Movies like Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall (2012)
The best movies like Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall (2012) are I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), Bad Genius (2024) and Hala (2019). If Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedA Little Princess (1995)7.6/10 from 1,080 votes
- NewestBad Genius (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseOne Million Yen Girl (2008)Also in Japanese
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBad Genius (2024)
A highly-gifted student sees an opportunity to escape her roots by helping wealthy classmates cheat on key exams, but at great risk to her future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHala (2019)
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSnow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUna (2017)
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRogue Agent (2022)
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGracie (2007)
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattle of the Year (2013)
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
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 this1 Chance 2 Dance (2014)
When a 17-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted in her high school senior year, she finds herself divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her dream a reality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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 drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlame (2018)
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to "The Crucible".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCoda (2020)
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiss Juneteenth (2020)
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirl in the Bunker (2018)
When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpeak (2004)
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevival of Evangelion (1998)
Revival of Evangelion is a re-edit of the Neon Genesis Evangelion films , released in 1998. It consists of Evangelion: Death (which was essentially a clip show that summarized the entire regular series) and The End of Evangelion , re-edited together to make a version that tells the entire story of Evangelion. It is considered to be the final form of the Evangelion films.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCheaters (2000)
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello, Goodbye (2017)
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)
As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her best friend Maureen in the attack, Diana has been profoundly affected by the incident - her seemingly perfect life shaped by the events of that day.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFuck Work (2015)
Identity and performance, resistance and submission, and monotony and quiet rage crash into one another in this clear-eyed vision of a lesbian working as a professional dominatrix with a police officer as a regular client.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
A Little Princess (1995)
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cat Returns (2002)
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisExamination (2016)
A school physician whose son is being bullied at school finds that he must conduct a routine medical examination of one of his son's chief tormentors.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Flying Colors (TBA)
During a routine eyesight exam, a pilot with total colorblindness must outsmart a relentless optometrist determined to expose his secret – and take away his ability to fly.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
On a run-down Bradford council estate, teenagers Rita and Sue both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. On the way home one night, Bob takes Rita and Sue up to a deserted, countryside landscape. Knowing what he has in mind, the girls are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt's Nothing Mama, Just a Game (1974)
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadistic actions.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Till the Day I Can Laugh about My Blues (2023)
A goldfish in a tank, taken care of only by the protagonist, dies, and only then do the students feel sorry for it. In this world, people will be kind to you only when you die. Anne, ignored by her classmates, attends classes on the verge of breakdown, but when she meets Aina, who feels the same way, she smiles again.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall?
The closest matches to Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall are I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), Bad Genius (2024) and Hala (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall?
Start with I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), the closest match to Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall.
What is the highest-rated movie like Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall?
A Little Princess (1995), rated 7.6/10 by 1,080 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall?
Bad Genius (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall?
Yes: One Million Yen Girl (2008), Revival of Evangelion (1998) and Hello, Goodbye (2017).
How are movies similar to Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Shame Growing Freshmen! Physical Exam 2 -Examining Secondary Sex Characteristics in the Fall, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.