Movies like Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2025)
The best movies like Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2025) are Bank of Dave (2023), The Big Short (2015) and Waffle Street (2015). If Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)8.0/10 from 26,927 votes
- NewestRoofman (2025)Released 2025
- Same seriesBank of Dave (2023)Bank of Dave
Bank of Dave (2023)
The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.
Why it matches: Same series: Bank of Dave · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Short (2015)
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWaffle Street (2015)
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisJoy (2015)
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rack Pack (2016)
The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Full Monty (1997)
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWaltzing with Brando (2025)
The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect from his stable existence and convinced him that he should build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a tiny and uninhabitable Tahitian island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Save the Cinema (2022)
The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Buffaloed (2020)
Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpotswood (1992)
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Founder (2016)
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Company Men (2010)
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Look of Love (2013)
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBilly Elliot (2000)
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLocal Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Boss (2021)
Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFisherman's Friends (2019)
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDumb Money (2023)
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThank You for Smoking (2005)
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLost in London (2017)
Within the course of a night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoofman (2025)
A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname "Roofman." After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for a divorced mom drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPapadopoulos & Sons (2012)
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlinded by the Light (2019)
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2023)
The dramatic comedy is based on the true story of writer and pinball wizard Roger Sharpe, chronicling his journey to overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Angels' Share (2012)
Robbie is a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud who just wants a way out. On community service, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo. Little did Robbie imagine that turning to drink might change their lives, leading them to the distilleries of the Scottish Highlands and the biggest gamble of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDream Horse (2021)
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOf Love and Lies (2019)
Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ever since he started drinking and got divorced, and Theo feels powerless and anxious as he watches his dad slowly destroying his own life. But he refuses to give up on him. When a recruiter for a prestigious British club takes notice of him, Theo sees an opportunity to rekindle his father’s hope, but despite all his efforts he is not selected. So he decides to lie and say he was, hoping to make his father happy and proud. Theo’s dad is so overjoyed that he puts all his heart into helping his son prepare for “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” gradually regaining his taste for life and motivation for the future. Until the lie reaches unforeseen proportions and completely spins out of control. Thankfully, Theo’s little lie has already operated big change and generated so much hope, that life is able to get back on track. Only better!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlaying God (2021)
A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLionheart (2018)
In order to save her father's ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger?
The closest matches to Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger are Bank of Dave (2023), The Big Short (2015) and Waffle Street (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger?
People who watched Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger most often go on to The Big Short (2015), Waffle Street (2015) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger?
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), rated 8.0/10 by 26,927 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger?
Roofman (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Bank of Dave, which includes Bank of Dave (2023).
Are there English movies like Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger?
Yes: Bank of Dave (2023), The Big Short (2015) and Waffle Street (2015).
How are movies similar to Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.