Movies like The Paper Chase 1973

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The Paper Chase (1973)
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The Paper Chase (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Style: intense, uplifting, feel good, serious, captivating, tense, touching, clever, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: law student, college, lawyer, youth, law, teacher, justice, courtroom, legal, betrayal, love story, male bonding, education, student life, studying, instructor, self discovery, contests and competitions, human nature, hopes, friendship, suicide, teachers and students, chase, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: harvard university, boston, usa, california
Keyword: educational film, latin, rose, pipe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about friendship, youth, coming of age, college, love and romance, teacher and hopes mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Paper Chase: Dead Poets Society (1989), Larry Crowne (2011), 3 Idiots (2009), Nanban (2012), Renaissance Man (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style: philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: teacher, suicide, coming of age, friendship, poetry, poet, mentor, philosophy, teachers and students, literature, youth, teenager ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1989, year 1959
Place: vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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Larry Crowne (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
Style: romantic, inspirational, feel good, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: loss of job, happy ending, college, teacher, love, life, economics, life philosophy, love story, friendship, relationships, teacher student relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, somalia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Paper Chase (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, witty ...
Plot: education, lawyer, law, court, school, law school, college, youth, legal, coming of age, ambition, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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64%
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3 Idiots (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: In the tradition of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” comes this refreshing comedy about a rebellious prankster with a crafty mind and a heart of gold. Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like ...
Style: inspirational, entertaining, touching, funny, educational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: motivation, friendship, coming of age, friends, rebelliousness, college, teachers and students, student life, heartwarming, suicide, talented, education ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2009, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nanban (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story: The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On their journey, they recount their college life and special moments that the three shared up until their ...
Style: humorous, touching, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot: friendship, college, student, college life, teachers and students, coming of age, old friend, fall in love, buddies, free spirited, professor, education ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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Renaissance Man (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that ...
Style: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, unemployment, shakespeare, underdog, self discovery, soldier, instructor, unlikely friendships, justice, teaching, teacher student relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: brooklyn new york city, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Wonder Boys (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award winning "Great American Novel" 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, professor, college, adultery, gay, coming of age, divorce, gay interest, university, alienation, literature, prodigy ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Calvin Marshall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: baseball, coming of age, college, ambition, follow your dream, self discovery, underdog, youth, athlete's life, hopes, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Verdict (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties ...
Style: suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, redemption, lawyer, court, legal action, character study, fighting the system, legal, alcoholic, trial, law ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, ambition, power relations, youth, hardcase students, lifestyle, education, rivalry, teaching, college ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style: inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: feminism, teacher, art, college, teachers and students, art history, coming of age, dedicated educator, college life, women, gender, feminist ...
Time: 50s, year 2003, 1950s, year 1953, post world war two ...
Place: massachusetts, california, boston, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Rocket Science (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style: clever, sincere, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, coming of age, debate, teenager, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, misfit, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, realistic, clever ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, single father, father son relationship, family drama, courtroom drama, family relations, court, legal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: new york, california, usa, persia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, family comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: adoption, single father, redemption, hopes, teacher, child hero, manipulation, in love, fall in love, coin, unrequited love, adopted daughter ...
Time: 80s, year 1994, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: virginia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Blue Like Jazz (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young man must find his own way as his Southern Baptist roots don't seem to be acceptable at his new liberal arts college.
Style: realistic, humorous, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: bookstore, college, introspection, youth, social relations, student life, fall in love, philosophy, christian, church, faith, religious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas, oregon, texas, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Tumbleweeds (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, self discovery, human nature, starting over, single mother, family problems, single parent, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, south carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style: touching, captivating, sentimental, clever, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, overweight, youth, first sex, mother daughter relationship, culture clash, women, dressmaker, physical appearance, working class, unsupportive parent, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
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47%
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Tenure (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, teenager, teacher, business, fake dating ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, yale university
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47%
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 ⇓
47%
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Breaking Away (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one ...
Style: touching, realistic, inspirational, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, working class, cycling, underdog, bicycle, friendship, small town, teenage life, bicycle race, father son relationship, childhood, teenage boy ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style: feel good, road movie, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, job interview, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.1
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The Flats (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: love triangle, youth, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship between men, friendship, coming of age, friends, courtroom drama, siblings relations, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
By Dawn's Early Light (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, independent film
Plot: grandparent grandchild relationship, self discovery, hopes, youth, family relations, teenage life, male bonding, coming of age, horse riding, friendship between men, dysfunctional family, summer ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style: controversial, sexy, depressing, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: mate swapping, sex, college, sexual awakening, relationships, coming of age, friendship, love triangle, battle of the sexes, sexual content, friends, depression ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, vietnam, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, dramatic, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, blindness, mentor, blind character, thanksgiving, tango, human spirit, human nature, loneliness, coming of age, disability, preparatory school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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