Most Similar Movies to Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
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The Unloved (2009), Daens (1992), Miral (2010), Up the Down Staircase (1967), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), The Foster Boy (2011), Conrack (1974) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
The Unloved (2009)
Lucy is 11-years-old and lives with her father. One day, not for the first time, he beats her. The next time she returns to school, Lucy asks to see her social worker Jackie. Lucy is known to social services and has been in foster care before, but none of her foster parents have any placements available. Jackie takes her to a children's home, Crop Row, where she is left with nothing except the school uniform she is wearing.
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Daens (1992)
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Cat...Read all
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Miral (2010)
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
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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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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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The Foster Boy (2011)
A Swiss-German rural peasant family takes Max, a crude 15-year-old boy, into a foster situation of constant bullying. Soon, a foster girl is added to the mix.
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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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Brubaker (1980)
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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The Great Water (2004)
On his deathbed, Lem (Meto Jovanovski) thinks back to his childhood in a post-World War II Stalinist "reeducation" camp, where the children of parents unwilling to embrace the new realities of Yugoslavia are taught the ways of the communist future. The young Lem (Saso Kekenovski) befriends a boy named Isak (Maja Stankovska), and they survive under the stern but compassionate tutelage of headmaster Ariton (Mitko Apostolovski) and the more brutal ways of his assistant, Olivera (Verica Nedeska).
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Monsieur Batignole (2002)
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein...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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Coldwater (2013)
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
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This Is the Sea (1997)
Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
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April Showers (2009)
After a school shooting leaves 14 people dead, survivor Sean Ryan is forced to come to terms with loss.
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What Goes Up (2009)
Set in the mid-80's when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.
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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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Kongen av Bastøy - The King of Devil's Island (2010)
Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?
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