Movies like Life 1999
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Life (1999)
61K
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, surprise ending, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, hilarious, hood, harsh, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, prison, life sentence, murder, friendship between men, african american, prison escape, prison life, racist, baseball, racism, escape attempt, redemption, friendship, old man, great depression, profanity, old age, flashback, argument, framed for murder, attempted escape, faking one's own death, black, false accusation ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, year 1997, year 1932, year 1944, year 1972, 20th century ...
Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, harlem, southern usa, north america, new jersey ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, entertaining and funny films with plots about gangster, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, black, vengeance and african american mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Life: Nothing to Lose (1997), The Longest Yard (2005), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Let's Go to Prison (2006), Blue Streak (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, action comedy, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Plot:
desert, revenge, husband wife relationship, friendship, robbery, profanity, mistaken identity, reckless driving, advertising executive, criminal, security guard, criminal heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
arizona, los angeles, usa, new jersey, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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, inspirational, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
prison, american football, football, prison guard, prison life, underdog, cheerleading, dumb, redemption, adaptation, betrayal, warden ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, san diego california, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
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, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prison, mentor, friendship, adaptation, justice, stoner, storytelling, partner, faked death, jury, revenge, jail ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, illinois
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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, humorous, action comedy, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
heist, robbery, african american, law enforcement, farce, criminal, happy ending, impersonating a police officer, bank robbery, safecracker, police station, dumb ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california, latin america, mexico ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks catches him and steals his cherished ring that his girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back with the help of his ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, intense, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, robbery, nothing goes right, businessman, storytelling, criminal's revenge, disorder, rivalry, dishonesty, cons and scams, destiny, black ...
Place:
washington d.c., boston, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.
Style:
funny, humorous, buddy comedy, entertaining, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
buddy cop, police, partner, brutality, reluctant partners, life philosophy, chase, stereotypes, redemption, dialogue, heroes, black ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, brutality, mistaken identity, police investigation, racism, interracial relations, resort, social differences, criminal heroes, buddies, nothing goes right ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
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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, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, swamp, pimp, escape, prison life, on the road, serendipity, prostitute, fight, misfit, partner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
100%
92K
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, funny, neo noir, humorous, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, adult
Plot:
buddy cop, prison, tough cop, revenge, reluctant partners, cop, partner, villain, tough guy, police investigation, police officer killed, buddy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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:
black comedy, hood, funny, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
nightclub, gangster, urban, black, organized crime, african american, fight scenes, mobster, husband and wife, corruption, gang, hip hop ...
Time:
1930s, year 1989, 1920s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north america ...
Similarity:
50%
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, witty, feel good, humorous, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, wrongful conviction, injustice, convict, cell mate, lawyer, marijuana, profanity, on the road, prison escape, partner, comedy of errors ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, north america, arizona
Similarity:
50%
136K
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:
hood, funny, independent film, feel good, light ...
Plot:
african american, ghetto, hip hop, weed, marijuana, friendship, drug, rap, friends, rapper, friendship between men, drug dealer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
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, criminal heroes, musician's life, redemption, prison life, youth, society, murder, life sentence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
31%
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:
tense, realistic, bleak, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, prison, violence, gang, murder, transvestite, prison gang, marijuana, survival, prison rape, drug, mentor protege relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico ...
Similarity:
31%
154K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, ...
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, harsh ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dumb, prison, wealth, gang, millionaire, mansion, car wash, foul language, training, satire, countdown, mentor ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, south central los angeles
Similarity:
31%
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, prison life, farce, criminal, elderly, nothing goes right, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, friendship, medea ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
31%
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, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oakland california, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
30%
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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:
realistic, serious, hood, crime drama
Plot:
prison, martial arts, prison life, false accusation, frame up, courtroom drama, murder, rivalry, jail, black, muscleman, prison violence ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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, independent film, humorous, black comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hip hop, college, black, urban, ghetto, party, friendship, gangster, black college, blaxploitation, campus, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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:
dark comedy, black comedy, funny, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
farce, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, eccentric family, death, profanity, blackmail, husband wife relationship, african american, gay father, hallucinogenic drug, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
30%
12K
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, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, profanity, black, artists and showbiz, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, lifestyle, on the road, hip hop, hip hop culture ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
313K
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:
humorous, buddy comedy, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, drug lord, murder, murder investigation, partners against crime, two man army, law enforcement, friendship between men, police corruption, police investigation, african american, working undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, florida, usa, north america
Similarity:
30%
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298K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style:
witty, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, revenge, con artists, murder, twists and turns, caper, con man, gangster, chase, cons and scams, casino, organized crime ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 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:
realistic, serious, emotional, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot:
redemption, death row, prison, gang, gangster, brutality, justice, adaptation, human spirit, hopes, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, future, 80s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners ...
Style:
sexy, funny, inspirational, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, prison, underdog, soccer match, prison life, brutality, justice, redemption, fixed match, football player, adaptation, corruption ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
30%
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, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, workplace, friends, workplace romance, hip hop, family business, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
Similarity:
30%
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, funny, absurd, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, stoner, dumb, youth, ghetto, social satire, african american, gangster, hip hop, city life, stupidity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
30%
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, gangster, ghetto, justice, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, unlikely criminals, odd couple, nothing goes right, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
los angeles, north america, south central los angeles, hawaii, new orleans
Similarity:
29%
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, street crime, brotherhood, hip hop culture, gang, hip hop, black, blaxploitation, gangster, neighborhood, discrimination ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
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