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2013 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf Pain & Gain is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like Pain & Gain, ranked
1. Faster (2010)
Faster strips away Pain & Gain's dark comedy to deliver the same obsessive pursuit of vengeance through brutal physicality, anchored by a protagonist whose singleminded determination warps everything around him.
2. Heat (1995)
Michael Mann's obsessive attention to procedural detail and moral ambiguity transforms Heat's heist narrative into the same darkly comedic study of flawed ambition that makes Pain & Gain's criminal misadventures so grimly compelling.
3. Get Hard (2015)
Michael Bay's kinetic direction and Will Ferrell's deadpan comedic timing drive this buddy-crime film about two outsiders whose mismatched partnership spirals into increasingly absurd criminal chaos.
4. Payback (1999)
Payback shares Pain & Gain's darkly comedic take on flawed antiheroes pursuing ill-fated schemes through violent crime, with both films reveling in the absurdity of their protagonists' miscalculations and the brutal consequences that follow.
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