Movies like One Eight Seven

20 movies like One Eight Seven, ordered by similarity : Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), The Class(2008), Her Twelve Men(1954), Aarakshan(2011), Detachment(2011), To Sir, With Love(1967), The Browning Version(1994), Words and Pictures(2013), Bright Road(1953), The Reunion(2013), Sarafina!(1992), The Road Home(1999) ...

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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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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 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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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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Aarakshan

Dr Anand, a legendary principal, along with his disciples fights against the odds to abide by the Supreme Court's decision to reserve seats for the backward class students.

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Detachment

A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

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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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The Browning Version

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

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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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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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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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Sarafina!

South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.

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The Road Home

A Chinese businessman (Honglei Sun) recalls the story of the courtship of his mother (Ziyi Zhang) and father (Yulian Zhao), on the occasion of the old man's death.

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The Student

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.

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Girl Flu

Bird, 12, has to become a woman whether she wants to or not when - in the worst week of her life - she gets her first period, is ditched by her impulsive, free spirited mom, and learns that you can never really go back to The Valley.

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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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McFarland, USA

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.

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Freedom Writers

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.

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The 400 Blows

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

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Osama

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

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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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