Literacy movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant literacy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, independent film and humorous films and TV shows about / with literacy, friendship, society, family relations, love, hopes, father son relationship, murder, flashback and book plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as literacy: Madagascar (2005), The First Grader (2010), The Source (2011), Nightjohn (1996), The Reader (2008), Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974), The Mighty (1998), Wanda (1970), The Electric Company (1971), Wonka (2023).

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 6.9
 434K
Madagascar (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends -- Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo -- have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, funny, humorous, computer animated ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: jungle, friendship, penguins, unlikely friendships, animal life, island, zebra, escape, lion, animal, rescue, wilderness ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: madagascar, new york, africa, manhattan new york city, antarctica ...
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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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 7.2
 4K
The Source (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, feel good, political ...
Plot: village life, sexism, rebellion, battle of the sexes, muslim woman, marital rape, desert, ultimatum, power relations, social relations, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, north africa
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 6.8
 437
Nightjohn (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Charles Burnett directs this movie about John, a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: racism, slave, slavery, teaching, plantation, american civil war, human exploitation, civil rights, blaxploitation, racial issues, black, american history ...
Time: 19th century
Place: america
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 7.6
 258K
The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1980, year 1958, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan, West Germany
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: This animation series follows the childhood "adventures" of a girl named Heidi, who lives with her grandfather somewhere on the Alps.
Style: anime, juvenile, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: family relations, orphan, friendship, win over, young heroes, family life, childhood, winter, girl, child, voice over narration, male female relationship ...
Time: 19th century
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, frankfurt germany, alps, germany ...
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 7.2
 14K
The Mighty (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, disability, friendship, boy, bully, loneliness, misfit, youth, social misfits, illness, fight, best friend ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio
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 7.1
 6K
Wanda (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Wanda, after a string of abusive relationships, abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal (Michael Higgins).
Style: independent film, depressing, road movie, existential, serious ...
Plot: low self esteem, feminist, women, female protagonist, poverty, loneliness, drug addiction, social outcast, addiction, affair, girl, sex crime ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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The Electric Company (1971)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October ...
Style: sketch comedy, anime, educational, weird
Audience: kids, toddlers, teens, preschool
Plot: superhero, sketch, literacy, vaudeville, educational program, gorilla, spider man, part animation
Time: 70s
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 7.1
 103K
Wonka (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The origin of Willy Wonka and his adventures into Loompa Land
Style: humorous, funny, captivating, light, exciting ...
Plot: chocolate, eccentricity, genius, greed, giraffe, male protagonist, top hat, dancing, contract, zoo, castle, balloon ...
Time: 20th century
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 7.0
 243
Marvin & Tige (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he ...
Style: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: adoption, coming of age, racism, homelessness, african, alcoholism, blaxploitation, family relations, suicide, parents and children, urban ghetto life, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: atlanta georgia
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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, ...
Style: exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: robot, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, sibling rivalry, childhood, outer space, child, game, alien, space, youth ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Style: fairy tale, touching, atmospheric, feel good, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, heroic mission, friendship, against the odds, laboratory, rat, rescue, illness, family problems, cure, danger, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 90s, 20th century
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Tree With Deep Roots (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Deep Rooted Tree is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Jang Hyuk, Shin Se-kyung and Han Suk-kyu. Based on the novel of the same title by Lee Jeong-myeong, it aired on SBS from October 5 to December 22, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, factual, sageuk ...
Plot: joseon dynasty, murder investigation, murder, power struggle, palace intrigue, secret organization, political conspiracy, palace, king, revenge, rivalry, asian history ...
Time: 15th century
Place: korea, thailand
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The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Style: gothic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder trial, confession, hanging, jealousy, protege, diary, detective inspector, death sentence, trial ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, 1870s
Place: scotland yard, london
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The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That ...
Style: anime, touching, breathtaking, poignant, intense ...
Plot: training, mentor, beast, friendship, martial arts, destiny, orphan, good versus evil, fantasy world, japanese schoolgirl, loneliness, boy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, tokyo
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 6.5
 1K
The Emigrant (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, ...
Style: biblical
Plot: arab, bible, old testament, antiquity, ancient history, time machine, wolf attack, agriculture, corporal punishment, hugging, religious sect, little brother ...
Place: middle east, egypt
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 6.2
 344
Palunku (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story: Monichan shifts to the city from his village to provide better education to his children. But will things go as planned?
Style: sad
Plot: children, town, urbanization, child abuse, school, lottery, money lender, village, literacy, family relations, malayalam
Time: year 2006
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 6.5
 703
The Sower (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film
Plot: social problems, male female relationship, women, sorority, female protagonist, love, woman, harvest, man on the run, getting home, missing man, pregnancy ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2017, 1850s
Place: south of france, france, provence
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The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The big city challenges him, though, especially when his illiteracy is exposed.
Style: semi serious, realistic, learning
Plot: family relations, family problems, human spirit, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society, city life, dysfunctional family, countryside, family life, urban ...
Time: 80s
Place: ohio, kentucky, usa, cincinnati ohio
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The Hunting Party (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Style: grindhouse, brutal, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tall woman, rape, manhunt, hunter, stockholm syndrome, mail order bride, kidnapped, wild west, sexual abuse, violent, journalism, outlaw ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 70s
Place: texas
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 5.8
 24K
Zardoz (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, stylized, philosophical, apocalyptic ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, breast feeding, surrealism, rebellion, artificial intelligence, immortality, death, scientist, old woman, old man ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 20th century
Place: arizona
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Robin and Marian (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Robin Hood is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John to England after the Crusades. Maid Marian has entered a nunnery, King Richard is a raving lunatic, his Brother John a moron, and the age of great adventure has seemed to have ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, stylized, period piece ...
Plot: robin hood, knight, medieval, folk hero, tragic love, aging, swashbuckler, nun, rivalry, danger, old love, unfulfillment ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1976, 12th century
Place: england, france
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Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, fall in love, class differences, opposites attract, cinderella story, couples, hotel, mistaken identity, eligible bachelor, single mother, social differences ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 7.5
 3K
The Italian (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot: orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, italy
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 8.2
 1.1M
Finding Nemo (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: friendship, underwater, shark, memory loss, father son relationship, animal, freedom, courage, single father, rescue, odd couple, talking animal ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new south wales, oceania, pacific ocean, sydney australia
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 6.6
 68K
Far and Away (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving ...
Style: captivating, realistic, period piece, sentimental, epic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, love, enemies to lovers, obsessive quest, against the odds, love story, american dream, rise and fall, follow your dream, opposites attract, boxing, culture ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s, 50s
Place: ireland, usa, oklahoma, europe, boston
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The Black Velvet Gown (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But ...
Style: serious, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, period drama
Plot: servant, housekeeper, family life, working class, social differences, eviction, family relations, power relations, society, love and romance, idealism, single parent ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s, 1840s
Place: england, britain, europe, france
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Rudolf the Black Cat (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Rudolf, a black stray cat, is suddenly separated from his beloved master. He unexpectedly wakes up in a long-distance truck that takes him to metropolis Tokyo. There, he meets Ippai-attena, a big boss cat feared by everyone in town. Unable to return ...
Style: anime, sincere, feel good, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: pet cat, kindness, talking cat, cartoon cat, rescue, care, animal life, animal protagonist, pets, kitten, getting home, teaching the ways of the world ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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