Movies like The Longest Yard
The Longest Yard (1974) is a comedy movie directed by Robert Aldrich. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Gridiron Gang (2006)
★ 7.1 · 1,150 votes · Crime, Drama
Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together. Based on a true story.
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2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
★ 8.7 · 31,580 votes · Drama, Crime
Imprisoned 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, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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3. Stir Crazy (1980)
★ 6.5 · 500 votes · Comedy, Crime
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
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4. The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4 · 2,148 votes · Drama, Crime
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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5. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
★ 7.7 · 1,687 votes · Drama, Crime
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 will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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6. The United States of Leland (2003)
★ 6.5 · 347 votes · Crime, Drama
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
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7. Blindspotting (2018)
★ 7.3 · 754 votes · Comedy, Crime, Drama
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
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8. Big Stan (2007)
★ 6.7 · 1,117 votes · Comedy, Crime
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.
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9. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
★ 7.0 · 3,637 votes · Drama, Crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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