Best Boxing Movies
The best boxing movies ever made, ranked by audience score. City Lights takes it at 8.3, and the 20 films below prove how much range the premise has — Million Dollar Baby, Raging Bull and Rocky pull it in completely different directions.
20 titles · average score 7.4 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
City Lights (1931)
★ 8.3 · 2,510 ratingsA tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
- 2
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
★ 8.0 · 10,505 ratingsDespondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help…
- 3
Raging Bull (1980)
★ 7.9 · 4,845 ratingsThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
- 4
Rocky (1976)
★ 7.8 · 8,803 ratingsRocky 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…
- 5
Gladiator (1992)
★ 7.6 · 415 ratingsTommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing — where…
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How this list is ranked
Nothing on this page is hand-picked to hit a word count. We pull films matching this list's criteria from TMDB, require a real audience behind each score, and rank by that score — 20 titles averaging 7.4. The page rebuilds daily, so new releases appear here as soon as enough people have rated them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best boxing movie?
City Lights (1931) at 8.3, ahead of Million Dollar Baby and Raging Bull. All 20 films on this page average 7.4.
How do you find boxing movies?
Through TMDB's keyword tagging, which is maintained by its community and goes far deeper than genre labels — it catches films that share a premise even when they belong to completely different genres.
Is this list updated?
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