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Our School's E.T. (2008)
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Original name: 울학교 이티
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, lighthearted
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
teacher, school, workplace, satire, school teacher, gym teacher, escapades, teacher student relationship, coworker, high school teacher, workplace situations, determination, language barrier, fish out of water, personal growth, perseverance, career change, office politics, social commentary, families, heartwarming, midlife crisis, identity, job, high school ...
Time:
2000s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about satire, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, social commentary, coworker and teacher mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Our School's E.T.: English Teacher (2024), Winner (2024), The Jake Effect (2003), The Suck Up Project (2012), Educators (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, realistic, heartfelt ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional whistleblower thriller, the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
biopic, intelligence, female agent, satire, workplace situations, special agent, job, social issues, female protagonist, workplace, agent, social problems ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Jake Effect is an American NBC situation comedy starring Jason Bateman, Nikki Cox, and Greg Grunberg. Seven episodes were produced to premiere in midseason of 2002, but NBC cancelled the series before a single episode aired.
In 2006, Bravo ...
Style:
satirical, sitcom, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, friendship, workplace, education, workplace situations, changing lives, friends, lifestyle change, attorney, satire, lifestyle, school teacher ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
social satire, satire, debt, salesman, coworker, relationship vs career, career, workplace situations, escapades, job, social climber, assistant ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
35%
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216
Genre: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 18 min.
TV show
Story:
Set behind the scenes of an ordinary Kiwi secondary school, following the hopelessly and hilariously inept people in charge of educating the next generation.
Style:
funny, captivating, satirical, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
school, satire, teacher, high school teacher, high school, female teacher, school principal, coworker, high school life, middle school, school teacher, workplace situations ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
school, satire, director, high school life, high school teacher, school principal, school teacher, teacher student relationship, education, power, social commentary, mistrust ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Esmat Abu Shanab (Yasmin Abdul Aziz) is a female police officer who works in an administrative position and tries in various ways to work on field assignments.
Style:
detective, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
teamwork, satire, police, female protagonist, female police officer, workplace situations, partners against crime, coworker, female detective, police detective, career, police station ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
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31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The year is 1984. Teacher Amarida is crazy about school lunches, and he gets the shock of his life when school lunches are slated to be removed from the school. Amarida's student Kamino competes with him to see who can enjoy the school lunch ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
rivalry, satire, school, teacher, food, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, school teacher, cooking and food, competitor, nostalgia, friendship ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After five years enduring horrible work conditions, Sophia finally gets chosen for a long-awaited transfer from her thankless teaching job at a rough middle school. Ecstatic to start a new life teaching at the French Lycée in Barcelona, her hopes ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
education, female protagonist, cultural difference, school, teacher, woman, coworker, women, workplace intrigue, job, workplace situations, new job ...
Place:
barcelona, paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Sit Down, Shut Up was a short-lived Australian sitcom broadcast by Network Ten. It ran from 16 February 2001 until 28 June 2001 for a total of 13 episodes.
The series followed the staff and students at a dysfunctional fictional high school called ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, high school, school, teacher, teachers and students, workplace, high school teacher, social problems, educational program, social satire, school teacher, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak.
Style:
feel good, satirical, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
kindergarten, supernatural ability, baby, mischievous children, child, children, workplace, humour, babies and infants, satire, workplace situations, supernatural power ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, entertaining, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
teacher, teacher student relationship, hostage situation, ethical dilemma, high school teacher, school teacher, problem, satire, father, escapades, teachers and students, hostage ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, entertaining, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
unemployment, satire, teamwork, colleague, employment agency, problem, employment, workplace, job, problem solving, coworker, escapades ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jesús Quesada, an incompetent executive, is appointed as the new director of a company in decline whose survival will now depend on both the ingenuity and ambition of his former colleagues.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, farce, retirement, office politics, employer employee relationship, workplace situations, coworker, workplace, co worker co worker relationship, dark humor, scheming, absurd humor ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, hospital, workplace, doctors and patients, medicine, physician, coworker, doctor, workplace situations, medical, nurse, hostage situation ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic comedy, feel good, captivating, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When staff salaries get stolen at his school, a reluctant new teacher sets out to recoup the money and soon discovers the joys of teaching.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, disturbing, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
school, teacher, staff, workplace, school teacher, satire, workplace situations, coworker, escapades, gangster, education, high school life ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male nudity, swan, teacher student relationship, teacher, school teacher, coup, coup d'etat, escapades, rebel, satire, male pubic hair, gay stereotype ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, heartfelt, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, school, father daughter relationship, chess, education, life lesson, lifestyle change, school teacher, high school life, teacher, female teacher, satire ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
burnout, office work, office worker, coworker, social satire, workplace situations, office, company, satire, workplace, job, exploitation ...
Similarity:
24%
396
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In order to inherit his grandfather's fortune, an incorrigible playboy agrees to teach high school for two years in Mr. Wacky, a bland, mostly irritating comedy from newbie director Kim Dong-Wook. To its credit, the film improves considerably ...
Style:
romantic, satirical, captivating, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot:
school, inheritance, playboy, high school, couple relations, school teacher, teacher, satire, male female relationship, relationships, young adult, fish out of water ...
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, satirical, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
job, humour, worker, workplace situations, joke, satire, workplace, troublemaker, student, male protagonist, misadventure, young adult ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
amnesia, memory lapse, help, repressed memory, satire, amnesiac, memory loss, memory, god, heartwarming, miraculous event, personal growth ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After the unusual attack on a school 'flower boy', Sung-min, on February 14, the same attacks begin to happen at different high schools on every month of the same day. Rumors say that the next victims will be at Neulparan High School.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
private investigation, high school, satire, amateur detective, investigation, terrorist plot, crime solving, school, sleuth, teamwork, high school life, prank ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, semi serious, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coping, relationships, parents and children, overcoming fear, employer employee relationship, humour, secretary, male female relationship, child, workplace situations, workplace, boss secretary relationship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
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Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two hospitals that lie next to each other get told that only one will be kept open. Both have a few days to prove they're the better hospital. Thus, shenanigans arise between doctors, nurses and hospital directors.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot:
nurse, doctor, workplace situations, medicine, clinic, coworker, workplace, rivals, medical, physician, satire, rivalry ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two precarious workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and convinced of their potential they plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, semi serious, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, teamwork, satire, winter olympics, championship, sport team, team, contests and competitions, direction and purpose, escapades, ambition, group of friends ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The eccentric Miss Ank tries to pick up the pieces at her primary after the loss of their principal. Faced with a shortage of teachers, and increasingly demanding parents, the board hires an interim head to get things in order. Pretty soon ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
friendship, elementary school, satire, school teacher, school, teacher, middle school, parents and children, friends, teacher student relationship, surveillance, social commentary ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After learning their company has been illicitly spying, collecting and selling data on them, three millennial friends band together to fight back against a lecherous boss and the company's maniacal, Tarzan-obsessed CEO.
Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, dark comedy, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, surveillance, friends, escapades, group of friends, workplace, workplace situations, teamwork, friendship, social commentary, privacy, empowerment ...
Similarity:
22%
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