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

Little Boy Blue
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Contender for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

Coldwater
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Contender for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

Murder at 1600
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Contender for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret...

Max
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Contender for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics...

Too Big to Fail
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Contender for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks....

Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Contender for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...