Most Similar Movies to Up the Down Staircase (1967)
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To Sir, with Love (1967), Conrack (1974), Kids in America (2005), Halls of Anger (1969), Cheaters (2000), The Maid (2009), Fame (2009) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
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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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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Kids in America (2005)
A diverse group of high school students band together to peacefully stick it to their overbearing principal.
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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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Cheaters (2000)
Chicago high-school teacher Gerard Plecki (Jeff Daniels) prompts his students to lie and cheat in academic competition.
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The Maid (2009)
A live-in maid (Catalina Saavedra) becomes distraught when her employer (Claudia Celedón) hires another woman (Mercedes Villanueva) to help her out.
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Fame (2009)
An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
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Rushmore (1998)
The extracurricular king of Rushmore Preparatory School is put on academic probation.
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Detachment (2011)
A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
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Music of the Heart (1999)
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
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The History Boys (2006)
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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Foxfire (1996)
Legs Sadovsky gets four other high school girls to think for themselves and react to a teacher's sexual harassment, which gets them suspended. They bond, and rebel, at an abandoned house.
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Race the Sun (1996)
A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
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McFarland, USA (2015)
Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach. He sees that some of the students are worth starting a cross-country team and turns seven students with no hope into one of the best cross-country teams.
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Stand and Deliver (1988)
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
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Easy A (2010)
A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
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