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10 Best Movies Like Fighting Back

If you loved Fighting Back, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Tootsie

Tootsie

1982★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fighting Back for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a femin...

#2
Cry Macho

Cry Macho

2021★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fighting Back for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico....

#3
The Laughing Policeman

The Laughing Policeman

1973★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fighting Back for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt...

#4
Hussy

Hussy

1980★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fighting Back for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy....

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fighting Back for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fighting Back for fans of Thriller & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....