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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 I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass (2017), Logan Lucky (2017) and Hustlers (2019). 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 Going in Style (2017).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Doug Limanwittyplayfulgrittycontemplative
7 of 12 streaming nowHulu · Paramount Plus Premium

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I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass poster
★ 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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Logan Lucky
2017 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · crime

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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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

Gritty where it counts, contemplative 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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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

Playful crime, and it commits to that

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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We're the Millers
2013 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 48%★ 7comedy · crimeParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: drug smuggling

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

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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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Get Hard
2015 · dir. Etan Cohen
🍅 28%★ 6comedy · crimeParamount+

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

When millionaire hedge fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

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2 Guns
2013 · dir. Baltasar Kormákur
🍅 64%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimeStarz

The same preoccupation in both: dea agent

The difference: Sits closer to action than American Made does

A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%★ 5.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Witty comedy in both cases

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Identity Thief
2013 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 20%★ 5.7comedy · crimeStarz

Crime built on play, 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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