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The Headmaster (2000)
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Original name: الناظر
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, witty, emotional, slapstick, heartfelt, lighthearted
Plot:
school, satire, director, high school life, school teacher, school principal, high school teacher, power, education, teacher student relationship, social commentary, friendship, bullying, inheritance, corruption, self discovery, manipulation, power struggle, mistrust, redemption, coming of age, political satire, arab, general
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, captivating, feel good and semi serious films with plots about satire, coming of age, friendship, social commentary, school, identity and high school life mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Headmaster: El Lemby (2002), Mido the Troublemaker (2003), H Dabbour (2008), School Meals Time Final Battle (2020), Me or My Aunt (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henedy plays Taimor, a Young man studies music. He loves his colleague and intends to marry her. Her mother, who believes in magic, refuses their marriage.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
teacher, school, workplace, satire, school teacher, gym teacher, workplace situations, escapades, coworker, high school teacher, teacher student relationship, fish out of water ...
Time:
2000s
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51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, funny, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical, light hearted ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After going through training to overcome bullying, a high school teenager who has had problems with his life and his relationships in school must face a bully on the first day school.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, satirical, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Sentaro Sakuragi (Tsuyoshi Domoto) moves to Tokyo from Osaka. He works now as an substitute elementary school teacher, in place of another teacher on maternity leave. Sentaro hopes to turn his class into the best class in all of Japan. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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559
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Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
feel good, satirical, captivating, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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satirical, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
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satirical, captivating, entertaining, feel good, emotional ...
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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