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Movies that feel like Rocky V (1990)

If you loved Rocky V, the closest films we have are Remember the Titans (2000), The Karate Kid (1984) and Wendy and Lucy (2008). All three share Rocky V's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

🍅 31% Rotten Tomatoes5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John G. Avildsencontemplativewarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Rocky (1976) · Rocky II (1979) · Rocky III (1982) · Rocky IV (1985) · Rocky Balboa (2006)

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Remember the Titans
2000 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 72%7.8drama

Two things both keep coming back to: friendship and sports

The difference: Reviewed even better

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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The Karate Kid
1984 · dir. John G. Avildsen
🍅 81%7.3action · drama · family

John G. Avildsen working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to action than Rocky V does

New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of thugs, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%7.1drama

Common ground: friendship

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%7.6drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then warmth

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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Girl, Interrupted
1999 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 53%7.3drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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Midnight Cowboy
1969 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 89%7.8drama

Drama built on warmth, twice over

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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La Haine
1995 · dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
🍅 96%8.1drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

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Pleasure
2021 · dir. Ninja Thyberg
🍅 88%6.3drama

The shared currency is warmth

19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

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The Illusionist
2010 · dir. Sylvain Chomet
🍅 90%7.4animation · drama

Both play drama straight

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · dir. Miloš Forman
🍅 92%8.6drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

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Good Will Hunting
1997 · dir. Gus Van Sant
🍅 97%8.4drama

Drama of the same temperament

Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.

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Gran Torino
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 81%8.1drama

The same drama instincts

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

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