20 movies like The Corn Is Green, ordered by similarity : The Browning Version(1994), Words and Pictures(2013), Uncommon(2014), American Wrestler: The Wizard(2016), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Her Twelve Men(1954), Critical Thinking(2020), Bright Road(1953), Lady Bird(2017), Sarafina!(1992), The Class(2008), Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed(2013) ...
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1945
114 Minutes
Bette Davis John Dall Nigel Bruce Joan Lorring Rhys Williams Rosalind Ivan Mildred Dunnock
schoolteacher spinster student coal miner squire pregnant woman moving inspiring village school glansarno, wales education coal mining ambition troubled youth illegitimate child discovery quest sacrifice 1890s
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
7.2/10
Drama
UK
1994
97 Minutes
Albert Finney Greta Scacchi Matthew Modine Julian Sands Michael Gambon Ben Silverstone Maryam d'Abo Jim Sturgess
husband wife teacher lover student schoolboy schoolteacher gripping engaging school england boarding school marriage career failed marriage affair education retirement transformation discovery
On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.
6.6/10
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada|Australia
2013
111 Minutes
Clive Owen Juliette Binoche Amy Brenneman Bruce Davison Keegan Connor Tracy Adam DiMarco Valerie Tian Eva Allan Janet Kidder David Lewis Josh Ssettuba
woman man teacher art teacher english teacher student brooding charming emotional intense moving quirky witty uplifting prep school school america competition love courtship
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
2014
106 Minutes
Erik Estrada Ben Davies Irma P. Hall Courtney Buck Jason Crabb Wesley Elder Lucas Smissen Stacey Bradshaw Kelsey Brooks Stephanie Bettcher
student actor school principal schoolteacher god inspiring heartwarming uplifting lighthearted moving school high school united states the bible acting school play religion faith god struggle
Jesus combined diverse people and assorted stories to change the world! Now, He wants to use you! When the students of Rosewood High School lose their theater, music and dance departments ... See full summary »
7.2/10
Drama
USA
2016
117 Minutes
Jon Voight William Fichtner Lia Marie Johnson George Kosturos Kevin G. Schmidt Gabriel Basso Shannon Collis Courtney Hope Turner Nicholas Guilak
high-school student wrestler hero school principal team member coach emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring moving touching small town california high school gym school bus wrestling new school new town
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.
7.6/10
Drama
Ireland|UK|Denmark|Spain
2003
98 Minutes
Aidan Quinn Iain Glen Marc Warren Dudley Sutton Alan Devlin Stuart Graham John Travers Chris Newman
school principal schoolboy schoolteacher prefect irishman teacher friend rival bully intense sad emotional endearing ireland school teaching school abuse sadism courage
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.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1954
91 Minutes
Greer Garson Robert Ryan Barry Sullivan Richard Haydn Barbara Lawrence James Arness Rex Thompson Tim Considine David Stollery Frances Bergen Ian Wolfe
teacher student father professor widow classmate cheery heartwarming inspiring boarding school classroom dormitory gym student-teacher relationship disapproval boarding-school life school teaching new life underdog
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
2020
117 Minutes
John Alberto Leguizamo Rachel Bay Jones Michael Kenneth Williams Corwin C. Tuggles Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Angel Bismark Curiel Will Hochman Zora Casebere
teacher student friend drug dealer parent african-american confident emotional passionate uplifting intense moving school chess tournament family home inner city united states city apartment chess inner-city life
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1953
68 Minutes
Dorothy Dandridge Philip Hepburn Harry Belafonte Barbara Ann Sanders Robert Horton Maidie Norman Rene Beard Howard McNeely Robert McNeely Patti Marie Ellis Joy Jackson
teacher principal student classmate touching inspiring gutsy alabama small town school education troubled youth small-town life tragic death african-americans underdog growing up quest 1950s
Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation... See full summary »
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
6.4/10
Musical, Drama
South Africa|UK|France|USA
1992
98 Minutes
Leleti Khumalo Whoopi Goldberg Miriam Makeba John Kani Mbongeni Ngema Dumisani Dlamini Tertius Meintjes Nhlanhla Ngema
student teacher mother racist principal police officer uplifting rousing profound south africa school street apartheid protest school struggle race relations growing up sacrifice discovery
South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.
