Movies like Bright Road

20 movies like Bright Road, ordered by similarity : American Wrestler: The Wizard(2016), Her Twelve Men(1954), Uncommon(2014), The Class(2008), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Lady Bird(2017), To Sir, With Love(1967), Hoosiers(1986), Words and Pictures(2013), The Browning Version(1994), Run the Race(2018), Blackboard Jungle(1955) ...

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Bright Road

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 »

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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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Her Twelve Men

An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.

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Uncommon

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 »

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The Class

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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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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Lady Bird

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

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To Sir, With Love

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

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Hoosiers

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.

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Words and Pictures

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.

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The Browning Version

On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.

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Run the Race

Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining - but ultimately strengthening - the bonds of brotherhood.

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Blackboard Jungle

A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

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The Corn Is Green

A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

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One Eight Seven

15 months after being stabbed 9 times by a student at work as a high school teacher in NYC, Mr. Garfield is working in LA as a substitute teacher come full-time. He refuses to be a victim anymore.

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Critical Thinking

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.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

In turn-of-the-century Australia, three young schoolgirls wander away from a school picnic and become lost in the bush.

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Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

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American Animals

Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.

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Dead Poets Society

Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.

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Children of Heaven

Two fearful children (Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi) look for a pair of missing shoes, then try to get another pair before their parents discover the loss.

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