洛基电影的第五集。自从上一集洛基（西尔维斯特•史泰龙 Sylvester Stallone 饰）击败了苏联的拳击机械人后，他决意归隐，从此过些安安乐乐的日子。阴险商人杜克（东尼•布顿 Tony Burton 饰）是拳击经理人，利用拳击手赚黑心钱，他高薪引诱洛基投到他门下，洛基不为所动，断然拒绝了他的邀请。 　　退隐后的洛基还是没有离开拳击，他的好友拳击教练米克死后留下了一座拳击训练馆，洛基继承了米克的事业，每天到拳击馆里训练新人。年轻拳手绰号“机枪”的涛米极具天分，洛基倾其所有传授米涛拳术，米涛在洛基的帮助很快就跻身了优秀拳手的行列。成名后的米涛被名声和金钱所蒙蔽，投到了杜克的帐下，成了杜克阴谋的一枚棋子。 　　怒不可遏的洛基决定用自己的手段拯救米涛！

一个黑人毛头小伙莱斯（维斯罗斯•雷恩•香农 Vicellous Reon Shannon 饰）在旧书市无意中淘到了拳王“飓风”鲁本•卡特（丹泽尔•华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）在狱中写的自传，并开始了对他的故事产生了兴趣。鲁本出生于贫寒家庭，幼年时嫉恶如仇，因此与当地的白人警察结怨。后来，他因为出色的身手，名震拳坛，绰号“飓风”。此后，他参加了越战成为荣誉军官，并在某舞会偶然结识了后来的妻子。当生活进入美满轨道的时候，一次新泽西酒吧杀人案彻底毁掉了他美好希望。莱斯与鲁本通信，了解到他蒙受不白之冤，便说服了朋友们，一起查找证据，希望揭开真相，令他重获自由，然而种族歧视的恶势力却在暗中百般刁难，意图把飓风困死在牢房……

早已过了而立之年的一子整天百无聊赖，她根本无心帮助打理自家的料理店，整日玩游戏虐杀小外甥。她的妹妹二三子离婚后回到娘家，极度看不惯姐姐的作为，为此两姐妹甚至大打出手。自感不被家人所容的一子搬了出去，并在日常光顾的百元超市谋得收银员的职位。这间小店云集着许多怪人，患有忧郁症的店长、话唠猥琐的同事、因盗窃被开除却还时常回来拿临过期食品的老太。在这些人中间，一子的心情愈加苦闷。偶然机缘，她和名不见经传的拳击手狩野走到一起，无奈他们之间甚至连爱情都谈不上。极度压抑之际一子选择学习拳击，她渴望释放心中不委屈和不满，渴望获得哪怕只有一次的认可。

在1984-1985年英国矿工大罢工时期，所有人陷入一片愁云惨雾之​​中。比利家中经济拮据，只能靠父亲和哥哥努力工作填饱肚子。比利的父亲给了他学费去学习拳击课程，但在拳击场上比利精神涣散，他并不想打拳，他心中只想跳芭蕾舞。于是，他瞒着所有的人学芭蕾，教芭蕾舞的老师一开始并不是很愿意教他，直到被比利的热情感动，也唤醒了她美丽的芭蕾梦想，她发誓一定要让比利进入英国伦敦皇家芭蕾学院，而比利的确也拥有这样的天赋。没想到此时被父亲、哥哥发现，他们极力阻止比利去学芭蕾舞，但最后逐渐被比利的天分和意志力所感动，并支持比利进入芭蕾舞学院，比利也后来如愿以偿进入舞蹈学院，靠着意志力打破阶级、性别的藩篱，真正地舞动人生。

A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.

Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?

A drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.

This intimate portrait of a Thai boxer, from New York-based filmmaker Josh Hayward, reveals the rituals and pressures experienced in Bangkok's boxing culture—an environment of grueling physical and psychological tension.

Boxeo Constitución shows how, of all places, in a damp, dark boxing hall under the tracks of a train station, young people brace themselves against the social Darwinism of the social crisis. The film follows two teenage boxers from the forgotten suburbs of Buenos Aires on their way to their debut bout. It will be decided in the ring whether they can continue to hope that one day they will leave the lack of prospects in their neighborhood behind in order to "be someone". Youthful enthusiasm meets harsh reality when some of her colleagues form a boxing union.

Agressivity and the will to compete are also part of childhood. At a poor district’s boxing club the kids live a close friendship and find a place to express a fury that is violent but liberating.