10 Best Movies Like Run for the Roses
If you loved Run for the Roses, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Let It Ride
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Run for the Roses for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible d...

Rudy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Run for the Roses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a lit...

Seabiscuit
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Run for the Roses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation....

50 to 1
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Run for the Roses for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on th...

Chariots of Fire
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Run for the Roses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scotti...

Richard Jewell
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Run for the Roses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, onl...