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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes(2023)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 45min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 87 votes)

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

Creed(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 3,291 votes)

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

The Good Shepherd(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 47min | Drama, Thriller, History
3.2/5 (with 493 votes)

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.8/5 (with 1,326 votes)

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Killer Elite(2011)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 931 votes)

Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

Ciao Alberto(2021)

3.8/5 (with 286 votes)

With his best friend Luca away at school, Alberto is enjoying his new life in Portorosso working alongside Massimo – the imposing, tattooed, one-armed fisherman of few words – who's quite possibly the coolest human in the entire world as far as Alberto is concerned. He wants more than anything to impress his mentor, but it's easier said than done.

Directed by McKenna Harris

Mr. Holland's Opus(1995)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 17min | Drama, Music, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 173 votes)

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

The Art of Getting By(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 596 votes)

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

Leaves of Grass(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 183 votes)

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.

Total Eclipse(1995)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 226 votes)

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

Jamesy Boy(2014)

3.2/5 (with 64 votes)

Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.

Meet Bill(2007)

3.1/5 (with 131 votes)

A mild-mannered bank executive (Aaron Eckhart) mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a doughnut merchant.

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Brad's Status(2017)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 165 votes)

Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.

Deal(2008)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 29 votes)

As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.

School for Scoundrels(2006)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 150 votes)

A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.

The Good Night(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Fantasy, Music
2.7/5 (with 49 votes)

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

Spark(2017)

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

Tokunaga is an unpopular comedian. He meets a senior comedian, Kamiya, who holds a strong faith in comedy. They struggle to move forward as comedians.

Morning Glory(1933)

1h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?

A Matter of Time(1976)

1h 37min | Drama, Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.

Chase(2019)

1h 24min | Thriller, Action
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A hitman must prove his loyalty to his mentor and best friend, while his girlfriend wants to leave the business behind them.

Friends & Crocodiles(2005)

1h 49min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, to bring some order to his chaos. He inspires her with his enthusiasm and imagination, and frustrates her with his apparent carelessness and destructiveness, which culminates in her calling the police as one of his parties is attacked by local troublemakers, seemingly with his tacit approval. But their paths are destined to cross again and again as Lizzie, with the help of some of the people that she met at Paul's house, rises through the changing landscape of corporate Britain. This is the tale of a meaningful and powerful relationship that isn't a love story; it's about those rare people who profoundly influence and shape our lives.

Directed by Stephen Poliakoff - With Damian Lewis

The Men in Her Life(1941)

1h 29min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.

Thunder Birds(1942)

1h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.

When the Legends Die(1972)

1h 47min | Drama, Western
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.

Directed by Stuart Millar - With Richard Widmark

Overwatch: Honor and Glory(2017)

7min

Reinhardt learns what it truly means to be a crusader.

Bangla Surf Girls(2021)

1h 26min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings.

A mentor(2023)

30min | Drama, Thriller

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The Paradigm Shift(2008)

26min | Comedy, Drama

The repercussions are immediate when activist history professor Arthur Collins - out of frustration - assigns his class to design a plan to assassinate the President of the United States. Life becomes particularly tough for the professor's teaching assistant T.K., whose reluctance to choose a side plants the young man right in the middle.