Movies like Life 1999

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Life (1999)
 6.8
 54K
Life (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, hilarious, hood, black comedy, retro, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, twists and turns, life sentence, prison escape, prison life, redemption, african american, friendship, black, criminal, adaptation, escape attempt, life is a bitch, frame up, injustice, partner, society, criminal heroes, urban, false accusation, murder, bittersweet, baseball, ghetto, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932, 30s, 1990s
Place: mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa, new jersey, mississippi river
Keyword: partners, gangsters, buddy movie, american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, black comedy and hood films with plots about gangster, african american, black, friendship, friends, urban and hip hop mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Life: Nothing to Lose (1997), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Longest Yard (2005), Harlem Nights (1989), Amos & Andrew (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nothing to Lose (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed ...
Style: funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious, absurd ...
Plot: on the road, revenge, friendship, robbery, husband wife relationship, desert, mistaken identity, culture clash, reckless driving, advertising executive, profanity, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: arizona, los angeles, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed 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, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Longest Yard (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in ...
Style: entertaining, funny, inspirational, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: prison, american football, underdog, prison life, prison guard, football, redemption, adaptation, betrayal, warden, ex athlete, jail ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 25K
Harlem Nights (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: "Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any ...
Style: hood, funny, black comedy, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: nightclub, gangster, urban, black, organized crime, fight scenes, african american, mobster, corruption, gang, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 5.7
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Amos & Andrew (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes ...
Style: clever, funny, light, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: island, bad cop, mistaken identity, police investigation, brutality, racism, interracial relations, buddies, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, social differences, resort ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 30K
Stir Crazy (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, feel good, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, buddy, wrongful conviction, injustice, convict, cell mate, prison escape, lawyer, partner, on the road, jail, black ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.9
 85K
48 Hrs. (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Style: exciting, detective, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, adult
Plot: prison, buddy cop, reluctant partners, cop, tough cop, violence, revenge, buddy, police investigation, law enforcement, tough guy, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 6.3
 694
Prison Song (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, rough, hood ...
Plot: prison, injustice, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, musician's life, criminal heroes, redemption, prison life, life is a bitch, society, youth, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
Style: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: eccentric family, death, dysfunctional family, family relations, black, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, silly humor, dishonesty, gay father, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.2
 124K
Friday (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style: funny, feel good, hood, light, semi serious ...
Plot: african american, weed, hip hop, ghetto, marijuana, drug, friendship, rap, friends, rapper, stoner, hip hop culture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
Style: hood, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban, friends, gang, hip hop culture, brotherhood, blaxploitation, hip hop, black, gangster, neighborhood, discrimination, subway ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: At long last, Madea returns to the big screen in TYLER PERRY'S MADEA GOES TO JAIL. This time America's favorite irreverent, pistol-packin' grandmomma is raising hell behind bars and lobbying for her freedom...Hallelujer!
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prison, madea, farce, prison life, criminal, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, elderly, fish out of water, friendship, black ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 12K
Soul Men (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: african american, black, artists and showbiz, showbiz, buddies, music band, lifestyle, musician's life, on the road, profanity, hip hop, rock and roll ...
Time: year 2008
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 3K
The Mack (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style: grindhouse, hood, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, black, exploitation, african american, ghetto, black history, gangsta, mafia, tough guy, blues, hip hop ...
Time: 70s
Place: bay area, usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
I Got the Hook Up (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Plot: hip hop, gangster, justice, ghetto, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, odd couple, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, buddies, misfit ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.6
 12K
First Sunday (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending ...
Style: not serious, humorous, hood, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: friendship, hostage, church, black, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, partner, urban, society, disorder, forceful separation, pastor ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: prison, violence, justice, adaptation, brutality, hopes, human spirit, death row, redemption, life is a bitch, journalism, murder ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.0
 1K
Animal 2 (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However, with his newfound fame as a fighter, Animal uncovers a jailhouse conspiracy that threatens ...
Style: serious, realistic, hood, crime drama
Plot: prison, martial arts, false accusation, prison life, frame up, courtroom drama, murder, rivalry, black, jail, muscleman, prison violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
House Party 2 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.
Style: hood, humorous, black comedy, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, black, urban, ghetto, gangster, college, blaxploitation, african american, party, friendship, stoner, discrimination ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But ...
Style: action comedy, black comedy, detective, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: blaxploitation, black, african american, urban, disco, ghetto, train, partner, gangster, escape, cons and scams, friendship ...
Time: year 1976, year 1975, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
 284K
Bad Boys (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate ...
Style: buddy comedy, humorous, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience: manly, girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot: two man army, drug lord, buddy, buddy cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, police, police corruption, police investigation, murder, african american, murder investigation ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: miami, florida, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. ...
Style: light, witty, suspenseful, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, dating, obsession, black, life philosophy, battle of the sexes, womanizer, unlikely friendships, dangerous attraction, love and romance, wooing, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 31K
Boomerang (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes ...
Style: funny, witty, talky, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot: womanizer, african american protagonist, battle of the sexes, dating, black, love story, mentor, advertising, opposites attract, boss and employee, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who ...
Style: parody, hood, absurd, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, youth, ghetto, dumb, gangster, social satire, hip hop, african american, city life, sarcasm, stoner ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.3
 88K
Blue Streak (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to ...
Style: funny, exciting, detective, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, african american, law enforcement, farce, police station, police officer, safecracker, impersonating a police officer, police, chase, bank robbery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Who's the Man? (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, black comedy, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, undercover, police detective, police investigation, odd couple, fighting crime, friendship, working undercover, gangster, disorder, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.6
 15K
Animal Factory (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Style: realistic, tense, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, friendship, murder, violence, prison gang, transvestite, prison escape, drug, adaptation, depression, redemption, prison rape ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
 12K
Hoodlum (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must ...
Style: hood, stylized, black and white, neo noir, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mobster, african american, gangster, black, gangsta, black history, urban, corruption, gunfight, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place: harlem, new york, israel, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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