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10 Best Movies Like School Life

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

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#1
The Teacher

The Teacher

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to School Life for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation wh...

#2
The Class

The Class

2008★ 7.0

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

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood....

#3
Peppermint Soda

Peppermint Soda

1977★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to School Life for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father....

#4
School of Life

School of Life

2017★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to School Life for fans of Drama & Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful count...

#5
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to School Life for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....

#6
Blame

Blame

2018★ 6.6

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

A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that d...

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