Academician movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant academician movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, thought provoking, independent film, intellectual, touching and serious films and TV shows about / with academician, drinking, dialogue, drinking alcohol, mentor, relationships, teacher, writers, professor and storytelling plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as academician: My Fair Lady (1964), The Paper Chase (1973), Stand and Deliver (1988), The Chocolate War (1988), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Browning Version (1994), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Good Will Hunting (1997), One True Thing (1998), The Ninth Gate (1999).
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Style:
feel good, romantic, period piece, sweet, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family outing, teens, kids ...
Plot:
class differences, high society, fall in love, cinderella story, love and romance, makeover, love story, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, dancing, culture clash ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1930s
Place:
london, england, britain, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Style:
intense, captivating, serious, feel good, tense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
law student, lawyer, campus, youth, love story, law, teacher, courtroom, justice, male bonding, betrayal, legal ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
harvard university, boston, usa, california
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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, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
mathematics, teacher, high school, dedicated educator, bullying, school, biopic, mentor, chicano, civil rights, school teacher, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by selling chocolates.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychotronic, sinister, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boys' school, chocolate, boy, teenager, coming of age, preparatory school, high school football, peer pressure, schoolboy, american football, teenage boy, school bullying ...
Time:
80s
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The ...
Style:
talky, touching, colorful, grim, anamorphic ...
Plot:
teacher, boarding school, coming of age, preparatory school, education, marriage, drinking, science, male nudity, bookstore, dysfunctional marriage, retirement ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
england, europe, new jersey, tokyo
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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
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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, 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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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, realistic, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, grief, relationships, homecoming, tragedy, family drama, argument ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Style:
gothic, satanic, dark, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
occult, devil, supernatural, collector, investigation, obsession, satanic ritual, curses spells and rituals, chase, danger, secret society, book ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, portugal, spain ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sincere, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
mentor, literature, dedicated educator, coming of age, prejudice, genius, basketball, writers, teacher, african american, prodigy, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, scotland, usa, bronx new york city ...
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
Style:
romantic, captivating, emotional, disturbing, light ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
sensuality, older woman younger man relationship, romantic relationship, mistress, male female relationship, love triangle, love affair, stepmother, coming of age, relationship problems, family problems, relationships ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspense, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, forbidden love, lesbian, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman younger man sex, lust, blackmail, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
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100K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style:
sexy, captivating, cynical, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, underage drinking, drug, friends, friendship, high school life, crush, looking for sex, party ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, canada
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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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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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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
nerd, scientist, roommate, friends, science, genius, sarcasm, best friend, group of friends, geek, friendship, neighbor ...
Time:
y2k, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pasadena california, california, hawaii, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style:
sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, obsession, teacher student sex, male teacher female student affair, couples, infidelity, love and romance, male female relationship, hospital, love story, hedonism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Style:
cynical, dark comedy, black comedy, intense, stylized ...
Plot:
twins, dysfunctional family, weed, brutality, profanity, drug, marijuana, character study, road trip, twin brother, gangster, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, independent film ...
Plot:
college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, campus, fake dating, teenager, academician ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, new england, yale university
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, surreal, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
father son relationship, greed, israeli, secrets, existentialism, parents and children, family problems, ambition, estrangement, religions or cults, moral dilemma, writers ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, jerusalem, seattle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two parents fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children's college tour.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
middle age romance, college, fall in love, opposites attract, college campus, father son relationship, tour guide, self discovery, self fulfillment, love and romance, disorder, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, realistic, political, anthropological ...
Plot:
holocaust, philosopher, nazi, feminist, strong female character, strong female lead, philosophy, biopic, nazi war criminal, world war two, war crime, legal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2012, 60s, year 1961
Place:
israel, germany, new york, usa, jerusalem
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37K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Strait-laced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised ...
Style:
humorous, teen, cute, funny, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
relationships, adoption, happy ending, mentor, life philosophy, female protagonist, parents and children, parenthood, singleness, love and romance, single father, college ...
Time:
year 1995, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Style:
touching, humorous, independent film, sincere, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
art, opposites attract, painter, rivalry, teacher, fall in love, workplace romance, artist, writers, school, school teacher, job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
homosexuality, gay marriage, lgbtq, gay, gay interest, lgbt, teacher, gay couple, relationships, wedding, couple relations, male male relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, lyrical, novela, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, novelist, twists and turns, father son relationship, family relations, revelation, adulterous husband, professor, love affair ...
Time:
1950s, year 1992, 60s, 90s, 2010s ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.
Style:
sad, tragicomedy, social, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
forgery, cat, female protagonist, female writer, writers, lesbian, living alone, lgbt, accomplice, drinking, deception, letter ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 2014, year 1939, year 1994 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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