20 best movies like The Class (2008)


List of the best movies like The Class (2008): Once in a Lifetime, The Spectacular Now, Hunky Dory, The Way I Spent the End of the World, Stand and Deliver, Welcome, Something in the Air, To Be and to Have, Machuca, Cracks.

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Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryFrance

Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

    A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    Musical film about the trials and tribulations of an idealistic drama teacher as she tries to put on the end of year show.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryRomania, France
    Duration01:46

    Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:50

    Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:02

    During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefamily, documentary
    CountryFrance

    The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryChile, Spain, United Kingdom, France

    Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, Luxembourg
    Duration01:44

    Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountrySlovenia
    Duration01:52

    Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUSA

    Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:32

    Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explains nothing to his close friends. During his travels, he has a strange encounter with Marylou, a wild teenager who was rejected by her mother. The lost girl and the man at the end of his tether will travel together awhile. Finally living like a father and daughter, at peace.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:20

    One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their universe, and looks like the ideal way to escape their daily lives...

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

      A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genredrama, family
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:45

        Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama
        CountryRussia
        Duration02:05

        Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:32

        A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        Instead of adhering to the norms of their South Central neighborhood, a group of skater boys opt to bus into Hollywood and Beverly Hills, where they attract local rich girls - and plenty of trouble with the police, jealous boyfriends, and nervous parents.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

        The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, adventure, family
        CountryNetherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, France
        Duration01:35

        Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama
        CountryGeorgia, Germany, France
        Duration01:42

        Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, military
        CountryNew Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Australia
        Duration02:13

        As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryJapan
        Duration01:46

        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.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:54

        Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, music
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:43

        Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:50

          A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryCanada
          Duration01:34

          During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryFrance

          Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genredrama
          CountrySweden, Poland, France

          When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local community his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:37

          In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours (Louis Garrel). When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, family
          CountryFrance, Canada

          Fatima, an Algerian-born woman who now lives in France with her two teenage daughters, with whom she is barely able to communicate.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
          Duration02:36

          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.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:04

          Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryJapan
          Duration01:03

          High school student Yuki Hase (Kento Yamazaki) wants to become close with classmate Kaori Fujimiya (Haruna Kawaguchi) who is alway by herself. Kaori Fujimiya refuses to become close with Yuki Hase, because she forgets her friends every new Monday. Even though Kaori tells Yuki why she doesn't want to become friends, Yuki still wants to become close to her.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

          When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryJapan, France, Spain

          Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his girlfriend to solve the mystery. The pair will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:50

          As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:49

          The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama
          CountryWest Germany, France

          At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, family
          CountryFrance, Taiwan

          The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first Western film. It is based on the classic French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryCanada

          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.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:27

          An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryFrance, Belgium
          Duration01:46

          The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.




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