Movies Like Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021)

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal is a 2021 crime, documentary, drama film from Chris Smith with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Cheating Pact and Casting JonBenet.

Crime Documentary Drama

The Cheating Pact

2013

Three high school students that are under pressure from their parents to get into good colleges convince a shy but very smart girl to take the College Entrance Test for them.

6.0

MagicScore

Casting JonBenet

2017

Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

5.7

MagicScore

Accepted

2006

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

6.4

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Bad Genius

2024

A highly-gifted student sees an opportunity to escape her roots by helping wealthy classmates cheat on key exams, but at great risk to her future.

6.6

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Bathing Beauty

1944

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

5.7

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The Perfect Score

2004

Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.

5.8

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Close-Up

1990

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

8.0

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The Fear of 13

2015

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

7.4

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Tell Me Who I Am

2019

In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.

7.4

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#10

Notes on Blindness

2016

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

Killing for Love

2016

Derek and Nancy Haysom were brutally murdered in their house in Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 30, 1985. Suspicion fell on their daughter Elizabeth and her boyfriend Jens Söring. They flee to Europe, but are caught and extradited to the U.S. Elizabeth is sentenced to 90 years in jail for incitement to murder, Jens Söring to two life sentences. Karin Steinberger, Marcus Vetter and their team spent over three years researching this case, which achieved world-wide notoriety. They uncovered new evidence, including the fact none of the blood samples found at the scene of the crime belonged to Jens Söring.

6.2

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#12

Cheats

2002

While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.

5.3

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#13

Kevin Hart: What Now?

2016

Comedian Kevin Hart performs in front of a crowd of 50,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, Lincoln Financial Field.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison

1901

This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.

4.2

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#15

Faces of Death III

1985

The third installment of the infamous "is it real or fake?" mondo series sets its sights primarily on serial killers, with lengthy reenactments of police investigations of bodies being found in dumpsters, and a staged courtroom sequence.

3.5

MagicScore

#16

Once Upon a Time in America

1984

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

8.4

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#17

Lucky Baskhar

2024

A cash-strapped bank cashier embarks on a risky investment scheme and soon gets drawn into the murky world of money laundering.

7.6

MagicScore

#18

Swallowtail Butterfly

1996

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

7.4

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#19

The Town

2010

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

7.2

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#20

Bound

1996

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

7.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal?

The top films similar to Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal by MovieMagicScore are The Cheating Pact (6.0), Casting JonBenet (5.7), Accepted (6.4). Each shares crime/documentary/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal worth watching?

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 141 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal?

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021) is a crime, documentary, drama film directed by Chris Smith, starring Matthew Modine, Roger Rignack, Jillian Peterson.

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