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Movies Like Things to Come

If you loved Things to Come's Drama storytelling, these films deliver a similar experience — carefully selected for tone, themes, and emotional depth. Each pick includes where to watch it right now.

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Miller's Girl
6.3

Miller's Girl

2024

A talented young writer embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher assigns a project that entangles them both.

Molly Maxwell
6.6

Molly Maxwell

2013

At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional, until she falls for her attractive English teacher, Ben.

Submission
5.9

Submission

2018

A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.

Breathe
7.1

Breathe

2014

Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.

The Emperor's Club
7.1

The Emperor's Club

2002

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Rachel, Rachel
6.6

Rachel, Rachel

1968

Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Notes on a Scandal
7.1

Notes on a Scandal

2006

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Mr. Morgan's Last Love
6.6

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

2013

A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

More Movies Like Things to Come

The Safety of Objects
6.4

The Safety of Objects

2002

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Blame
6.6

Blame

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".

True Colors
6.2

True Colors

1991

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

Hadewijch
6.4

Hadewijch

2009

A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.

Husbands and Wives
7.0

Husbands and Wives

1992

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Sky
6.2

Sky

2015

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

Steve
6.4

Steve

2025

Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.

One Eight Seven
6.7

One Eight Seven

1997

After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher.

Won't Back Down
6.1

Won't Back Down

2012

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.

The Congress
6.4

The Congress

2013

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

Iron Jawed Angels
6.8

Iron Jawed Angels

2004

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Dead Poets Society
8.3

Dead Poets Society

1989

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.

Why These Movies Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Things to Come (2016): Drama themes, similar narrative structure, and comparable emotional depth. NoBadPicks uses a combination of TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface films most likely to resonate with fans of Things to Come.

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