Movies like Gladiator

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Judgment Night

   Shared cast

   1993 · 110 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: boxing and chicago, illinois
   • a principal cast member

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   The Hurricane

   Similar atmosphere

   1999 · 146 min · Drama

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   The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: boxer and boxing
   • similar audience response

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   Raging Bull

   Strong story similarity

   1980 · 129 min · Drama · History

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   The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: boxer and boxing
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Do the Right Thing

   Shared cast

   1989 · 120 min · Drama

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   Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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   Girlfight

   Similar atmosphere

   2000 · 110 min · Drama

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   Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn teenager, decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, all while keeping it a secret from her father.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: boxing and sports

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   White Men Can't Jump

   Strong story similarity

   1992 · 115 min · Comedy · Drama

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   Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Ali

   Strong story similarity

   2001 · 157 min · Drama

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   In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: boxer and boxing

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   TwentyFourSeven

   Strong story similarity

   1998 · 96 min · Drama

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   In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: boxing and sports

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   The Basketball Diaries

   Genre overlap

   1995 · 102 min · Crime · Drama

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   A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

   Why it connects

   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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    A Murder of Crows

    Same director

    1999 · 102 min · Action · Crime · Thriller

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    In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • a principal cast member

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