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Life of a King (2013)
9K
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 streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.
Style:
sincere, rough, touching, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, spiritual, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, ex convict, teenage life, ambition, youth, teachers and students, rivalry, society, redemption, contests and competitions, bad attitude, gain trust, high school, underdog, insubordination, black history, school, criminal, social problems, prison, ghetto, game, motivation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
cuba, washington d.c., usa
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Most similar movies to Life of a King
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, society, high school, power relations, high school life, hopes and teachers and students mostly in Drama, Biography and Sport genres. Some movies like Life of a King: Knights of the South Bronx (2005), Lean on Me (1989), The Fat Boy Chronicles (2010), Forever Strong (2008), Cheaters (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, hood, realistic, political ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
african american, teenager, high school, teacher, black, mentor, school, urban, teaching, school teacher, violence, teenage pregnancy ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Fat Boy Chronicles is a motion picture about Jimmy Winterpock, an obese high-school student who deals with bullying and trying to lose weight. The film is inspired by a true story and was released in 2010 as a major motion picture.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fat boy, teenage love, human spirit, bullying, hopes, misfit, high school, society, win over, follow your dream, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, serious, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, teen drama
Plot:
rugby, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, coach, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, redemption, human spirit, starting over, ambition, teenage life, motivation ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
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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:
mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, hardcase students, power relations, lifestyle, ambition, youth, education, rivalry, teaching, high school teacher ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot:
blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, ambition, dedicated educator, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style:
touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
rape, innocence lost, high school, sexualized violence, juvenile delinquency, rape and revenge, teenage love, against the odds, fighting the system, rebellion, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, contests and competitions, follow your dream, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, ambition, hopes, dancer's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Matthew Perry is real-life inspiration Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Clark must use unconventional methods, ...
Style:
serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
dedicated educator, teacher, human spirit, changing lives, hardcase students, hopes, teachers and students, teacher student relationship, new job, profanity, school teacher, obstacle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place:
harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothers, 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, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, starting over, prodigy, haunted by the past, society, ambition, redemption, rivalry, youth, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drive-by shooting in Venice, California, changes the lives of five people forever. States of Grace tells the story of a homeless street preacher, Louis, a gang banger, Carl, an aspiring actress, Holly, and two young missionaries, Lozano and ...
Style:
christian film, uplifting, touching, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
faith, redemption, mormon, missionary, human spirit, going straight, culture clash, gang, society, youth, juvenile delinquency, hopes ...
Place:
italy, california, usa, europe, utah ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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, touching, suspense, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
dedicated educator, prison, idealism, starting over, hardcase students, prison life, rivalry, confined, hopes, rehabilitation, youth, student life ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sincere, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
mentor, literature, dedicated educator, coming of age, prejudice, genius, basketball, writers, teacher, african american, prodigy, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, scotland, usa, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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, teen
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, high school, hardcase students, against the rules, sport team, teenage life, rebellion, youth, rebelliousness, athlete and trainer, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
chess, social problems, misfit, high school, life is a bitch, society, dedicated educator, human relationship, teacher, city, unconventional method, youth ...
Place:
miami
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, bleak, thought provoking, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, high school life, teen angst, human relationship, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sentimental, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lacrosse, friendship, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, rebel, female bonding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, sexy, hood ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teacher, school teacher, profanity, hopes, coming of age, hip hop, school, teaching, ghetto, mentor, gangster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, bay area, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, juvenile delinquency, uncover truth, teenage life, social decay, life is a bitch, society, human spirit, idealism, youth, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
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%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, homeless, youth, changing lives, children, power relations, hopes, idealism, society, teachers and students, school, dedication ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, usa, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style:
emotional, touching, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hurricane katrina, high school sports, cheerleader, rivalry, sport team, high school, basketball coach, starting over, contests and competitions, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
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