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Deepwater Horizon (2016)

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.

🍅 82%7.1dir. Peter Bergcontemplativekinetic

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

shares that contemplative feel

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.

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

shares that kinetic feel

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

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

both about based on true story · same contemplative energy

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.

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

same kinetic energy

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.

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

just as contemplative

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.

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

just as kinetic

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.

Lone Survivor
2013 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 75%7.5war · action · drama

same director (Peter Berg) · both about based on true story

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the fin

Dunkirk
2017 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 92%7.8war · action · drama

kindred drama spirit

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Fury
2014 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 75%7.6war · drama · action

kindred action spirit

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

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

kindred drama spirit

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.

San Andreas
2015 · dir. Brad Peyton
🍅 48%6.1action · drama · thriller

both about disaster

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

Captain Phillips
2013 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 93%7.8action · drama · thriller

kindred action spirit

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

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