Best Boxing movies of 1980s

Actors : Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

Actors : Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone, Sage Stallone,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Reluctantly retired from boxing, and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him, as the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.

Actors : Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi, Jean-Claude Van Damme,

Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.

Actors : John Astin, Paul Sand, Jason Bateman, Kim Darby,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward, Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani,
Directors : James Foley,

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both...

Actors : Jack Scalia, Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Jerry Calà, Bud Spencer, Kallie Knoetze, Stefano Mingardo,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Bud "Bomber" Graziano (Bud Spencer) retired from boxing as heavyweight champion and has sworn to never fight again. While living his life on a ship he meets Jerry Cala' (Jerry Cala) who ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Rajkumar Santoshi,

Ajay Mehra, an amateur boxer, takes revenge against Balwant Rai, a crooked businessman, after his elder brother is killed.

Actors : Rachid Ferrache, Frank Hoffmann, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

In 1936, a French boxer on his way to the Berlin Olympic Games befriends a local Jewish boy and decides to save him from the Nazis.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ángela Molina, Wesley Snipes, Adrian Pasdar,
Directors : Joe Roth,

Alek is an immigrant from the Soviet Union who was a talented boxer in his day, but he was not allowed on the Soviet national team because he was a Jew. Depressed and discouraged, he meets ...

Actors : David Keith, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Miriam Colon,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Actors : Kim Richards, John Mengatti, Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp,
Directors : Ken Wiederhorn,

Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Thomas Quinn, Debra Feuer, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Michael Seresin,

A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planing a big score.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laurent Terzieff, Nathalie Baye, Aurelle Doazan,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge ...

Actors : Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Anne De Salvo, Sylvia Miles,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob...

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.