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I want a man … not a human punching bag!
Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 180 ratings · 29 Mar 1949 · English · 1h 13m · Released
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Body and Soul
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 11 Nov 1947 · English
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
99 River Street
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 21 Aug 1953 · English
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
Force of Evil
Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 24 Aug 1950 · English
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Plunder Road
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 5 Dec 1957 · English
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Nightfall
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 9 Nov 1956 · English
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Champion
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 9 Apr 1949 · English
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
The Big Knife
Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 25 Oct 1955 · English
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
Hell Drivers
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 23 Jul 1957 · English
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Cigarettes & Coffee
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 3 Aug 1993 · English
At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
Dark City
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 17 Oct 1950 · English
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
5 Against the House
Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 10 Jun 1955 · English
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Rocky III
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 28 May 1982 · English
Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get back his fighting spirit.