Movies like The Breaks 1999

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The Breaks (1999)
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The Breaks (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some milk) and even that proves to be a challenge! Hilarious encounters with racist red-neck cops, local gangsters and 'flamboyant' pawn shop owners ensue, and along the way Derek shows that he can actually do things for others and maybe even get his own life together.
Style: black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: urban, hip hop, hip hop culture, discrimination, black man, interracial, family relations, gang, youth, racism, misfit, life is a bitch, interracial relations, gays and lesbians, society, juvenile delinquency, city life, disorder, fish out of water, odd couple, buddies, urban ghetto life, police officer, police, mother ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
Keyword: gangsters, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, black comedy and semi serious films with plots about urban, gangster, disorder, african american, society, black and hip hop mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Breaks: Fakin' Da Funk (1997), Class Act (1992), A Miami Tail (2003), Phat Beach (1996), Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fakin' Da Funk (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family, are trying to adapt to their mostly black neighbourhood of South Central.
Style: black comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: hip hop, black, interracial, adoption, heartwarming, discrimination, hip hop culture, blaxploitation, kung fu, black man, african american, interracial relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south central los angeles
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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
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31%
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A Miami Tail (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: "A Miami Tail" is a contemporary version of Lysistrata, a classic Greek comedy by Aristophanes. "A Miami Tail" has Alicia (Trina) leading the women of Liberty City in a protest against gang violence and disrespect of women in ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: gang, society, youth, couples, battle of the sexes, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, sexual relations, city life, poverty, protest, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, miami
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27%
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Phat Beach (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A hefty homeboy borrows his dad's Mercedes and goes to the beach with his friends for wild sun & fun.
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot: beach, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, gangster, best friend, love and romance, society, lifestyle, nothing goes right, destiny, high school, urban ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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
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26%
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The Wash (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash.
Style: humorous, absurd, hood, not serious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, hip hop, gang, stoner, stupidity, urban, rescue, nothing goes right, odd couple, partner, society, workplace ...
Time: year 2001
Place: los angeles
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25%
My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fatherhood, baby born, pregnancy, friendship, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, youth, love and romance, buddies, custody ...
Time: year 2004
Place: philadelphia
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23%
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, youth, disorder, lifestyle, love and romance, teenage love, fish out of water, odd couple, culture clash, party, prediction, hindu ...
Place: texas, usa, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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How to Be a Player (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dray is a young playboy whose only objective in life seems to be to have sex with as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend Lisa. Dray's sister Jenny and her friend Katrina plan to show him that the way he lives is wrong ...
Style: hood, humorous, black comedy, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: hip hop, battle of the sexes, black, urban, dating, infidelity, farce, black cast, friends, looking for sex, women, stoner ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: malibu california
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23%
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Black-ish (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: african american, family relations, parents and children, family life, black family, social differences, society, disorder, fish out of water, social relations, black sitcom, teenager ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
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23%
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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
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22%
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Whiteboyz (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, slang, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, small town, friendship, follow your dream, fish out of water, urban, culture clash, teenage life, gangster, youth, misfit, high school life ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: iowa, chicago, usa
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22%
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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 ⇓
22%
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
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21%
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Homie Spumoni (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: interracial relations, dark humor, family relations, lifestyle, culture clash, friends, society, adoption, male nudity, african american, black, animal shelter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Super (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, clever ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, stupidity, justice, misfit, self discovery, parents and children, african american, racial slur, court, hip hop, con men ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Made in America (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, high school, teenage girl, culture clash, single parent, comedy of errors, sperm donor, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style: romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: battle of the sexes, black, mentor, ambition, looking for love, cheating, contests and competitions, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, guru, dating ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa
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21%
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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 ⇓
21%
Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, culture clash, hidden identity, fish out of water, gangster, misfit, society, teenage life, starting over, buddies, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, nebraska, new jersey
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21%
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial romance, road trip, teenager, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, los angeles
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21%
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The ...
Style: black comedy, not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: labor union, blaxploitation, african american, clergy, black, church, adultery, labor leader, migrant worker, domestic abuse, partner, manipulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
House Party 3 (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher ...
Style: hood, rom com, black comedy, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, gangster, urban, black, music, party, black girl, discrimination, stoner, stoned, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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That's What She Said (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: best friend, city life, friends, singleness, twentysomething life, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, strong female presence, friendship, friendship between men, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Cruisin' (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Comedy - Devin Begley, Destiny Monique, Amanda Nix, Liana Mendoza, Noel Gugliemi
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: friendship, couple relations, society, buddies, life turned upside down, social differences, profanity, disorder, nightlife, fight, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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B*A*P*S (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, rom com, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, hip hop, irreverence, black cast, urban, women, friendship, female bonding, millionaire, restaurant, guilt, nephew ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa, california, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
19%
House Party: Tonight's the Night (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A pair of high school rappers have two major goals - make music and get hot girls. The best way to get both is to throw the biggest and best house party ever! The night of the party, one of the boys is grounded by his parents, so it's up to his ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, light, rom com ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nothing goes right, youth, disorder, friends, teenage life, buddies, hip hop, party, urban, profanity, silly humor, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Adopted (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, bibles and the magic of ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, suspense, mockumentary ...
Plot: adoption, family relations, disorder, society, lifestyle, culture clash, satire, profanity, orphan, misfit, babies and infants, fish out of water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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