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Movies that feel likeCreed (2015)

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

If you loved Creed, the closest films we have are Moneyball (2011), The Blind Side (2009) and Departures (2008). All three share Creed's contemplative and hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is In America (2003).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ryan Cooglercontemplativehopeful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Creed II (2018) · Creed III (2023)

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Moneyball
2011 · dir. Bennett Miller
🍅 94%★ 7.6dramaHulu

An underdog rewriting a sport's rules with brains instead of pedigree

The difference: The fight happens in spreadsheets — no physical training-arc rush

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

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The Blind Side
2009 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 65%★ 7.6drama

A sports rise powered by someone who chooses to believe in you

The difference: Sentimental and tidy where Creed keeps its edges

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%★ 8drama

A man finding dignity and purpose in work no one respects at first

The difference: Gentle Japanese pacing — no adrenaline, all quiet grace

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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Like Stars on Earth
2007 · dir. Aamir Khan
🍅 93%★ 8.3drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then hope

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

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In America
2003 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 90%★ 7.7drama

Scraping by in a tough city while grief and hope share the same room

The difference: An immigrant family portrait with no arena to win in

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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Swades
2004 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 90%★ 8.2dramaNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
2010 · dir. Wagner de Assis
★ 6.5drama

A flawed man forced to rebuild himself from the bottom up

The difference: A spiritist vision of the afterlife — faith drama, far from any gym

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

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Awakenings
1990 · dir. Penny Marshall
🍅 81%★ 7.8drama

A mentor and a protege who end up bringing each other back to life

The difference: Hospital-set and heartbreaking — victory here is fragile by nature

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

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Hope
2013 · dir. Lee Joon-ik
★ 8.2drama

Quiet resilience — people refusing to let tragedy define what comes next

The difference: Emotionally brutal viewing about a child's recovery, nowhere near a ring

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

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Rocky
1976 · dir. John G. Avildsen
🍅 93%★ 8.1dramaPrime VideoParamount+

The original one-shot-at-the-big-time story that Creed grew out of

The difference: Scrappier and slower, with '70s grain in place of modern polish

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!

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A Few Good Men
1992 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 85%★ 7.7dramaMax

A cocky young talent proving himself against an institution's giants

The difference: Courtroom verbal sparring stands in for any physical contest

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

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Gran Turismo
2023 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
★ 7.1adventure · drama · actionMaxHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sports

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Creed does

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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