Movies like Renaissance Man

20 movies like Renaissance Man, ordered by similarity : Carry on Teacher(1959), Her Twelve Men(1954), Words and Pictures(2013), Here Comes the Boom(2012), Private Benjamin(1980), Military Wives(2019), The English Teacher(2013), Conversations With My Gardener(2007), Summer School(1987), Spellbound(2002), High Time(1960), Somewhere Slow(2013) ...

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Renaissance Man

A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.

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Carry on Teacher

Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.

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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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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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Here Comes the Boom

A high-school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extracurricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school.

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Private Benjamin

A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

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Military Wives

With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.

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The English Teacher

An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.

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Conversations With My Gardener

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Summer School

Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.

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Spellbound

Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.

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High Time

Widower and hamburger restaurateur Harvey Howard decides to go to college at 51 years of age. Resisting the easy path, he insists on not receiving preferential treatment, and lives in a ... See full summary »

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Somewhere Slow

When Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.

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Matilda

This film adaptation of a Roald Dahl work tells the story of Matilda Wormwood, a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude, distant father and mother.

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Shazam!

A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.

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101 Reykjavik

Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.

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22 Jump Street

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

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Real Women Have Curves

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.

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Educating Rita

An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.

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Up Front

Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus... See full summary »

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Suck Me Shakespeer

A comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.

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