7.5/10
Drama
France
2008
129 Minutes
François Bégaudeau Esmeralda Ouertani Rachel Regulier Franck Keita Wei Huang Agame Malembo-Emene Angélica Sancio Arthur Fogel
principal teacher student parent school principal engaging gripping profound spirited inspiring powerful school paris classroom playground education ethnic tension french language and literature connections leadership
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.
7.0/10
Drama
Spain
2013
108 Minutes
Francesc Colomer Javier Cámara Ramon Fontserè Natalia de Molina Rogelio Fernández Jorge Sanz Ariadna Gil Violeta Rodríguez
teacher fan pregnant woman teen boy runaway cheery dreamy emotional fascinating heartwarming inspiring spain car road school family home freedom growing up fanaticism running away
In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.
7.7/10
Drama
UK
1967
105 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Judy Geeson Christian Roberts Suzy Kendall Lulu Faith Brook Geoffrey Bayldon Edward Burnham Gareth Robinson Grahame Charles Roger Shepherd
teacher juvenile delinquent headmaster student teen boy teen girl uplifting inspiring london classroom school education coming of age teaching student-teacher relationship growing up rise 1960s
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
8.1/10
Drama
USA
1989
128 Minutes
Robin Williams Robert Sean Leonard Ethan Hawke Josh Charles Gale Hansen Dylan Kussman Allelon Ruggiero James Waterston Norman Lloyd Kurtwood Smith Carla Belver
teacher student headmaster father best friend girlfriend cheery emotional inspiring moving sad school cave dorm classroom education friendship male bonding rebellion empowerment
Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
93 Minutes
America Ferrera Lupe Ontiveros Ingrid Oliu George Lopez Brian Sites Jorge Cervera Jr. Felipe de Alba Soledad St. Hilaire Lourdes Perez Jose Gerardo Zamora Jr. Manuel Edgar Lujan
student seamstress teacher grandmother mother latina inspiring moving los angeles workshop house high school education self-esteem virginity tradition family dysfunction race relations discovery growing up
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
7.4/10
Biography, Drama
USA
2015
129 Minutes
Kevin Costner Maria Bello Morgan Saylor Michael Aguero Sergio Avelar Hector Duran Rafael Martinez Martha Higareda Johnny Ortiz Carlos Pratts Ramiro Rodriguez
coach student runner teacher principal parent confident cool uplifting tense emotional california high school track gym car house track and field school winning
Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.
5.9/10
Drama
UK
2017
101 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Dominic Cooper Jalil Lespert Frances Barber Marthe Keller
mother father child teacher depressed person friend solemn tense emotional disheartening moving london house train station school yard depression escape marriage family
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
7.0/10
Drama
Ireland|Canada
1998
120 Minutes
Aidan Quinn James Caan Stephen Rea John Cusack Moya Farrelly Jacob Tierney Colm Meaney Donal Donnelly Brendan Gleeson John Kavanagh Eamon Morrissey
college student son mother father schoolteacher farmer emotional touching ireland countryside family home village farm united states family secrets irish life class distinctions pregnancy search self-discovery
Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown ... See full summary »
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1955
107 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Robert Stack Kipp Hamilton Robert Douglas Peggy Knudsen Marshall Thompson Chuck Connors Biff Elliot Jerry Paris Mary Wickes
schoolteacher doctor police officer playwright banker convict melodramatic endearing small town school hospital school love respect memory illness growing up sacrifice 1950s
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.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Azura Skye Bryce Pinkham Ashley Bell Zach Rand Taen Phillips Liam Seib Deborah Hedwall Dan Daily Lindsay Jackson Jason Gupton
woman insomniac teacher mother wife husband teen boy bleak uneasy tense somber shocking frightening eerie disturbing brooding house school town united states
A woman with a seemingly ideal life battles insomnia.
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