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Oppenheimer(2023)

R
| 3h | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 2,359 votes)

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Directed by Christopher Nolan - With Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(2007)

PG-13
| 2h 18min | Adventure, Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 9,166 votes)

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.

Directed by David Yates - With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, ...
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Good Will Hunting(1997)

R
| 2h 7min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 5,452 votes)

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. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.

Directed by Gus Van Sant - With Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Casey Affleck, ...
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Murder on the Orient Express(2017)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.4/5 (with 4,502 votes)

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh - With Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucy Boynton, Josh Gad, ...
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Dead Poets Society(1989)

2h 8min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4,921 votes)

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.

Directed by Peter Weir - With Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd, ...
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Lolita(1997)

R
| 2h 17min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 746 votes)

Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.

Directed by Adrian Lyne - With Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Dominique Swain, Frank Langella, Suzanne Shepherd, Ben Silverstone, ...
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Crazy Rich Asians(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 1min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,611 votes)

An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.

Directed by Jon M. Chu - With Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, ...
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The Teacher Who Promised The Sea(2023)

1h 45min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of her father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather's teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.

Directed by Patricia Font - With Enric Auquer Sardà, Laia Costa, Luisa Gavasa Moragón, Ramón Agirre

Time Trap(2017)

1h 35min | Science Fiction, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 489 votes)

A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.

Directed by Mark Dennis, Ben Foster - With Andrew Wilson, Cassidy Gifford
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21(2008)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 2,074 votes)

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa in to count cards at blackjack.

Directed by Robert Luketic - With Laurence Fishburne, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Kevin Spacey, Liza Lapira, ...
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Enemy(2013)

R
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 2,720 votes)

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve - With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, Joshua Peace, ...
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The Pelican Brief(1993)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action
3.3/5 (with 648 votes)

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, Hume Cronyn, Stanley Tucci, John Heard, ...
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Dance of the Vampires(1967)

NR
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 308 votes)

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Roman Polanski, Sydney Bromley, Alfie Bass, ...
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Timeline(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 476 votes)

A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, ...
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The Man from Earth(2007)

NR
| 1h 27min | Science Fiction, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,006 votes)

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

Directed by Richard Schenkman - With John Billingsley, Tony Todd, David Lee Smith, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Alexis Thorpe, ...
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Still Alice(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,383 votes)

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Directed by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland - With Alec Baldwin, Hunter Parrish, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart, Shane McRae, ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth(1959)

NR
| 2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Directed by Henry Levin - With James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Thayer David, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, ...
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The Gambler(2014)

R
| 1h 51min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 602 votes)

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

Directed by Rupert Wyatt - With Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Jessica Lange, Sonya Walger, ...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors(1989)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 382 votes)

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Joanna Gleason, ...

A Serious Man(2009)

R
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 962 votes)

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen - With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Simon Helberg, Adam Arkin, Amy Landecker, Fyvush Finkel, ...
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Kinsey(2004)

R
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 192 votes)

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Directed by Bill Condon - With Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaardd, Chris O'Donnell, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Luke Macfarlane, ...
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Arlington Road(1999)

R
| 1h 57min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 469 votes)

Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door.

Directed by Mark Pellington - With Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis, Robert Gossett, Mason Gamble, ...
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The Blue Angel(1930)

NR
| 1h 48min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 131 votes)

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, ...
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The Wife(2018)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 499 votes)

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.

Directed by Björn Runge - With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke, Elizabeth McGovern, ...
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The Life of David Gale(2003)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.7/5 (with 879 votes)

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Directed by Alan Parker - With Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Rhona Mitra, ...
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)

NR
| 2h 11min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 341 votes)

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
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Wild Strawberries(1957)

1h 31min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 693 votes)

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, ...
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Finding Forrester(2000)

PG-13
| 2h 16min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 464 votes)

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 from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Directed by Gus Van Sant - With Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, April Grace, ...
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The Professor and the Madman(2019)

2h 4min | History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 483 votes)

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Directed by Farhad Safinia - With Mel Gibson, Natalie Dormer, Sean Penn, Ioan Gruffudd, Jeremy Irvine
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UFO(2018)

1h 28min | Science Fiction, Action, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 183 votes)

A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.

Directed by Ryan Eslinger - With Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, Ella Purnell
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