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Movies: Best "drop out" Movies

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The Sitter(2011)

R
| 1h 21min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 421 votes)

Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the neighbor's kid he gets a booty call from his girlfriend in the city. To hook up with her, Noah takes to the streets, but his urban adventure spins out of control as he finds himself on the run from a maniacal drug lord.

Directed by David Gordon Green - With Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, J. B. Smoove, Sam Rockwell, Chris Collins, ...
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Stand and Deliver(1988)

PG
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 143 votes)

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Directed by Ramón Menéndez - With Edward James Olmos, Rosanna DeSoto, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Garcia, Carmen Argenziano, Estelle Harris, ...
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The Great Buck Howard(2008)

PG
| 1h 27min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 104 votes)

When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.

Directed by Sean McGinly - With John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Adam Scott, Conan O'Brien, David Blaine, ...

Gardener of Eden(2007)

R
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

When a young deli-counter clerk and general slacker in New Jersey accidentally saves a young woman from a serial rapist, he becomes convinced that his new role in life is to become a vigilante.

Directed by Kevin Connolly - With Lukas Haas, Erika Christensen, Giovanni Ribisi, Jerry Ferrara, Jon Abrahams, David Patrick Kelly, ...

Kanavu Variyam(2017)

1h 58min | Science Fiction, Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A studious and ambitious youngster tries to set up a device to solve the frequent power crisis in his village despite constant discouragement from the public.

Directed by Arun Chidambaram
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Tokyo Refugees(2014)

2h 10min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.

Sunset Sunrise(1973)

2h 21min | Drama, Adventure
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara in 1971, Sunset Sunrise (Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru) is a “hippie” road movie chronicling the trek that a handful of people take in order to reach Katmandú, the capital of Nepal.

Fukri(2017)

2h 36min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

An engineering dropout who traps himself in one trouble or the other, meets a wonderful woman and her cousin who changes his life.

Directed by Siddique - With Jayasurya Jayan

Odissea nuda(1961)

1h 57min | Drama

A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salerno.

Directed by Franco Rossi - With Enrico Maria Salerno

La pequeña señora de Pérez(1944)

1h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love
4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A student secretly goes back to school after getting married to one of her teachers.

Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen - With Mirtha Legrand, Juan Carlos Thorry, Miguel Gómez Bao, Cirilo Etulain, María Luisa Notar, Teresita Pagano, ...

The Vagabonds of the Carpathians(2021)

44min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Years ago, the two Poles Juliusz (92) and Krzysztof (77) decided to drop out. Since then, the wilderness on the shore of the Polish Lake Solina - far away from civilization - has been their home. In his small apartment in Masuria, Juliusz, 91, dreams of summer. All he wants is to escape to his cabin in the Carpathians, on the shores of Lake Solina, where he lives a simple, rustic life. Krzysztof, at 77, is a youngster by comparison. He came to the forest in 1981 to escape political repression and never left. He believes his life in the countryside is the key to happiness.