Movies Like T2 Trainspotting (2017)

T2 Trainspotting is a 2017 comedy, crime, drama film from Danny Boyle with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Trainspotting and Rush.

Comedy Crime Drama

Trainspotting

1996

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

8.0

MagicScore

Rush

1991

Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

6.6

MagicScore

The Godfather Part II

1974

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

8.6

MagicScore

Heaven Knows What

2015

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

6.5

MagicScore

Go Ask Alice

1973

A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

5.5

MagicScore

Marihuana

1936

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.

3.6

MagicScore

Clean

2004

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

6.4

MagicScore

Broken

2007

A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.

5.4

MagicScore

American Gangster

2007

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

7.6

MagicScore

#10

Requiem for a Dream

2000

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

8.0

MagicScore

#11

The Last Days of Disco

1998

Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.

6.2

MagicScore

#12

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

5.6

MagicScore

#13

6 Balloons

2018

Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.

6.0

MagicScore

#14

Killing Zoe

1993

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

6.2

MagicScore

#15

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

8.7

MagicScore

#16

Filth

2013

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.

6.8

MagicScore

#17

I Melt with You

2011

Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.

5.3

MagicScore

#18

Buffalo Soldiers

2002

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

Don't Be Bad

2015

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.

7.8

MagicScore

#20

Down by Law

1986

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

7.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like T2 Trainspotting?

The top films similar to T2 Trainspotting by MovieMagicScore are Trainspotting (8.0), Rush (6.6), The Godfather Part II (8.6). Each shares comedy/crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is T2 Trainspotting worth watching?

T2 Trainspotting holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 3,244 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is T2 Trainspotting?

T2 Trainspotting (2017) is a comedy, crime, drama film directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner.

Where can I find more recommendations like T2 Trainspotting?

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About movies like T2 Trainspotting

This ranked list pairs T2 Trainspotting (2017), a comedy and crime and drama film from Danny Boyle, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Ewan McGregor take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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