Movies like The Explosive Generation
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The Explosive Generation (1961)
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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. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic
Plot:
teacher, high school, school, youth, teachers and students, couples, high school life, teenage life, stoners, society, idealism, hopes, dedicated educator, hardcase students, looking for sex, urban ghetto life, power relations, urban ghetto, sex, teenager, student, rebellion, teacher student relationship, young love, essay
Time:
60s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, society, teachers and students, power relations, high school, high school life and teacher mostly in Drama, Biography and Sport genres. Some movies like The Explosive Generation: Conrack (1974), Knights of the South Bronx (2005), To Sir, with Love II (1996), Shackles (2005), Cheaters (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
serious, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
teacher, racism, school, youth, island, education, black history, psychology, humanist, civil rights, blaxploitation, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. Five high school cheerleaders, including the daughter of the school principal, run amok -- and teachers, parents and administrators allow them to get away with a wide range of scandalous behavior. Known as the "Fab ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, high school, hardcase students, against the rules, society, sport team, teenage life, rebellion, rebelliousness, athlete and trainer, youth, americana ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, texas
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100%
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
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chess, school, teacher, misfit, youth, ambition, elementary school, teachers and students, lifestyle, hardcase students, high school life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
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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, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
teacher, education, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, dedicated educator, youth, hopes, idealism, society, hardcase students, undisciplined ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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, captivating, touching, semi serious
Plot:
prison, dedicated educator, idealism, starting over, human spirit, ambition, hardcase students, prison life, hopes, life is a bitch, confined, rehabilitation ...
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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, clever, sincere, offbeat
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teachers and students, high school, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, society, dedicated educator, contests and competitions, youth, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
213
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, gloomy
Plot:
gang, poetry, teenage life, fighting the system, idealism, youth, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, dedicated educator, school, stoners ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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32%
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:
realistic, serious, gloomy, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
teacher, education, high school, dedicated educator, racism, english teacher, mentor, business, blaxploitation, school teacher, friendship, high school life ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
211
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
marijuana, drugs, hippie, juvenile delinquent, frame up, school, high school, friendship, drug dealing, urban ghetto, power relations, friends ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
uplifting, sincere, touching, rough, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, rebellion, teenage life, ambition, changing lives, ex convict, contests and competitions, teachers and students, redemption, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, sincere
Plot:
blaxploitation, juvenile delinquent, racial issues, high school, cheerleader, power relations, social relations, urban ghetto, militant, teachers and students, high school life, social differences ...
Time:
60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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, sexy ...
Plot:
teacher, urban ghetto, youth, idealism, dysfunctional family, school, society, hopes, lesbian, lgbtq, fall in love, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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:
sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual
Plot:
teacher, idealism, school, power relations, rebellion, youth, society, dedicated educator, mentally unstable, hardcase students, teachers and students, squash ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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, emotional, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, human spirit, life is a bitch, lifestyle, youth, idealism, society ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four high school students are led into the world of adult vices by their guidance counselor, a shadowy, suicidal millionaire.
Style:
entertaining, erotic, realistic, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, suicide attempt, high school, graphic violence, nude, power relations, hardcase students, youth, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, self discovery, society ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high schools to help the children of incarcerated parents regain control of their own lives and not ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, feminist film
Plot:
support group, dedicated educator, against the odds, human spirit, idealism, society, hopes, teenage life, teachers and students, high school, children, child abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage life, high school, youth, parents and children, dishonesty, family relations, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teenage girl, love ...
Time:
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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, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, fighting the system, alcoholic mother, youth, dedicated educator, hopes, hardcase students, society, rebellion, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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:
serious, realistic, biting, cynical, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, nude, suspense, graphic violence, society, youth, confined, hardcase students, rebellion, re-education, undisciplined, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
354
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:
serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, boarding school, housewife, teacher, infatuation, family relations, couples, power relations, love and romance, misfit, crumbling marriage, idealism ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, realistic, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
high school, sexually transmitted disease, teenage love, family in crisis, infected, terminal illness, couples, kids in trouble, friends, youth, life is a bitch, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
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23%
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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:
humorous, semi documentary, psychological, captivating, biting ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, hardcase students, youth, lifestyle, power relations, ambition, rivalry, education, suspense, school ...
Place:
usa, texas
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothersÂ, 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, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations ...
Time:
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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:
serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
boarding school, dedicated educator, tragic hero, society, idealism, friendship, social differences, youth, family relations, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sexual
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lifestyle, society, youth, friends, teenage life, friendship, innocence lost, coming of age, high school life, teenager, drugs, sexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style:
rough, realistic, sincere, serious, bleak
Audience:
kids
Plot:
homeless, kids in trouble, teenage life, life is a bitch, love, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth, society, pregnancy, escape, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
rebelliousness, youth, teenage life, teachers and students, high school life, power relations, social relations, coping, coming of age, creepy child, psychoanalyst, undisciplined ...
Time:
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Place:
slovenia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, friendship, human nature, single parent, disgraced, youth, love and romance, family problems, family life, dysfunctional family, isolation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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:
thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, politics, blaxploitation, aunt, false accusation, interracial relations, wrongfully committed, urban ghetto life, teachers and students, prison life, school, urban ghetto ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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20%
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