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Movies that feel likeGran Turismo (2023)

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

If you loved Gran Turismo, the closest films we have are Departures (2008), The Blind Side (2009) and Moneyball (2011). All three share Gran Turismo's contemplative and hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Heart of the Beast (2026).

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%★ 8drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hopeful

The difference: Easier on the scale than Gran Turismo

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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The Blind Side
2009 · dir. John Lee Hancock
🍅 65%★ 7.6drama

Two things both keep coming back to: sports and a true story

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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Moneyball
2011 · dir. Bennett Miller
🍅 94%★ 7.6dramaHulu

Common ground: sports

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

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Like Stars on Earth
2007 · dir. Aamir Khan
🍅 93%★ 8.3drama

Both are built on the same subject: hopeful

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

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Heart of the Beast
2026 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 85%★ 7.5adventure · thrillerRent or buy

Both land scale and hope at once

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Gran Turismo does

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.

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Fearless
2006 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 73%★ 7.5drama · action

Contemplative and kinetic in the same breath

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

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The Tomorrow War
2021 · dir. Chris McKay
🍅 51%★ 6.6action · science fiction · adventurePrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Gran Turismo does

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

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The Last Witch Hunter
2015 · dir. Breck Eisner
🍅 17%★ 5.9action · adventure · fantasy

Action built on momentum, twice over

The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

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Carry-On
2024 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 87%★ 6.5thriller · actionNetflix

Hopeful drama in both cases

An airport security officer races to outsmart a mysterious traveler forcing him to let a dangerous item slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
2010 · dir. Wagner de Assis
★ 6.5drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

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Creed
2015 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 95%★ 7.6dramaPrime VideoHulu

Contemplative adventure, and it commits to that

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

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In America
2003 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 90%★ 7.7drama

Hopeful action, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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