Movies like The Champ
24 films close to The Champ (1979) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
boxing, sports, boxer · Drama · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
boxing, sports, boxer · Drama
boxing, sports · Drama
Drama · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
boxing, sports, boxer · Drama
boxing, sports, boxer · Drama
boxing, sports, boxer · Drama
remake, alcoholic · Drama · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
boxing, sports · Drama · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
alcoholic, alcoholic father, father son relationship · Drama
Drama · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
father son relationship · Drama
alcoholic, boxer · Drama
Close on feel, same era · Drama
remake · Drama
remake · Drama
boxing · Drama
alcoholic · Drama
gambling · Drama
boxing, sports, boxer · Drama · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Close on feel · Drama
alcoholic · Drama
single father, father son relationship · Drama
Close on feel, same era · Drama
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.