Movies like Chalk 2006

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Chalk (2006)
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Chalk (2006)
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 the golden title of "Teacher of the Year," if only his smarter students would stop using words that he can't understand.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, psychological, captivating, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, youth, ambition, lifestyle, hardcase students, power relations, education, rivalry, teaching, new year, school, college, student life, high school life, gays and lesbians, teenage life, society, contests and competitions, satire, underdog, college life, obsessive quest, dedicated educator ...
Time: year 2006, contemporary
Place: usa, texas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and captivating films with plots about youth, power relations, high school, teachers and students, society, school and teenage life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Chalk: Hellcats (2010), Queen Sized (2008), Life of a King (2013), Cheaters (2000), An Ordinary Family (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hellcats (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pre-law student Marti Perkins' world is flipped upside down when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer University's legendary ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: college, cheerleading, student life, cheerleader, campus, friends, team, social relations, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, memphis
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Queen Sized (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
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100%
Life of a King (2013)
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 ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, rough, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, changing lives, ambition, teenage life, ex convict, contests and competitions, bad attitude, society, gain trust, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cheaters (2000)
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: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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An Ordinary Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: AN ORDINARY FAMILY is a humorous drama about one family, two brothers and a really big problem. Thomas Biederman is blindsided when his estranged brother, Seth, shows up unannounced to the annual family vacation… with his boyfriend.
Style: humorous, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: gay, family relations, estrangement, family problems, family gatherings, gender, society, brother brother relationship, family vacation, brother brother conflict, friendship, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Summer Heights High (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 227 min.
TV show
Story: The life of a public school epitomized by disobedient student Jonah Takalua, self-absorbed private school exchange student Ja'mie King, and megalomaniac drama teacher Mr. G.
Style: mockumentary, sitcom, captivating, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, high school, school, teachers and students, bully, high school student, society, teenage life, misfit, public school, dog, teen angst ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lower Learning (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: youth, hardcase students, school, dedicated educator, fighting the system, against the odds, society, misfit, idealism, teenage life, high school life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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27%
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Shackles (2005)
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, captivating, suspense, semi serious
Plot: dedicated educator, prison, ambition, human spirit, idealism, hardcase students, starting over, prison life, rehabilitation, rivalry, life is a bitch, confined ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Crash Course (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, driving school, driver, taxi, car crash, stoner, power relations, urban ghetto, misfit, dedicated educator, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Family Game (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, biting, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: family relations, tutor, brothers, bittersweet, satire, teachers and students, skyscraper, military life, college life, parents and children, family life, school ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Everybody's Doing It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, buddies, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Teachers (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous, learning
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, high school, lawsuit, satire, education, teaching, high school teacher, school teacher, nudity, adolescence, teen angst, business ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Boston Public (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school ...
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, sincere, sitcom ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teacher, teachers and students, rivalry, youth, teenage life, everyday life, social problems, society, idealism, struggle, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Utopian Society (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 6 college students from different backgrounds, are assigned to work together on a final project. These six students have so far spent no time together, can't stand each other and must pass this final assignment in order to pass the class. The ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: college, society, couples, friends, student life, college life, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, culture clash, power relations, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Once in a Lifetime (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.
Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: high school, ambition, dedicated educator, teachers and students, teenage life, contests and competitions, youth, shoah, school, contest, humanity, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brussels, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
Style: sitcom, retro, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: teacher, high school, school, teachers and students, humour, education, stoner, troublemaker, friends, urban ghetto, power relations, youth ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Sunset Park (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style: hood, humorous, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Highland Park (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Plot: lottery, dedicated educator, high school, society, teachers and students, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, hopes, idealism, gambling, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The New Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young woman is forced to return to her hometown to take care of her ailing father and, in turn, finds herself living a life she never imagined for herself.
Style: humorous, semi serious, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, homecoming, parents and children, drastic change of life, youth, college, student life, self discovery, introspection, society, friendship, high school ...
Time: future
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20%
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Race the Sun (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racing, chase, youth, dedicated educator, rivalry, human spirit, against the odds, self discovery, teenage life, teacher, kids and family, auto racing ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, year 1990
Place: hawaii, usa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Lambada (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's ...
Style: sexy, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: dance, music, mathematics, school, high school, college, stalking, mathematician, lolita, ambition, couples, power relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Tenure (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, teenager, teacher, business, fake dating ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Love and Debate (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot: roommate, love affair, rivalry, college life, coming of age, ambition, family relations, rehabilitation, youth, debate, education, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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All You've Got (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two Southern California volleyball teams determined to prove their superiority on the court find out that they're not as different as they previously thought after tragedy strikes close to home in director Neema Barnette's affectionate ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: volleyball, high school, rivalry, teenage life, ambition, teenage love, athlete's life, lifestyle, youth, contests and competitions, underdog, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with a bunch of kids after being conned into taking over a youth center.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: competition, high school life, gymnasium, bouncer, gangster, power relations, urban ghetto, aging, society, fighting the system, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
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20%
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Deal (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
Style: realistic, tense, psychological, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: poker, gambling, competition, human spirit, contests and competitions, lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, underdog, downfall, casino, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2008
Place: las vegas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
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, realistic, serious, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: teacher, education, black, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, idealism, hopes, society, youth, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Miss Guided (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Miss Guided is an American sitcom that ran from March 18, 2008 to April 3, 2008 as a mid-season replacement on ABC. The series follows the life of Becky Freeley, a guidance counselor at a high school that she attended when she was a teenager. The ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sitcom, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: high school, high school student, workplace, teacher, high school teacher, school, dedicated educator, high school life, teachers and students, youth, hardcase students, power relations ...
Time: 20th century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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With Honors (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids
Plot: college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gym teacher, youth, ambition, sports injury, lifestyle, redemption, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, school, family life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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