Raging Bull

50 Movies Like Raging Bull (1980) You Need to Watch Next

1980·Martin ScorseseiRank86
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The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

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Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece charts boxer Jake LaMotta, whose ferocity in the ring mirrors the jealousy and rage that destroy his life outside it. Shot in stark black-and-white with brutal, beautiful fights, it's a towering character study of self-destruction. If its raw power and tragic intensity gripped you, seek out boxing dramas and unflinching portraits of violent men consumed from within.

If you loved Raging Bull (1980) by Martin Scorsese, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Coach Carter, The Fighter, King Richard. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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