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Movies Like Sporting Blood

If you liked Sporting Blood (1940), a drama movie directed by S. Sylvan Simon, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Black Beauty

    Black Beauty (2020)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters…

  2. 2A Sunday Horse

    A Sunday Horse (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.

  3. 3Black Beauty

    Black Beauty (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

  4. 4Flicka

    Flicka (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…

  5. 5Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

    Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story (2005)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.

  6. 6Ride Like a Girl

    Ride Like a Girl (2019)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.

  7. 7Secretariat

    Secretariat (2010)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien…

  8. 8Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

  9. 9Won't Back Down

    Won't Back Down (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…

  10. 10Flicka: Country Pride

    Flicka: Country Pride (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.

  11. 11Seabiscuit

    Seabiscuit (2003)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    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.

  12. 12Hud

    Hud (1963)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict…

  13. 13Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  14. 14American Underdog

    American Underdog (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.

  15. 15The Color of Friendship

    The Color of Friendship (2000)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from…

  16. 16Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  17. 17Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

    Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's…

  18. 18Overcomer

    Overcomer (2019)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    After reluctantly agreeing to coach cross-country, high school basketball Coach John Harrison helps the least likely runner attempt the impossible in the biggest race of the year.

  19. 19Ice Castles

    Ice Castles (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Young, beautiful, talented Alexis Winston comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. But her rise to stardom isn’t easy. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her…

  20. 20Into the West

    Into the West (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

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