Movies Like Schoolhouse Rock: Science (Classroom Edition)
If you liked Schoolhouse Rock: Science (Classroom Edition) (2008), a movie directed by Tom Warburton, 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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The School of Rock (2003)
★ 7.1/10Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students…
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Larry Crowne (2011)
★ 6/10When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his…
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Snoopy Presents: Lucy's School (2022)
★ 7.3/10The Peanuts gang is anxious about starting at a new school in the fall, inspiring Lucy to start her own school instead. She soon learns that teaching isn't as easy as it sounds and that change can be a good thing.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
★ 6.7/10Wimpy Greg Heffley, now in seventh grade, thinks he has it all together. He has mastered middle school and gotten rid of the Cheese Touch. However, Greg's older brother, Rodrick, is itching to cut him down to size. He…
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
★ 6.9/10A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the…
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Monster High: Boo York, Boo York (2015)
★ 7.7/10It's fright lights, big city when the Monster High ghouls head to Boo York! Cleo de Nile is invited to attend a gancy gala celebrating the return of the magical comet and, of course, she brings along her beast friends…
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Leo (2023)
★ 7.3/10Jaded 74-year-old reptile Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the…
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Stargirl (2020)
★ 7.4/10An unassuming high schooler finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves…and their world.
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Baby Shark's Big Movie (2024)
★ 6.6/10Baby Shark is forced to leave the world he loves behind after his family’s move to the big city, and must adjust to his new life without his best friend, William. When Baby Shark encounters an evil pop starfish named…
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Old Boys (2018)
★ 6.6/10In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
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Matilda (1996)
★ 7.2/10Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a…
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Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003)
★ 6.6/10Everyone's favorite fourth graders have graduated! It's an all-new school year for the kids — and the gang hits the fifth grade running! But they're stopped in their tracks when they discover some unwelcome changes…
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Accepted (2006)
★ 6.5/10A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
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High School Musical (2006)
★ 6.5/10A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
★ 6.8/10Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth…
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Wonder (2017)
★ 8.1/10The 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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Billy Madison (1995)
★ 6.2/10Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2…
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
★ 6.3/10Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons…
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)
★ 6.3/10Based on the bestselling book series, this outrageous comedy tells the story of George and Harold, two overly imaginative pranksters who hypnotize their principal into thinking he’s an enthusiastic, yet dimwitted…
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021)
★ 6.2/10Greg Heffley is a scrawny but ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous – he just has to survive middle school first.