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Movies that feel like Gran Turismo (2023)

If you loved Gran Turismo, the closest films we have are Ford v Ferrari (2019), F1 (2025) and The Blind Side (2009). All three share Gran Turismo's contemplative 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 Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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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Ford v Ferrari
2019 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 92%8.1drama · history · action

Both are working the same pair: sports, a true story

The difference: Not nearly as hopeful as Gran Turismo

American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

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F1
2025 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 82%7.6action · drama

The same two preoccupations: racing, and motorsport

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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The Blind Side
2009 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 66%7.6drama

Both are built on the same subject: sports

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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The Tomorrow War
2021 · dir. Chris McKay
🍅 51%6.6action · science fiction · adventure

Epic and kinetic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Gran Turismo does

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

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Hope
2013 · dir. Lee Joon-ik
8.2drama

Common ground: a true story

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hopeful

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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Moneyball
2011 · dir. Bennett Miller
🍅 94%7.6drama

Both land stillness and hope at once

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 Last Witch Hunter
2015 · dir. Breck Eisner
🍅 17%5.9action · adventure · fantasy

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Gran Turismo does

The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

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The Incredibles
2004 · dir. Brad Bird
8action · adventure · animation

The same preoccupation in both: enthusiastic

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

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Creed
2015 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 95%7.6drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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.

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Ip Man 4: The Finale
2019 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 85%7action · history · drama

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.

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Fearless
2006 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 73%7.6drama · action

Hopeful drama in both cases

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

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