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Movies Like Playing the Crease

If you liked Playing the Crease (2021), a drama movie directed by Jonathan Moch, 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. 1Gracie

    Gracie (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

  2. 2Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

  3. 3Where Hope Grows

    Where Hope Grows (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life…

  4. 4Amateur

    Amateur (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.

  5. 5Jungleland

    Jungleland (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also 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.

  6. 6Herself

    Herself (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a…

  7. 7Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10Also 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.

  8. 8The Cut

    The Cut (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal…

  9. 9Sudden Death

    Sudden Death (1995)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending…

  10. 10Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  11. 11Being Flynn

    Being Flynn (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.

  12. 12Burning Sands

    Burning Sands (2017)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

  13. 13The Operative

    The Operative (2019)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

  14. 14Kisses

    Kisses (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

  15. 15Rogue Agent

    Rogue Agent (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

  16. 16Dear Zoe

    Dear Zoe (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Tess enlists her biological father – a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks – and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death of her little sister.

  17. 17Honey: Rise Up and Dance

    Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10Also 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.

  18. 18Triumph

    Triumph (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.

  19. 19The Congress

    The Congress (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

  20. 20Above the Rim

    Above the Rim (1994)

    ★ 7.1/10Also 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.

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