Movies like The Deaf Academy (2024)
The best movies like The Deaf Academy (2024) are The Miracle Worker (1962), Children of a Lesser God (1986) and The First Grader (2010). If The Deaf Academy hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Deaf Academy
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Miracle Worker (1962)7.9/10 from 362 votes
- NewestCODA (2021)Released 2021
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisChildren of a Lesser God (1986)
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah's withdrawn emotional state, a romance slowly develops between the pair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe First Grader (2010)
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMona Lisa Smile (2003)
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMusic of the Heart (1999)
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCODA (2021)
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGoodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Blind Side (2009)
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOld Boys (2018)
In 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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCareer Girls (1997)
A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the latter a visit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaterland (1992)
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShout (1991)
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beguiled (2017)
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPicnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like this42 Up (1999)
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight School (2018)
Teddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, Teddy soon finds himself dealing with a group of misfit students, his former high school nemesis and a feisty teacher who doesn't think he's too bright.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Child Is Waiting (1963)
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHandsome Devil (2017)
A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Deaf Academy?
The closest matches to The Deaf Academy are The Miracle Worker (1962), Children of a Lesser God (1986) and The First Grader (2010). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Deaf Academy?
Start with The Miracle Worker (1962), the closest match to The Deaf Academy.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Deaf Academy?
The Miracle Worker (1962), rated 7.9/10 by 362 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Deaf Academy?
CODA (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Deaf Academy?
Yes: The Miracle Worker (1962), Children of a Lesser God (1986) and The First Grader (2010).
How are movies similar to The Deaf Academy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Deaf Academy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.