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Movies that feel like Magic Mike (2012)

If you loved Magic Mike, the closest films we have are Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017), Le Week-End (2013) and Instant Family (2018). All three share Magic Mike's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 78% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steven Soderberghcontemplativewittyplayful

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

One thread runs through both: a true story

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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Le Week-End
2013 Β· dir. Roger Michell
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· drama

Both land stillness and wit at once

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

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

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

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

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

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

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

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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The Trip
2011 Β· dir. Michael Winterbottom
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama

Witty drama in both cases

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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The Night Before the Exams
2006 Β· dir. Fausto Brizzi
β˜… 6.4comedy Β· drama

Both lean on play more than on comedy

Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 Β· dir. Christine Jeffs
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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The Descendants
2011 Β· dir. Alexander Payne
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

The shared currency is play

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

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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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Soul Kitchen
2009 Β· dir. Fatih Akin
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.2drama Β· comedy

Both play comedy straight

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

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