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Movies that feel like The Rebel (2007)

If you loved The Rebel, the closest films we have are Deepwater Horizon (2016), Southpaw (2015) and Creed II (2018). All three share The Rebel's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Angel Studios, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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

6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Charlie Nguyenkineticcontemplative

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

Action built on momentum, twice over

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Both trade on momentum more than on being action

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

The same action instincts

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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Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 96%8.2action · drama

Drama approached the same way

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

Cut from the same action cloth

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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Jana Nayagan
2026 · dir. H. Vinoth
5.6action · drama

Both are drama through and through

A clash of ideologies. One stands for the people, the other feeds on control. Their paths collided once before. Years later, a child’s silent fear ignites the past, drawing a former police officer into a battle far bigger than personal revenge.

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King Kong
2005 · dir. Peter Jackson
🍅 84%7.2adventure · drama · action

Both are action through and through

The difference: Plays it as adventure more than The Rebel does

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

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Real Steel
2011 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 60%7.1action · science fiction · drama

Both are drama through and through

The difference: Leans science fiction where The Rebel does not

Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.

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Merantau
2009 · dir. Gareth Evans
6.7action · drama · thriller

The same action instincts

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

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