Movies like Mona Lisa Smile

20 movies like Mona Lisa Smile, ordered by similarity : Her Twelve Men(1954), American Wrestler: The Wizard(2016), Words and Pictures(2013), Blame(2017), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Lady Bird(2017), To Sir, With Love(1967), Submission(2017), Burning Sands(2017), Dead Poets Society(1989), The Great Debaters(2007), Uncommon(2014) ...

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Mona Lisa Smile

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

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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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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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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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Blame

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'.

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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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Submission

A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.

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Burning Sands

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

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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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The Great Debaters

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

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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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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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From Nowhere

Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.

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Some Freaks

A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen.

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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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Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar

A rich brat and a poor chap try to woo a girl, with their rivalry culminating in the most prestigious college event - the marathon cycle race.

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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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The Browning Version

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

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Class of 1984

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.

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