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Conrack (1974)
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Conrack (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Style: deep, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
Plot: teacher, racism, education, youth, african american, american south, teaching, civil rights, black history, blaxploitation, american culture, humanist, family relations, interracial relations, college, misfit, teachers and students, human spirit, rebellion, fighting the system, high school life, society, opposites attract, high school, culture clash ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 1960s
Place: south carolina, america, usa, southern usa
Keyword: american, twilight

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about society, hopes, youth, teachers and students, school, power relations and teacher mostly in Drama, Biography and Family genres. Some movies like Conrack: Life of a King (2013), The Explosive Generation (1961), To Sir, with Love (1967), Finding Forrester (2000), Beyond the Blackboard (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life of a King (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, rough, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, changing lives, ambition, teenage life, ex convict, contests and competitions, bad attitude, society, gain trust, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Explosive Generation (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, psychotronic
Plot: teacher, high school, couples, power relations, urban ghetto, teachers and students, high school life, teenage life, school, looking for sex, urban ghetto life, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
To Sir, with Love (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Style: touching, inspirational, educational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teaching, dedicated teacher, mentor, education, teenager, coming of age, teacher student relationship, new teacher, cockney, gym teacher ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: england, east end london, europe, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Finding Forrester (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mentor, friendship, dedicated educator, prejudice, literature, basketball, teacher, african american, prodigy, writers, coming of age, writer's life ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, scotland, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Beyond the Blackboard (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: teacher, homeless, youth, changing lives, power relations, hopes, society, idealism, teachers and students, school, children, teaching ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: new mexico, usa, salt lake city utah
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100%
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Lean on Me (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, hood, realistic, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: african american, high school, teacher, black, education, mentor, school, teenager, urban, teaching, teenage pregnancy, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Ron Clark Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matthew Perry is real-life inspiration Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Clark must use unconventional methods, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, human spirit, new job, changing lives, teacher student relationship, education, hardcase students, obstacle, hopes, bad attitude ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place: harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules ...
Style: esoteric, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: teacher, education, teaching, high school, dedicated educator, mentor, racism, job, swing, blaxploitation, business, school teacher ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
Style: political, realistic, serious, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: teacher, education, black, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, idealism, hopes, society, youth, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious, spiritual
Audience: family outing
Plot: chess, teacher, misfit, youth, against the odds, hardcase students, lifestyle, ambition, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.9
 433
Halls of Anger (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Style: black and white, independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cheerleader, blaxploitation, juvenile delinquent, racial issues, black, high school, hardcase students, life is a bitch, social misfits, ambition, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Won't Back Down (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, society, changing lives, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1940's South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. ...
Style: powerful, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: racism, black, politics, aunt, blaxploitation, stage play, interracial relations, false accusation, urban ghetto, animal life, injustice, power relations ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 437
Nightjohn (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Charles Burnett directs this movie about John, a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: racism, slave, slavery, teaching, plantation, american civil war, human exploitation, civil rights, blaxploitation, racial issues, black, american history ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Sounder (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, gothic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, dog, racism, poverty, civil rights, black, african american, youth, family relations, bittersweet, farm, prison ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1900s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year old Benjie (Larry B. Scott) turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom, his mother (Cicely Tyson) and her boyfriend (Paul Winfield) must sacrifice to help him overcome ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: blaxploitation, society, hopes, ghetto, drug addiction, exploitation, hidden treasure, african, stoner, heroin, coming of age, hardship ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Emperor's Club (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style: realistic, touching, inspirational, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: teacher, coming of age, dedicated educator, boarding school life, boarding school, youth, teachers and students, hardcase students, school, friendship, mentor, education ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 832
Heart of Dixie (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.
Style: independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fraternity, sorority, coming of age, interracial relations, racism, college, injustice, society, love and romance, journalism, hopes, youth ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Behavior (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: education, boy, kids in trouble, fighting the system, life is a bitch, alcoholic mother, youth, society, hopes, rebellion, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: teaching, school, teachers and students, mentally challenged, human spirit, hopes, dedicated educator, youth, medical, orphan, psychopath, christmas ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, year 1959
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
 304
Our America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, social decay, teenage life, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, idealism ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 898
Freedom Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot: african american, racism, fighting the system, interracial relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, discrimination, parents and children, politics, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 1K
Shackles (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, suspense, semi serious
Plot: dedicated educator, prison, ambition, human spirit, idealism, hardcase students, starting over, prison life, rehabilitation, rivalry, life is a bitch, confined ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 6.7
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Walkout (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the students decide to stage a peaceful walkout to protest the injustices of the public school system. ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, political ...
Plot: politics, discrimination, society, righting the wronged, fighting the system, teachers and students, lifestyle, rebelliousness, dedicated educator, activism, resistance, high school ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, college, society, journalism, fighting the system, investigation, rebellion, african american, discrimination, teacher, violent content, social relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: vermont, new england, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 13K
Norma Rae (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style: inspirational, political, touching, sad, aesthetic ...
Plot: labor union, working class, union, women, labor, small town, feminist, business, courage, american politics, single mother, whistleblower ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 4K
Cheaters (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 765
Jasper, Texas (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, freeze frame
Plot: african american, racism, small town, investigation, fighting the system, social decay, social differences, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, murder, injustice ...
Time: 90s
Place: austin texas, midwest, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: teacher, mathematics, high school, education, school, biopic, bullying, dedicated educator, mentor, chicano, civil rights, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Red Like the Sky (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
Style: uplifting, contemplative, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: disability, coming of age, blind character, against the odds, fighting the system, rebellion, follow your dream, friendship, human spirit, hopes, society, rebelliousness ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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