sports, 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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Big George Foreman
2023 · Directed by George Tillman Jr. · 129 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: sports, boxing
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to…
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The Survivor
2022 · Directed by Barry Levinson · 129 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way…
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Ali
2001 · Directed by Michael Mann · 157 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: boxer, boxing
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public…
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Resurrecting the Champ
2007 · Directed by Rod Lurie · 112 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: sports, boxing
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away.
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Creed
2015 · Directed by Ryan Coogler · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: sports, boxing · From the same decade (2010s)
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
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Real Steel
2011 · Directed by Shawn Levy · 127 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sports, boxing · From the same decade (2010s)
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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Christy
2025 · Directed by David Michôd · 134 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: boxing
Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the…
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Bruised
2021 · Directed by Halle Berry · 129 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: sports
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager…
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The Swan
2023 · Directed by Wes Anderson · 17 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: short film
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.