Movies like Debating Robert Lee
If Debating Robert Lee's mix of high school, debate and high school student stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Debating Robert Lee's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Your Name.
2016 · Directed by Makoto Shinkai · 106 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: high school, high school student
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 · Directed by Stephen Chbosky · 103 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: high school, high school student
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 Hate U Give
2018 · Directed by George Tillman Jr. · 133 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: high school
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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21 Jump Street
2012 · Directed by Phil Lord · 109 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: high school, high school student
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students.
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Lean On Me
1989 · Directed by John G. Avildsen · 108 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: high school
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 Sunset Limited
2011 · Directed by Tommy Lee Jones · 91 min7.2
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A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on…
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Dangerous Minds
1995 · Directed by John N. Smith · 99 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: high school
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school.
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One Eight Seven
1997 · Directed by Kevin Reynolds · 119 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: high school
When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened.
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Class of 1984
1982 · Directed by Mark L. Lester · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: high school
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.