Movies Like La scuola (1995)

La scuola is a 1995 comedy, drama film from Daniele Luchetti with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Il rosso e il blu and The History Boys.

Comedy Drama

Il rosso e il blu

2012

The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

6.0

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The History Boys

2006

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

6.6

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Dirty Teacher

2013

When a high school senior discovers her teacher is seducing her boyfriend, events turn deadly after the teacher tries to cover it up.

5.9

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Auguri professore

1997

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.

6.2

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Mr. Holland's Opus

1995

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

6.9

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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.

7.0

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Here Comes the Boom

2012

A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.

6.2

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Hurricane Bianca

2016

A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.

6.1

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Teachers

1984

A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.

5.6

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#10

The English Teacher

2013

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.

5.6

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#11

The Wave

2008

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

7.5

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#12

Up the Down Staircase

1967

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

7.0

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#13

Fist Fight

2017

When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

6.1

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#14

Monster Pies

2013

Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.

5.6

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#15

Coach Carter

2005

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

7.6

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#16

Honor Society

2022

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.

7.4

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#17

The Student

2016

A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.

6.4

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#18

All Things Fair

1995

Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity while she is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a relief from her drunk and miserable husband.

6.4

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#19

Carry On Teacher

1959

When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power, and bombs!

6.3

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#20

Drillbit Taylor

2008

Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

5.8

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Frequently asked

What are the best movies like La scuola?

The top films similar to La scuola by MovieMagicScore are Il rosso e il blu (6.0), The History Boys (6.6), Dirty Teacher (5.9). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is La scuola worth watching?

La scuola holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 127 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is La scuola?

La scuola (1995) is a comedy, drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti, starring Silvio Orlando, Anna Galiena, Fabrizio Bentivoglio.

Where can I find more recommendations like La scuola?

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About movies like La scuola

This ranked list pairs La scuola (1995), a comedy and drama film from Daniele Luchetti, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Silvio Orlando take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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