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10 Best Movies Like The Longest Yard

If you loved The Longest Yard, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard

1974★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Longest Yard for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an ear...

#2
Mean Machine

Mean Machine

2001★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Longest Yard for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Disgraced ex-England football 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 e...

#3
Gridiron Gang

Gridiron Gang

2006★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Longest Yard for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together. Based on a true story....

#4
Big Stan

Big Stan

2007★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Longest Yard for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 in...

#5
The Mustang

The Mustang

2019★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Longest Yard for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront hi...

#6
Brubaker

Brubaker

1980★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Longest Yard for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate....

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