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Movies that feel likeMoneyball (2011)

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.

If you loved Moneyball, the closest films we have are The Blind Side (2009), Creed (2015) and Departures (2008). All three share Moneyball'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).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bennett Millercontemplativehopeful
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The Blind Side
2009 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 65%★ 7.6drama

Two things both keep coming back to: sports and a true story

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Creed
2015 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 95%★ 7.6dramaPrime VideoHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: underdog

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

Contemplative and hopeful in the same breath

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Hopeful drama, and it commits to that

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 in both cases

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

The shared currency is hope

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

One thread runs through both: a true story

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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

The same drama instincts

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

Common ground: underdog

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 are built on the same subject: sports

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Moneyball 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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Rocky
1976 · dir. John G. Avildsen
🍅 93%★ 8.1dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Drama in the same key

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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