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Movies that feel like Sound of Freedom (2023)

If you loved Sound of Freedom, the closest films we have are Furie (2019), F1 (2025) and Deepwater Horizon (2016). All three share Sound of Freedom's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro Monteverdekineticcontemplative
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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%6.3action · drama · thriller

The same two preoccupations: kidnapping, and human trafficking

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.

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

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

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

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

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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Shaolin
2011 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 73%6.8action · drama

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Kinetic action in both cases

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

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Creed II
2018 · dir. Steven Caple Jr.
🍅 83%7.1drama · action

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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.

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

Action in the same key

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

One thread runs through both: a true story

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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Warrior
2011 · dir. Gavin O'Connor
🍅 84%8.1drama · action

Both know what they want from drama

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 · drama

Cut from the same action cloth

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The difference: 32 years apart, and the 1990s show

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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