Movies like School Ties
School Ties (1992) is a drama movie directed by Robert Mandel. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Dead Poets Society (1989)
★ 8.3 · 13,055 votes · Drama
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
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2. Scent of a Woman (1992)
★ 7.8 · 4,133 votes · Drama
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
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3. The Believer (2001)
★ 6.9 · 697 votes · Drama
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
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4. Amateur (2018)
★ 6.4 · 323 votes · Drama
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
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5. My Friend Dahmer (2017)
★ 6.5 · 666 votes · History, Drama, Crime
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
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6. The Basketball Diaries (1995)
★ 7.4 · 2,305 votes · Drama, Crime
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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7. Freedom Writers (2007)
★ 7.9 · 2,514 votes · Crime, Drama
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
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8. Hardball (2001)
★ 6.5 · 583 votes · Drama
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
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