20 movies like Halls of Anger, ordered by similarity : Blame(2017), To Sir, With Love(1967), The Class(2008), Hoop Dreams(1994), Class of 1984(1982), Freedom Writers(2007), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Lady Bird(2017), Sarafina!(1992), White Squall(1996), Detachment(2011), Blinded by the Light(2019) ...
5.9/10
Drama
USA
1969
100 Minutes
Calvin Lockhart Janet MacLachlan Jeff Bridges James A. Watson Jr. De Wayne Jessie Ed Asner John McLiam Rob Reiner Patricia Stich Gary Tigerman
student teacher principal militant basketball player teen boy fiery powerful los angeles locker room classroom library racism race relations high school illiteracy strike growing up rivalry 1960s
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
5.8/10
Drama
USA
2017
100 Minutes
Quinn Shephard Nadia Alexander Trieste Kelly Dunn Marcia DeBonis Tessa Albertson Sarah Mezzanotte Owen Campbell Luke Slattery Tate Donovan Chris Messina
student teacher teenager bully young woman lover brooding powerful raw shocking high school united states classroom forbidden love unlikely romance bullying rivalry student-teacher relationship high school crush love
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'.
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.
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.
8.3/10
Documentary, Drama
USA
1994
174 Minutes
William Gates Arthur Agee Sheila Agee Isiah Thomas Bill Gleason
basketball player teenager mother father coach teacher uplifting powerful gutsy emotional chicago westchester, ill. basketball court family home basketball ambition high school racism class distinctions growing up
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
6.6/10
Drama
Canada
1982
93 Minutes
Perry King Timothy Van Patten Merrie Lynn Ross Roddy McDowall Al Waxman Lisa Langlois David Gardner Stefan Arngrim Keith Knight Neil Clifford Erin Flannery
teacher music teacher student security guard rape victim gang member bleak melodramatic sad brutal intense gripping school house stage classroom gangs school band violence revenge
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.
7.5/10
Drama
Germany|USA
2007
123 Minutes
Hilary Swank Patrick Dempsey Scott Glenn Imelda Staunton April Lee Hernandez Deance Wyatt Mario Vanetta Smith John Benjamin Hickey Pat Carroll Jason Finn
teacher student teenager principal mother inspiring uplifting los angeles school education empowerment poverty race relations growing up transformation 2000s
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
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.
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.
6.6/10
Drama
USA|UK
1996
127 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Caroline Goodall Scott Wolf John Savage Jeremy Sisto Ryan Phillippe David Lascher Eric Michael Cole
captain teen boy high-school student sailor teacher friend thrilling emotional caribbean ocean boat underwater island natural disasters storm shipwreck survival student-teacher relationship coming of age adventure
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
7.7/10
Drama
USA
2011
97 Minutes
Adrien Brody Marcia Gay Harden James Caan Christina Hendricks Lucy Liu Blythe Danner Tim Blake Nelson William Petersen Bryan Cranston Sami Gayle Betty Kaye
substitute teacher grandfather principal counselor runaway student gritty emotional touching high school inner city classroom teaching emotional involvement student-teacher relationship teen angst discovery transformation 2010s
A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
6.9/10
Drama, Music, Comedy
UK|USA|France
2019
114 Minutes
Viveik Kalra Hayley Atwell Rob Brydon Kulvinder Ghir Nell Williams Aaron Phagura Meera Ganatra Dean-Charles Chapman Sally Phillips
teenager father mother friend love interest teacher powerful uplifting inspiring hilarious cheeky england high school house bedroom new york city bruce springsteen music growing up culture
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.
6.8/10
Drama
Russia
2016
118 Minutes
Pyotr Skvortsov Viktoriya Isakova Aleksandra Revenko Yuliya Aug Aleksandr Gorchilin Irina Rudniktskaya Svetlana Bragarnik Nikolay Roshchin
student young man christian friend teacher moralist bleak suspenseful emotional thrilling intense melodramatic russia school university classroom bible relationships evil fanaticism
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
6.7/10
Drama
France
2008
95 Minutes
Louis Garrel Léa Seydoux Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Agathe Bonitzer Simon Truxillo Anaïs Demoustier Valérie Lang Martin Siméon
teenager classmate teacher principal cousin intricate intense brooding family home paris classroom park movie theater france high school grief young love student-teacher relationship fitting in forbidden love
Cute Junie starts at her cousin Matthias' high school and class after her mom's death. She meets his friends. The boys want to date her - even her handsome, young Italian teacher.
8.0/10
Drama
USA|Hong Kong|Canada
2017
113 Minutes
Julia Roberts Owen Wilson Jacob Tremblay Izabela Vidovic Noah Jupe Nadji Jeter Daveed Diggs Mandy Patinkin Ali Liebert Emma Tremblay Millie Davis
boy family member friend teacher principal neighbor engaging uplifting confident moving heartwarming house town school classroom office car deformity acceptance self-esteem
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
4.9/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2009
87 Minutes
Matt O'Leary Marshall Allman Jonathan Halyalkar Sam Murphy Brooke Johnson Meghan Stansfield Paul Ben-Victor Natasha Henstridge Dan Wells Ross Britz
teenager teen boy student teacher racist muslim bleak shocking engaging suspenseful frightening school united states house coming of age horror 9/11 attacks trauma racism rage
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
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.
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.
7.8/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
1961
109 Minutes
Audrey Hepburn Shirley MacLaine James Garner Miriam Hopkins Fay Bainter Karen Balkin Veronica Cartwright Mimi Gibson William Mims Hope Summers Jered Barclay
teacher principal aunt student grandmother fiancé powerful sad engaging shocking new england school teaching scandal lying friendship homosexuality fall forbidden love 1960s
A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.
7.4/10
Drama
USA
1955
101 Minutes
Glenn Ford Vic Morrow Anne Francis Louis Calhern Margaret Hayes John Hoyt Richard Kiley Emile Meyer Warner Anderson Basil Ruysdael Sidney Poitier
teacher student principal wife gritty fiery new york city boys school troubled youth inner-city life teaching race relations generational divide rock 'n' roll underdog quest rivalry 1950s
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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