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, allegory, non-linear
Plot:
teacher, psychological manipulation, school, female protagonist, blackmailer, communism, communist, blackmail, class differences, abuse of power, nepotism, parent child relationship, husband wife relationship, manipulative behavior, scientist, doctor, boy, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, coworker relationship, teacher student relationship, women, bully, bullying, wrestler ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, touching and melancholic films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, teacher, father daughter relationship, boy and little boy mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Teacher: Cosy Dens (1999), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Provincial Actors (1979), Identity Card (2010), Divided We Fall (2000). 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:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
christmas, coming of age, boy, mission, totalitarian regime, family relations, neighbor, death, domineering father, occupation, teenage life, communism ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, czech republic, prague, europe, central europe ...
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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, sitcom
Plot:
explicit sex, erection, sex tape, teacher, oral sex, unsimulated sex, penetration, female masturbation, lechery, school teacher, sex scandal, videotaping ...
Time:
future
Place:
romania, rome italy, bucharest
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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 ...
Plot:
gay interest, coworker relationship, woman hits a man, worker, actor's life, drunken man, hysterical woman, egoism, price of fame, psychopath, drunken woman, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Place:
poland
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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, light, captivating, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, group of friends, friendship between boys, family relations, communist, teenage boy, teenager, emigration, communism, teenage protagonist, friends, youth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish, survival, idealism, war, human spirit, self discovery, against humanity, wartime life, nazi occupation, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
germany, poland, eastern europe, tokyo, europe ...
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58%
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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:
humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, social
Plot:
female antagonist, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, university, psychiatrist, death of father, dark humor, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, selfish woman, manipulative woman, emotional abuse ...
Place:
prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
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, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
family life, political unrest, life is a bitch, survival, down on your luck, communism, performer's life, game, teenager, school principal, sculpture, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, czech republic, czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
racism, family relations, adoption, parents and children, terminal illness, cons and scams, black market, youth, society, love and romance, dealing with death, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, romania, thailand, slovakia, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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:
serious, touching, captivating, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot:
road trip, cold war, family relations, fight, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, arrested, politics, doctor, death of father, father and son, changing lives ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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:
sincere, sentimental, suspenseful, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, social outcast, family relations, countryside, husband wife relationship, child protagonist, end of war, boy, death, suspense, wartime life, abusive father ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, year 1944, year 1943
Place:
central europe, prague
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56%
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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:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, sad, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lost dog, teenage boy, vacation, dog, family relations, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, shipwreck, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Place:
central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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:
disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
gay, gay slur, first gay sexual experience, closeted gay, raped woman, lgbt, lgbtq, humiliation, sexual tension, dysfunctional family, abusive father, friend ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two people deal with their problems
Plot:
father son relationship, jealous boyfriend, father hits son, rivals, flowers, siblings living together, egocentric, lifestyle change, snobbish woman, family relations, countryside, egocentric woman ...
Place:
prague
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55%
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:
tense, art house, neurotic, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
family vacation, vacation gone wrong, passive aggressive behavior, marital strife, marriage, avalanche, ski resort, introspection, spoiled girl, nervous breakdown, ski, swedish ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scandinavia, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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, captivating, humorous, exciting
Plot:
party, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, rivalry, wedding, suspense, nude, reading a newspaper aloud, rich woman, mute character, violence, male objectification ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 1985
Place:
eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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:
biting, cynical, stylized, realistic, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, lesbian, adolescence, lesbian sex, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, cheerleading, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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:
teen comedy
Plot:
tourist, horse, artist, bossiness, ambitious man, visit, theater, sexual abuse, lust, locked in, masturbation, secret relationship ...
Place:
new york
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55%
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, suspenseful, touching, light ...
Plot:
teacher, children, village, tradition, saving a life, husband wife relationship, school teacher, countryside, love, professor, education, friends ...
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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:
tragicomedy
Plot:
millionaire, card playing, failed expectations, old woman, poverty, gambling, class differences, doctor, strangulation, burglar, visit, child murderess ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Plot:
ex classmate ex classmate relationship, passive aggressive woman, estranged son, estranged daughter, passive aggressive behavior, photographer, husband wife relationship, teacher, comedian, father daughter relationship, bus, drunkenness ...
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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:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
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road movie, touching, melancholic, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, oklahoma, california
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53%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Melodrama set in Czech Republic during the Germain occupation.
Style:
melancholic, captivating, romantic, suspenseful, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, year 1945 ...
Place:
europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
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:
captivating, humorous, sincere, touching, social
Plot:
teacher, school, literature, teenage boy, teenage love, school principal, teaching the ways of the world, teenager, ministry, hidden, school expulsion, legal ...
Place:
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
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sentimental, captivating, touching, psychological
Plot:
family relations, school, marriage, doctor, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, teacher, violence, father daughter relationship, cancer, police, rape ...
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53%
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two couples' windy comedy movie that is more dangerous than typhoons in Jeju Islands.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, satirical, captivating
Plot:
family relations, learning the truth, marital crisis, depressed man, relationships, satire, coworker relationship, accidental death, waiter, depression, pregnancy, gift ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Czech Republic
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Story:
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, stylized, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, parenthood, dysfunctional family, poverty, family relations, child's point of view, parents and children, black people, couple relations, single parent, family problems, school ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, tokyo, usa
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Impeached high school president, Tim Timmerman, seeks to redeem himself and get into Yale.
Style:
humorous, captivating, realistic, romantic, teen comedy
Plot:
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Time:
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