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.
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 ...
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.
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.
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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.
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.
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
During World War II, an American newspaper reporter in Tokyo uncovers a plot by the Japanese government to take over the world. He becomes the target of assassination attempts as he tries to expose the truth.
The Violent Years follows the story of a teenage girl gang led by a delinquent 18-year-old girl from a rich family. The gang gets involved in armed robberies, murder trials, and various criminal activities. As their crimes escalate, their actions become more dangerous and thrilling, leading to a devastating outcome.
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.
A repo man tries to deliver a repossessed Jaguar. He's captured by a bizarre family, straight out of the backwoods, who force him to fight in an illegal, bare-fist tournament run by an insane sheriff.