Movies like Torment
If Torment's mix of melancholy, teacher and school teacher stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Torment'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: teacher, dramatic
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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How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014 · Directed by Dean DeBlois · 102 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: melancholy, dramatic
Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds…
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Evil
2003 · Directed by Mikael Håfström · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Swedish drama
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a…
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One Eight Seven
1997 · Directed by Kevin Reynolds · 119 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
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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Cracks
2009 · Directed by Jordan Scott · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
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Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Directed by Spike Lee · 129 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: melancholy
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke.
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The Principal
1987 · Directed by Christopher Cain · 109 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to.
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Class of 1984
1982 · Directed by Mark L. Lester · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: 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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Steve
2025 · Directed by Tim Mielants · 92 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.