Movies like The Longest Yard

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The Longest Yard (2005)
 6.4
 194K
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 a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.
Style: entertaining, funny, inspirational, hilarious, humorous, not serious, exciting, spectacular, anamorphic, light ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: prison, american football, underdog, prison life, prison guard, football, redemption, betrayal, adaptation, ex athlete, warden, jail, friends, confined, contests and competitions, ambition, dumb, wrestler, corruption, ghetto, stoner, justice, fixed match, basketball, revenge ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: texas, austin texas, san diego california, usa, latin america, new jersey
Keyword: sport, reboot, football movie, gangsters, fighting movie, partners, french fries, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to The Longest Yard

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, funny and feel good films with plots about rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, friends, profanity, underdog and silly humor mostly in Comedy, Sport and Crime genres. Some movies like The Longest Yard: Gridiron Gang (2006), Here Comes the Boom (2012), Mean Machine (2001), Big Stan (2007), Necessary Roughness (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gridiron Gang (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Style: inspirational, hood, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, african american, prison, underdog, youth, redemption, football, competition, life philosophy, teacher ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Here Comes the Boom (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
Style: inspirational, funny, entertaining, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: underdog, teacher, martial arts, contests and competitions, mixed martial arts, against the odds, dedicated educator, teachers and students, boxing, lifestyle change, ambition, coach ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 42K
Mean Machine (2001)
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: funny, sexy, entertaining, witty, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, prison, underdog, soccer match, justice, redemption, fixed match, prison life, corruption, brutality, prison gang, ex athlete ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 47K
Big Stan (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him how to fight.
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, absurd, parody ...
Plot: martial arts, prison, prison life, corruption, mentor, justice, revolution, fight scenes, master warrior, guru, warden, jail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Longest Yard (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' ...
Style: inspirational, intense, suspense, talky, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, american football, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships, prison life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida, usa, america, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Necessary Roughness (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Style: entertaining, inspirational, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: american football, underdog, football team, sport team, college, football, happy ending, transformation, human spirit, rivalry, hopes, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 45K
Balls of Fury (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in ...
Style: parody, humorous, funny, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: rivalry, redemption, olympics, fbi, ping pong, prodigy, athlete and trainer, ambition, talent, contests and competitions, hopes, underdog ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: german democratic republic, latin america, central america, seoul, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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, 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 ⇓
100%
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 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a ...
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underdog, against the odds, dumb, coach, tournament, competition, cheerleader, pirate, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions, gym ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Replacements (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty ...
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleading, transformation, adaptation, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, buddy comedy, talky ...
Plot: basketball, friendship, buddies, buddy, hip hop, black, con artists, ghetto, ambition, contests and competitions, blacks and whites, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 3K
Knucklehead (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big ...
Style: not serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disorder, contests and competitions, friendship, athlete's life, buddies, ambition, against the odds, partner, misfit, lifestyle, wrestler, competition ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 246K
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore -- whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin -- is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, slapstick, laugh out loud ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: golf, dumb, underdog, rivalry, anger, hockey, eccentricity, ambition, stupidity, contests and competitions, against the odds, friends ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
Let's Go to Prison (2006)
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, light, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prison, friendship, justice, stoner, storytelling, partner, jury, jail, revenge, mentor, prison gang, held captive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 30K
Stick It (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once ...
Style: feel good, teen, inspirational, funny, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: gymnastics, teenager, rebelliousness, athlete and trainer, rivalry, gymnast, friends, contests and competitions, high school, competition, fighting the system, adolescence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 168K
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are ...
Style: humorous, hilarious, teen, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: friendship, friends, adulthood, party, family relations, unlikely friendships, stupidity, midlife crisis, parenthood, buddy, social relations, grownups ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 146K
Get Hard (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
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, millionaire, training, teaching the ways of the world, car wash, countdown, mentor, rags to riches, greed, creativity ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 5.8
 86K
Semi-Pro (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the National Basketball Association (NBA) plans to merge with the best teams of ...
Style: funny, inspirational, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: basketball, championship, sport team, coach, mentor, competition, basketball team, justice, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 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 ⇓
23%
 6.5
 66K
BASEketball (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone ...
Style: parody, humorous, absurd, spoof, not serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: baseball, basketball, friends, farce, unlikely friendships, underdog, business, partner, rivalry, rise to the top, ambition, satire ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.3
 11K
Celtic Pride (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The National Basketball Association play-offs are taking place, and the Boston Celtics are facing the Utah Jazz in a crucial series. This is also the last year that any games will be played in the Boston Garden, which is going to be torn down after ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: basketball, kidnapping, basketball player, obsession, justice, missing person, unlikely criminals, partner, psychological manipulation, loyalty, african american, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 8K
Beer League (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An unemployed slacker (Lange) inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, stripper, bet, contests and competitions, buddies, partner, small town, against the odds, underdog, friendship, male female relationship, jail ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 6.0
 15K
Wildcats (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style: feel good, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.0
 273K
Grown Ups (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy, teen ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens
Plot: vacation, friendship, kids and family, friends, old friends reunited, family life, foul language, childhood, buddy, reunited friends, silly humor, breast feeding ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, year 1978, 70s ...
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
 46K
Fired Up! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Style: sex comedy, teen, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, high school, fall in love, teenager, football, college, youth, love and romance, bare breasts, erotica, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Ready to Rumble (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.
Style: humorous, entertaining, funny, intense, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: wrestling, underdog, cheerleader, wrestler, friendship, loser, ambition, goofy hero, follow your dream, athlete's life, down on your luck, disorder ...
Time: y2k, year 2016, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Anger Management (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, hilarious ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, date night, teens
Plot: reluctant partners, bullying, therapist, rage, doctors and patients, twists and turns, life philosophy, psychiatrist, dark humor, irreverence, treatment, misfit partners ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, boston, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.9
 91K
Kingpin (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bowling, road trip, on the road, older woman younger man, culture clash, mentor, fish out of water, success, against the odds, championship, prodigy, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, nevada, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 31K
Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, inspirational, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, buddies, prison, unlikely partners, buddy, partner, runaway, odd couple, criminal heroes, bank robbery, friendship, police investigation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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