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Movies that feel likeCreed II (2018)

Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.

If you loved Creed II, the closest films we have are Southpaw (2015), Deepwater Horizon (2016) and F1 (2025). All three share Creed II's contemplative and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Once Upon a Time in China (1991).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steven Caple Jr.contemplativekinetic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Creed (2015) · Creed III (2023)

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Southpaw
2015 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 59%★ 7.3action · dramaStarz

Common ground in both: sports and boxing

Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

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Deepwater Horizon
2016 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 82%★ 7.1drama · action

Contemplative where it counts, kinetic underneath

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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F1
2025 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 82%★ 7.6action · dramaApple TV+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sports

Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more chance at glory.

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Sound of Freedom
2023 · dir. Alejandro Monteverde
🍅 57%★ 7.6action · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

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Shaolin
2011 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 73%★ 6.8action · dramaPrime Video

Action built on momentum, twice over

China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. But the pride comes before a fall. When his own family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao is forced to take refuge with the monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan or rescue and escape.

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Rush
2013 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 88%★ 8.1drama · action

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

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Ip Man: The Final Fight
2013 · dir. Herman Yau
🍅 67%★ 6.1action · dramaPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Ip Man reluctantly begins a series of challenges from rival kung fu schools and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the Triads.

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The Rebel
2007 · dir. Charlie Nguyen
★ 6.8action · drama

Both play drama straight

In French ruled Vietnam in 1922, the French and Vietnamese officers plot to sniff out arch-rebel De Canh.

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Warrior
2011 · dir. Gavin O'Connor
🍅 84%★ 8.1drama · actionPrime Video

Both are action through and through

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

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Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 96%★ 8.2action · dramaNetflixParamount+

The drama is handled with the same confidence

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

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Bloodsport
1988 · dir. Newt Arnold
🍅 48%★ 6.8action · drama

Both working the same action territory

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1980s show

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

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Once Upon a Time in China
1991 · dir. Tsui Hark
🍅 90%★ 7.2action · dramaMax

Drama in the same key

In late 19th-century Canton, legendary hero Wong Fei-Hung battles foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee returns from America totally westernised, Wong assumes the role of protector. This proves difficult when his martial arts school and local militia become involved in fierce battles with foreign and local governments. As violence escalates, even Aunt Yee has to question her new western ideals, but is it possible to fight guns with Kung Fu?

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