Movies like Maroa
If Maroa's mix of fortune teller, slum and grandparent grandchild relationship stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Maroa's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Class of 1984
1982 · Directed by Mark L. Lester · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: music teacher, teacher
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 named Peter Stegman.
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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 121 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: slum, orphan · From the same decade (2000s)
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Directed by Tim Burton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: grandparent grandchild relationship, teacher · From the same decade (2000s)
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016 · Directed by Tim Burton · 127 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: children's home, orphan
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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Stand and Deliver
1988 · Directed by Ramón Menéndez · 103 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into…
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Music of the Heart
1999 · Directed by Wes Craven · 124 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: music teacher
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
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The United States of Leland
2003 · Directed by Matthew Ryan Hoge · 108 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: teacher · From the same decade (2000s)
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky.
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Armageddon Time
2022 · Directed by James Gray · 114 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: grandparent grandchild relationship
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.
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Ballet Shoes
2008 · Directed by Sandra Goldbacher · 85 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: orphan · From the same decade (2000s)
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London.