Movies and TvShows featuring "knockout-punch" theme.
Rocky Balboa, the reigning heavyweight champion, faces a powerful new contender, Clubber Lang, and must enlist the help of his former rival, Apollo Creed, to regain his fighting spirit and reclaim his title.
In a maximum security prison filled with supervillain inmates and corrupt staff, tensions rise, leading to anarchy and destruction.
In the fictional town of Willowpoint Falls, New York, in 1962, a young boy named Frank witnesses the ghostly apparition of a girl in the school cloakroom. Soon after, he becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving the ghost and tries to uncover the truth with the help of his friends. As he delves deeper, he finds himself in danger and must confront a dark secret that has haunted the town for years.
Tyson is a biographical film about the life and career of former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson. It explores his journey from a troubled childhood in New York City to becoming the world champion and his subsequent downfall due to personal and professional struggles.
After being released from prison, a former boxer finds himself caught up in the political turmoil of Northern Ireland, as he navigates his complicated relationships and tries to escape the violence that surrounds him.
Tired of his demoralizing life, a washed-up boxer in California tries to make a comeback, while battling with alcoholism and personal demons.
Nancy Drew, a teenage girl, becomes a reporter for a local newspaper. She gets caught up in a mystery involving a double-crosser, poisoned evidence, and a name in the headline of a newspaper. With her sleuthing skills, Nancy uncovers the truth and solves the case.
When a boxer gets entangled in a love triangle and a web of corruption, he must navigate his way to the top while protecting his loved ones.
A group of friends sets out on a vacation to a remote farm. Little do they know that they will be hunted down by a supernatural serial killer scarecrow. As their summer heat becomes a nightmare, they must fight for their lives and find a way to escape the deadly farm.
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Untamed is a melodramatic romantic drama that takes place in the jungle of South America. The story revolves around a young heiress and a penniless playboy who find love in the untamed wilderness. Their relationship is complicated by murder, greed, and societal gossip. Will they be able to overcome the challenges and find happiness in this exotic setting?
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Aspiring author Prudence "Prue" Severn leaves her staid home for the wild life in New York's artistic Greenwich Village community. Her concerned family hires two thrill-seeking ex-doughboys, bow-tied Bartley "Bart" Greer and his trigger-happy buddy Lee, to look after her and, hopefully, persuade her to come home. They move into Prue's apartment building, where she lives with a sculptress pal. Although interested in Bart, Prue senses he is being paid to watch over her-- so she decides to elope with the handsome Rolf.
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...