Movies like The Beat 1988
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The Beat (1988)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
gang, poetry, teenage life, youth, fighting the system, idealism, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, dedicated educator, school, stoner, high school, heist, college, hostage, profanity, fugitives, bank, urban, city life, college life, power relations, gangster, violent content ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, society, life is a bitch, hopes, teenage life, power relations and high school mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Beat: She Fought Alone (1995), Matchups (2003), Up the Down Staircase (1967), Tiger Warsaw (1988), To Sir, with Love II (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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: 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: 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: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
redemption, family relations, cons and scams, drug abuse, family life, family gatherings, teenage life, high school, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, buddies ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
100%
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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%
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%
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%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, society, journalism, fighting the system, rebellion, investigation, discrimination, african american, teacher, campus, school teacher, social relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
marijuana, drug, hippie, juvenile delinquent, delinquent, juvenile delinquency, stoner, high school, school, friendship, frame up, drug dealing ...
Time:
1930s
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: 100 min.
Story:
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacraw Island. Staffless 'head' ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, contemplative
Plot:
teachers and students, society, misfit, power relations, hopes, rebellion, dedicated educator, hardcase students, youth, interracial relations, school, idealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina
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
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four high school students are led into the world of adult vices by their guidance counselor, a shadowy, suicidal millionaire.
Style:
grindhouse, entertaining, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, suicide attempt, high school, school, teachers and students, high school life, siblings relations, teenage love, college life, college, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothersÂ, 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%
582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
youth, rabbi, racism, friendship, culture clash, bittersweet, anti semitism, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, society, gang ...
Place:
new york, czech republic
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style:
serious, rough, emotional, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, kids in trouble, teenage life, youth, drug dealing, gang, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, introspection, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, family life, siblings relations, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Home Beyond the Sun is the story of persecution, faith, and freedom escaping a world of fear. A bible college student, Jenna goes to teach in an area of China where her faith is forbidden. She discovers an orphanage and befriends a Chinese orphan, ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
adoption, orphan, rebellion, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, society, rich and poor, religions or cults, christian, teacher, pursuit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, gang, dishonesty, society, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cape town south africa, south africa, africa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, homeless, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, pregnancy, drifter, destiny, false accusation ...
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seth McArdle (Samuel Davis) is a high school senior with an especially full plate. Not only must he navigate the usual social and academic pitfalls of high school, but he has to contend with his young twin sisters, serving as de facto parent in the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, christian film ...
Plot:
absent father, school, orphan, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, christian, responsibility, fight, faith, death of mother, bad father ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
279
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, boarding school, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, friends, love and romance, society, social differences, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
aging, teenager, disease, mortality, family drama, coming of age, parent child relationship, hopes, grief, resilience, loss, intimate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tear jerker, psychological, tension ...
Plot:
autism, mother, family drama, single parent, compassion, single mother, sacrifice, caregiver, responsibility, stress, mental health, character study ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
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