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Movies that feel like Hustlers (2019)

If you loved Hustlers, the closest films we have are American Made (2017), Happy New Year (2014) and Magic Mike (2012). All three share Hustlers' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 88% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lorene Scafariacontemplativewittyplayfulgritty
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American Made
2017 Β· dir. Doug Liman
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime Β· drama

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

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

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Happy New Year
2014 Β· dir. Farah Khan
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5crime Β· comedy

One thread runs through both: stripper

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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Magic Mike
2012 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.1drama Β· comedy

Common ground: strip club

The difference: Missing the grit of Hustlers

Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

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The Longest Yard
2005 Β· dir. Peter Segal
πŸ… 31%β˜… 6.4drama Β· comedy Β· crime

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

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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War Dogs
2016 Β· dir. Todd Phillips
πŸ… 62%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Both land play and grit at once

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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Bad Santa
2003 Β· dir. Terry Zwigoff
πŸ… 78%β˜… 7drama Β· comedy Β· crime

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Going in Style
2017 Β· dir. Zach Braff
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.6crime Β· comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

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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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.2western Β· comedy Β· drama

Crime built on play, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to western than Hustlers 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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Chicago
2002 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Both lean on grit more than on drama

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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Bottle Rocket
1996 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

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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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 79%β˜… 8.2crime Β· drama Β· comedy

The same preoccupation in both: wall street

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

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Identity Thief
2013 Β· dir. Seth Gordon
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.7comedy Β· crime

Crime built on wit, twice over

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

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