Movies and TV shows like The Queen's Classroom 2005

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The Queen's Classroom (2005)
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The Queen's Classroom (2005)
Original name: 女王の教室
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. A South Korean remake of the same title starring Go Hyun-jung in the lead role, was produced in 2013.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: school, female teacher, teacher, relationships, teachers and students, life is a bitch, high school life, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, relationship problems, student, youth, child abuse, child, elementary school, classroom
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and thrilling films and TV series with plots about school, relationships, school teacher, female protagonist, teacher, relationship problems and high school life mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Queen's Classroom: Inventing Anna (2022), Hagane no Onna (2010), Black Dog (2019), The Female Teacher in Black (2012), Where Have My Skirts Gone? (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Inventing Anna (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: manipulative woman, journalist, investigation, art collector, social media, crime investigation, female thief, journalism, instagram, true crime, investigative journalism, female villain ...
Place: new york
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Hagane no Onna (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Haga Ineko stopped being a school teacher for she was about to get married. When she is suddenly dumped by her to-be husband, she loses her way, and starts drinking. One day, an old friend approaches with a job offer. She would be a substitute ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: high school teacher, female teacher, school teacher, female protagonist, japanese schoolgirl, problem, teachers and students, social problems, high school life, school, teacher, workplace
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Black Dog (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: Ko Ha-Neul dreamed of becoming a teacher, due to a teacher who helped her when she was young. Ko Ha-Neul now begins work as a temporary teacher at a private high school. While working there, she interacts with many people, including teachers Park ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, heartfelt ...
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, social problems, school, female teacher, school teacher, high school life, female protagonist, society, workplace, coworker, workplace situations ...
Place: korea
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The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Haruko lands a job in a local tutoring establishment and upon showing up for work on the first day, she discovers that she will not be teaching Japanese people, but teaching people Japanese. Her students are all foreigners who live in Japan for ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: teacher, japanese culture, language learning, female teacher, school teacher, culture, high school teacher, counterculture, cross cultural relations, teachers and students, school
Place: japan
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The Female Teacher in Black (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Takakura Yuko (Eikura Nana) is an ordinary chemistry teacher at a famous government-run preparatory school by day. But at night, she is a super teacher who solves a variety of difficult problems rampant on the school grounds that require more than ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: lifestyle, high school life, schoolgirl, school, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, japanese girl, relationship problems, japanese schoolgirl, japanese teenager, relationships
Place: japan
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Where Have My Skirts Gone? (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: One day, Nobuo Harada starts work as a Japanese language teacher at a high school. He is gay and dresses like a woman. He sympathizes with the lives and worries of his students.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: lgbt, cross dressing, school teacher, teacher, school, gay, female teacher, gay lead character, problem, teachers and students, high school life, closeted gay ...
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67%
The Queen's Classroom (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Drama series depicts the conflicts and struggles between a cold-hearted female teacher and her students over a one school year period.
Style: humorous, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: teacher, school, generation gap, instructor, female teacher, fighting the system, teacher student relationship, high school teacher, schoolboy, high school life, middle school, education ...
Place: korea
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Miracles (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A comical and heartwarming drama about a university lecturer on animal behavior who just loves all living creatures. Once he starts thinking about them, he becomes too absorbed to care about anything else! People think he is quite odd and eccentric! ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, clever
Plot: unconventional method, school teacher, teacher, teachers and students, dedicated educator, social problems, teacher student relationship, introspection, workplace, genius
Place: japan
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Second Call (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: 5 teachers deal with terrible conditions in public schools but renew everyday their faith on the work they do.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: school, teacher, teachers and students, fighting the system, high school life, teacher student relationship, workplace situations, social problems, school teacher, coworker, workplace, lgbtq ...
Place: sao paulo brazil, brazil
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Hello My Teacher (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Na Bori is a 25-year-old woman who desperately wants to be a teacher at the high school she was kicked out of due misunderstanding with her teachers over injuring a group of male classmates. After getting her GED, she rejects job offers from other ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic
Plot: school, older woman younger man relationship, school teacher, teacher, male female relationship, couple relations, relationship problems, rivalry, problem, female teacher, relationships, romantic triangle ...
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You Taught Me All the Precious Things (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Shuji is a young teacher whose confidence and honesty has made him popular with the students. He is engaged to Natsumi, also a teacher at the same high school. At the morning of the new semester, Shuji wakes up with a hangover and no memory of the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: teacher student relationship, teacher, infidelity, hung over, male female relationship, male teacher female student affair, relationship problems, adultery, unfaithful boyfriend, adulterous husband, couple relations, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Umizaru (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coast guard, workplace situations, frogman, relationships, coworker, life is a bitch, male female relationship, scuba diving, long distance relationship, relationship problems, workplace, friendship ...
