Hardcase students movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant hardcase students movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, captivating, sincere and humorous films and TV shows about / with hardcase students, youth, teachers and students, power relations, high school, society, high school life, teacher, school and teenage life plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hardcase students: The Ron Clark Story (2006), Higher Ground (2000), The Substitute (1996), Evil (2003), Life of a King (2013), Mumu (2010), The Emperor's Club (2002), Lower Learning (2008), Remember the Daze (2007), Kidulthood (2006).

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The Ron Clark Story (2006)
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: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, human spirit, new job, changing lives, teacher student relationship, education, hardcase students, obstacle, hopes, bad attitude ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place: harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
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Higher Ground (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Higher Ground is an American-Canadian drama action television show shot outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The series ran from January 14, 2000 - June 16, 2000 and aired on Fox Family. It stars Joe Lando, Hayden Christensen, A.J. Cook, Meghan Ory, ...
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, touching, existential ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, troubled teen, hardcase students, dedicated educator, rebellion, boarding school, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, understanding, youth, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: usa
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 6.0
 16K
The Substitute (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, intense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: high school, teachers and students, teacher, hidden identity, vigilante, bullying, danger, gang, undercover, gangster, substitute teacher, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, cuba
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 7.7
 42K
Evil (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style: psychological, rough, disturbing, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rebellion, coming of age, private school, rebelliousness, humiliation, corporal punishment, friendship, life is a bitch, high school, bully, bullying, boarding school ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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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
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 6.3
 242
Mumu (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: boarding school, hardcase students, boarding school life, children, childhood, teachers and students, mischievous children, rebellion, youth, family relations, disorder, power relations ...
Time: 1940s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008)
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, high school, hardcase students, against the rules, society, teenage life, sport team, athlete and trainer, rebelliousness, youth, rebellion, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas
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The Emperor's Club (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style: realistic, touching, inspirational, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: teacher, coming of age, dedicated educator, boarding school life, boarding school, youth, teachers and students, hardcase students, school, friendship, mentor, education ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., pennsylvania
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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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Remember the Daze (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, coming of age, high school prom, hardcase students, juvenile delinquency, underage drinking, love and romance, teenage life, teenage love, junior high school, friends ...
Time: 90s
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 6.7
 20K
Kidulthood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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 6.1
 1K
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 ...
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 6.9
 3K
Skirt Day (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, sincere ...
Plot: female teacher, teachers and students, juvenile delinquency, hardcase students, mentally unstable, youth, high school, life is a bitch, society, breaking point, police, teacher ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 4.8
 573
New Port South (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, epic, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage life, rebelliousness, rebellion, fighting the system, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, youth, hardcase students, teachers and students, adolescence vs adulthood, high school life ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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The Real Life of Teachers (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A comedy about a band of voyeuristic students who take their jobs at the school paper to extremes, deciding to uncover the real lives of their teachers.
Style: humorous, light, funny, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teachers and students, hardcase students, youth, stalking, high school, high school life, social relations, disorder, coming of age, street life, teamwork, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 6.2
 2K
Bran Nue Dae (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished ...
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: getting home, rebelliousness, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, on the road, clergy, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, hardcase students, hopes, youth ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: australia
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Cromartie High School: The Movie (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of ...
Style: humorous, surreal, semi serious, parody, anime ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, bounty hunter, teenage life, hardcase students, college life, rivalry, androids and robots, teenage love, youth, superhero, school, robot ...
Place: japan
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 7.3
 1K
Punch (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tall, exotic looking and aimless 17-year-old Do Wan-deuk lives in a shabby house in a poor hillside village with a dwarf father and a stammering uncle. One day, his teacher reveals the surprising news that Wan-deuk’s runaway mother was actually ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, psychological, gloomy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, athlete and trainer, hardcase students, youth, ambition, friendship, society, rivalry, kickboxing, boy, family love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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 7.5
 2K
Behavior (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: education, boy, kids in trouble, fighting the system, life is a bitch, alcoholic mother, youth, society, hopes, rebellion, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
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 5.5
 339
The Grad Job (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Teenagers, in their last year of High School, steel the subjects of the Baccalaureate from the education exam division in order to succeed at the exam.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining, realistic
Plot: high school, nothing goes right, teenage love, buddies, hardcase students, youth, heist, teenage life, disorder, social relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, exam ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 4.7
 1K
Ducoboo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mischievous children, elementary school, rebellion, friendship, dedicated educator, lifestyle, young heroes, disorder, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Heart of America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: school shooting, high school, bullying, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, psychopath, teenage life, bully, life is a bitch, society, youth, social misfits ...
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Bloody Reunion (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an ...
Style: slasher, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: gory, murder, psychopath, vengeance, youth, rivalry, prank, hardcase students, teachers and students, captivity, hardcore, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Onizuka is an ex-biker and gang leader who has one goal, to become the greatest teacher. He learns of the power and respect possible as an intern teacher, using his strength and connections to get his students to respect him. Now, graduated, he gets ...
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, sincere, dorama ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, teachers and students, friendship, hardcase students, fish out of water, society, dedicated educator, lifestyle, workplace situations, mature, superhero, education ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 6.7
 559
Teachers (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Teachers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: high school, friendship, school teacher, teachers and students, workplace, hardcase students, lifestyle, workplace situations, youth, promotion, loser, studying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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The Forest for the Trees (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story: As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, mumblecore ...
Plot: teacher, emotional breakdown, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, fish out of water, loneliness, unsupportive coworkers, hardcase students, workplace, idealism, misfit, society ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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 6.1
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15: The Movie (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fast, frenetic, and furious best describe the story of five teenage boys all but abandoned by the system, estranged from any parents, and discarded by life in general. They build a world of there own in which gangs, drugs, fighting, body piercing, ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, bleak, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, youth, gang, juvenile delinquency, gangster, teen violence, hardcase students, teenage life, drug dealer, drug dealing, urban ghetto, kids in trouble ...
Place: singapore, china, asia
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Foreign Exchange (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four high school friends plan to ride out their senior year taking easy classes, including a program for housing foreign exchange students and eventually all attending Ohio State. Hurdles befall each of the four: grades, higher aspirations, love. Is ...
Style: teen sex comedy, realistic, not serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenage life, couples, social relations, buddies, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, hardcase students, foreign exchange student, female nudity, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, ohio, california
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 7.3
 170K
Coach Carter (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Style: inspirational, motivational, touching, hood, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: basketball, teacher, high school, mentor, teachers and students, underdog, athlete and trainer, life philosophy, athlete's life, human spirit, dedicated educator, sport team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, sacramento california
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Teenage Dirtbag (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A popular high school girl is harassed by a delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together. Through written words, they create a bond, but tragically a bond that cannot withstand her social pressures or his brutal home life.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, delusion, teenage life, high school, child abuse, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, social differences, notebook, friends, life is a bitch, hardcase students ...
Time: 21st century
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