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Movies that feel likeT2 Trainspotting (2017)

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

If you loved T2 Trainspotting, the closest films we have are Millions (2005), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997). All three share T2 Trainspotting'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 Bad Education (2004).

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Boylecontemplativewittyplayfulgrittywarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Trainspotting (1996)

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Millions
2005 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 87%★ 6.8comedy · crime · dramaDisney+

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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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · dir. Michael Cimino
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · crime

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Trades the stillness of T2 Trainspotting for an angle of its own

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: Leans harder into action than T2 Trainspotting does

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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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Both land wit and play at once

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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22 Jump Street
2014 · dir. Phil Lord
🍅 84%★ 7crime · comedy · actionNetflixParamount+

The same mix in both: grit, then warmth

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · crime

Contemplative drama in both cases

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%★ 6.4comedyStarz

Both are built on the same subject: nightclub

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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 “heroes” 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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Rush Hour 3
2007 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 17%★ 6.3action · comedy · crimeParamount+

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must fight their way through dangerous gangsters; however, this time, the past has come back to haunt Lee. Will the boys get the job done once and for all?

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

Both lean on play more than on crime

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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Bad Boys II
2003 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 23%★ 6.6action · crime · comedy

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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