Movies like Teacher on a Spree (1941)
The best movies like Teacher on a Spree (1941) are Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Pal Joey (1957) and K-12 (2019). If Teacher on a Spree hooked you with its music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedK-12 (2019)7.7/10 from 298 votes
- NewestMaria (2024)Released 2024
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPal Joey (1957)
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisK-12 (2019)
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCover Girl (1944)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTeen Spirit (2019)
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Fair Lady (1964)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Runaways (2010)
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVictor/Victoria (1982)
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLemonade Mouth (2011)
When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in history! In the face of incredible odds, Olivia, Stella, Wen, Mohini and Charlie find they can make a real difference when they learn to lean on each other and let go of everything holding back their dreams.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYentl (1983)
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlora and Son (2023)
Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician, and harmony for this frayed Dublin family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nowhere Inn (2021)
When St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
SnoozefestMovies like thisStaying Alive (1983)
Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever still burns. Now he's struts toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnother Cinderella Story (2008)
A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOlivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour (2024)
At a sold-out concert in her hometown of LA, Olivia Rodrigo pours her heart into an electrifying night of chart-topping hits and pop-rock power ballads.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like this'Round Midnight (1986)
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaria (2024)
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNew York, New York (1977)
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man I Love (1946)
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, a formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls hard for him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
The Re-Up (2012)
A backstage and on-stage look at Nicki Minaj's career during the Pink Friday Tour, festivals, and more.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSusie Steps Out (1946)
After her father loses his job because of illness, adolescent Susie Russell poses as older than she is in order to get a job singing in a night club. Complications arising from the deception involve her older sister Clara, who works at an ad agency and the radio crooner, Jeffrey Westcott, whom she is in love with.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Metallica: Fan Can 6 (2010)
This concert was recorded in the period from 20 to 28 July 2009, when the band played five concerts in the capital of Denmark. Main feature is that the video shot by the fans gruppy.Poetomu shooting turned out not quite professional, but the atmosphere is transferred to the "excellent"
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Carnival Rock (1957)
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Bathing Beauty (1944)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Teacher on a Spree?
The closest matches to Teacher on a Spree are Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Pal Joey (1957) and K-12 (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Teacher on a Spree?
Start with Sweet and Lowdown (1999), the closest match to Teacher on a Spree.
What is the highest-rated movie like Teacher on a Spree?
K-12 (2019), rated 7.7/10 by 298 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Teacher on a Spree?
Maria (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Teacher on a Spree chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Teacher on a Spree, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.