Movies like Finding Forrester: 20 to watch next
If you loved Finding Forrester (2000) — a drama and history film directed by Gus Van Sant — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Finding Forrester most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like dying and death, high school and friendship. 6 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Coach Carter 2005★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, History
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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I Never Sang for My Father 1970★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Glory Road 2006★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, History
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dead Poets Society 1989★ 8.3
Shares: Drama
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Bridge to Terabithia 2007★ 7.4
Shares: Drama
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Fabelmans 2022★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Stream in India on Sony Liv, Sonyliv Amazon Channel
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Giant Little Ones 2019★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Paterson 2016★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Another Woman 1988★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Paper Chase 1973★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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We Are Marshall 2006★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Prestige 2006★ 8.2
Shares: Drama
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Here 2024★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Won't Back Down 2012★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Little Princess 1995★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
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.
Stream in India on Stingray Amazon Channel
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Experimenter 2015★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, History
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Trumbo 2015★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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I Swear 2025★ 8.3
Shares: Drama, History
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Blue Chips 1994★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now