Movies like Freedom Writers
If Freedom Writers's mix of daughter, high school and holocaust (shoah) stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Freedom Writers's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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I'm Not Ashamed
2016 · Directed by Brian Baugh · 113 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: high school, violence in schools · Also drama and crime
Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: holocaust (shoah), ghetto
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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The Pianist
2002 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 150 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: holocaust (shoah), ghetto · From the same decade (2000s)
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his…
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Lean On Me
1989 · Directed by John G. Avildsen · 108 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: high school, violence in schools
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls.
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The Hate U Give
2018 · Directed by George Tillman Jr. · 133 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: high school · Also crime and drama
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds…
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My Friend Dahmer
2017 · Directed by Marc Meyers · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: high school · Also drama and crime
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
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The Fallout
2021 · Directed by Megan Park · 96 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: high school
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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Conspiracy
2001 · Directed by Frank Pierson · 96 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: holocaust (shoah) · From the same decade (2000s)
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
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Apt Pupil
1998 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: high school
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal.
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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · Directed by Sergio Leone · 139 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso drama and crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.