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Movies that feel likeSound of Freedom (2023)

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.

If you loved Sound of Freedom, the closest films we have are F1 (2025), Deepwater Horizon (2016) and Shaolin (2011). All three share Sound of Freedom'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 Furie (2019).

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro Monteverdekineticcontemplative
10 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · Hulu · Apple TV

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

Kinetic where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Kinetic action in both cases

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

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Creed II
2018 · dir. Steven Caple Jr.
🍅 83%★ 7.1drama · actionPrime VideoHulu

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Flight Crew
2016 · dir. Nikolay Lebedev
★ 6.6actionPrime Video

Both play action straight

The difference: Trades the stillness of Sound of Freedom for an angle of its own

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

Drama in the same key

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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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%★ 6.3action · drama · thrillerPrime Video

The same two preoccupations: kidnapping, and human trafficking

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Sound of Freedom does

When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.

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

Both know what they want from 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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Flash Point
2007 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 41%★ 6.7actionPrime Video

The action is handled with the same confidence

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 of the same temperament

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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