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10 Best Movies Like Beating the Odds

If you loved Beating the Odds, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beating the Odds for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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...

#2
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beating the Odds for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beating the Odds for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#4
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beating the Odds for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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....

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beating the Odds for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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, an...

#6
Baadasssss!

Baadasssss!

2004★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beating the Odds for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van ...

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