Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Another Round follows four middle-aged high school teachers who adopt a shared experiment: keep themselves mildly drunk throughout the day to see whether it unlocks a freer, more present version of themselves. At its core, the film is about stagnation — the quiet despair of routines that have calcified, and the desperate creativity of people searching for a way back to feeling alive. Fans tend to be drawn to stories about professional malaise, the blurred line between escape and self-destruction, and the dark comedy of adults behaving badly in institutional settings.
Series
Teachers
Hapless teachers whose chaotic lives, loves, and drinking sessions mirror the same comic-melancholic tone.
Series
Drinking Solo
Characters drink alone for different reasons, treating alcohol as a lens on loneliness and professional identity.
Series
The Class
Twenty-somethings reuniting after years apart, questioning whether the people they became match who they once were.
Series
Boarders
Outsiders navigating a rigid institution, probing how institutions change people — or refuse to.
Series
Saving My Stupid Youth
A teacher haunted by a past incident at his own school, unable to escape the setting that defines him.
Book
The finishing school
A boarding-school story that mixes education with transgression and things not on any official curriculum.
Book
Pushed
A student pushed too far by a history teacher, examining how authority and medication shape identity.
Book
Mean girls
A fish-out-of-water adjusting to a new school where social rules feel alien and arbitrary.
Book
The hole
Five students descend into an abandoned part of their school on a prank that turns into something darker.
Book
A Week In The Woods
A fifth-grader killing time before prep school discovers a beloved outdoor school tradition that changes his outlook.
Book
Shattering Glass
A high school social experiment engineered by a charismatic leader that escalates into unexpected violence.
Film
Summer Night
A woman in her twenties begins tutoring a high school senior, and the dynamic quietly shifts when the student asks to reschedule.
Film
21 & Over
A one-night escalation from casual drinking into full debauchery that threatens to upend a carefully laid life plan.
Film
No More School
The final weeks of school carry the same bittersweet weight of endings and the fear of what comes next.
Film
Smashed
A schoolteacher's shared fondness for getting drunk begins to corrode both her job and her marriage.
Film
High School
A high school comedy where a drug-fuelled plan spins wildly out of control in an institutional setting.
Film
Everlasting Love
A language school teacher whose nightly visits to a cruising ground collide with his classroom when he encounters one of his own students.
If you want more on teachers unravelling, Teachers (2001) captures the same comic-melancholic chaos, while Smashed follows a schoolteacher whose drinking quietly dismantles her job and relationship.
Try Pushed, which examines how a student's relationship with a history teacher destabilises his sense of self, or Shattering Glass, which explores how group dynamics inside a school can spiral into something irreversible.
It captures the quiet desperation of middle age — the sense that life has narrowed without your noticing. The experiment these teachers run is both absurd and completely understandable, which is a hard tonal balance to pull off.