Best movies like Battle of the Classes
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Plot Summary:
As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, entertaining
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A Wedding Most Strange (2011)
Plot Summary:
One groom, two would-be wives, four possible husbands... and one decision.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, crying, queer cinema
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Bento Harassment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kaori (Ryoko Shinohara) is a single mother and she raises her high-school age daughter Futaba (Kyoko Yoshine). Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, sincere, touching, entertaining
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All Three of Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, touching, realistic, tear jerker
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Rock'n Roll (2017)
Plot Summary:
Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n' Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets help from his girlfriend, Marion Cotillard.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, art house, crying
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Elementary (2016)
Plot Summary:
Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of questioning her vocation. Little by little Florence realizes that we learning has no age limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Great Minds (2017)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching, social
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Father and Sons (2018)
Plot Summary:
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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The Source (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, stylized, feel good, political, social, profound, humorous, semi serious, interesting
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Life Science (2003)
Plot Summary:
Centered around a life science class teacher, "Afet Hoca", the humorous and genuine story of high-school students in Ridvan Kanat High School.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Gokusen: The Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the Japanese TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Father's Stories (2020)
Plot Summary:
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy
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Guy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gauthier, a young journalist, learns from his mother that he is the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular French singer whose heyday stretched unevenly from the 1960’s to the nineties. Guy is currently promoting a new album of old material and heads on tour. Armed with a camera, Gauthier decides to follow Guy, recording his daily routine and his concerts to create a documentary portrait.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating, fake documentary
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Peppermint Soda (1977)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, teen comedy, period drama
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The Names of Love (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, melancholic, talky, light, romantic, sweet, feel good, humorous, emotional
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A Man in a Hurry (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, humorous, captivating
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teacher struggling for inspiration travels to the most remote school in the world. It takes being so far away to understand the importance of his work... and to appreciate the value of yak dung!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Bhutan, China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film, comedy drama, beautiful
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Wide Awake (1998)
Plot Summary:
A feel-good comedy about the laughter, excitement and fun that come with being a kid! Joshua is a thoughtful 10-year-old looking for some simple answers to life's eternal questions. The problem is that no one - including his concerned parents and his 5th grade teacher - seems to be making any sense!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, emotional, humorous, touching, spiritual, semi serious, crying, independent film, fairy tale
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Kiss & Tell (2018)
Plot Summary:
This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
Plot Summary:
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, surreal, talky, stylized, feel good, sweet, intense, entertaining
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Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far we've come. In the small town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, we go straight into the halls of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School with Felix Funicello, a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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School of Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of carrying the legacy falls into the hands of Matt Warner, the son of the late Norman Warner who has always lived in the shadow of his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, funny, realistic, contemplative
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Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! (2012)
Plot Summary:
This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, light
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Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (2014)
Plot Summary:
This Christmas the pupils of St Bernadette's and their much-loved, madcap teacher Mr. Poppy are back for their biggest adventure yet involving fantastic flashmobs, excitable elves, Christmas carols and of course Archie the donkey! When their new teacher Mr. Shepherd loses his memory and forgets all about Christmas, as well as his fiancée Sophie and the whereabouts of the beloved Archie, it's up to the pupils of St Bernadette's to save the day. Led by the ever enthusiastic Mr Poppy, they embark on a Christmas journey like never before - but time is against them if they are to help Mr Shepherd get to New York in time for his magical yuletide wedding!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, light
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The Dandelions (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Balls (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, light, sentimental, touching, realistic, witty
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Ducoboo 3 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Back to school for Ducobu, Léonie Gratin and Latouche. But this year, a major rival for Ducobu arrives at school: TGV, the king of cheating 3.0. While the financial situation of Saint-Potache becomes disastrous, the two dunces will have to unite their creativity to win a song contest and save their school.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
Plot Summary:
Stanley studies in the all-boys Holy Family High School in Andheri East, Mumbai. While his class-mates bring their own tiffin-boxes, Stanley does not do so on the pretext that his mother is away. His friends share their food with him, much to the chagrin of the Hindi Teacher: Babubhai Verma, who not only cajoles fellow-teachers, but also virtually forces the children to share their food with him. With extra classes being imposed on both students and teachers, and the recess-breaks being doubled, parents are also forced to pack more food in their children's lunch-boxes. The students continue to share their food with Stanley. Babubhai then warns Stanley that he must get a lunch box if he wants to attend school.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, touching, feel good, cult classic
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Change of Plans (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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