Most Similar Movies to Up the Down Staircase (1967)
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Lean on Me (1989), To Sir, with Love (1967), The Class (2008), Conrack (1974), The Ron Clark Story (2006), Dangerous Minds (1995), Critical Thinking (2020) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
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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To Sir, with Love (1967)
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
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The Class (2008)
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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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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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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Dangerous Minds (1995)
An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.
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Critical Thinking (2020)
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
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Bright Road (1953)
Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pr...Read all
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Halls of Anger (1969)
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
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Super 30 (2019)
Based on the life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for IIT aspirants in Patna.
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Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
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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Freedom Writers (2007)
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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Take the Lead (2006)
The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids.
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Middletown (2006)
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
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Hoop Dreams (1994)
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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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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Our Song (2000)
Focusing on the bonding between three girls in Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their high school closes down for asbestos removal.
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Prison Song (2001)
A young man lives and learns while growing up on the street and in and out of correctional facilities.
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