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The Boy and the Heron(2023)

PG-13
| 2h 5min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 425 votes)

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one.".

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

The Blind Side(2009)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 2,862 votes)

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Nanny McPhee(2005)

PG
| 1h 37min | Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 1,349 votes)

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit(1993)

PG
| 1h 47min | Music, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 776 votes)

Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.

Whisper of the Heart(1995)

G
| 1h 51min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 816 votes)

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.

Directed by Yoshifumi Kondō

The Wave(2008)

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.

The Vatican Tapes(2015)

R
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Horror
2.6/5 (with 331 votes)

In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.

The Beautician and the Beast(1997)

PG
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 153 votes)

The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

The Miracle Worker(2000)

1h 35min | Drama, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.

Kindergarten Cop(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1,057 votes)

Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.

Stand and Deliver(1988)

PG
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 143 votes)

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 algebra and calculus students.

Dying Young(1991)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 196 votes)

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

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The Class(2008)

PG-13
| 2h 8min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 300 votes)

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.

El analfabeto(1961)

2h 8min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 45 votes)

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

A Kid Like Jake(2018)

1h 32min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 63 votes)

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

Directed by Silas Howard - With Claire Danes

To Sir, with Love(1967)

NR
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 136 votes)

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

Hurricane Bianca(2016)

1h 24min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 127 votes)

A teacher from New York 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.

Directed by Matt Kugelman - With Bianca Del Rio, Rachel Dratch, Willam Belli, Alan Cumming, RuPaul

The Miracle Worker(1962)

NR
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 126 votes)

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 teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

Martian Child(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 128 votes)

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

To Sir, with Love II(1996)

NC-17
| 1h 32min | Drama, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.

The First Grader(2010)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

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.

To Be and to Have(2002)

NR
| 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

The History Boys(2006)

R
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 85 votes)

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 test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

He Named Me Malala(2015)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 70 votes)

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

In the Army Now(1994)

PG
| 1h 31min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 93 votes)

Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make some money. But these new recruits are so hapless, they run the risk of getting kicked out before their military careers even begin. Soon, though, they're sent to the Middle East to fight for their country -- which they manage to do in their own wacky ways.

Waiting for "Superman"(2010)

PG
| 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

The Grizzlies(2019)

1h 46min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 16 votes)

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.

Directed by Miranda de Pencier

The Better Angels(2014)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, History
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

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 quiet boy who spends his days at the side of his beloved mother while learning to work the land from his stern father. When illness takes his mother, Abe's new guardian angel comes in the form of his new stepmother, who sees the potential in the boy and pushes for his further education.

Nanban(2012)

2h 40min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On their journey, they recount their college life and special moments that the three shared up until their lost friend secretly parted ways after convocation. During their quest, the two encounter a rival classmate who once made a long forgotten bet with them, a funeral that goes impossibly out of control, and a wedding they must crash.

Anne of Green Gables: Road to Green Gables(1979)

1h 40min | Drama, Animation
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time her unique character changes, or at least attracts, the people around her. The story covers Anne's growth from about eleven to seventeen years old as she makes friends, goes to school and studies. At a difficult point in her life, Anne will have to make a hard choice and perhaps find a new dream.

Directed by Isao Takahata
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