Movies like What Goes Up

20 movies like What Goes Up, ordered by similarity : Words and Pictures(2013), The Reunion(2013), McFarland, USA(2015), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(2016), The Hate U Give(2018), Sarafina!(1992), World's Greatest Dad(2009), The Student(2016), Confessions(2010), The Browning Version(1994), Mauvaises fréquentations(1999), The Chorus(2004) ...

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What Goes Up

Set in the mid-80's when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.

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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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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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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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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.

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The Hate U Give

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

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Sarafina!

South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising.

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World's Greatest Dad

When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.

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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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Confessions

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.

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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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Mauvaises fréquentations

Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

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The Chorus

The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.

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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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Loserville

An awkward high school outcast navigates the wildly confusing days of his senior year.

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Sing Street

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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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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Bad Education

The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.

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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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What Richard Did

A promising young man about to start university suddenly throws his life into uncertainty when he accidentally commits a serious crime.

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Show Me Love

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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