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List of professor movies

Book of Blood (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of ...
Style: psychological, demonic, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, professor, death, paranormal investigator, sex scene, supernatural horror, blood, psychic, dragonfly ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant?
 7.9
 39K
The Conformist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style: political, art house, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot: fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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Velipadinte Pusthakam (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Professor Mathew Idikkula who reformed the atmosphere of a college by developing a healthy relationship between teachers and students. The film reflects the goodness of the youth and the impact the students can have.
Style: thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot: professor, college, teacher student relationship, revenge, campus, teacher, school teacher, fight, social problems, mentor, friendship, justice ...
Place: india
Is relevant?
 7.5
 122K
A Single Man (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style: sexy, touching, sincere, emotional, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, depression, homosexuality, loneliness, gays and lesbians, lgbt, broken heart, lgbtq, homosexual, grief, death, glbt ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, cuba, usa, london ...
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Man on the Train (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mysterious criminal rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor, his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor ...
Style: atmospheric, witty, humorous, semi serious, contemplative ...
Plot: professor, friendship, small town, partner, bittersweet, train, railway, chance meeting, bank robber, thief, heist, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada
Is relevant?
 6.8
 390K
Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: psychedelic, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, medical horror ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, cosmic horror, dna, creature, mutation, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist, expedition, research, genetics, terror ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: west virginia, arkansas, maine, england, louisiana ...
Is relevant?
 6.4
 40K
Ghost Stories (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an ...
Style: anthology, spooky, psychological thriller, scary, dark ...
Plot: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural horror, mental disorder, dishonesty, religion, professor, supernatural, car accident, ghost girl, storytelling, character study ...
Time: year 2017
Place: england
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 6.5
 280K
Legally Blonde (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style: feel good, light, sweet, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: sorority, lawyer, girl power, blonde, law school, fashion, college, law, university, law student, campus, believe in yourself ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, boston, harvard university, los angeles, massachusetts ...
Is relevant?
 5.1
 22K
The Quiet Ones (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, stylized, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: possession, seance, paranormal phenomena, cameraman, found footage, skepticism, poltergeist, doll, experiment, professor, mad doctor, supernatural ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, 21st century
Place: england
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Fright Night 2: New Blood (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, scary ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, murder, vampire hunter, murder of a nude woman, professor, danger, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, crucifix, subway, castle, american abroad ...
Time: 2010s, year 2000
Place: romania, bucharest
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With the Nose in the Stream (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor ...
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental
Plot: professor, philosophy, young boy, only child, tv reporter, nature, child prodigy, coming of age, boy, married couple, girl, gentleman ...
Place: geneva switzerland, switzerland
Is relevant?
 7.5
 77K
Quiz Show (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style: intellectual, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot: greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place: new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
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 7.8
 484K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, cult classic, horror comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, accountant, imagination, giant monster, chase, friendship, librarian, haunting ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1989, year 1984 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa, new york state ...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as 'Property of the Half-Blood Prince', and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, saga, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen fantasy, family friendly ...
Plot: witch, magic, harry potter, magical, witchcraft, wizard, good versus evil, school, betrayal, chosen one, wizards and magicians, young heroes ...
Time: year 2009, year 1997, year 1996, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: england, london, europe
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Harry starts his fourth year at Hogwarts, competes in the treacherous Triwizard Tournament and faces the evil Lord Voldemort. Ron and Hermione help Harry manage the pressure – but Voldemort lurks, awaiting his chance to destroy Harry and all that ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, atmospheric, sexy, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen fantasy, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, magical, witch, harry potter, boarding school, friendship, good versus evil, dragon, chosen one, school, wizards and magicians, wizard ...
Time: year 1994, year 2005, year 1995, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: england, europe, london
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, steampunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, escapades, changing the past or future, utopia, destiny, chase, time warp, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, distant future, 2030s, victorian era, near future ...
Place: usa, new york, egypt
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Mike Nichols’ film from Edward Albee's play brought new themes to the film industry. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have never been more brilliant together as they portray an experienced married couple who love each other yet verbally ...
Style: cerebral, psychological, black and white, black comedy, retro ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, guest, humiliation, conversation, couples, adultery, dysfunctional marriage, night, love hate relationship, childlessness, alcoholism, drinking ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s, 1930s
Place: new england, usa
Is relevant?
 6.1
 24K
Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, emotional, talky, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, happy ending, professor, father daughter relationship, character study, self discovery, eccentricity, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york, new jersey
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The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his ...
Style: tense, horrifying, scary, mockumentary, serious ...
Plot: found footage, wilderness, frankenstein, mountain, obsessive quest, deadly creature, supernatural, escapades, danger, mutant, experiment gone awry, professor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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If I Tell You I Have to Kill You (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a professor of religious studies is forced to investigate why his students are being murdered, he discovers what ended his own life and is then reborn.
Style: tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: professor, occult, murder, satanism, mysticism, murderer, secret, undercover, puzzle, problem, supernatural, investigation ...
Is relevant?
 7.4
 90K
Master (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min.
Story: An alcoholic professor is sent to a juvenile school, where he clashes with a gangster, who uses the children of the school for criminal activities.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot: professor, teacher, drug smuggling, husband and wife, drug, criminal, school teacher, gangster, gang, showdown, crime boss, bandit ...
Time: 2020s
Place: india
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Cemetery of Terror (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A professor suspects that a vicious killer may have discovered a way to return from the grave and continue his violent spree. His fears are proved true when a group of teenagers decide to pull a Halloween prank by stealing the killer's body ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bleak, rough, captivating ...
Plot: zombie, halloween, undead, cemetery, supernatural, professor, old dark house, best friend, back from the dead, murder, teenager, book ...
Time: 80s
Place: mexico
Is relevant?
 5.9
 98K
Cocktail (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style. Brian ...
Style: sexy, entertaining, rom com, romantic comedy, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, manly, girls' night ...
Plot: bartender, love, love and romance, ambition, wedding, one night stand, rise to the top, buddies, love affair, business, food, yuppie ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: jamaica, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, caribbean
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Hercules in New York (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hercules (Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business.
Style: independent film, humorous, melancholic, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: hercules, fish out of water, gangster, chase, zeus, greek mythology, father son relationship, farce, professor, friendship, ship, bodybuilding ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1969, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, north america, new york state ...
Is relevant?
 7.9
 852K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Is relevant?
 6.4
 462K
Godzilla (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night
Plot: monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, mutant, deadly creature, chaos ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place: japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
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 7.4
 75K
Marathon Man (1976)
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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The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A university student is pursued by a man with a demonic secret.
Style: surprise ending, scary, lovecraft, cult classic, creepy ...
Plot: occult, folk horror, good versus evil, cosmic horror, cthulhu, professor, female nudity, supernatural power, villain played by lead actor, grandfather grandson relationship, small town, library ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 44K
The Changeling (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
Style: suspense, gothic, creepy, spooky, atmospheric ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, isolated house, macabre, haunted, mansion, musician, supernatural, senator, death of wife, revenge, murder ...
Time: year 1980, victorian era, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place: seattle, usa, new york, washington d.c., washington state ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 40K
Barbarella (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Style: futuristic, grindhouse, erotic, sexy, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: space opera, mad scientist, angel, alien planet, female nudity, space adventure, bird attack, spacesuit, evil queen, space travel, surrealism, heroine ...
Time: future, distant future, 1930s, 60s
Place: yukon
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