Best Wrestling Movies

An aging wrestler struggles to keep up with life as he is too old to continue his wrestling career. He realizes that he has to come to terms with what life has to offer at this stage and move on.

Sewage workers Gordie Boggs and Sean Dawkins watch their hero, WCW World Heavyweight Championship holder Jimmy King cheated out of the title and embark on a quest to restore their icon’s glory.

“Beyond the Mat,” Barry Blaustein’s honest, intimate, revealing, highly entertaining, and critically acclaimed behind-the-scenes look at wrestling, takes viewers beyond the ring and into the lives of the men and women who inhabit this colorful, competitive, and surprisingly complex world.

When a star athlete decides he wants to be more in life, he sets himself goals to achieve that many don’t think he can complete. With the help of his love, he proves himself to the world.

Multimillionaire sponsor John E du Pont invites Olympic wrestlers and brothers Mark and Dave to form a wrestling facility called Foxcatcher. Their lives change when they face a horrible tragedy.

A monastery cook decides to fulfill his dream of becoming a luchador. In order to do so, he seeks help from a thief.

A TV-network boss (Kurt Fuller) pits a wrestler called Zeus against a wrestler called Rip (Hulk Hogan) in a racial match.

Mike is a struggling lawyer who volunteers at a school. He works out a deal with the grandson of a court-appointed client to support his meager income. But the boy’s mother threatens to end his game.

A trucker decides to mend his relationship with his son after his wife’s death. In a turn of events, he also participates in an arm-wrestling championship in order to rebuild his life.

A rock and roll wrestling comedy with an unscrupulous music promoter latching onto wrestling as his meal ticket.

The Carboni brothers — con man Cosmo (Sylvester Stallone), disabled war veteran Lenny (Armand Assante) and dim-witted Victor (Lee Canalito) — are determined to leave the slums of New York City. Their best escape route is the muscle-bound Victor, whom a manipulative Cosmo convinces to become a professional wrestler. The wins and prize money pile up, until neighborhood gangster Stitch wants in on the action, scheduling Victor to fight the dangerous Frankie the Thumper in a marathon match.

A documentary filmmaker (Jeff Dial) tries to prove that a new wrestler, the Mask, is, in fact, the late Mad Dog Joe.

Ex-Marine Tommy returns home and gets his father to train him for a mixed martial arts contest. But his fight has more at stake than simply the prize money since he is going to fight his own brother.

A teenage boy adjusting to life in a new town combats the disapproval and scorn of his uncle, his classmates, and his neighbors when he joins his school’s floundering wrestling team, only to become the squad’s star member.

A disgraced professional wrestler battles his demons to reclaim his life and family.

The Sheik and Andre the Giant are among the wrestling superstars who battle each other for supremacy of the ring.

A revealing look at the World Wrestling Federation through the eyes of professional grappler Bret Hart.

Sean, a former wrestler, is hired to be the nanny and bodyguard for the two children of Frank Mason because of the threats received by the family.

Blood Circus is an American science fiction movie, with a professional-wrestling theme, produced in 1985.

Mobsters try to muscle in on a wrestling promoter (Edward Asner), his helper (Elaine Giftos) and a contender (Billy Robinson) for the British title.

A teenager (Danny Mousetis) in rural Pennsylvania feels pressured by his working-class father (Jimi Petulla) to win a wrestling scholarship.

A would-be actor (Henry Winkler) brings his girlfriend (Kim Darby) to 1950s New York and becomes a garish pro wrestler.

A delicate teenager joins his school’s wrestling team and gets trained to become a wrestler, in the hope that doing so will reunite his troubled family that was separated after his father’s death.

A high-school English teacher (Edward Herrmann) and a poor student (Lorenzo Lamas) lead an underdog wrestling team to glory.