Movies like To Sir, with Love
To Sir, with Love (1967) is a drama movie directed by James Clavell. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
★ 7.7 · 21,304 votes · Adventure, Fantasy
Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.
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2. The Night Before the Exams (2006)
★ 6.5 · 1,096 votes · Comedy, Drama
Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...
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3. The Wave (2008)
★ 7.5 · 3,716 votes · Drama, Thriller
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
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4. The Class (2008)
★ 7.0 · 741 votes · Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
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5. Stand and Deliver (1988)
★ 7.8 · 494 votes · Drama
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
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6. Another Round (2020)
★ 7.6 · 3,970 votes · Drama
Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
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7. 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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8. Gifted (2017)
★ 8.0 · 6,101 votes · Drama, Comedy
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
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9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
★ 7.0 · 16,470 votes · Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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10. Coach Carter (2005)
★ 7.6 · 3,420 votes · Drama, History
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.
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11. Pay It Forward (2000)
★ 7.4 · 2,111 votes · Drama
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
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12. Killer's Kiss (1955)
★ 6.3 · 623 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
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