Movies like Hoosier Schoolboy

20 movies like Hoosier Schoolboy, ordered by similarity : Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), The Champ(1931), The Reunion(2013), South Central(1992), Welcome Stranger(1947), World's Greatest Dad(2009), Torment(1944), Life Is Beautiful(1997), Woodpeckers(2017), In a Better World(2010), American Wrestler: The Wizard(2016), Good Morning, Miss Dove(1955) ...

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Hoosier Schoolboy

A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.

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Song for a Raggy Boy

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

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The Champ

An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.

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The Reunion

Anna is not invited to her class reunion and makes a film about what would have happened if she confronted her former bullies.

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South Central

A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.

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Welcome Stranger

Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, ... See full summary »

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World's Greatest Dad

When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.

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Torment

An idealistic adolescent, suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster, falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.

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Life Is Beautiful

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

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Woodpeckers

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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In a Better World

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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American Wrestler: The Wizard

In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.

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Good Morning, Miss Dove

After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.

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Moonrise

Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.

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Lady Bird

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

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Swami

Swami, Radha and their kid shift to Mumbai after selling off their ancestral home in a village. In Mumbai, they get their kid admitted to a school that's patronized by children belonging to... See full summary »

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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

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After the Storm

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

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Persepolis

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

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The Confirmation

A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.

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Charlie's Christmas Wish

Charlie's Christmas Wish is Granted.

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