Movies like Champion: 20 to watch next
If you loved Champion (2025) — a history and drama film directed by Pradeep Advaitham — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Champion most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like football (soccer) and sports drama. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher 2022★ 6.2
Shares: History, Drama
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Beast 2026★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, JioHotstar
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Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire 2023★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
The fate of a violently contested kingdom hangs on the fraught bond between two friends-turned-foes.
Stream in India on Netflix, VI movies and tv, JioHotstar
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Queen of the Ring 2025★ 6.8
Shares: History, Drama
In a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the country, a small town single mother embraces the danger to change culture as she dominates America's most masculine sport to become the first million dollar female athlete in history.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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40 Acres 2025★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, JioHotstar
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The Smashing Machine 2025★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, History
In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Field of Lost Shoes 2015★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, History
A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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Bruised 2021★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out
Stream in India on Netflix
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I Am Elizabeth Smart 2017★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory 2012★ 7.0
Shares: History, Drama
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Braveheart 1995★ 7.9
Shares: History, Drama
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Above the Rim 1994★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Final Score 2018★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
When a stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed criminals during a major sporting event, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save both the daughter of a fallen comrade and the huge crowd unaware of the danger.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Pushpa 2 - The Rule 2024★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
As his smuggling empire grows, a brazen Pushpa longs for power and respect on his vengeful journey, while facing old rivals and new.
Stream in India on Netflix
- 15
Honey: Rise Up and Dance 2018★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mexicali 2026★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hardball 2001★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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National Champions 2021★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Firebrand 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, History
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Convict 2014★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now