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Movies that feel like T2 Trainspotting (2017)

If you loved T2 Trainspotting, the closest films we have are Millions (2005), Ernest & Celestine (2012) and The Longest Yard (2005). All three share T2 Trainspotting's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

πŸ… 81% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Danny Boylecontemplativewittyplayfulgrittywarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Trainspotting (1996)

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Millions
2005 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· crime Β· drama

The same hand behind both of them: Danny Boyle

The difference: Sits closer to family than T2 Trainspotting does

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?

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Ernest & Celestine
2012 Β· dir. StΓ©phane Aubier
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.8animation Β· family Β· crime

One thread runs through both: friendship

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

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

Both are working the same pair: prison, blackmail

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Another Round
2020 Β· dir. Thomas Vinterberg
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as T2 Trainspotting

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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Chicago
2002 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: prison

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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50/50
2011 Β· dir. Jonathan Levine
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· drama

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 Β· dir. Thomas Jahn
β˜… 7.8comedy Β· crime Β· action

Both land play and grit at once

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

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 Β· dir. Luke Greenfield
πŸ… 18%β˜… 6.4comedy

The same preoccupation in both: nightclub

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted β€œheroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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The Bucket List
2007 Β· dir. Rob Reiner
πŸ… 40%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy

Drama built on warmth, twice over

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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Hustlers
2019 Β· dir. Lorene Scafaria
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.3drama Β· comedy Β· crime

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

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

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American Made
2017 Β· dir. Doug Liman
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime Β· drama

Crime with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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

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Seven Psychopaths
2012 Β· dir. Martin McDonagh
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime

Common ground: fight

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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