Movies like CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛 (2022)
The best movies like CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛 (2022) are Hounddog (2008), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) and Iron Jawed Angels (2004). If CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛 hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Ron Clark Story (2006)7.6/10 from 201 votes
- NewestGoodbye June (2025)Released 2025
- In JapaneseOne Million Yen Girl (2008)Also in Japanese
Hounddog (2008)
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIron Jawed Angels (2004)
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCall Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl in the Book (2015)
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome Sunday (2018)
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSkin (2009)
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Million Yen Girl (2008)
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodbye June (2025)
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Day and a Night (2020)
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Dry White Season (1989)
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ron Clark Story (2006)
Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLucky Them (2013)
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoly Lands (2019)
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWon't Back Down (2012)
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntroducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTalhotBlond (2012)
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale Teacher: Cherry Boy Hunt (1976)
Hikaru is a female teacher at an all boy's high school. Yata is a mysterious student who transfers from another school. He is the younger brother of a boy who had committed suicide because of his obsession with Hikaru. Yata wants to avenge his brother's death so he recruits two more boys and they rape Hikaru on the school roof. When she discovers the reason for the attack, she stalks them before they can do any more damage.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Female Teacher: Secret (1978)
A male high school student becomes obsessed with his teacher and uses various schemes including exposing her philandering husband to have sex with her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Female Teacher: Chains and Bondage (1981)
A female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and was the only one to survive. However, the woman who was the fiancée of the dead teacher also committed suicide in despair. The younger brother of the woman enrolls in the school where the female teacher is a student in order to get revenge. There are also men at the school who are always after her body, thinking that such a female teacher will easily let them have sex with her. In desperation in such a world, she accepts the perverse desires of the men...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Female Teacher Hunting (1982)
Frustrated by claims that he raped a fellow student, Daisuke drops out of high school before a verdict is reached, lashing out at Shimako, a sympathetic teacher who believes he should stay and prove his innocence. Though Daisuke flees to a remote seaside town, their paths seem destined to cross again, threatening to reopen fresh wounds before they can heal.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
A Teacher (2013)
Diana Watts, a high school teacher in Austin, Texas, is in the midst of an affair with one of her students, Eric Tull. As the reality of their situation forces itself upon them, Diana puts the relationship on hold. It’s only a matter of time before she gives in again to her desire; this time even more recklessly than before.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisŻaklina (2012)
Two high school students are fascinated by a mature, attractive woman named Żaklina. The boys' friendship, strengthened by the common passion of filmmaking, seems to be indestructible until both of them try to seduce her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
A Certain Female Teacher's Sexual Play (1976)
A female teacher deals with assault, lies, and a female student.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Two Loves (1961)
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
I'll Let You Use Extracurricular Classes (1990)
Ikuko, a teacher at a part-time high school, is tied up by three men in the physical education club's equipment storage area in the basement. Her husband, Ichiro, works as a private tutor, but he continues to have an affair with her former student Toshiko. Ikuko was informed of her husband's affair by her student Inoue, and she was also told that she was one of the people Inoue had sex with. She was then invited to the basement of the school, where she was asked to listen to her concerns. Two of Inoue's friends are also waiting in the basement, but Ikuko is secretly planning something...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Female Teacher: Sweet Life (1973)
A female teacher at a high school. Perhaps because of her germaphobia, she was still single and devoted herself to her education without even thinking about marriage. However, she often hit her students, which resulted in repeated protests from her vice principal and parents...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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What are the best movies like CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛?
The closest matches to CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛 are Hounddog (2008), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) and Iron Jawed Angels (2004). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛?
Start with Hounddog (2008), the closest match to CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛.
What is the highest-rated movie like CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛?
The Ron Clark Story (2006), rated 7.6/10 by 201 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛?
Goodbye June (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛?
Yes: One Million Yen Girl (2008), Female Teacher: Cherry Boy Hunt (1976) and Female Teacher: Secret (1978).
How are movies similar to CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside CAWD-352 教師としてあってはならない、純愛, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.