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Leo(2023)

Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher.

Directed by Robert Smigel, Robert Marianetti, David Wachtenheim - With Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, ...

Detachment(2011)

1h 38min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 637 votes)

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Larry Crowne(2011)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 577 votes)

When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.

Blue Valentine(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,501 votes)

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Elephant(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 22min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 827 votes)

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

The 15:17 to Paris(2018)

1h 34min | Thriller, History, Drama
2.7/5 (with 739 votes)

On Aug. 21, 2015, the world watches in stunned silence as the media reports a thwarted terrorist attack on a train that's bound for Paris -- an attempt prevented by three young Americans traveling together through Europe. The heroic and courageous actions of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone help to save the lives of more than 500 passengers on board.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Judy Greer, Jenna Fischer, Tony Hale, ...

The Awakening(2011)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 47min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 620 votes)

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

Tokyo Story(1953)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 429 votes)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Bad Teacher(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 2,221 votes)

A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.

The Wave(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 47min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,467 votes)

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 the masses can become manipulated.

All the Right Moves(1983)

1h 31min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.9/5 (with 108 votes)

Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

Premonition(2004)

1h 35min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.

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The Silent Revolution(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.

Joe the King(1999)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

A Gentle Breeze in the Village(2007)

3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan's countryside. When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.

Melody(1971)

3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.

Directed by Waris Hussein - With Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Roy Kinnear, Tim Wylton

English Vinglish(2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 14min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 110 votes)

In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.

Far from Men(2015)

1h 50min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 70 votes)

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.

To Be and to Have(2002)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.

Directed by Nicolas Philibert

Waiting for "Superman"(2010)

1h 51min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 59 votes)

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

Directed by Davis Guggenheim - With Geoffrey Canada

World's Best(2023)

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Twelve-year-old mathematics genius Prem discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to learn more about his father’s life and passions. Empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies, Prem is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA.

Directed by Roshan Sethi

Strings(2013)

4.0/5 (with 87 votes)

María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.

A Matter of Perspective(1987)

10min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium.

Typhoon Club(1985)

1h 55min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

Directed by Shinji Sōmai - With Yuka Onishi, Tomokazu Miura, Youki Kudoh, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Shingo Tsurumi, Tomiko Ishii, ...

Le prof(2000)

1h 40min | Comedy

A teacher uses new methods to captivate his audience. Some kids take it too far, some colleagues are worried traditional ways are going to be lost... but eventually, everything turns out OK.

We Shall Overcome(2006)

1h 45min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.

The Flying Classroom(1973)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 28min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.

Das Sexabitur(1978)

1h 31min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Disguised as her daughter, Anna's mother slips into French lessons to supplement little daughter's notes. She strikes her best in class, but she also shows what she is capable of in the group in the afternoon. As the headmaster uncovers the mother-daughter delusion, it becomes all the more praiseworthy.

Directed by Jürgen Enz - With Ginny Noack, Irene Falke, Christoph Paulik, Jane Iwanoff, Stefan Wiesehöfer, Horst Sieger, ...

Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit(2014)

1h 45min | Horror
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Ayano, Miyu, Yuri and Mei are high school students. They learn about a fatal gas accident which occurred at a school in the past. The girls then experience unusual occurrences like hearing breathing from closed classrooms and seeing a person's shadow. Hitomi then sneaks into an abandoned school to shoot a horror video for the internet. Hitomi hears from her colleague Kimio about a fox's window which leads to the spirit world.

Directed by Masayuki Ochiai

Blackmail Boy(2003)

1h 40min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure.

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