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10 Best Movies Like Alma Mater

If you loved Alma Mater, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Submission

Submission

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alma Mater for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student....

#2
Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

2006★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alma Mater for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go ...

#3
The Only Living Boy in New York

The Only Living Boy in New York

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alma Mater for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well....

#4
A Single Man

A Single Man

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alma Mater for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him t...

#5
The Door in the Floor

The Door in the Floor

2004★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alma Mater for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the couple's daughter. Ted, a well-...

#6
21

21

2008★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alma Mater for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns...

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