Movies Similar to Joe Palooka, Champ

The Amazing Screw-On Head(2006)

Based on the award-winning comic book by Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), The Amazing Screw-On Head chronicles the adventures of a Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power who serves under president Abraham Lincoln.

6.9

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie(2022)

When five lovely young girls who hate studying hire part-time tutor Futaro, he guides not only their education but also their hearts. Time spent has brought them all closer, with feelings growing within the girls and Futaro. As they finish their third year of high school and their last school festival approaches, they set their sights on what’s next. Is there a future with one of them and Futaro?

8.3

Taming the Wild(1936)

Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection with one of her misadventures, she winds up in jail and has to be bailed out by the family attorney, Dick Clayton. But June is soon in trouble again, this time involved with a mob boss and a shady lady. Exasperated by his wealthy client's reckless escapades, Clayton determines to quit... until he realizes he has fallen in love with the little madcap.

5.5

Pony Glass(1997)

Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

3.5

Brandon Rising(2019)

Brandon Rising is rising up the ranks of boxing, but to become the number 1 boxer, he must defeat the evil Beelzebubba.

10.0

Jengibre contra Dinamita(1939)

He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" (Covered Eye).

6.5

The Miracle Kid(1941)

A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.

5.0

Boxers Go to Heaven(1967)

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.

6.5

Mortadelo & Filemon: Mission Implausible(2014)

A criminal produces an uncontrollable laughter to the population and Mortadelo and Filemón will have to stop him.

6.8

Indoor Sports by Tad(1920)

The film begins with an obese woman going to the shoe store and insisting she's a size 3 1/2--though she's obviously much larger. Then, out of the blue, a cat and a stick figure appear and make fun of the woman--making fat jokes and the like.

5.0

Pop 'im Pop!(1950)

A circus comes to town featuring Gracie the Fighting Kangaroo and her youngster, Hippety Hopper.

6.6

En Büyük Şaban(1983)

A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation.

6.3

The Diary of a Teenage Girl(2015)

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

6.6

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King(2014)

A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.

6.7

Two-Fisted(1935)

A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.

7.0

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun(1969)

When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations where the sinister living mummy of Rascar Capac appears.

6.6

The Little Panda Fighter(2009)

A panda named Pancada, who works at a boxing club, wishes to become a dancer but gets caught up in an upcoming fight due to a case of mistaken identity.

2.2

I due assi del guantone(1971)

Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters.

4.2

The Gang of Eleven(1963)

Inspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.

6.0

There Are No Small Gods(1961)

In a small motel located next to the highway there's nothing but boredom and laziness, but only until the waiter Raka gets promotion becoming a DE chief (Duty executor) of it. He becomes obsessed with his position in no time, start pushing everybody around and acting like a "Small God", introducing reorganization. The staff prepares their revenge upon the visit of the general manager of all motels to this so-called renovated facility.

5.8