Movies like The Way Back
The Way Back (2020) is a drama movie directed by Gavin O'Connor. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Champions (2023)
★ 6.7 · 527 votes · Comedy, Drama
A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.
Movies like Champions →
2. The Nice Guys (2016)
★ 7.1 · 9,009 votes · Comedy, Crime, Action
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Movies like The Nice Guys →
3. Fathers and Daughters (2015)
★ 7.2 · 1,079 votes · Drama
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Movies like Fathers and Daughters →
4. Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6 · 406 votes · Drama
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Movies like Things We Lost in the Fire →
5. Creed III (2023)
★ 7.1 · 3,005 votes · Drama, Action
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.
Movies like Creed III →
6. The Lost Weekend (1945)
★ 7.6 · 691 votes · Drama
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
Movies like The Lost Weekend →
7. The Hurricane (1999)
★ 7.4 · 1,583 votes · Drama
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Movies like The Hurricane →
8. Breakthrough (2019)
★ 7.7 · 1,160 votes · Drama
Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.
Movies like Breakthrough →
9. Black or White (2015)
★ 6.8 · 368 votes · Drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Movies like Black or White →
10. Friday Night Lights (2004)
★ 6.9 · 655 votes · Drama
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
Movies like Friday Night Lights →
11. Obsession (1976)
★ 6.7 · 336 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Drama
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
Movies like Obsession →
12. Small Things Like These (2024)
★ 6.7 · 619 votes · Drama
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Movies like Small Things Like These →