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Movies that feel likeMagic Mike (2012)

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.

If you loved Magic Mike, the closest films we have are Logan Lucky (2017), Le Week-End (2013) and Gloria (2013). All three share Magic Mike'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 The Trip (2011).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steven Soderberghcontemplativewittyplayful
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Logan Lucky
2017 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · crime

Steven Soderbergh working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the stillness of Magic Mike for an angle of its own

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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Le Week-End
2013 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 89%★ 6.4comedy · dramaPrime Video

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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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%★ 6.9comedy · drama

Playful drama, and it commits to that

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. 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 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy 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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Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · dir. Daniel Rezende
🍅 85%★ 7.9comedy · 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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The Descendants
2011 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 87%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Drama built on wit, twice over

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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Irrational Man
2015 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 47%★ 6.6drama · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

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The Night Before the Exams
2006 · dir. Fausto Brizzi
★ 6.4comedy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Instant Family
2018 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 82%★ 7.3comedy · dramaStarz

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 Change-Up
2011 · dir. David Dobkin
🍅 26%★ 6.3comedyStarz

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Magic Mike does

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 74%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Starz

Both run playful where it counts

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

Both are comedy through and through

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

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