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Stolen Spring (1993)
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Original name: Det forsømte forår
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
Style:
tense, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot:
murder, teenage life, lgbt, teacher, school, education, teachers and students, life is a bitch, high school life, social relations, poisoning, under the surface, power relations, teenager, sadist, high school student, school teacher, teenage boy, high school reunion, high school, high school teacher, dying words, clarinet, class reunion, high school boy
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
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Most similar movies to Stolen Spring
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and bleak films with plots about youth, society, power relations, teachers and students, high school life, high school and social relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stolen Spring: Up the Down Staircase (1967), Bad Seeds (2012), The Invisible Eye (2010), The Substitute (1993), Cheaters (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
teacher, school teacher, education, teaching, teacher student relationship, high school teacher, high school, dedicated educator, racial discrimination, mentor, racism, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
250
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, tense, serious
Plot:
teenager, kidnapping, parent child relationship, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, single parent, hardcase students, confined, crime gone awry, disorder, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
31%
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:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
29%
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:
erotic, neo noir, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
education, bad girl, lonely, teacher, school teacher, high school, murder, hidden identity, youth, dishonesty, power relations, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
minnesota, usa
Similarity:
29%
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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:
realistic, serious, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teachers and students, high school, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, rivalry, society, fraud, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
28%
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, emotional ...
Plot:
teacher, education, black, juvenile delinquency, high school teacher, school teacher, african american, high school, dedicated educator, hopes, society, idealism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
27%
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:
serious, realistic, psychological, mind bending, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teacher, school, children, mental disorder, bullying, nudity, mischievous children, youth, dedicated educator, mentally unstable, disorder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
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, educational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coping, youth, rebelliousness, high school life, teachers and students, teenage life, social relations, power relations, coming of age, creepy child, psychoanalyst, undisciplined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia, central europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, social relations, dishonesty, society, law enforcement, lifestyle, murder, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
24%
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:
touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
parents and children, teenage life, love and romance, family life, dysfunctional family, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, disgraced, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Russia, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, introspection, haunted by the past, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, murder, emotionless, novel
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The arrival of a new girl causes a stir in classroom social structure.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, disturbing, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
misfit, social relations, lifestyle, teenage life, self discovery, friends, high school life, school, teenager, harassment, misled, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
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 César for Best Actor with his title role ...
Style:
social, thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
teacher, education, school teacher, professor, dedicated educator, kindergarten, poverty, corrupt system, human rights, labor, job, homeless ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the focus of a group of young people, led by the charismatic Cédric and Matthieu, his assistant. The gang ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind game, mysterious character, teenage life, danger, gang, youth, juvenile delinquency, social relations, life is a bitch, woman, teenager, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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, school teacher, education, youth, racial discrimination, american south, african american, humanist, teaching, black history, blaxploitation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
south carolina, america, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, introspection, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
22%
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:
serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
Plot:
teacher, high school, stoner, teenage life, teachers and students, urban ghetto life, looking for sex, school, high school life, society, hardcase students, youth ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
school shooting, high school, bullying, bully, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, teenage life, psychopath, youth, hardcase students, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacraw Island. Staffless 'head' ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, contemplative
Plot:
teachers and students, society, misfit, power relations, hopes, rebellion, dedicated educator, hardcase students, youth, interracial relations, school, idealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina
Similarity:
21%
286
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, bleak
Plot:
uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, community, male nudity, social relations, mentally challenged, female nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
21%
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:
touching, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chess, teacher, school teacher, misfit, youth, hardcase students, high school life, juvenile delinquency, elementary school, lifestyle, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence. Just when things do get out of hand, however, the problem is "solved" by the city government, ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot:
boy, anti war, little boy, coming of age, traumatic childhood, bondage, education, boyhood, school, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
21%
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:
powerful, uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, black, politics, passion, aunt, blaxploitation, racial discrimination, stage play, false accusation, interracial relations, urban ghetto life, wrongfully committed ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style:
serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, youth, humiliation, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, teenage life, mistreatment, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
revenge, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, teenage life, friendship, high school life, bullying, youth, social misfits, drug abuse, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
21%
439
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, dark comedy, serious, realistic, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, substitute teacher, trauma, brainwashing, teacher, profanity, violent content, nudity, confined, rebellion, youth, hardcase students ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
21%
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:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, dishonesty, high school, youth, teachers and students, pregnant teenager, teenager, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
school shooting, losing-it hero, social relations, haunted by the past, youth, bullying, high school, loneliness, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, murder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, iowa
Similarity:
20%
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