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10 Best Movies Like Bad Education

If you loved Bad Education, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory

2019★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Education for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the ei...

#2
XXY

XXY

2007★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Education for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue...

#3
The Ages of Lulu

The Ages of Lulu

1990★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Education for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fifteen-year-old Lulu has never known any affection from her family. But when she goes to a rock concert with Pablo, a friend of the family, he introduces Lulu to her first sexual ...

#4
El Angel

El Angel

2018★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Education for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ra...

#5
7 Virgins

7 Virgins

2005★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Education for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour ...

#6
My Brother the Devil

My Brother the Devil

2012★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Education for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older broth...

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