Most Similar Movies to Bright Road (1953)
If you are looking for movies like Bright Road (1953), you might like movies tagged with keyword : drama, education, teacher, students, rural, inspirational, coming of age, social issues, teacher-student relationship, chinese cinema, black and white film, 1950s, classic, realism, dedication, hope, struggle, touching, social change, poverty .
White Banners (1938), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Barefoot Boy (1938), The Ron Clark Story (2006), The Corn Is Green (1945), Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), A Good Baby (1999) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
White Banners (1938)
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah ...Read all
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Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
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Barefoot Boy (1938)
Other than using the same title this film has no connection to nor is there any film credit linking it to the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefoot...Read all
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The Ron Clark Story (2006)
A small-town teacher (Matthew Perry) moves to New York and makes a difference in the lives of his students.
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The Corn Is Green (1945)
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
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Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.
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A Good Baby (1999)
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
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A Test of Love (1985)
Due to an ignorant misdiagnosis, a three-year-old disabled girl was institutionalized and subsequently spent her entire childhood in a hospital for the severely retarded. A caring therapist helped her to prove her intellectual capability.
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Uncommon (2014)
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 due to budgets cuts, they create their own. Struggling to find the right script, music & choreography the students get advice from an uncommon source; the Bible! Each student becomes...Read all
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Men of Boys Town (1941)
Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. Larry Nunn and Dwayne Hickman join in this time around as Flanagan discovers a reform school that has neither reforming nor schooling. It's up to Flanagan, Whitey, and the rest of the ...Read all
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Children of Heaven (1997)
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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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
A novice teacher (Sandy Dennis) finds hostile students and staff apathy at a tough New York high school.
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Carry Me Home (2003)
Harriet (Penelope Ann Miller) recently lost her husband in World War II, and her family is now emotionally unstable. Her young daughter, Carrie (Ashley Rose), takes the death of her father especially hard and begins to withdraw from her mother and local boy Zeke (Nicholas Braun). When the sophisticated Bernard (David Alan Basche) begins a romance with Harriet, Carrie's behavior becomes even more erratic, and she inadvertently causes a neighborhood tragedy that changes her life forever.
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Lean on Me (1989)
The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school and he is determined to improve by any and all means.
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Conrack (1974)
The true story of Pat Conroy, an idealistic and handsome Caucasian teacher who is an elementary school instructor for a group of poor black children in an isolated school.
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Swades (2004)
A successful Indian scientist returns to an Indian village to take his nanny to America with him and in the process rediscovers his roots.
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My Brother's Keeper (1995)
Twins (John Lithgow), one HIV-positive, go to court to fight for a bone-marrow transplant not covered by insurance.
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Short Term 12 (2013)
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
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