The Whole Nine Yards

42 Movies Like The Whole Nine Yards (2000) You Need to Watch Next

2000·Jonathan LynniRank56
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After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program.

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If you loved The Whole Nine Yards (2000) by Jonathan Lynn, here are 42 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Snatch, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, The Gentlemen. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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