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Ever wonder why boxing is the sport most represented in the cinema, especially the Hollywood? Simple, because boxing embodies all the characteristics of the 'American Dream': sweat, dedication, perseverance, revenge. The dream of 'self-made man' which, starting from the lowest point of the social scale, is able to 'get', to 'make it' against everything and everyone. Not only that boxing is the sport 'noble' par excellence, who takes away the poor from the road and directs them to real life, perhaps providing each of them the famous 'fifteen minutes of fame'.
a boxing movie, in fact, it have been done many, many decent, other than not really memorable, some masterpieces. These here:

1. Raging Bull (M. Scorsese, 1980)

De Niro looks in the mirror and 'enter' ideally in the ring. Because only there can find dignity, to be real person. As was the old Jake La Motta. Shot in an exciting black and white, with mounting dramatic Thelma Schoonmaker. It was the turning point for Scorsese film, and perhaps the best boxing films ever made so far.

2. ROCKY (JJ Avildsen, 1976)
right, compared with the previous one seems almost blasphemous. But who is not keen on seeing the first Rocky? Who does not tremble on the famous soundtrack by Bill Conti, stallions, which climbs the steps of City Hall in Philadelphia, use liberating 'Adrianaaaaaaaaaa !!!!'. American Dream to the nth degree, but genuine.

3. WHEN WE WERE KINGS (L. Gast, 1996)

A quarter of a century to achieve it, nearly two hundred hours of footage, the camera following tireless the greatest boxers of all time. An extraordinary documentary, engaging as a direct, passionate today as then. Clay running, snorting, fight, Foreman is angry with scorn: 'I do not like, talks too much!' . Fantastic.

4. ALI (M. Mann, 2001)
him again after the documentary fiction by Michael Mann. And as in all Mann films the plot is an excuse to turn a large fresco on the social time and history. Magistral.

5. FAT CITY - CITY 'LOVE (J. Houston, 1972)
Film amiably 'classic' signed by a master of the genre, the great John Houston. Old-style cinema, mannered but timeless. Jeff Bridges on the first role in a drama that would have liked to have another 'grand old man', Clint Eastwood, who will compete for many years after.

6. Up there 'SOMEBODY LOVES ME (R. Wise, 1956)
Rocky Graziano, aka Paul Newman. The first major success of a boxing film, acting through the dry, angry, 'exaggerated' the star. Wise supports him, the camera the 'chase' without delay: the film is 'he', and the director notes.

7. Million Dollar Baby (C. Eastwood)

If Rocky was the apotheosis of the American Dream, the tragic parable of Maggie Fitzgerald is the end of an era: Maggie is white, 'old' for the sport, poor and angry. But this time there is no chance, no 'moment of glory'. Only emotion, respect, dignity and a lot of the magic of a film that only the 'grand old man' could turn 'so'.