Teacher movies and TV shows – page 4

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Absolutely Anything (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
Style: funny, light, melancholic, surreal, slapstick ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: super powers, talking animal, alien, teacher, school teacher, teleportation, transformation, body transformation, existentialism, love story, talking dog, love ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 1972
Place: london
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Those Who Can't (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: There are teachers who inspire, enlighten, and challenge us. These are not those teachers.
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: teacher, satire, high school, silly humor, high school life, teacher student relationship, humour, school teacher, workplace, boat, revenge, stoner
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 8.1
 36K
Black (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Black is an adaptation of Helen Keller's autobiography. Black revolves around a blind and deaf girl, and her relationship with her teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease.
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: communication problem, mute or deaf, disability, teacher, deaf, teachers and students, blindness, age difference, struggle, determination, graduation, human spirit ...
Time: year 2005, y2k
Place: middle east, india
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Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the ...
Style: touching, sincere, inspirational, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: teacher, immigrant, elementary school, suicide, teachers and students, youth, coming of age, exile, tragedy, children, precocious child, culture clash ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: canada, france, montreal, algeria, quebec ...
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, feel good, intelligent ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: chess, child prodigy, prodigy, mentor, genius, tournament, children, teacher, competition, coming of age, childhood, obsession ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.9
 6K
The Student (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions. - Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis? - Does sex education have a place in school? - ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: religion, student, teacher, school, violence, male pubic hair, bible, swimming pool, religious fundamentalist, religious fundamentalism, anger, faith ...
Place: russia
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 6.0
 2K
L'ennui (1998)
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: erotic, psychological, sexy, psycho sexual, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, sex scene, older man younger woman sex, female nudity, teacher, erotica, midlife crisis, rough sex, depression, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, france
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People Places Things (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who ...
Style: touching, humorous, sweet, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teacher, twins, love and romance, friendship, loneliness, girl, character study, relationships, adolescence, parents and children, family relations, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, new zealand
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 5.0
 17K
Fame (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
Style: romantic, melancholic, intense, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, teacher, dance, high school, music, music business, follow your dream, desire for fame, youth, showbiz, dream come true, teenage life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 5.9
 4K
B. Monkey (1998)
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: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teacher, sex, nudity, love, violence, gangster, hospital, storytelling, drinking, addiction, betrayal, british ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
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 5.5
 3K
An Affair (2018)
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: erotic, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: teacher student sex, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, female teacher, older woman younger man sex, unfaithful wife, dangerous attraction, mature woman, forbidden sex, illicit affair, fatal attraction ...
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 7.8
 1K
22 July (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story about the people working on July 22 2011, when a terror attack happened in Norway.
Style: suspenseful, bad ending, thought provoking, suspense
Plot: journalist, teacher, police, counter terrorism, terrorism, terrorist attack, politics, terrorist group, police corruption, islam, terrorist, nordic ...
Time: year 2011
Place: oslo norway
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On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination.
Style: clever, inspirational, captivating, political, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: courtroom, women's rights, supreme court, human rights, lawyer, female lawyer, marriage, equality, husband wife relationship, teacher, misogyny, feminism ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, denver colorado, new york
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 7.3
 116K
Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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Road to Avonlea (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While there, she must adjust to life in the small rural town of Avonlea, learn to cope with her ...
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, soap opera ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: family life, small town, heroine, uncle niece relationship, teacher, parents and children, friends, couple relations, countryside, friendship, mischievous children, school ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, turn of the century
Place: canada
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 7.0
 4K
Fortress (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After being kidnapped by four, masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, fantasy adventure ...
Plot: kidnapping, school, teacher, revenge, underground, confined, danger, escapades, criminal heroes, chases and races, kidnapped, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, oceania
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 5.2
 37K
Mr. Woodcock (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, vengeance, writers, transformation, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, haunted by the past, teachers and students, rivalry, family relations, humiliation, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules ...
Style: esoteric, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: teacher, education, teaching, high school, dedicated educator, mentor, racism, job, swing, blaxploitation, business, school teacher ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: new york, usa
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Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.
Style: realistic, harsh, suspenseful, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, school shooting, depression, teacher, bully, school, social misfits, high school, teenage life, violence, childhood, fighting the system ...
Place: oregon
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The First Grader (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Kenya, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: education, school, teacher, racism, hopes, boy, prisoner of war camp, social relations, human spirit, ex military, dedicated educator, follow your dream ...
Time: year 1963, 1950s, 21st century
Place: africa, kenya
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Drillbit Taylor (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
Style: humorous, funny, melancholic, not serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, bullying, teacher, friendship, nerd, youth, high school life, teenager, unlikely friendships, self defense, vengeance, protector ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 7.6
 10K
Butterfly (1999)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona, europe, galicia ...
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 6.7
 12K
Fever Pitch (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he ...
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: soccer, football, teacher, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, fall in love, opposites attract, ambition, couples, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
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 7.2
 15K
Educating Rita (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style: talky, witty, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: working class, alcoholism, troubled marriage, teacher, teacher student relationship, literature, education, mentor, teaching, professor, self discovery, university ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, military, zombie child, children, undead, virus ...
Time: future, year 2016
Place: london
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 7.0
 41K
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Style: feel good, emotional, light, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, teacher, optimism, homeless, looking for love, character study, elementary school, working class, social worker, roommate, love and romance, goodhearted ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: london, europe, miami
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High School High (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: teacher, high school, school, satire, gang, farce, black, teenager, love, kids and family, weed, joke ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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 7.1
 97K
Elephant (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological, realistic, controversial ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, mass murder, teacher, school, violence, murder, high school, youth, teenager, serial killer, boy ...
Time: year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon
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