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Movies that feel likeCreed II (2018)

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.

If you loved Creed II, the closest films we have are Southpaw (2015), Deepwater Horizon (2016) and F1 (2025). All three share Creed II's contemplative and kinetic 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).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steven Caple Jr.contemplativekinetic
9 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · Apple TV · Angel Studios

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Creed (2015) · Creed III (2023)

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

Common ground in both: sports and boxing

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

Contemplative where it counts, kinetic 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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F1
2025 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 82%★ 7.6action · dramaApple TV+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sports

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Action built on momentum, twice over

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, 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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Flight Crew
2016 · dir. Nikolay Lebedev
★ 6.6actionPrime Video

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Creed II

A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.

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

Both working the same drama territory

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

Both play action straight

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

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

Both are drama through and through

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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Flash Point
2007 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 41%★ 6.7actionPrime Video

Action approached the same way

Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland China's takeover of Hong Kong. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. A showdown is inevitable!

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Invisible Target
2007 · dir. Benny Chan
★ 6.7action

Action in the same key

When the Ronin Gang robs an armored car, three cops — Chan, Fong and Wai — go on the warpath. Each has a personal interest in bringing down Ronin leader Tien: he killed Chan's fiancée, humiliated Fong and kidnapped Wai's brother.

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