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10 Best Movies Like World Champion

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

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#1
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020‱★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020‱★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014‱★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#4
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996‱★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980‱★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002‱★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

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