Professor movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant professor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, thought provoking, inspirational, dramatic, serious and interesting films and TV shows about / with professor, storytelling, dialogue, mentor, destiny, life philosophy, teacher, college, catastrophe and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as professor: Gabriel's Inferno (2020), Irrational Man (2015), The Life of David Gale (2003), Stranger Than Fiction (2006), Dead Poets Society (1989), Wonder Boys (2000), The Professor and the Madman (2019), Professor T (2021), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Good Will Hunting (1997).

List of professor movies

Gabriel's Inferno (2020)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness ...
Style: affectionate, romantic, sentimental, enigmatic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dark past, female student, male teacher female student affair, love at first sight, love story, university professor, fall in love, male female relationship, first sex, enemies to lovers, guilt, old love ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant?
 6.6
 70K
Irrational Man (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Style: philosophical, unusual plot structure, romantic, suspense, sexy ...
Plot: professor, murder, russian roulette, philosophy, relationships, plot twist, teachers and students, college, attempted murder, poisoning, judge, character study ...
Time: year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island, england
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The Life of David Gale (2003)
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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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, sexy, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: literature, paranoia, novelist, publisher, love story, philosophy, writer's life, existentialism, metaphysics, happy ending, transformation, food ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, seattle
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
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
Is relevant?
 7.2
 69K
Wonder Boys (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award winning "Great American Novel" 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he ...
Style: melancholic, talky, humorous, dark comedy, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: college, midlife crisis, professor, coming of age, adultery, divorce, mentor, gay relationship, college professor, teacher student relationship, university, alienation ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Style: period piece, costume drama, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot: professor, redemption, schizophrenia, insane asylum, mental patient, biopic, friendship, direction and purpose, winston churchill, society, shared dream, book ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: england, oxford university
Is relevant?
 7.4
 9K
Professor T (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, detective, crime drama
Plot: professor, detective inspector, police detective, genius, criminologist, cambridge university, murder investigation, unsolved crime, cold case, crime investigation, teamwork, crime solving ...
Time: future
Place: belgium
Is relevant?
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
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, philosophical, emotional, sentimental, intellectual ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: mathematics, genius, professor, prodigy, life, life philosophy, psychology, philosophy, mentor, psychotherapy, university, life lesson ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: boston, harvard university, america, persia, massachusetts ...
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The Man from Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Style: philosophical, reflective, mindfuck, psychological, cerebral ...
Plot: philosophy, immortality, atheism, religion, storytelling, immortal, dialogue, professor, society, myth, heart attack, eternal youth ...
Time: future, medieval times, 2000s, prehistory, 17th century ...
Is relevant?
 7.6
 46K
The Visitor (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Style: depressing, philosophical, touching, independent film, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, life, professor, destiny, loneliness, self discovery, friendship, jazz, arrest, lawyer, midlife crisis, existentialism ...
Time: year 2007
Place: new york, connecticut, michigan, senegal, manhattan new york city ...
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 7.5
 24K
Perception (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, ...
Style: intellectual, mind bending, exciting, offbeat, detective ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: investigation, schizophrenia, fbi, college professor, prodigy, riddles and clues, talented, crime investigation, intelligence, hallucination, genius, law enforcement ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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Thesis on a Homicide (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Roberto is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his best students, has committed a brutal murder right in front of the Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth he begins a ...
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, crime drama ...
Plot: serial killer, professor, murder, investigation, teachers and students, suspicion of murder, police, obsession, ex husband ex wife relationship, lawyer, law, post mortem ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Is relevant?
 6.8
 280K
21 (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for ...
Style: clever, inspirational, suspense, teen, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: gambling, casino, mathematics, prodigy, blackjack, genius, card playing, youth, cheating, talented, professor, college ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: las vegas, boston, harvard university, usa, massachusetts
Is relevant?
 7.9
 14K
The Other Me (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor FranƧois Cluzet in a key-role.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, confusing, non-linear ...
Plot: killing spree, serial killer, revenge, investigation, asperger's syndrome, professor, police, marriage proposal, crime wave, vigilante, victim, perjury ...
Time: 2010s, year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place: athens greece, ancient greece, europe, greece, balkan
Is relevant?
 7.2
 98K
Arlington Road (1999)
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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 7.0
 158K
A Serious Man (2009)
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 ...
Is relevant?
 5.3
 3K
Time Changer (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming ...
Style: christian film, psychological, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, professor, society, religions or cults, preaching, theology, time, christian, ethics, christianity, bible ...
Time: 1890s, future, victorian era
Is relevant?
The Great Debaters (2007)
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, emotional ...
Plot: racism, mentor, debate, african american, college, teacher, black american, professor, biopic, segregation, discrimination, racial segregation ...
Time: 1930s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: texas, africa, oklahoma, usa, harlem ...
Is relevant?
 6.9
 236K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
 7.0
 52K
Kinsey (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into ...
Style: sexy, sexual, controversial, talky, psychological ...
Plot: scientist, gay, lgbt, sexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, sexology, research, sex scene, psychology, nudity, college ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place: indiana, usa
Is relevant?
I Used to Go Here (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate Conklin is invited to speak at her alma mater by her mentor and former professor. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of an eccentric group of ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: writers, eternal youth, professor, friendship, college, male female relationship, young at heart, unlikely friendships, rebellious youth, youth culture, lecture, teacher student sex ...
Place: chicago
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
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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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style: political, suspense, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: political conspiracy, politics, investigation, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, lawyer, spy, political corruption, corruption, secret service, fbi, surveillance ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, southern usa, new york
Is relevant?
 7.5
 150K
Still Alice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style: touching, heartbreaking, sad, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alzheimer's disease, memory loss, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family bonds, terminal illness, family drama, relationships, psychology, memory lapse ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him ...
Style: slapstick, funny, humorous, feel good, parody ...
Audience: teens, date night, family outing
Plot: professor, jekyll and hyde, potion, college, chemistry, nerd, transformation, love, alter ego, laboratory, hidden identity, mad scientist ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: san francisco
Is relevant?
 7.3
 21K
Shadowlands (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, sweet, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: poet, writers, marriage, husband wife relationship, death, terminal illness, professor, biopic, cancer, bachelor, college, honesty ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1993
Place: england, europe
Is relevant?
 7.1
 76K
Agora (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Malta, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Style: philosophical, epic, historical drama, sincere, sexy ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, mathematics, destiny, atheism, impossible love, political unrest, antiquity, historical character, ancient world, religions or cults, unrequited love ...
Time: middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, 5th century
Place: ancient greece, alexandria egypt, egypt, greece, rome italy ...
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