20 movies like The Good Humor Man, ordered by similarity : Girl Flu(2016), Another Country(1984), In a Better World(2010), Critical Thinking(2020), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), The Deer Hunter(1978), Rebel Without a Cause(1955), The Student(2016), Sarafina!(1992), Blame(2017), Blue Car(2002), What Will People Say(2017) ...
Drama
USA
2004
124 Minutes
Nathan Stevens Cameron Richardson Jorge Garcia Kelsey Grammer Jason Segel James Ransone Jason Dill Claire Titelman
high-school student hockey player stoner jock beautiful girl ex-convict hilarious raw emotional dark los angeles wedding high school basement suburbia accidental killing friendship popularity class distinctions loyalty
A mischievous high school sophomore faces a conflict of conscience vs. character when his best friend becomes linked to the death of a youth from another clique in suburban Middle America circa '76.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Katee Sackhoff Jade Pettyjohn Heather Matarazzo Jeremy Sisto Judy Reyes Diego Josef Isaiah Mustafa Jonah Beres
young girl mother sister classmate friend young boy cheeky amusing emotional california school house classroom bathroom bedroom menstruation growing up immaturity friendship self-esteem
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.
Drama
UK
1984
90 Minutes
Rupert Everett Colin Firth Michael Jenn Robert Addie Rupert Wainwright Cary Elwes Tristan Oliver Frederick Alexander Adrian Ross Magenty Geoffrey Bateman Philip Dupuy
student homophobe marxist headmaster emotional shocking inspiring england school school suicide homosexuality friendship bullying rivalry forbidden love 1930s
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
Drama
Denmark|Sweden
2010
113 Minutes
Mikael Persbrandt Trine Dyrholm Ulrich Thomsen Markus Rygaard William Jøhnk Nielsen Bodil Jørgensen Elsebeth Steentoft Martin Buch Anette Støvelbæk Kim Bodnia
bully friend father doctor son wife tense dark emotional engaging kenya denmark school father/son relationship marital problems bullying absence friendship loss revenge
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Drama
USA
2020
117 Minutes
John Alberto Leguizamo Rachel Bay Jones Michael Kenneth Williams Corwin C. Tuggles Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Angel Bismark Curiel Will Hochman Zora Casebere
teacher student friend drug dealer parent african-american confident emotional passionate uplifting intense moving school chess tournament family home inner city united states city apartment chess inner-city life
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.
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.
War, Drama
USA
1978
183 Minutes
Robert De Niro Christopher Walken John Savage John Cazale Meryl Streep George Dzundza Chuck Aspegren Shirley Stoler
soldier friend girlfriend wife enemy blue-collar worker bleak disturbing powerful intense emotional brutal clairton, pa. battlefield vietnam pow camp wedding town horrors of war vietnam war
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Drama
USA
1955
111 Minutes
James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo Jim Backus Ann Doran Corey Allen William Hopper Rochelle Hudson Virginia Brissac Nick Adams Jack Simmons
teenager girlfriend friend rival mother father dark emotional los angeles police station household abandoned building observatory teenage rebellion teen angst generation gap alienation family dysfunction accidental death growing up
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
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.
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.
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'.
Drama
USA
2002
96 Minutes
David Strathairn Agnes Bruckner Margaret Colin Frances Fisher A.J. Buckley Regan Arnold Sarah Beuhler
young girl teacher rival friend parent dark emotional church school beach hospital divorce disillusionment poetry competition self-destruction shoplifting discovery growing up 2000s
A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.
Drama
Norway|Germany|Sweden|France|Denmark
2017
106 Minutes
Maria Mozhdah Adil Hussain Ekavali Khanna Rohit Saraf Ali Arfan Sheeba Chaddha Lalit Parimoo Nokokure Dahl Isak Lie Harr Jannat Zubair Rahmani Freddy Singh
teen girl friend boyfriend father mother family member tense emotional uneasy raw norway house school pakistan party bedroom family relationships culture culture shock
The story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.
Drama
2013
88 Minutes
Anna Odell Sandra Andreis Kamila Benhamza Anders Berg Erik Ehn Niklas Engdahl Per Fenger-Krog Robert Fransson Sara Karlsdotter Sanna Krepper Andreas Kundler
artist classmate bully filmmaker confident raw striking school film set sweden bullying school adolescence friendship discovery underdog revenge transformation 2010s
Anna is not invited to her class reunion and makes a film about what would have happened if she confronted her former bullies.
Drama
UK|Italy
1980
95 Minutes
Brinsley Forde Karl Howman Trevor Laird Brian Bovell Victor Romero Archie Pool Mel Smith Beverly Michaels Maggie Steed Bill Moody Stefan Kalipha
dj mc friend girlfriend neighbor cool disheartening emotional engaging gritty melancholy moving offbeat profound raw spirited uneasy london united kingdom black culture
The movie centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in West London. The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.
Drama
Australia|Singapore
2007
103 Minutes
Joan Chen Joel Lok Irene Chen Yuwu Qi Steven Vidler Kerry Walker Darren Yap Gabrielle Chan Ferdinand Hoang
singer young boy sailor narrator mother-in-law sister dark emotional passionate intense nightclub melbourne, australia sydney house suburbia restaurant suicide attempt family dysfunction affair emigration
A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.
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.
Drama
USA
1955
107 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Robert Stack Kipp Hamilton Robert Douglas Peggy Knudsen Marshall Thompson Chuck Connors Biff Elliot Jerry Paris Mary Wickes
schoolteacher doctor police officer playwright banker convict melodramatic endearing small town school hospital school love respect memory illness growing up sacrifice 1950s
After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.
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.
Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Karine Teles Otávio Muller Adriana Esteves Konstantinos Sarris César Troncoso Mateus Solano Camilo Pellegrini Ariclenes Barroso Pablo Riera Lucas Gouvêa
mother father child brother sister teen boy touching emotional amusing charming cheeky moving rio de janeiro house school beach car auditorium leaving home mother/son relationship
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.
Drama
UK|USA
2009
100 Minutes
Peter Sarsgaard Carey Mulligan Alfred Molina Dominic Cooper Rosamund Pike Olivia Williams Emma Thompson Cara Seymour Matthew Beard Sally Hawkins
teacher teenager friend love interest cheater thief emotional touching london school paris suburbia romance deception marriage education travel money discovery love
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.