Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like I Am a Teacher

If you loved I Am a Teacher, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for I Am a Teacher.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am a Teacher for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

#2
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

1971★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am a Teacher for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate majo...

#3
Infiltration

Infiltration

2022★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am a Teacher for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex-commander Grey after his capture by ISIS. With the help of U.S. military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and att...

#4
The Dawns Here Are Quiet

The Dawns Here Are Quiet

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am a Teacher for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

It is late spring of 1942, and the Great Patriotic War is in full swing. A long way off from the front-line, at some God-forgotten junction, the Germans make an air landing operati...

#5
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am a Teacher for fans of Drama & War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#6
Fate of a Man

Fate of a Man

1959★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am a Teacher for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and h...

Advertisement