Movies like The Longest Yard 1974
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The Longest Yard (1974)
23K
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' semi-pro football team to a national championship.
Style:
inspirational, intense, clever, suspense, witty, talky, rough, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
american football, prison, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, prison life, contests and competitions, partner, rivalry, confined, moral dilemma, against the odds, jail, skeptic, football team, swamp, warden, remote control, murder, actress, convict ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
florida, usa, america, georgia, new jersey, palm beach, american
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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, feel good and semi serious films with plots about ambition, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, football, sport team and hopes mostly in Sport, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Longest Yard: Slap Shot (1977), Play It to the Bone (1999), The Program (1993), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Mean Machine (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
75%
45K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Style:
humorous, funny, inspirational, cult classic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, manly
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, underdog, sport team, competition, mentor, partner, adaptation, hockey player, athlete and trainer, rivalry, opponent ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, canada, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the ...
Style:
road movie, inspirational, melancholic, intense, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
boxing, friendship, boxer, contests and competitions, athlete's life, underdog, hopes, ambition, road trip, sex scene, love triangle, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Style:
talky, intense, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
american football, football, football team, underdog, college football, justice, college life, lone hero, sport team, lifestyle, hopes, love triangle ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
usa, texas, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, rough, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
prison, escape, prisoner, prison break, death, prison life, runaway, convict, prison escape, egg, freedom, fugitive ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1967, 60s, 50s
Place:
florida, southern usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Style:
laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, football team, high school sports, american football player, sport team, small town, partner, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
36%
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, light, inspirational, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
american football, underdog, football team, college, sport team, football, coach, college dean, teacher student relationship, professor, college football, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, new jersey, california ...
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, ...
Style:
humorous, serious, touching, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
american football, underdog, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, against the odds, hopes, sport team, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
american football, power relations, family relations, sport team, ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, hopes, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Style:
realistic, clever, funny, spiritual, tense ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
american football, football, football team, naked man, sexist, drug abuse, addiction, business, corruption, american football player, drug, nfl ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, california, new jersey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
athlete's life, journalism, lifestyle, human spirit, farce, rivalry, nothing goes right, hopes, buddies, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, odd couple ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, ambition, couple relations, athlete's life, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
34%
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, inspirational, humorous, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
american football, underdog, cheerleading, football, hopes, transformation, adaptation, contests and competitions, rivalry, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., new jersey
Similarity:
33%
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, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, african american, prison, redemption, underdog, youth, destiny, competition, football, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When the top players of the Green Street Elite are imprisoned following a deadly battle with their archenemies Millwall every day becomes a fight for survival. On the inside, rival firms and prison guards will stop at nothing to make their lives a ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, hooligan, gang, mob violence, lifestyle, uninhibited rivalry, confined, buddies, rivalry, society, football, soccer ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
england, britain, london, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style:
inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, underdog, baseball coach, coach, youth, childhood, competition, baseball player, unlikely friendships, sport team, motorcycle, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1976, 1930s, 80s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so ...
Style:
funny, slapstick, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
football, horse, american football, football team, animal, cheerleader, name calling, humour, sport team, soccer, silly humor, friends ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, former yugoslavia, usa
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
Style:
slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, football, writers, coach, talent show, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, ego clash, journalism, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Has-been sports promoter Billy Cole gets a second shot at fame and fortune when he puts together a women's volleyball team, comprised of exotic dancers...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
beach volleyball, beach, womanizer, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, against the odds, self discovery, partner, cons and scams, seduction, volleyball ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, bare chested male, cheerleader, college, high school, coming of age, underdog, american football player, revenge, teenager, foot fetish ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
texas, north america, alabama, los angeles, california
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Rain Murphy is a man sentenced to life in prison, choosing to do his time in near-isolation, and engages in distance running when given the opportunity for free-time. While his form and speed capture the attention of prison officials who believe he ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
prison, runner, prison life, running, prisoner, bare chested male, jail, olympics, racing, motor racing, revenge, fistfight ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
31%
73K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
Style:
exciting, intense, suspense, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
american football, football, negotiation, nfl, boss and employee, honest, power relations, overcoming, ambition, one last chance, disorder, american football player ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
new york, cleveland ohio, usa, ohio, seattle ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
Style:
inspirational, christian film, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
christian, religious, faith, football, underdog, american football, football team, high school football, human spirit, athlete and trainer, christianity, ambition ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten ...
Style:
suspense, talky, intense, stylized, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, violence, fight, boxing, prisoner, african american, prison fight, hip hop, mafia, tough guy, martial arts, gangster ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, mojave desert, las vegas, nevada, california ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, friendship, against the odds, football, sport team, athlete and trainer, society ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, realistic, sincere
Plot:
american football, teachers and students, against the odds, hopes, discrimination, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, underdog, youth, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alabama, texas
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers (White) is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka (Adkins) ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, prison, martial arts, kickboxing, tournament, convict, contests and competitions, fight, prison life, tough heroes, martial artist, fistfight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, usa, new jersey, california, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
american football, ambition, rise to the top, introspection, contests and competitions, rivalry, celebrity culture, athlete's life, hopes, showbiz, gambling, american football player ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, ice hockey, underdog, happy ending, hockey, transformation, winter, contests and competitions, hockey player, ambition, ice skater, heartwarming ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, new york, new jersey, california
Similarity:
30%
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