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Movies that feel likeSouthpaw (2015)

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.

If you loved Southpaw, the closest films we have are Creed II (2018), Deepwater Horizon (2016) and Rush (2013). All three share Southpaw's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Sound of Freedom (2023).

🍅 59% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antoine Fuquakineticcontemplative
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Creed II
2018 · dir. Steven Caple Jr.
🍅 83%★ 7.1drama · actionPrime VideoHulu

Common ground in both: sports and boxing

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

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sports

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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F1
2025 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 82%★ 7.6action · dramaApple TV+

Action built on momentum, twice over

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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Shaolin
2011 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 73%★ 6.8action · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Warrior
2011 · dir. Gavin O'Connor
🍅 84%★ 8.1drama · actionPrime Video

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Sound of Freedom
2023 · dir. Alejandro Monteverde
🍅 57%★ 7.6action · dramaPrime Video

Action in the same key

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.

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The Rebel
2007 · dir. Charlie Nguyen
★ 6.8action · drama

Both know what they want from drama

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

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Rocky III
1982 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 66%★ 6.9drama · actionPrime VideoParamount+

Common ground: boxer

The difference: 33 years apart, and the 1980s show

Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get back his fighting spirit.

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Training Day
2001 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 74%★ 7.8action · crime · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Antoine Fuqua

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Southpaw does

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

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Bloodsport
1988 · dir. Newt Arnold
🍅 48%★ 6.8action · drama

The action is handled with the same confidence

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

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