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If you liked The Wrestler, you might also like...

posted 9 years ago by J-No
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Million Dollar Baby
Hoosiers
The Natural
Rocky II
The Champ (1979)
Rocky
The Hustler

Please add other Drama/Sport films to this list.

[–] jayhn1111 9 years ago

I wouldn't really compare those to this movie. None of the movies you mentioned made people wanna slit their wrists.

[–] theunopeneddoor-697-442391 9 years ago

I didn't want to slit my wrists form this movie. It was sad, btu I've seen WAY more depressing.

The Champ was about the same level of depressing as this.

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[–] jayhn1111 9 years ago

I enjoyed it strictly because I"m a big wrestling fan. I wouldn't say it's the most depressing ever, but it's up there. Requiem for a dream was the worst I ever saw probably. Didn't realize it was the same guy doing this movie until after the fact.

[–] theunopeneddoor-697-442391 9 years ago

Grave of the Fireflies makes Requiem for a Dream look like a light comedy.

And Million Dollar Baby which the OP listed was way more depressing than The Wrestler IMO.

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[–] jayhn1111 9 years ago

For some reason it seems like the more disturbing and depressing a movie is, the more it is considered some sort of masterpiece. Also with dream sequences added on as well. I've heard that with requiem, black swan, and a few others. I'd put black swan and requiem for a dream in my top 5 movies that I despised the most. I"m not putting it down, to each his own, but it is totally not my thing.

[–] el_cochino55 8 years ago

Th closest movie to this in depressing was Requiem for a Heavyweight with Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney. It was filmed in black and white in the sleaze of old New York. Plus it had the old great boxers in some gritty looking bars drinking beer.