Movies like Won't Back Down

20 movies like Won't Back Down, ordered by similarity : Her Twelve Men(1954), Lady Bird(2017), Tully(2018), Real Women Have Curves(2002), Confessions(2010), American Wrestler: The Wizard(2016), Uncommon(2014), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Christmas Angel(2011), The Edge of Seventeen(2016), Saturday Church(2017), Secret Superstar(2017) ...

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Won't Back Down

Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.

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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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Lady Bird

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

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Tully

A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.

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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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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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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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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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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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Christmas Angel

The life of medieval author Christine de Pizan (Amanda Sandrelli).

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The Edge of Seventeen

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

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Saturday Church

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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Secret Superstar

A talented teenage singer-songwriter living amid domestic abuse becomes a YouTube sensation after a video in which she hides her identity goes viral.

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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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White God

Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.

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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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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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Warrior

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

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Pay It Forward

A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.

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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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Where the Spirit Lives

A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.

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