Movies Like DELKA: STAND-UP TALL OR FALL

If you liked DELKA: STAND-UP TALL OR FALL (2015), a movie, 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
Peaceful Warrior (2006)
★ 7.5/10
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
2
Midnight Express (1978)
★ 7.4/10
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made…
3
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
★ 5.9/10
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
4
The One and Only Ivan (2020)
★ 7.3/10
A gorilla named Ivan who’s living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
5
NYAD (2023)
★ 7.1/10
Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.
6
The Way Back (2010)
★ 7/10
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
7
Saint Judy (2018)
★ 6.9/10
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
8
The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
9
The Swimmers (2022)
★ 7.4/10
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
10
Georgetown (2019)
★ 5.9/10
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected…
11
Bedtime Stories (2008)
★ 6.2/10
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn…
12
Born Yesterday (1950)
★ 7.3/10
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
13
The Mercy (2018)
★ 5.9/10
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first…
14
Sucker Punch (2011)
★ 6.2/10
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical…
15
Interstate 60 (2002)
★ 7.4/10
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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The Mustang (2019)
★ 6.9/10
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an…
17
One from the Heart (1982)
★ 5.9/10
In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a…
18
Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
19
Unicorn Store (2017)
★ 5.9/10
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
20
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018)
★ 6.9/10
Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a…