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Movies that feel like Hustle (2022)

If you loved Hustle, the closest films we have are Hit the Road (2021), Caramelo (2025) and Instant Family (2018). All three share Hustle's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jeremiah Zagarcontemplativewittyplayful
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Hit the Road
2021 Β· dir. Panah Panahi
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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Caramelo
2025 Β· dir. Diego Freitas
β˜… 7.1comedy Β· drama

Drama built on play, twice over

After a life-changing diagnosis, a promising chef finds hope and humor with the help of a fur-midable dog friend.

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Instant Family
2018 Β· dir. Sean Anders
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

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Babylon
2022 Β· dir. Damien Chazelle
πŸ… 57%β˜… 7.1drama Β· comedy

Both lean on wit more than on drama

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

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Taxi
2015 Β· dir. Jafar Panahi
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Playful comedy in both cases

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

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Two Is a Family
2016 Β· dir. Hugo GΓ©lin
πŸ… 43%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

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I, Tonya
2017 Β· dir. Craig Gillespie
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5drama Β· comedy

The same preoccupation in both: sports

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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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 Β· dir. Daniel Rezende
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.9comedy Β· drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.

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August: Osage County
2013 Β· dir. John Wells
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Both work the same play

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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Instructions Not Included
2013 Β· dir. Eugenio Derbez
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

The same drama instincts

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 Β· dir. James Franco
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Comedy approached the same way

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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Gloria
2013 Β· dir. SebastiΓ‘n Lelio
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· drama

Drama of the same temperament

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcΓ©e. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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