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10 Best Movies Like A School Where Students Can Start Over

If you loved A School Where Students Can Start Over, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Substitute 2: School's Out

The Substitute 2: School's Out

1998★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A School Where Students Can Start Over for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercen...

#2
Class of 1984

Class of 1984

1982★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A School Where Students Can Start Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid ...

#3
Dirty Teacher

Dirty Teacher

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A School Where Students Can Start Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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

#4
To Sir, with Love II

To Sir, with Love II

1996★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A School Where Students Can Start Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much t...

#5
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A School Where Students Can Start Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

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Molly Maxwell

Molly Maxwell

2013★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A School Where Students Can Start Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing....

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