Movies like Clockwork Mice

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Clockwork Mice (1995)
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Clockwork Mice (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitudes begin to change when he makes a connection with a particularly unruly student.
Style: independent film, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot: teacher, school, idealism, special needs, youth, teachers and students, rebellion, society, mentally unstable, dedicated educator, hardcase students, power relations, football, police officer, train, police, violence, death, running, book, school teacher, male full rear nudity, accidental death, poetry, car ...
Time: 90s, 20th century

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Most similar movies to Clockwork Mice

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, power relations, teacher, society, teachers and students, school and hopes mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Clockwork Mice: The Explosive Generation (1961), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002), The Beat (1988), To Sir, with Love II (1996), Behavior (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, tragic hero, dedicated educator, society, idealism, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
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95%
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The Beat (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gang, poetry, teenage life, fighting the system, youth, idealism, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, dedicated educator, stoner, school ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: new york
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89%
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 ⇓
85%
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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
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81%
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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 ...
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76%
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 ⇓
71%
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 ⇓
65%
It All Starts Today (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a CĂ©sar for Best Actor with his title role ...
Style: social, realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: teacher, education, professor, dedicated educator, kindergarten, poverty, labor, homeless, teaching, job, corrupt system, human rights ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Invisible Eye (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: high school life, political unrest, society, youth, rebellion, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot: bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, coming of age, friends, self discovery, boys' school, power relations, lifestyle, misfit, dedicated educator, hardcase students ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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, realistic, serious, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: teacher, racism, education, youth, african american, american south, black history, teaching, american culture, blaxploitation, humanist, civil rights ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: south carolina, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
When Harvey Met Bob (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: music, musician's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, partner, idealism, media, hopes, ambition, charity, rock, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
57%
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Detention (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After some personal trauma, Wilson Walmsley is invited to work as a substitute teacher in a suburban public high school. He finds lack of authority and interest in the school direction and teacher body; uncontrolled and abusive students in an ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: exodus, kidnapping, profanity, violent content, nudity, youth, confined, rebellion, society, hardcase students, re-education, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
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Eden (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, multiple sclerosis, housewife, boarding school, waking up, teacher, infatuation, family relations, power relations, couples, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time: year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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 ⇓
54%
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Around the Block (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, deep ...
Plot: teacher, urban ghetto, school, dysfunctional family, youth, idealism, hopes, society, lesbian, lgbtq, fall in love, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, mind bending, tense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teacher, school, mental disorder, bullying, children, nudity, youth, dedicated educator, mentally unstable, mischievous children, power relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Deserted Station (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go ...
Style: serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, islamic ...
Plot: teacher, prodigy, self discovery, youth, teachers and students, on the road, society, religions or cults, isolation, school, train, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
45%
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The Substitute (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A high school substitute English teacher resorts to murder to protect her murderous dark past while seducing a student whom begins to suspect her true identity.
Style: neo noir, erotic, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: teacher, bad girl, education, lonely, murder, high school, youth, hidden identity, dishonesty, power relations, disorder, teachers and students ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Bad Seeds (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: teenager, kidnapping, parent child relationship, youth, parents and children, teachers and students, crime gone awry, single parent, hardcase students, confined, power relations, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
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41%
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The Basket (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a community torn apart by war. Both a riveting sports film and a tale of triumph over adversity, The ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: youth, world war one, athlete and trainer, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, society, dedicated educator, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1918, 1910s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
A Beautiful Secret (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, human nature, rebellion, rebelliousness, hopes, youth, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, elderly, boyhood, bittersweet, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
37%
Natural Sciences (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, coming of age, search for father, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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37%
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