Education movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant education movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, feel good, touching, talky and inspirational films and TV shows about / with education, teacher, friendship, youth, school, power relations, teachers and students, mentor, society and storytelling plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as education: Dead Poets Society (1989), The Wave (2008), The First Grader (2010), The History Boys (2006), Classroom of the Elite (2017), School of Rock (2003), Assassination Classroom (2013), Behavior (2014), Stand and Deliver (1988), The Class (2008).
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List of education movies
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, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, suicide, coming of age, literature, teachers and students, poetry, mentor, philosophy, poet, youth, dedicated educator, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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111K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, emotional, political, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
fascism, experiment, suicide, nazism, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, dictatorship, high school, education, against humanity, politics ...
Place:
germany, california, europe
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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:
realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
education, school, teacher, racism, hopes, prisoner of war camp, social relations, human spirit, ex military, blind ambition, dedicated educator, follow your dream ...
Time:
50s, year 1963, 21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their ...
Style:
witty, intellectual, stylized, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teacher, coming of age, youth, education, exam, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, mentor, friends, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
england, yorkshire, london, new jersey, northern england ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal ...
Style:
anime, exciting, tense, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school, teenager, rivalry, society, youth, education, teenage life, teenage boy, dishonesty, friendship, high school life, schoolboy ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' ...
Style:
funny, feel good, entertaining, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, music, teachers and students, school, rock music, musician, high school, music band, rock band, children, student, battle of the bands ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
The students of class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled ...
Style:
anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
education, battles, friendship, murder, teacher, school, monster, fate of humanity, underdog, death wish, superhuman, fight ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
education, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, fighting the system, alcoholic mother, youth, dedicated educator, hopes, hardcase students, society, rebellion, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america, havana cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, high school, education, teenager, mathematics, school, gang, dedicated educator, mentor, civil rights, coming of age, transformation ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant ?
36K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, psychological, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, teachers and students, school, high school life, society, high school, education, teenager, dedicated educator, adolescence, mentor, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, latin america, california, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Director François Truffaut makes a rare on-screen appearance in one of his most unusual films. Based on a true story, the film follows the discovery of a feral child (Jean-Pierre Cargol) who's grown up wild in the forest in late-18th-century ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, sexy, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
education, coming of age, children, youth, doctor, feral child, psychology, deaf, boy, teacher, nude, transformation ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 70s, 19th century
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo, new jersey, south of france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style:
touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, pennsylvania
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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:
touching, realistic, sentimental, romantic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, teacher, dedicated teacher, school, teaching, education, teenager, teacher student relationship, slum, gym teacher, cockney, death of mother ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
london, england, east end london, europe
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135K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
college, teenager, high school, slacker, youth, party, college life, cheerleading, education, coming of age, college student, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, yale university, ohio, harvard university
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
The decision by India's supreme court to establish caste-based reservations for jobs in education causes conflict between a teacher and his mentor.
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, political ...
Plot:
politics, discrimination, education, teacher, social activism, prejudice, demonstration, fighting the system, friendship, family relations, society, university ...
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
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, sentimental, rough, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, racism, lifestyle change, teenage life, holocaust, mentor, school, teenager, idealism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1992, year 2006 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Abe is a thoughtful and ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
education, illness, society, husband wife relationship, poverty, father son relationship, boy, tragic event, dying, abraham lincoln, youth, courage ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era, year 1865
Place:
indiana, usa, illinois, kentucky
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
working class, opposites attract, women, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Mary is a senior in high school. With graduation a few months away, she is faced with sudden changes in life, love, and friendship. Meanwhile, strange events begin to happen to her that seem completely random and without reason. She struggles to ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
high school, teenage life, education, youth, high school life, social relations, friends, best friends, first love, self discovery, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work ...
Style:
parody, surreal, entertaining, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
satire, experiment, humour, education, science, silly humor, absurd humor, science and technology, british humour, british tv
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A group of musically gifted and ethnically diverse children travel around the world in an artificially intelligent rocket named Rocket.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers
Plot:
education, children, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, babies and infants, friends, youth, teamwork, mission, best friends, spacecraft, space travel ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hurricane Bianca is a revenge comedy about a New York teacher who moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
Style:
lgbt cinema, thought provoking, humorous, psychological, campy ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, teacher, revenge, high school, gay slur, lgbtq, school, discrimination, education, drag, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, touching, sentimental, affectionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
teacher, blindness, blind character, disability, mute or deaf, women, human spirit, mentor, education, deafness, children, childhood ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
alabama, boston, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African American college students into an historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, touching, political, feel good ...
Plot:
racism, teacher, debate, mentor, african american, college, professor, black american, segregation, contests and competitions, prejudice, labor union ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
texas, california, africa, oklahoma, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: UK, Ireland
TV show
Story:
Meet four adventure-seeking superhero Go Jetters as they explore places all around planet Earth.
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
education, discovery, nature, around the world, superhero team, explorer, friendship, teamwork, geography, unicorn, superhero, outdoor
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style:
talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, youth, teenage angst, adolescence, high school life, adolescence vs adulthood, teachers and students, introspection, loneliness ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
mathematics, professor, genius, life philosophy, psychology, life, prodigy, university, philosophy, existentialism, psychologist, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, harvard university, massachusetts, usa
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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, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
teacher, elementary school, suicide, immigrants, teachers and students, youth, coming of age, tragedy, children, culture clash, precocious child, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, france, montreal, quebec, ontario canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, controversial, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, sexual abuse, gay, child abuse, boarding school, transvestism, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, coming of age, youth, first love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s, year 1980
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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406K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
In the tradition of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” comes this refreshing comedy about a rebellious prankster with a crafty mind and a heart of gold. Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like ...
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, feel good, touching, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
rebelliousness, motivation, friendship, coming of age, friends, college, teachers and students, talented, twists and turns, student life, life philosophy, buddies ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
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