Movies like Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver (1988) is a drama movie directed by Ramón Menéndez. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. To Sir, with Love (1967)
★ 7.4 · 365 votes · Drama
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Good Will Hunting (1997)
★ 8.2 · 14,436 votes · Drama
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
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6. La Bamba (1987)
★ 7.3 · 841 votes · Drama, Music
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
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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. Peaceful Warrior (2006)
★ 7.5 · 507 votes · Drama
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
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9. Brain on Fire (2017)
★ 7.0 · 1,448 votes · Drama
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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10. The Visitor (2008)
★ 7.1 · 520 votes · Crime, Drama, Music
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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11. Friday Night Lights (2004)
★ 6.9 · 655 votes · Drama
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
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