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Movies that feel likeAmerican Made (2017)

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

If you loved American Made, the closest films we have are Hustlers (2019), War Dogs (2016) and Going in Style (2017). All three share American Made's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bottle Rocket (1996).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Doug Limanwittyplayfulgrittycontemplative
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Hustlers
2019 · dir. Lorene Scafaria
🍅 88%★ 6.3drama · comedy · crimeHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

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War Dogs
2016 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 62%★ 7.1comedy · crime · drama

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

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Going in Style
2017 · dir. Zach Braff
🍅 82%★ 6.6crime · comedy · drama

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

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I, Tonya
2017 · dir. Craig Gillespie
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · comedyRent or buy

Common ground: a true story

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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Bad Santa
2003 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 78%★ 7drama · comedy · crimeMax

Comedy built on wit, twice over

You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.

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Chicago
2002 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · crime · dramaParamount+

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 90%★ 7.2western · comedy · dramaNetflix

Both lean on grit more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to western than American Made does

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

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The Longest Yard
2005 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 31%★ 6.4drama · comedy · crimeParamount+Starz

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

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Adaptation.
2002 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedy · crime · drama

Witty crime in both cases

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

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★ 6.8action · comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: illegal drugs

The difference: Trades the stillness of American Made for an angle of its own

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

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Bottle Rocket
1996 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 86%★ 6.9comedy · crime · drama

Playful drama in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

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Seven Psychopaths
2012 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · crime

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than American Made does

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

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