Top 20 movies like Watercolors
Top 20 Movies like Watercolors
- 1. American History X
- 2. Things to Come
- 3. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
- 4. Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War
- 5. His Girlfriend
- 6. Donnie Darko
- 7. Dilan 1991
- 8. Elementary
- 9. Yesterday
- 10. Philips and the Monkey Pen
- 11. Mail Order Monster
- 12. Bunky Blum and the Talking Train
- 13. Firingoti
- 14. A First Farewell
- 15. Small Change
- 16. The Class
- 17. Bridge to Terabithia
- 18. The Assault
- 19. 2:37
- 20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1. American History X
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
It has an average vote of 8.346 on TMDB.
2. Things to Come (L'avenir)
An unexpected event will make ten-years-old Biel reconsider the bond he keeps with his best friend, Sara.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (Географ глобус пропил)
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
It has an average vote of 6.668 on TMDB.
4. Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War (AURA ~魔竜院光牙最後の闘い~)
Satou Ichirou once called himself 'Maryuuin Kouga' and behaved as if he were a hero in a fantasy world. His strange behavior caused his classmates to bully him and he left the school. At his new school, he tries to behave like a normal boy, but one day he meets a girl who cosplays with a blue cape. She calls herself "a researcher traveling from the outer world to search for the 'Dragon Terminal'". At first, Ichirou rejects the girl, Satou Ryouko, because her behavior reminds him of his embarrassing past, but he changes his mind after seeing her getting bullied. In order to bring Ryouko back to real life, Ichirou accepts her and his past and begins the final battle as Maryuuin Kouga.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
5. His Girlfriend (先輩と彼女)
Teen romance is complicated for a boy who's secretly in love with a college girl but who's also captured the heart of a high school freshman.
It has an average vote of 5.409 on TMDB.
6. Donnie Darko
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
It has an average vote of 7.779 on TMDB.
7. Dilan 1991 (Dilan 1991)
Dilan's involvement in the motorbike gang imperils his relationship with Milea, whose distant relative returns from Belgium.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
8. Elementary (Primaire)
Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of questioning her vocation. Little by little Florence realizes that learning has no age limit.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
9. Yesterday (Yesterday)
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
It has an average vote of 7.586 on TMDB.
10. Philips and the Monkey Pen (ഫിലിപ്സ് ആൻഡ് ദി മങ്കി പെൻ)
The film revolves around an eight-year old called Ryan Philip and his adventures with a magical pen called the Monkey Pen.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. Mail Order Monster
A girl seeks help and guidance from a robot monster to cope with the bullies at school and her father's new girlfriend.
It has an average vote of 5.477 on TMDB.
12. Bunky Blum and the Talking Train
Bunky Blum is picked on in school. His only peace comes during lunch hour, when he and his mentally ill Mother eat McDonalds and visit a talking train named Train. The 83 year-old train is now a caged monument in the center of a children's park. However, Bunky believes that the train will break out of its confines and save him from the bullies of the schoolyard. When Bunky realizes that the train is not magical, all hope is lost and Bunky has a moral melt down. In a fit of rage, Bunky punches a girl in a wheelchair. The unsympathetic move lands Bunky on the losing end of a full out brawl. Bunky's Mother witnesses the schoolyard violence and she erupts into her own fit of rage, which ultimately sends her back to the psych ward. In the end, Bunky is left without hope, without family and without security. He returns to the old train to make a final plea for vengeance. But Bunky's giant steal savior has not come for vengeance. Rather, it offers Bunky what he needs, a shush of peace.
13. Firingoti (Firingoti)
The story is set in 1962, the time of Sino-India war. It revolves around a widowed teacher named Ritu who is transferred to Koronga, a small Assamese village. The school here was destroyed by fire ten years earlier. Ritu takes on the challenge of rebuilding the school and starts campaigning among the villagers.
14. A First Farewell (第一次的离别)
When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Small Change (L'Argent de poche)
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a haircut, a boy dealing with an abusive home life, a baby and a cat sitting by an open window, a child telling a dirty joke, and a boy who develops a crush on his friend's mother.
It has an average vote of 7.129 on TMDB.
16. The Class (Entre les murs)
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
It has an average vote of 6.984 on TMDB.
17. Bridge to Terabithia
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.
It has an average vote of 7.309 on TMDB.
18. The Assault (Штурм)
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
19. 2:37
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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.
It has an average vote of 6.848 on TMDB.