Best "school teacher" Movies of All Time

65 movies found (page 1/3):

The Teacher Who Promised The Sea(2023)

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

Antlers(2021)

Κ-18

| 1h 39min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 456 votes)

A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.

Directed by Scott Cooper - With Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, Amy Madigan, ...

The White Ribbon(2009)

2h 24min | Drama, Mystery

3.8/5 (with 439 votes)

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

Directed by Michael Haneke - With Ulrich Tukur, Josef Bierbichler, Susanne Lothar, Ursina Lardi, Janina Fautz, Christian Friedel, ...

You, Me and Dupree(2006)

1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 596 votes)

After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, becomes a barfly and attaches himself to the newlywed couple almost permanently -- as their houseguest. But the longer Dupree camps out on their couch, the closer he gets to Carl's bride, Molly, leaving the frustrated groom wondering when his pal will be moving out.

Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo - With Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson, Michael Douglas, Seth Rogen, Amanda Detmer, ...

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The King and I(1956)

2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure, Music

3.6/5 (with 156 votes)

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Directed by Walter Lang - With Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Carlos Rivas, Martin Benson, Alan Mowbray, ...

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The Brides of Dracula(1960)

1h 25min | Horror

3.4/5 (with 89 votes)

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, David Peel, Freda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, ...

Music of the Heart(1999)

2h 4min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 91 votes)

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

Directed by Wes Craven - With Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, Jane Leeves, ...

Road House 2: Last Call(2006)

1h 26min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Crime

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Shane Tanner, the son of a legendary cooler named Dalton, learns that his uncle Nate got beat up by a group of men because he doesn't want to sell his bar, The Black Pelican, to a bunch of drug dealers. To help out his uncle, Shane teams up with local school teacher Beau Hampton, who is a regular at the Black Pelican, and takes down the baddies.

Directed by Scott Ziehl - With Johnathon Schaech, Ellen Hollman, Will Patton, Jake Busey, William Ragsdale, Richard Norton, ...

It Came from Outer Space(1953)

1h 21min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 82 votes)

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell David Johnson, Kathleen Hughes, ...

The King and I(1999)

1h 27min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family

2.8/5 (with 45 votes)

Animated version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about when the King of Siam meets a head strong English school mistress.

Directed by Richard Rich

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Love Forecast(2015)

1h 58min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Whenever elementary school teacher Kang Joon-soo falls in love, he always gives too much of himself to the relationship. Yet despite that, he ends up being the one getting dumped by his girlfriends. Joon-soo has been friends for 18 years with Kim Hyun-woo, a weather forecaster whose beauty belies her witty tongue and aggressive manner.

Directed by Park Jin-pyo - With Lee Seung-gi, Moon Chae-won, Jeong Jun-yeong, Ryu Hwa-young, Park Soo-ah, Park Eun-ji, ...

Andragogy(2023)

Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A middle-aged schoolteacher gets trolled online after her angry video goes viral.

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Strings(2013)

10min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family

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.

Directed by Pedro Solís García

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.

Directed by David Oelhoffen - With Reda Kateb, Viggo Mortensen, Nicolas Giraud, Yann Goven, Ángela Molina

Torment(1944)

1h 41min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Directed by Alf Sjöberg - With Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Gunnar Björnstrand, Stig Olin, Olof Winnerstrand, ...

The Witches(1966)

1h 29min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Drama

3.0/5 (with 25 votes)

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

Directed by Cyril Frankel - With Joan Fontaine, Leonard Rossiter, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ingrid Boulting, Ann Bell, ...

Bianca(1984)

1h 36min | Drama, Comedy

3.8/5 (with 163 votes)

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.

Directed by Nanni Moretti - With Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Remo Remotti, Vincenzo Salemme, Claudio Bigagli, Dario Cantarelli, ...

Le Maître d'école(1981)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 83 votes)

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.

Directed by Claude Berri - With Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary, Charlotte de Turckheim, André Chaumeau, Christian Bouillette, ...

Rome Adventure(1962)

1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.

Directed by Delmer Daves - With Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi, Suzanne Pleshette, Hampton Fancher, Al Hirt, ...

Sound and Fury(1988)

1h 35min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.

Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau - With Bruno Cremer, Fabienne Babe, François Négret, Françoise Vatel, María Luisa García

The Monolith Monsters(1957)

1h 17min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

Directed by John Sherwood - With Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette, Troy Donahue, Paul Peterson, ...

Child's Play(1972)

1h 40min | Thriller, Horror, Drama

2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges

Crush and Blush(2008)

1h 41min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

With her frumpy hair, blushing face, and awkward mannerisms, Yang Mi Sook has spent her entire life being unnoticed. Nicknamed Miss Carrot, she diligently teaches Russian to high school students who don't listen and ceaselessly pines after colleague Seo, her crush of ten years. Content with her uneventful, self-delusional existence, Mi Sook is sparked into action when hot young teacher Yuri comes strolling in and steals her class and her man. To nip their blooming romance in the bud, Mi Sook forms an unlikely alliance with Seo's misfit teenager daughter, who's every bit as eccentric as she is!

Directed by Lee Kyoung-mi - With Gong Hyo-jin, Seo Woo, Lee Jong-hyuk, Bang Eun-jin, Bae Seong-woo, Ra Mi-ran, ...

Knights of the South Bronx(2005)

1h 29min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.

Directed by Allen Hughes - With Ted Danson

The Dead Zone(2002)

1h 23min | Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV Movie

3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A young man awakens from a six-year coma with the ability to see into peoples futures. This is the first two episodes of the television series.

Topaze(1933)

1h 18min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

Directed by Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast - With John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Albert Conti, Frank Reicher, Jobyna Howland, Luis Alberni, ...

Fighting Tommy Riley(2005)

1h 49min | Action, Adventure, Drama

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

An aging trainer and a young fighter, both in need of a second chance, team-up to overcome the demons of their past...and chase the dreams of their future.

Directed by Eddie O'Flaherty - With Eddie Jones, Christina Chambers