Place: japan
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Life (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story: Adapted from Keiko Suenobu's manga "LIFE," this drama delves into the dark side of high school life. The story focuses mainly on bullying, but the manga also touches on subjects such as self-mutilation, suicide, and rape. Kitano Kii ...
Style: psychological, captivating, dorama
Plot: bullying, high school, friendship, friends, schoolgirl, romantic rivalry, life is a bitch, social problems, relationship problems, family relations, school, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Yuri or Another (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Sinohara Yuri (Fumika Baba) is a young female college student who has been troubled by a dangerous stalker who won’t leave her alone.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, ambiguous ending
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, relationship problems, couple relations, college student, student, lesbian friend, relationships, women, pedophilia ...
Place: japan
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52%
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Medaka (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Takako Meguro, a typical office worker known to her friends as Medaka, starts a new career as a night school teacher when her company restructures. At first, she's not so crazy about her new job and gets by with a minimum of effort. But as she ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: workplace, high school teacher, romantic relationship, female teacher, workplace situations, male female relationship, love interest, love affair, teacher, school teacher, couple relations, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Girl's Speech (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Haruna Tsubame, an inconspicuous high school girl, is always sensitive to people’s moods and keeps the peace in school. One day, she gets pushed to become the president of the student council by the people around her. Tsubame's encounter with ...
Style: entertaining, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: schoolgirl, teenage life, japanese schoolgirl, high school life, speaker, changing lives, leader, teenage girl, ambition, school, high school friend, teenager ...
Place: japan
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Saki (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: nurse, evil doctor, secret, female protagonist, female doctor, doctor, medicine, physician
Place: japan
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ROOKIES (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, shounen
Plot: baseball, high school sports, baseball player, teacher, school teacher, school, teacher student relationship, sport team, teamwork, high school teacher, coping, high school life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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School can't teach! (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008. Aida Mai is a woman in her third year as an english teacher at ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: love story, lifestyle, male female relationship, high school life, social issues, relationships, school, love interest, love and romance, female protagonist, love affair, high school
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Gonul (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A nurse escapes from her surgeon fiancé after his ex reveals his dark secrets. She later finds love again, but a car accident changes everything.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: unrequited love, love affair, male female relationship, female protagonist, life is a bitch, love interest, love story, orphan, romantic triangle, relationship problems, love triangle, relationships ...
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46%
Double Fantasy (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Natsu Takato is a 35-year-old popular screenwriter. She lives with her husband Shogo in the outskirts of Saitama. Shogo used to work as a TV station director, but he now supports Natsu by doing housework and working as her business manager. Natsu ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: screenwriter, infidelity, husband wife relationship, marital problem, family relations, family problems, middle aged woman, marital infidelity, female protagonist, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships ...
Place: japan
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45%
Koishite Akuma (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Ruka has yet to mature into a full-fledged vampire. His canines have yet to fully develop, which means he still hasn't tasted human blood - or, at least, human blood that he's drawn himself. In order to get him prepared, he is cast down ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, dorama
Plot: vampire, vampire human love, school teacher, relationships, love interest, teacher student relationship, love affair, school, supernatural power, tragic past, love story, fall in love
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45%
Room Laundering (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Miko Yakumo (Elaiza Ikeda) continues her work "room laundering." She struggles to solve the worries of ghosts staying in the rooms. Meanwhile, the relationship of Miko Yakumo and Akito Nijikawa (Kentaro Ito) develop romantically.
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: love and romance, male female relationship, love affair, haunted, romantic relationship, love interest, relationship problems, spirit, ghost, relationships
Place: japan
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43%
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MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU– (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, romantic, sad
Plot: terminal illness, male female relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, love affair, relationships, life is a bitch, love story, fighting illness, couple relations, fall in love, love interest ...
Place: japan
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43%
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Blue Hour (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: japanese woman, relationship vs career, thirty something, problem, changing lives, career, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lifestyle change, relationship problems, family relations
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ...
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41%
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Tainted Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Yasemin's story began in Germany and found itself in the ups and downs of life. However, she was not afraid to live and succeeded in entering the law school. Now she is both studying and working. Her sole purpose in life is to receive custody ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, orphan, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, businessman
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39%
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
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38%
Toshiie and Matsu (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political savvy and the support ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: samurai, male female relationship, relationships, life, harem, taiga
Place: japan
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37%
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Shadow Beauty (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Because of her looks, Koo Ae-jin is bullied at school and even insulted by strangers. But after school, she leads a secret life: with heavy makeup and hours of photo editing, she lives as Genie, a social media star with 770K followers.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: social media, secret, life is a bitch, social outcast, identity crisis, relationship problems, social issues, relationships, social problems, high school student, school bullying, student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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