Teacher movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant teacher movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sexy, weird, emotional and inspirational films and TV shows about / with teacher, dialogue, mentor, school teacher, school, storytelling, teacher student relationship, catastrophe, teenager and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as teacher: The Piano Teacher (2001), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Detachment (2011), L'ennui (1998), Pay It Forward (2000), The English Teacher (2013), Beyond the Blackboard (2011), An Affair (2018), In the House (2012), Bad Teacher (2011).
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style:
disturbing, sexual, controversial, psychological, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, masochism, age difference, perversion, rape, desire, teacher, obsession, sex scene, sex, sexual relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vienna, france, germany, austria, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspense, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, forbidden love, lesbian, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman younger man sex, lust, blackmail, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
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110K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, bleak, thought provoking, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, high school life, teen angst, human relationship, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, emotional, psycho sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
obsession, sex, teacher, sex scene, older man younger woman sex, erotica, woman urinating, female pubic hair, marriage proposal, midlife crisis, sexuality, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, death, boy, good deed, disfigurement, addiction, abusive husband, childhood trauma, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
tibet, usa, nevada, las vegas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Teacher Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject, but her routine is forever altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father reenter her life. Go-to television director ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspense, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
teacher, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, teacher student relationship, high school, age difference, illicit affair, forbidden love, teacher student romance, power relations, failed attempt, social relations ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
greece, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, homeless, youth, changing lives, children, power relations, hopes, idealism, society, teachers and students, school, dedication ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, usa, salt lake city utah
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher student sex, older woman teenage boy sex, mature woman, teacher student relationship, unfaithful wife, female teacher, sex scene, older woman younger man sex, dangerous attraction, older woman teenage boy relationship, older woman younger man relationship, longing ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style:
suspense, witty, disturbing, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
writers, teacher, obsession, high school, privacy invasion, mind game, student, stalking, direction and purpose, art, desire, high school life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
222K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
Style:
funny, not serious, humorous, rom com, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
selfish woman, school, bribery, profanity, sex scene, school teacher, teachers and students, sex, female protagonist, compulsive liar, female teacher, sexy teacher ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style:
black comedy, neo noir, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, female criminal, passion, love, murder, dangerous attraction, male nudity, hospital, british, betrayal, drinking, gangster ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place:
london, paris france, united kingdom, england, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, rough ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, lifestyle change, racism, teenage life, strong female lead, mentor, school teacher, bonding, idealism ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, year 1961, year 1999, year 2006 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, long beach california, usa
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243K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy ...
Style:
sentimental, compassionate, hilarious, f word
Plot:
boarding school, holiday, teacher, christmas, grieving mother, teen angst, detention, depressed man, vietnam war, grief, christmas eve, history teacher ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1971, 70s
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
widow, sexual attraction, relationships, older man younger woman relationship, passion, teacher, seduction, human nature, female nudity, age difference, sex scene, nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new jersey, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
Style:
funny, romantic, humorous, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, high school, high school life, teachers and students, happy ending, fish out of water, school, sister sister relationship, robbery, released from prison, cons and scams, female teacher ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Is relevant?
226K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Style:
psychological horror, dark, tense, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
revenge, high school, prank, bullying, telekinesis, prom, social misfits, female protagonist, cruelty, coming of age, supernatural horror, stephen king ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 70s, year 1979, future ...
Place:
maine, usa
Is relevant?
190K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
inspirational, touching, motivational, hood, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
basketball, teacher, mentor, teachers and students, underdog, athlete and trainer, high school, athlete's life, dedicated educator, sport team, life philosophy, college ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, sacramento california ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sign language, deaf, deafness, teacher, disability, mute or deaf, couple relations, couples, communication problem, opposites attract, love and romance, women ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new england, maine, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Style:
inspirational, touching, educational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
high school, teacher, teaching, dedicated teacher, coming of age, teenager, mentor, new teacher, cockney, gym teacher, slum, death of mother ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, east end london, europe, united kingdom, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
teacher, female teacher, diary, reading someone else's diary, sister sister relationship, small town, ambition, workplace situations, disorder, power relations, workplace, misfit ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
canada, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
Style:
erotic, sentimental, touching, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
child prodigy, teacher, kindergarten, poetry, mission, little boy, genius, female warrior, student, art, husband wife relationship, talent ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
assassination, tennis, russian mafia, corrupt politician, espionage, teacher, corruption, birthday party, politician, friendship, informant, bank ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, morocco, alps, london, moscow russia ...
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158K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style:
cult classic, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cerebral ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, rabbi, existentialism, teacher, suburban life, synagogue, divorce, bar mitzvah, jewish stereotype, life, religion ...
Time:
year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
minnesota, bolivia, usa, poland, israel ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
harry potter, magic, friendship, witch, fantasy world, wizard, witchcraft, magical, best friend, chosen one, boarding school, children ...
Time:
year 1981, year 1991, year 2001, year 1992, 80s ...
Place:
england, london, yorkshire, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
Style:
entertaining, light, humorous, raunchy comedy, experimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, foul language, high school teacher, teacher, prank, last day of school, dumb, school bully, revenge, pregnant woman, masturbation, civil war ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
georgia, tokyo
Is relevant?
441K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, entertaining, teen sex comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage life, notoriety, classmate, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, xian, usa, florida, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, compassionate, melancholic, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, nudity, sex, adultery, woman on top, sex in car, loneliness, one night stand, depression, sexual promiscuity, looking for love, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1975, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of Papale's beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
underdog, american football, football, teacher, follow your dream, nfl, biopic, against the odds, determination, teamwork, profanity, motivation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
philadelphia, boston, usa, new jersey
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167K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, manly
Plot:
stupidity, graduation, teacher, elementary school, prank, immaturity, bullying, happy ending, teachers and students, high school, dumb, party ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa
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