Graduate student movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant graduate student movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, entertaining and psychological films and TV shows about / with graduate student, professor, college, family relations, telephone call, student, cigarette smoking, female nudity, male female relationship and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as graduate student: Lakeboat (2000), Faultline (2004), The Last Hurrah (2009), The Vegetable (2018), Marathon Man (1976), Naked Josh (2004), The Apartment Complex (1999), Crunch Time (2016), Jealousy Is My Middle Name (2002), Italian Sex (1974).
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale ...
Style:
surreal, melancholic, stylized, satirical, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, graduate student, adaptation, ship, college, machismo, coming of age, male female relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, student, trust ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, tennessee, boston, england, tokyo ...
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the beautiful underwater reefs off the coast of Florida's pastoral Pajaro Island, a fissure rips open in the ocean floor. When graduate student Greg Chambers encounters the seismic readings, he rushes to tell his professor, Anthony ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, harsh, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
disaster, survival, earthquake, resort, graduate student, small town, catastrophe, burned alive, ocean, professor, city, coastal town ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Filmed in a single continuous shot, the comedy follows an elclectic group of uptight philosophy students as they cut loose at a house party on their last night together.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hardcase students, youth, college life, college, graduate student, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, twentysomething life, student life, looking for sex, college graduate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fabio struggles with a cumbersome father and a capricious and spoiled little sister who consider him a good for nothing, a “vegetable” in fact. The unfortunate recent graduate looks for a job reacts to the contempt of his family and demanding ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
job seeking, graduate student, father, unemployed, family problems, social problems, social issues, family relations, satire, job, social satire, estranged father ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tension, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, dentist, paranoia, espionage, revenge, torture, murder, chase, world war two, attempted murder, nazi, violent ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, uruguay, paris france, persia ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story:
Naked Josh was a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, ironic, entertaining ...
Plot:
graduate student, professor, anthropologist, dating, anthropology, irony, teacher, satire, cultural difference, teachers and students, counterculture, sexual exploration ...
Place:
montreal
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A graduate student named Stan becomes the manager of an apartment complex which is quite uncommon. The tenants are all quite eccentric and uncommon characters, and the place is quite run down in certain spots. The previous manager had disappeared in ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, indie film, crime drama ...
Plot:
graduate student, murder mystery, psychology, paranoia, urban, dark humor, whodunit, friendship, mental health, slow burn, isolation, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Crunch Time begins when four grad students accidentally open up a black hole that could be the end of the world. After recklessly handling cutting-edge tech in their school lab, this brilliant team of jackasses creates a small, but potentially earth ...
Style:
captivating, tense, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
black hole, laboratory, special agent, technology, secret service, agent, student, secret service agent, graduate student, scientist, college, government agency ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Quiet, intelligent, solemn and recently dumped by his girlfriend, graduate student Lee Weon-san takes a job at a literary magazine, ostensibly to supplement his income, but really to get close to the editor - the reason he’s now single. The ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, captivating, light, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, unrequited love, character study, relationship vs career, romantic rivalry, love interest, love affair, relationships, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, sensual, erotic drama, comedy drama ...
Plot:
prostitution, dominatrix, female protagonist, sexploitation, seduction, sexual humor, satire, social commentary, scandal, graduate student, sexually liberated, voyeur ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
American-born Asian graduate student, Eric Young, is lured back to college baseball field one final time, passing himself off as 10 years younger to try out for the Division 2 Volcanos. Once he makes the cut, Eric, often injured, develops a ...
Plot:
baseball, dual identity, love triangle, jealousy, coming of age, graduate student, student athlete, personal trainer, identity crisis, machismo, college, identity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mutated monster terrorizes campers in the woods of 1950's Wisconsin.
Style:
retro, parody, humorous, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
monster, lake monster, creature feature, respect, cold war, terror, genetic mutation, human versus monster, supernatural, mutant, supernatural being, creature ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ringeraja is a movie about two brothers, Ringe and Raja. One of them is a criminal, while the other one is a graduate student - two different worlds. The criminal is trying to please his girlfriend's father, so he asks his brother to switch ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, comedy drama, rom com ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sibling relationship, brothers, brother, brother brother relationship, mafia, satire, family relations, lifestyle, family life, love affair, relationships, body swapping ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She ...
Style:
tense, captivating, philosophical, existential, art house ...
Plot:
affair, obsession, surveillance, double life, relationships, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, teacher student relationship, secret, lifestyle, secret identity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Style:
independent film, hilarious, absurd, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
rape, sex scene, rape victim, professor, sexual assault, cat, female friendship, lesbian, lesbian friend, female professor, graduate student, flashback ...
Place:
new england, massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
butler, secretary, christmas, heist, philanthropist, master and servant, christmas eve, deception, mansion, professor, graduate student, department store ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 1930s
Place:
manhattan new york city, pennsylvania, philadelphia, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Linguistics Ph.D. student Julie Walters can speak almost every language you can imagine. Things turn upside down for Julie when handsome Dan, the curator at the museum she dreams to work at, contacts her to get some French classes, and is all about ...
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, romantic
Plot:
love and romance, love affair, romantic relationship, linguist, lesson, in love, language learning, love story, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, fall in love ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style:
touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place:
italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
self harm, professor, husband wife relationship, promise, paranoia, friendship, violence, pursuit, chase, suspicion, courtroom, doctor ...
Time:
2010s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, professor, body horror, supernatural, ghost, female nudity, graduate student, male objectification, muscleman, beefcake, tough guy, sleeping ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style:
suspense, historical drama, dramatic, period piece, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cold war, espionage, lawyer, spy, cia, agent, soviet spy, courtroom, politics, berlin wall, court, negotiation ...
Time:
year 1960, year 2015, 2010s, year 1957, 1950s ...
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, west germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Quiet, unassuming Adam is changing in a major way, thanks to his new girlfriend, art student Evelyn. Adam's friends are a little freaked by the transformation.
Style:
witty, stylized, cynical, contemplative, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
art, passion, friendship, betrayal, relationships, power of love, fall in love, dark humor, manipulation, manipulative person, public humiliation, mind game ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, visual, suspense, fairy tale ...
Plot:
novelist, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, psychiatrist, fort, cabin in the woods, secret, father son relationship, book, death of father, alternate reality, writers ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
feminism, teacher, college, coming of age, art, art history, feminist, gender, life philosophy, teachers and students, dedicated educator, boarding school ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2003, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, california, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style:
road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, thought provoking, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
death penalty, suicide, death, death row, death sentence, fighting the system, murder, professor, reporter, activist, investigation, journalism ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 1994 ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
conspiracy, terrorism, twists and turns, professor, evil wins, paranoia, terrorist, obsession, suspicion, uncover truth, fbi, danger ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, west virginia, virginia, kansas ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life, but when the chance for revenge comes she as a Victim sinks lower than her Predator.
Style:
serious, disturbing, erotic, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, violence, sexual abuse, revenge, rape, bare chested male, misandry, sexualized violence, rape victim, brutality, sadomasochism, male pubic hair ...
Place:
baltimore, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
A straight graduate student goes to the masturbation camp in the mountains held by the "gay masturbation charisma", where all sorts of masturbation techniques are tried out by participants. One day, the student is raped by a gay guy at the ...
Style:
erotic, semi serious, satirical, dark, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, masturbation, male nudity, lgbt, satire, gay lead character, gay interest, homosexual, lgbtq, rape, sexual assault, taboo ...
Place:
japan
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