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Movies that feel likeThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.

If you loved The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the closest films we have are Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), Booksmart (2019) and Superbad (2007). All three share The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'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 Eighth Grade (2018).

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Guy Ritchiewittyplayfulkineticepicwistful
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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If The Man from U.N.C.L.E. hit the spot, these will too

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 97%★ 7.8adventure · comedy · dramaPrime VideoPeacock

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

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Booksmart
2019 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 96%★ 7.1comedyRent or buy

Both lean on wistfulness more than on comedy

The difference: Easier on the momentum than The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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Superbad
2007 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 88%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Action built on wit, twice over

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 63%★ 7fantasy · comedy · adventureHuluStarz

Common ground: nostalgic

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Man from U.N.C.L.E. does

When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

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Hanna
2011 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 71%★ 6.7action · thriller · adventure

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Man from U.N.C.L.E. does

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
🍅 81%★ 7.7drama · comedyRent or buy

Playful adventure, and it commits to that

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

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🍅 41%★ 5action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spy

The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a rogue agent who might be responsible.

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Vacation
2015 · dir. John Francis Daley
🍅 27%★ 6.2comedy · adventureParamount+

Epic comedy in both cases

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

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American Reunion
2012 · dir. Jon Hurwitz
🍅 45%★ 6.7comedy

The same preoccupation in both: nostalgic

The characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t, and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.

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Jack the Giant Slayer
2013 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 52%★ 6.3fantasy · action · adventure

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Adventure built on wistfulness, twice over

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 · dir. Danila Kozlovsky
★ 5.2drama · history · actionPrime Video

Kinetic action in both cases

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

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