Movies like Spare the Rod

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Spare the Rod (1961)
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Spare the Rod (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
Style: independent film, black and white
Plot: school, school teacher, teenager, teacher, slut, blonde, lie, director, slum, smoking, neglected child, letter, inspiration, riot, cigarette smoking, dinner, brawl, school class, fistfight, last day of school, hooliganism, new teacher, drinking, reading the bible, drinking alcohol ...
Place: london, east end london

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Most similar movies to Spare the Rod

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and psychological films with plots about teacher, school, school teacher, teenager, classroom, director and youth mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Spare the Rod: To Sir, with Love (1967), Small Voices (2002), One for All (2020), Birth of a Nation (1983), The Red and the Blue (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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Small Voices (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Melinda is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial ...
Plot: political violence, children, city, rural setting, new teacher, mutiny, singing competition, school teacher, partisan, boss, hopes, school ...
Time: year 2002
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68%
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One for All (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social
Plot: bullying, school, teacher, teacher student relationship, school teacher, adult child friendship, children, schoolboy, high school life, high school teacher, social problems, teachers and students ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Birth of a Nation (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Plot: corporal punishment, school, juvenile delinquent, riot, sex education, teacher, profanity, children, bullying, education, classroom
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Red and the Blue (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: teachers and students, high school teacher, adolescence, student, teacher, teenager, middle school, high school life, school, teacher student relationship, schoolgirl, school teacher ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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58%
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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, realistic, serious, sexual, touching
Plot: teacher, idealism, school, special needs, mentally unstable, dedicated educator, youth, rebellion, hardcase students, society, power relations, teachers and students ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Station Six-Sahara (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A beautiful blonde (Carroll Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
Style: noir, esoteric, independent film
Plot: unhappy ending, sexuality, desert, group, jealousy, corpse, fear, lie, prostitute, car crash, blonde girl, blonde ...
Time: year 1963
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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6A (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story: As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: bullying, school teacher, school, teacher, parents, doubt, mistrust, crisis, friendship, teenager, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Term of Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Weir, an alcoholic schoolteacher, whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career, is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his pupils and even his wife. ...
Style: crying, detective
Plot: lawyer, traumatic childhood, first love, drug addiction, teenage crush, teacher, unrequited love, bad mother, photography, tram, conscientious objector, defense attorney ...
Place: paris france, england, northern england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Salvatore (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his little sister and his grandmother; after loosing his father in a tragic way he quits school and starts working as a fisherman and a farmer in order to support his little family. The Social ...
Style: crying
Plot: vegetable garden, school teacher, house, research, director, school, beach, van, teacher, father, accident, orphan ...
Time: 2000s
Place: southern italy, mediterranean sea, italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Stolen Spring (1993)
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 ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: murder, teenage life, teacher, lgbt, school, education, under the surface, power relations, poisoning, social relations, life is a bitch, teachers and students ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: scandinavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Style: independent film, freeze frame, crying
Plot: interracial sex, teacher student sex, interracial rape, older woman younger man relationship, interracial, age difference, older woman younger man, exploring sexuality, janitor, caught having sex, rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: year 1979, year 1954, year 1956, 1950s, year 1955
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Fighting Back (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
Style: independent film
Plot: rage, cross cultural relations, violence, revenge, student, school, teaching, teenager, police officer, racism, slum, terror ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, dark comedy
Plot: stoner, school, teacher, troubled teen, stealing, theft, director, racism, school teacher, marijuana, mental disorder, sex education ...
Time: year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Lamb (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, school, on the run, kidnapping, adoption, teacher student relationship, surrogate father, neurology, epilepsy, epileptic seizure, murder by drowning, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ireland, england, london, dublin ireland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Umbrella (2016)
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 ...
Style: captivating, touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film
Plot: family relations, school, marriage, doctor, teacher, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, hospital, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Looks and Smiles (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two ...
Style: independent film, black and white, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: unemployment, boy, motorcycle, job interview, friends, family relations, power relations, injustice, coming of age, society, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1981, 80s, future
Place: england, europe, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Caregiver (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A grade school English teacher Sarah Gonzales joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her Husband, Teddy Gonzales in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience ...
Style: inspirational, tagalog
Plot: inspiration, life lesson, family gatherings, overseas worker, fired from the job, drinking, book, alzheimer's disease, teacher, train, hospital, insecurity ...
Place: the philippines, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Softie (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young ...
Style: social
Plot: coming of age, gay crush, boy, lgbt, gay, teenager, lgbtq, boyhood, little boy, teacher student relationship, blond boy, museum ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, psychotronic
Plot: teacher, investigation, sleuth, private investigation, crime investigation, framed for a crime, school teacher, female teacher, who done it, accusation, uncover truth, crime solving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Evergreen Tree (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, ...
Plot: school, poverty, teacher, suffering, school teacher, village, children, education, death of loved one, money problems, illiteracy, rural setting ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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An Education (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style: realistic, period piece, costume drama, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, self discovery, teenage girl, betrayal, virginity, teenage life, older man young girl relationship, culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 1900s, year 1961, 60s
Place: london, france, oxford university, paris france, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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All the Little Things We Kill (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A college professor takes her students hostage to force the passage of a bill that bans semi-automatic weapons.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, psychological
Plot: hostage, school, fighting the system, hostage situation, blackmail, school teacher, teacher, teacher student relationship, blackmailer, child hostage, teachers and students, weapons ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Schoolgirls (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Prodded by the rebellious Brisa, puberty is awakening in twelve-year-old Celia. Quickly, the two become allies against the rigid rules of authority in the Catholic girls’ school. However, questions about the right bra, cool bands and sexy clothing ...
Style: melancholic, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure, light ...
Plot: catholic school, teenager, nun, single mother, coming of age, school, homework, girl, new friend, friendship, friends, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
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Nighthawks (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A gay man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. A respectable geography teacher by day; by night, hanging out in London's gay bars, looking for a long-term relationship, but usually encountering only ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teacher, disco, lgbtq, school teacher, lgbtqi, glbt, school, gay bar, homosexuality, gay lead character ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Painted Horses (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young teacher with a storied past must win over an impossible collection of kids and become a balm in a troubled town in need of healing.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, thought provoking
Plot: teacher, strongman, high school teacher, school teacher, lifestyle change, strong female character, lifestyle, ambition, coping, changing lives, strong female lead, temper ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
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