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Movies that feel like Creed III (2023)

If you loved Creed III, the closest films we have are Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), Leave No Trace (2018) and How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024). All three share Creed III's contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and AMC+ and others, checked against today's data.

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael B. Jordancontemplativekineticwistfulplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Creed (2015) · Creed II (2018)

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Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 · dir. Danila Kozlovsky
5.2drama · history · action

The same mix in both: stillness, then momentum

The difference: Missing the play of Creed III

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

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Leave No Trace
2018 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 100%7.1drama

Drama built on wistfulness, twice over

The difference: None of the momentum Creed III is built on

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024 · dir. Pat Boonnitipat
🍅 98%7.9drama

Contemplative action, and it commits to that

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%7.3comedy · drama

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Creed III does

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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The Shadow's Edge
2025 · dir. Larry Yang
🍅 82%7.1action · crime · drama

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Creed III does

Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

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Like Father, Like Son
2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 86%7.8drama

Wistful drama in both cases

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%7.3comedy · music · drama

Both are built on the same subject: deaf

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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Biutiful
2010 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 66%7.4drama

Another one that scratches it

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 91%8drama · action · crime

A streak of momentum through both

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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American Reunion
2012 · dir. Jon Hurwitz
🍅 45%6.7comedy

The same preoccupation in both: husband wife relationship

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t, and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%7.3comedy · drama

Both work the same play

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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Blood Father
2016 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 89%6.4action · thriller · drama

Common ground: ex-con

An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers.

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