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10 Best Movies Like The Sprinter

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

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#1
Fast Girls

Fast Girls

2012★ 6.1

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

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

#2
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sprinter for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

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 gettin...

#5
Fire with Fire

Fire with Fire

1986★ 6.2

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

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, ...

#6
The Cut

The Cut

2025★ 6.0

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

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 em...

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