Movies like Take Note
If Take Note's mix of coming out, nurse and coming of age stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Take Note's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Dead Poets Society
1989 · Directed by Peter Weir · 129 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teacher, teenager
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern…
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 · Directed by Stephen Chbosky · 103 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, school, lgbt teen
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him…
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
2018 · Directed by Desiree Akhavan · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, lgbt teen, teenager
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr.
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To Sir, with Love
1967 · Directed by James Clavell · 105 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: teacher, school
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
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Giant Little Ones
2019 · Directed by Keith Behrman · 93 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, lgbt teen
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…
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Thirteen
2003 · Directed by Catherine Hardwicke · 100 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money.
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Cracks
2009 · Directed by Jordan Scott · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: teacher, school
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, school
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
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The Children's Hour
1961 · Directed by William Wyler · 108 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
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The Fallout
2021 · Directed by Megan Park · 96 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · From the same decade (2020s)
In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
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The Man Without a Face
1993 · Directed by Mel Gibson · 115 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of…