If You Liked Hardball, Watch These Next
Finished Hardball (2001) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Hardball, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
3.The Young One(1960)
7.0DramaAlso drama
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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4.The Safety of Objects(2002)
6.5DramaAlso drama
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, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new…
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5.Imperial Dreams(2014)
6.5DramaAlso drama
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
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6.Cardboard Boxer(2016)
6.5DramaAlso drama
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
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7.All Day and a Night(2020)
6.2DramaAlso drama
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.
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8.El Chicano(2019)
6.6DramaAlso drama
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
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9.Battle of the Year(2013)
6.8MusicDramaAlso drama
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
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11.Hands of Stone(2016)
6.6DramaAlso drama
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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12.The Nest(2020)
6.1DramaAlso drama
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life…
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13.Jungleland(2020)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
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14.Bastard Out of Carolina(1996)
7.1DramaAlso drama
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 and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
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16.The Carpetbaggers(1964)
6.0DramaAlso drama
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
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18.Welcome to Sudden Death(2020)
6.1ActionDramaAlso drama
Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team's owner and Jesse's daughter during opening night. Facing a ticking clock and impossible…
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19.Only the Strong(1993)
6.9ActionDramaAlso drama
Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to kick several drug dealers off of the school property, Kerrigan, one of Stevens'…
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20.Fast Charlie(2023)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso drama
When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.
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