Best Boxing movies of 1980s

Actors : Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Dennis Quaid, Pam Grier,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. ...

Actors : Phillip Ko, Lung Wei Wang, Shao-Yen Lin, Kar-Man Wai,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.

Actors : Brent Beckett, Hawthorne James, Maggie Hughes, Michael Michaud,
Directors : William T. Naud,

In this parody of the Rocky films, Ricky Wanero is a male gigolo and stripper who sets out to beat "The Champ" in the boxing ring.

Actors : John McLiam, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : David Drury,

When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Rick Hearst, Jon Stafford, Vernon Wells,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.

Actors : Mr. T, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ernie Hudson, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.

Actors : Florinda Chico, Andrés Pajares, Antonio Ozores, Fernando Esteso,
Directors : Mariano Ozores,

Federico provides accommodation in his house for his friend Roque who is unemployed and becomes annoying. To get rid of him, Fernando tries to make Roque a boxing champion who will be able to challenge the current national boxing champion.

Actors : Perry Lang, Nikki Swasey Seaton, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : George Bowers,

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Francis Huster, Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Marin Moraru, Mihail Vasile Boghita, Constantin Brînzea,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Andrei is now a truck driver. But on one of his travels to Germany, he must become a boxer once again just for one night in the middleweight category.

Actors : René Weller, Jacqueline Elber, Peter Althof, Bea Fiedler,
Directors : Alexander Titus Benda,

A boxing-champion and a karate master fight the drug scene of Nuremberg

Actors : Giorgos Vasileiou, Stathis Psaltis, Magda Tsagani, Sofia Aliberti,
Directors : Yiannis Hartomatzidis,

A really skinny guy finds out that he has incredible strength in his punches. After starting a boxing career a lot of people try to take advantage of his talent.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Leo Fong, Diane Stevenett, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Leo Fong plays a private investigator who is in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...

Actors : Jason Hoganson, Jamie Foreman, Cathryn Harrison, Glen Murphy,
Directors : Ron Peck,

In London's yuppie-dominated docklands of the 1980s Paul tries to make a deal with an American businessman However, he underestimates the clout of his old boss, a powerful Eastender.

Actors : Antônio Fagundes, José Lewgoy, Maitê Proença, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Guilherme de Almeida Prado,

Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He ...

Actors : Jorge Rivero, Edward Albert, Mike Connors, Brenda Bakke,
Directors : Frank Zuniga,

An ex-boxer comes back to a town called Rosario in South America taking revenge for the death of a friend.

Actors : Karen Kirishima, Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Yamato, Toshiya Fujita,
Directors : Junji Sakamoto,

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer.

Actors : Gianrico Tedeschi, Faith Minton, Roland Bock, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his ...

Actors : Giannis Zavradinos, Efi Pikoula, Dionysis Xanthos, Tonia Vithoulka,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

Sifis, a young boxer, is going to challenge the Greek champion Vlassis Hristou, despite the opposition of his cruel, conservative father. His little sister Maria, a virgin teenager, gets ...

Actors : Hye-suk Jeong, Jin-a No, Hie-gab Kim, Chu-ryeon Kim,
Directors : Il-Ho Jang,

A boxer dies after a title fight but, because it was not his time, his spirit is sent back into the body of a man who has just died of poisoning. As the dead man suddenly awakens, his ...