Movies like Monsieur Lazhar

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Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
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Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.
Style: touching, sincere, inspirational, compassionate, realistic, thought provoking, visually appealing, art house, serious, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: teacher, immigrant, elementary school, suicide, teachers and students, youth, coming of age, tragedy, exile, children, culture clash, precocious child, self discovery, character study, coping, education, society, social relations, refugee, childhood, adolescence, false accusation, migrant, migration, girl ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada, france, algeria, montreal, quebec, ontario canada, seattle ...
Keyword: algerian, french, educational film, reading, canadian, dictionary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sincere and semi serious films with plots about youth, coming of age, school, classroom, teacher, friendship and power relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Monsieur Lazhar: Wadjda (2012), Dead Poets Society (1989), Once in a Lifetime (2014), Detachment (2011), Small Change (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wadjda (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight ...
Style: stylized, talky, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: childhood, islam, bicycle, muslim, gender, children, dream, coming of age, friendship, muslim girl, hijab, cycling ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, maghreb
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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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28%
Once in a Lifetime (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.
Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: high school, ambition, dedicated educator, teachers and students, teenage life, contests and competitions, youth, shoah, school, contest, humanity, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brussels, brussels belgium
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26%
 7.7
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Detachment (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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25%
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Small Change (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a ...
Style: existential, aesthetic, art house, realistic, serious ...
Plot: childhood, coming of age, child abuse, boy, traumatic childhood, children, teacher, school, creepy child, medical, professor, professional ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: france
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25%
Peppermint Soda (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, school, jewish girl, female protagonist, political protest, friendship, high school, children, woman, relationships, suicide, troubled relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Stanley studies in the all-boys Holy Family High School in Andheri East, Mumbai. While his class-mates bring their own tiffin-boxes, Stanley does not do so on the pretext that his mother is away. His friends share their food with him, much to the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: social relations, power relations, teachers and students, food, student, teacher, elementary school, professor, teenager, youth, cooking, hunger ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: asia, india
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23%
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With Honors (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids
Plot: college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston, harvard university
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23%
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Little Red Flowers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Liang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. His father deposits him at a well-appointed residential kindergarten in post-1949 Beijing, since his parents are often away. Life at the ...
Style: realistic, serious, humorous, touching
Plot: children, boarding school, rebelliousness, kindergarten, boarding school life, lifestyle, social relations, teachers and students, road not taken, dedicated educator, orphan, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china
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23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
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22%
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
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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
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22%
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
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Time: 90s, year 1994
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It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, biting ...
Plot: coming of age, children, unrequited love, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, prank, parents and children, eccentric family, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Socially isolated by his parents (Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Joy), an androgynous teen (Aaron Webber) enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher (Daniel MacIvor).
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, captivating, disturbing ...
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Audience: kids, teens
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Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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Educating Rita (1983)
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Story: Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style: talky, witty, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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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
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Story: Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, uplifting
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Duration: 98 min.
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Country: USA, Canada
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Style: social, realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
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20%
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Rocket Science (2007)
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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
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20%
The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
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20%
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St. Vincent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Style: realistic, feel good, witty, entertaining, inspirational ...
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20%
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
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Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Noi the Albino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK, Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with ...
Style: harsh, touching, depressing, enigmatic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, family relations, teenage life, unfulfilled love, death, hopes, love and romance, social relations, parents and children, dull life ...
Place: iceland, hawaii, singapore, cairo egypt, new york
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