Movies like Back to School (2019)
The best movies like Back to School (2019) are Serial Teachers 2 (2015), The Small Victories (2023) and The Magic Tuche (2018). If Back to School hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFive (2016)7.0/10 from 1,358 votes
- NewestClass Reunion (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchSerial Teachers 2 (2015)Also in French
Serial Teachers 2 (2015)
The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best school of the country, and they will apply their famous methods on the future of the nation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Small Victories (2023)
Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Magic Tuche (2018)
After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like this3 Days Max (2023)
Clumsy policeman Rayane has three days to rescue his kidnapped grandmother from a Mexican cartel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLes Municipaux, ces héros (2018)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Need Your Vote (2018)
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisRetirement Home (2022)
A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBrice 3 (2016)
Brice is back. The world has changed, but not him. When his best friend, Marius, calls for help, he goes on a wild adventure that will lead him to the other side of the world... Travel shapes youth but will he remain the king of the "casse" ?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Boy (2013)
38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn aurait dû aller en Grèce (2024)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisOldies But Goodies (2024)
As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLooking for Teddy (2018)
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBattle of the Classes (2019)
As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBabysitting (2014)
Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSerial Teachers (2013)
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has already exhausted all the conventional means to raise standards at the school and he has no choice but to take the advice of his deputy. It is a case of having to fight fire with fire: the worst pupils must be taught by the worst teachers...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDirty Kids (2017)
French seniors enroll in summer camp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrice of Parenting (2021)
Suffering from empty nest syndrome, two lonely parents concoct a scheme to get their kids interested in them again: they pretend they've won the lottery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFive (2016)
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisZaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022)
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCamping 3 (2016)
Like every summer, our friends, the Pics, Jacky and Laurette, Gatineau, recently divorced from Sopie, and Patrick Chirac, ever true to form, get together at the Blue Waves camping grounds. This year, Patrick has decided to try car sharing. Believing that he'll travel through France alone with Vanessa, he finds himself accompanied by three young Dijon inhabitants: smooth-talking Robert, good-looking Benji and loudmouth José. Of course, after car sharing Patrick is forced to try out bed sharing...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPremier de la classe (2019)
Abu, 14, is his father's pride. Unlike his three brothers, he is the "top of his class". Well, that's what he would have you believe. In truth, Abu is, above all, the king of lies and fake school grades. When the first meeting of parents and teachers arrives, he is going to stage the biggest lie of his life: he is looking for false teachers among his acquaintances in the neighborhood to meet his real father, while his real teachers will meet a false father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisC'est la vie! (2017)
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Good Doctor (2019)
On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrench Fried Vacation (1978)
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmployee of the Month (2022)
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClass Reunion (2025)
Feeling nostalgic about their high school days, Hervé, Maxime, and Jordy decide to host a grand reunion party to reconnect and celebrate their 30-year graduation anniversary. However, their idealised memories clash with reality: no one wants to come, especially their former classmates Anne and Marion, who are determined to sabotage the event. For the first time, the trio face a harsh realisation – could it be that all this time they’ve been nothing but a bunch of pretentious jerks? Determined to make amends, they embark on a hilarious quest to prove to the world and themselves that they can be better men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Speech (2020)
Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks him to prepare a speech for his wedding. Could it get even worse?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThanks Boss! (2016)
A family fired by a company owned by LVMH (Group owned by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault) seeks reparation from their previous employer with the help of the movie director.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll Hands on Deck! (2021)
An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlashback (2021)
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Back to School?
The closest matches to Back to School are Serial Teachers 2 (2015), The Small Victories (2023) and The Magic Tuche (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Back to School?
People who watched Back to School most often go on to Serial Teachers 2 (2015), The Small Victories (2023) and The Magic Tuche (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Back to School?
Five (2016), rated 7.0/10 by 1,358 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Back to School?
Class Reunion (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Back to School?
Yes: Serial Teachers 2 (2015), The Small Victories (2023) and The Magic Tuche (2018).
How are movies similar to Back to School chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Back to School, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.