Movies like Lower Learning
The best movies like Lower Learning (2008) are Accepted (2006), Fat Camp (2017) and Bad Teacher (2011). If Lower Learning hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSuperbad (2007)7.3/10 from 8,487 votes
- NewestRicky Gervais: Mortality (2025)Released 2025
Accepted (2006)
A 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFat Camp (2017)
Fitness buff Hutch Daily is a foul-mouthed 27 year-old with the maturity of a pre-teen. After refusing to find employment or his own apartment, his mom gives him two choices: move to the homeless shelter or work at his uncle’s fat camp. Though he thinks fatties are disgusting, Hutch finds himself supervising an irreverent group of chunky boys, who ultimately help him grow up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Bad Teacher (2011)
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisRole Models (2008)
Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuperbad (2007)
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDrillbit Taylor (2008)
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFired Up! (2009)
Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWet Hot American Summer (2001)
It's the last day of Camp Firewood's season, but there's still time for the big talent show, a little romance… and for everyone to be wiped out by the piece of NASA's Skylab that's hurtling toward Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOld School (2003)
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe New Guy (2002)
Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHigh School (2010)
A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGrandma's Boy (2006)
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeerfest (2006)
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMac & Devin Go to High School (2012)
A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBalls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Promotion (2008)
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPremature (2014)
On the most important day of his young life, a high school senior is forced to relive his failed attempt at losing his virginity over and over again, until he gets it right.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmployee of the Month (2006)
When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSearch Party (2014)
Two oafs must rescue their stranded pal in Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeer League (2006)
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBehaving Badly (2014)
Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a drug abusing boss and even the mob if he ever hopes to land the girl of his dreams. Love is never easy!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBuford's Beach Bunnies (1993)
Fast-food mogul Harry Buford serves up the best barbecued bunny sandwiches, and the hottest waitresses, in town. His only son, Jeeter, will inherit the empire only if he can overcome his life-long fear of women. When Buford offers $100,000 to the first of his sexy employees who can turn shy-guy Jeeter into a red-blooded he-man, the summer heat sizzles as Amber, Boopsie and Lauren pour on the charm in their efforts to win Jeeter's heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Babymakers (2012)
After he flunks a fertility test, a man realizes that the only way he can get his wife pregnant is by robbing a sperm bank to take back the last of the deposits he made there years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisProject X (2012)
Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStep Brothers (2008)
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs (2023)
In a rowdy stand-up set, Shane Gillis riffs on his girlfriend's Navy SEAL ex, touring George Washington's house and being bullied by an Australian Goth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPretty Persuasion (2005)
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHard to Die (1990)
While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRicky Gervais: Mortality (2025)
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAccident Man (2018)
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Lower Learning?
The closest matches to Lower Learning are Accepted (2006), Fat Camp (2017) and Bad Teacher (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Lower Learning?
People who watched Lower Learning most often go on to Accepted (2006), Fat Camp (2017) and Bad Teacher (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Lower Learning?
Superbad (2007), rated 7.3/10 by 8,487 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Lower Learning?
Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Lower Learning?
Yes: Accepted (2006), Fat Camp (2017) and Bad Teacher (2011).
How are movies similar to Lower Learning chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Lower Learning, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.