Movies like Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

20 movies like Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, ordered by similarity : Lady Bird(2017), Freedom Writers(2007), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Blinded by the Light(2019), The Browning Version(1994), Uncommon(2014), Her Twelve Men(1954), Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams(2006), Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai(2000), The Class(2008), Juno(2007), Sounder(1972) ...

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Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

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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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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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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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Blinded by the Light

In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.

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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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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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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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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

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Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai

Inspired by the Telugu film, "Pelli Chuskundam," the plot follows the life of a rape victim (Aishwarya Rai). Now, a disgrace to her family, she is turned away from her house after the ... See full summary »

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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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Juno

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding the unborn child.

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Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

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Caterina Goes to Town

Caterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.

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Mouchette

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Saving Face

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

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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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Real Women Have Curves

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.

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Children of Heaven

Two fearful children (Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi) look for a pair of missing shoes, then try to get another pair before their parents discover the loss.

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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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Adoration

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

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