20 movies like The History Boys, ordered by similarity : A Taste of Honey(1961), Freak Show(2017), A Single Man(2009), Unlovable(2018), Lady Bird(2017), Almost Adults(2016), Transamerica(2005), Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist(2008), Hera Pheri(1975), People Will Talk(1951), The Jane Austen Book Club(2007), Booksmart(2019) ...
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
2006
109 Minutes
Richard Griffiths Frances de la Tour Stephen Campbell Moore Samuel Barnett Dominic Cooper James Corden Jamie Parker Russell Tovey Samuel Anderson Sacha Dhawan Andrew Knott
student headmaster gay/lesbian teenager friend teacher emotional profound england university education sex literature coming of age friendship loneliness discovery pursuit transformation sacrifice
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1961
100 Minutes
teenager daughter mother sailor boyfriend gay/lesbian bleak emotional england household love friendship mother/daughter relationship emotional abuse pregnancy family dysfunction growing up love discovery 1960s
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA|UK|Sweden
2017
91 Minutes
Alex Lawther Abigail Breslin AnnaSophia Robb Bette Midler Laverne Cox Willa Fitzgerald Celia Weston Mickey Sumner Eddie Schweighardt John McEnroe Larry Pine
teen boy teen girl transfer student mother father bully emotional creative spirited endearing positive profound high school house classroom library locker room football field transsexuality bullying
Follows the story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2009
99 Minutes
Colin Firth Julianne Moore Nicholas Hoult Matthew Goode Jon Kortajarena Paulette Lamori Ryan Simpkins Ginnifer Goodwin Teddy Sears Aaron Sanders Lee Pace
professor homosexual lover student friend male prostitute brooding emotional profound cheeky suburb house college beach gas station suicide grief friendship homosexuality teaching
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
80 Minutes
Charlene deGuzman John Hawkes Melissa Leo Paul James Ellen Geer Jake McDorman Josh Fadem Josh Ruben
ex-boyfriend sex addict musician recluse friend sponsor heartwarming hilarious emotional tense house garage party car group therapy sex addiction love friendship lifestyle changes music
A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.
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.
Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
Canada
2016
90 Minutes
Elise Bauman Natasha Negovanlis Winny Clarke Justin Gerhard Delphine Roussel Christina Song David John Phillips Meredith Heinrich Mark Matechuk Daryl Marks Pujaa Pandey
best friend lesbian boyfriend love interest professor family member confident cheeky cool college classroom apartment store party campus college sexual identity lesbianism dating friendship
A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
2005
103 Minutes
Felicity Huffman Kevin Zegers Fionnula Flanagan Graham Greene Burt Young Elizabeth Peña Bianca Leigh Jon Budinoff Carrie Preston Maurice Orozco
transsexual son rancher mother therapist emotional uplifting positive los angeles new york city prison phoenix car road trip father/son relationship car theft sexual abuse sex change sexual identity transformation
A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance
USA
2008
89 Minutes
Michael Cera Kat Dennings Alexis Dziena Ari Graynor Aaron Yoo Rafi Gavron Jay Baruchel Zachary Booth Jonathan B. Wright Jeremy Haines Sammy Marc Rubin
teenager girlfriend gay/lesbian friend college student ex-girlfriend witty dreamy emotional wild amusing new york city nightclub train station big city ex-boyfriends music homosexuality jealousy alcohol
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1975
164 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Saira Banu Kimi Katkar Vinod Khanna Sulakshana Pandit Deepa Sahi Shilpa Shirodkar
young man young woman friend best friend father girlfriend amusing gripping thrilling intense emotional moving india city house bungalow restaurant street friendship best friends
Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.
Comedy, Drama
1951
110 Minutes
Cary Grant Jeanne Crain Finlay Currie Walter Slezak Hume Cronyn Sidney Blackmer Basil Ruysdael Katherine Locke
physician student friend professor father dean offbeat quirky striking university hospital small town illegitimate child medicine morality friendship jealousy discovery love sacrifice
A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his reputation in jeopardy.
Romance, Drama
USA
2007
106 Minutes
Maria Bello Amy Brenneman Emily Blunt Maggie Grace Kathy Baker Hugh Dancy Kevin Zegers Marc Blucas Jimmy Smits Lynn Redgrave Nancy Travis
friend cheater teacher mother lesbian husband dreamy emotional heartwarming house bar coffee shop hotel literature romance infidelity homosexuality writers friendship discovery
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
USA
2019
102 Minutes
Kaitlyn Dever Beanie Feldstein Jessica Williams Jason Sudeikis Lisa Kudrow Will Forte Victoria Ruesga Mason Gooding Skyler Gisondo Diana Silvers Molly Gordon
teenager best friend overachiever classmate teacher principal offbeat unrestrained hilarious amusing emotional touching high school party house classroom graduation family home teenage rebellion overcoming fears
On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2007
96 Minutes
Elliot Page Michael Cera Jennifer Garner Jason Bateman Allison Janney J.K. Simmons Olivia Thirlby Rainn Wilson
teenager stepmother boyfriend friend teacher musician playful creative witty touching school hospital household suburbia pregnancy abortion divorce disillusionment music discovery
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding the unborn child.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1996
94 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Kevin McKidd Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch
drug addict friend student girlfriend drug dealer sociopath amusing dark gritty edinburgh london household apartment pub hotel addiction abandonment friendship crime death
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
USA
2018
110 Minutes
Nick Robinson Josh Duhamel Jennifer Garner Tony Hale Katherine Langford Alexandra Shipp Logan Miller Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Keiynan Lonsdale Joey Pollari Miles Heizer
teen boy teenager family member friend love interest amusing cheeky emotional endearing heartwarming positive house high school coming out growing up teen romance family relationships friendship growing up
Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1970
120 Minutes
Cliff Gorman Leonard Frey Peter White Kenneth Nelson Frederick Combs Reuben Greene Robert La Tourneaux Laurence Luckinbill Keith Prentice
host gay man guest old friend closeted homosexual father dark campy tense touching apartment bedroom party bathroom living room homosexuality sexual identity friendship celebration homophobia
Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK
2006
98 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Judi Dench Bill Nighy Tameka Empson Max Lewis Andrew Simpson Juno Temple Alice Bird Emma Kennedy
student teacher friend husband adulterer dark passionate emotional engaging high school house scandal affair desperation friendship betrayal child abuse pursuit forbidden love 2000s
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2015
99 Minutes
Abigail Spencer Cheyenne Jackson Collette Wolfe Elena Satine Sonja Kinski Patrick Heusinger Guy Burnet John Patrick Amedori Hana Hayes
dancer friend boyfriend dance instructor lover family member brooding emotional intense bathroom apartment dance studio bedroom gym party suicide prevention dancing fear friendship rejection
A beautiful dancer balances on the razor's edge between reality and fantasy as she asks her friends to help her figure out the passions and relationship that have shaped who they are and who they will become.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
1997
138 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt Greg Kinnear Cuba Gooding Jr. Skeet Ulrich Shirley Knight Yeardley Smith Lupe Ontiveros
writer artist neighbor waitress psychiatrist dog quirky emotional new york city apartment diner romance friendship homosexuality confrontation obsessive-compulsive disorder redemption discovery love transformation
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Romance, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
2012
103 Minutes
Logan Lerman Emma Watson Ezra Miller Mae Whitman Kate Walsh Dylan McDermott Melanie Lynskey Joan Cusack Paul Rudd Nina Dobrev Adam Hagenbuch
teen boy friend teen girl stepbrother teacher family member touching brooding endearing pittsburgh high school household adolescence friendship fitting in coming of age underdog growing up 1990s
An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.