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10 Best Movies Like No Child Left Behind

If you loved No Child Left Behind, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fist Fight

Fist Fight

2017★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Child Left Behind for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight....

#2
Summer School

Summer School

1987★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Child Left Behind for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconvention...

#3
Carry On Teacher

Carry On Teacher

1959★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Child Left Behind for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power, and bom...

#4
Smart People

Smart People

2008★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Child Left Behind for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and famil...

#5
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Child Left Behind for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life fem...

#6
Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Child Left Behind for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an imp...

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