Movies like The Teacher 2016
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The Teacher (2016)
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Original name: Učiteľka
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style:
touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, dark comedy, allegory, non-linear
Plot:
teacher, communism, psychological manipulation, boy, female protagonist, blackmailer, communist, blackmail, class differences, abuse of power, nepotism, parent child relationship, cruelty, husband wife relationship, manipulative behavior, scientist, doctor, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, coworker relationship, teacher student relationship, women, feminist, school, bully ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
Keyword:
visit, outburst
Most similar movies to The Teacher
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, crying and touching films with plots about father son relationship, husband wife relationship, family relations, teacher, father daughter relationship, teenage boy and boy mostly in Drama, Comedy and War genres. Some movies like The Teacher: Cosy Dens (1999), Provincial Actors (1979), Pupendo (2003), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Identity Card (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style:
cult classic, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
christmas, coming of age, communism, communist, boy, comedian, dictatorship, dictator, renaissance, lovers, totalitarian regime, mission ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, prague, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging ...
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
renaissance, bare chested male, shakespeare, coworker relationship, woman hits a man, theatre director, gay interest, theater, fired from the job, hypocritical woman, arrogant man, professional rivalry ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot:
family life, political unrest, survival, life is a bitch, down on your luck, communism, performer's life, bare chested male, teenage girl, little boy, teenager, secretly observing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
balkan, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. Radu Jude (Aferim!) delivers an ...
Style:
captivating, intellectual, independent film, freeze frame, sitcom ...
Plot:
explicit sex, erection, sex tape, oral sex, penetration, bare breasts, unsimulated sex, female masturbation, teacher, lechery, close up of a penis, nun ...
Time:
future
Place:
rome italy, romania, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Hořká komedie režiséra Ondřeje Trojana Občanský průkaz na motivy stejnojmenné knihy Petra Šabacha sleduje osudy čtveřice dospívajících mladíků, jejich přátel, lásek a rodičů od okamžiku, kdy v patnácti letech dostanou ...
Style:
humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, group of friends, communist, friendship between boys, family relations, teenager, teenage boy, communism, emigration, teenage protagonist, friends, youth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the funeral. Jan is sure that he and his wife Olga are on ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, social ...
Plot:
female antagonist, husband wife relationship, death of father, brother sister relationship, dark humor, father son relationship, psychiatrist, university, father daughter relationship, adventurer, selfish woman, manipulative woman ...
Place:
prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, semi serious, clever, humorous ...
Plot:
racism, immigrant, family relations, adoption, parents and children, terminal illness, youth, dealing with death, couple relations, love and romance, society, black market ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, czech republic, burma, prague ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution.
Style:
surreal, compassionate, lyrical, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, survival, idealism, couples, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, nazi occupation, society ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
eastern europe, poland, germany, czech republic, balkan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot:
road trip, cold war, arrested, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, fight, doctor, death of father, politics, life, lifestyle change ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
894
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style:
suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, social outcast, family relations, husband wife relationship, end of war, child protagonist, death, countryside, wartime life, abusive father, stuttering ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place:
central europe, prague
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40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ...
Style:
sincere, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lost dog, brother sister relationship, dog, vacation, teenage boy, family relations, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, shipwreck, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Plot:
ex classmate ex classmate relationship, photography, bus, teenage girl, father son relationship, drunkenness, teacher, father daughter relationship, comedian, photographer, husband wife relationship, hitchhiking ...
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian sex, adolescence, teenager, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, sex, stereotypes ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, humorous, captivating, crying
Plot:
party, husband wife relationship, wedding, rivalry, father son relationship, bare chested male, nudity, photography, male pubic hair, voice over narration, young boy, female pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 1985
Place:
eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
191
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Alice Nellis's small-scale debut tragicomedy spotlights small-town elections. The protagonist, a university student name Jana (Theodora Remundová) who is trying to solve a troubled relationship with a married man, takes her mother's ...
Plot:
estranged daughter, poetry, manipulative person, loss of husband, choice, manipulative woman, drunken man, loneliness, drunken woman, rebellion, librarian, tattoo ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style:
dark comedy, tense, art house, neurotic, emotional ...
Plot:
avalanche, passive aggressive behavior, marital strife, family vacation, ski resort, nervous breakdown, marriage, introspection, cowardice, ski, tourism, family holiday ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014
Place:
alps, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy ...
Plot:
boarding school, holiday, teacher, new year's eve, vietnam war, christmas, grieving mother, detention, teen angst, depression, mental institution, boy ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, year 1971
Place:
boston, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, even his life.
Style:
touching, psychological, disturbing, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
gay, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, friend, lgbt, closeted gay, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, humiliation, sexual tension, secret, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Style:
crying, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot:
millionaire, failed expectations, class differences, gambling, old woman, poverty, doctor, dead body, cooking, sick woman, rivals, passive aggressive girl ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock ...
Style:
freeze frame, teen comedy
Plot:
tourist, horse, artist, father issues, secretary, painter, taxi, actor, fish, bus driver, gay, male objectification ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the ...
Style:
captivating, melancholic, light, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
teacher, tradition, children, village, saving a life, husband wife relationship, school teacher, education, countryside, professor, love, turk ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two people deal with their problems
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
father son relationship, aunt nephew relationship, jealous boyfriend, bare chested male, car crash, rural setting, egocentrism, egoist, jealous man, passive aggressive woman, passive aggressive behavior, emotional blackmail ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed by him. He sets out to take revenge but finds instead his 70-year-old son, Georg, a retired ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised ...
Style:
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Plot:
class differences, family drama, depression, loneliness, family relations, character study, nanny, family problems, parent child relationship, coming of age, twists and turns, female protagonist ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Melodrama set in Czech Republic during the Germain occupation.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
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 ...
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