Movies like First Sunday

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First Sunday (2008)
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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 the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Style: humorous, not serious, hood, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, black cinema
Plot: friendship, hostage, church, black, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, society, urban, partner, disorder, forceful separation, pastor, money, police, forgiveness, father son relationship, embezzlement, courtroom, community service, hip hop, hip hop culture, discrimination, gospel, friends, buddies ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: baltimore
Keyword: partners, gangsters

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Most similar movies to First Sunday

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, black comedy and semi serious films with plots about gangster, friends, urban, friendship, african american, black and hip hop mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like First Sunday: Going in Style (2017), Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), Janky Promoters (2009), Friday After Next (2002), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Going in Style (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: bank robbery, elderly, old man, money, senior citizen, plan, retired, swearing, alibi, tattoo, caper, robbery ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It’s been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin’s Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew, including Eddie, are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, feel good, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: barbershop, black, urban, friends, coworker relationship, father son relationship, customer, african american, family life, business venture, black man, hip hop ...
Place: indiana, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Janky Promoters (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two shady concert promoters get into hot water when their chance to book a superstar rapper goes awry.
Style: not serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, disorder, artists and showbiz, showbiz, partner, lifestyle, nothing goes right, performer's life, celebrity culture, urban, bigger dreams, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Friday After Next (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Craig and Day Day have finally moved out of their parents houses and into their own crib. The cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they team up to track him down.
Style: funny, humorous, hood, stylized, witty ...
Audience: adult
Plot: christmas, weed, urban, shopping mall, hip hop, stoner, pimp, black, friendship, goofy hero, partner, buddies ...
Time: year 2002
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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 ⇓
37%
 6.3
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Barbershop (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style: hood, black comedy, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace, urban, hairdresser, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, catastrophe, beauty salon, african american, society, buddies ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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Anuvahood (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: urban, coming of age, white trash, youth, city life, ambition, society, misfit, lifestyle, ghetto, hip hop, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
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Lottery Ticket (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, hood, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lottery ticket, life turned upside down, black, disorder, nothing goes right, society, buddies, urban ghetto life, change of luck, violent content, urban, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
29%
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3 Strikes (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, light, not serious ...
Plot: hip hop, redemption, justice, going straight, starting over, comedy of errors, urban, partner, law enforcement, on the run, nothing goes right, heist ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet -- which happens to hold a winning lottery ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: blaxploitation, african american, black, caper, hip hop, robbery, chase, urban, gangster, gambling, lottery, lottery winner ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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, hilarious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, twists and turns, life sentence, prison escape, prison life, redemption, african american, friendship, black, adaptation, criminal, escape attempt ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Class Act (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only ...
Style: hood, feel good, black comedy, funny, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, hip hop, black, urban, mistaken identity, urban ghetto life, discrimination, love, gang, african american protagonist, hip hop culture, school ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Paper Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
Style: semi serious, humorous, hood, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: african american, hip hop, gangster, partner, drug dealing, dishonesty, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, ambition, unlikely criminals, disorder, urban ...
Place: usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Screwed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty ...
Plot: mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, partner, hostage, cons and scams, disorder, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style: dark comedy, hood, stylized, harsh, talky ...
Plot: addiction, hip hop, drug addiction, drug, urban, drug abuse, murder, heroin, gangster, justice, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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Next Friday (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets ...
Style: funny, humorous, hood, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: weed, hip hop, black, urban, stoner, ghetto, marijuana, dishonesty, friendship, family relations, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 2000
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
Style: funny, humorous, melancholic, intense, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghetto, fish out of water, street gang, gangster, gang, justice, betrayal, father son relationship, family relations, disorder, partner, goofy hero ...
Place: california, los angeles, malibu california, south central los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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ATL (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
Style: hood, stylized, talky, feel good, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, coming of age, friendship, urban, black, drug dealing, ambition, family relations, self discovery, social differences, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Money for Nothing (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an ...
Style: light, intense, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: money, stolen money, chase, runaway, corruption, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, gangster, police ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
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Quick Change (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, buddies, friendship, partner, friends, disorder, cons and scams, runaway, love and romance, bank robber ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Going in Style (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they ...
Style: light, realistic, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: heist, senior citizen, robbery, caper, aging, elderly, bank, bittersweet, bank robber, thief, twin towers, hidden treasure ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
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Gravesend (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 4 KIDS. 3 BODIES. 2 FIGHTS. 1 NIGHT. NO $#!*.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting ...
Plot: hip hop, discrimination, hip hop culture, friendship, crime gone awry, buddies, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, youth, society, unlikely criminals, working class ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
Let's Do It Again (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New ...
Style: black comedy, action comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: blaxploitation, boxing, black, african american, hypnosis, gambling, urban, fight, church, gang, money, gangster ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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