Movies Like Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
If you liked Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948), a drama movie directed by Lawrence Huntington, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Steve (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaOver 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.
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Wonder (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaThe story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
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The Corn Is Green (1945)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaWhen a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
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Cracks (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaJealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
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The Lost Bus (2025)
★ 7/10Also dramaA determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
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Breath (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
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Hardball (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
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Straw Dogs (1971)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaDavid Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy…
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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The Nest (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaRory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
★ 7/10Also dramaA headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
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Child's Play (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaAt an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
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Won't Back Down (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaJamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…
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Apt Pupil (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaOne 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. A month later…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Submission (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
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Heatwave (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.
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Lean On Me (1989)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaWhen principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels…
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Barron's Cove (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWhen his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the…
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My Friend Dahmer (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaJeffrey 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.