Movies like The Ring
If The Ring's mix of sports and boxing 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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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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Million Dollar Baby
2004 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 132 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: sports, 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, 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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Creed
2015 · Directed by Ryan Coogler · 133 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: sports, boxing
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
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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Above the Rim
1994 · Directed by Jeff Pollack · 96 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: sports
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
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Hands of Stone
2016 · Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz · 111 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: boxing
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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Amateur
2018 · Directed by Ryan Koo · 96 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: sports
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.