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Porky's(1981)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 364 votes)

Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to lose their virginity which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Summer School(1987)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 105 votes)

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.

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.

Porky's II: The Next Day(1983)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 129 votes)

When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.

The Rewrite(2014)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 47min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 267 votes)

An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.

Blackboard Jungle(1955)

1h 41min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 63 votes)

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.

Kinsey(2004)

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.

Lessons of a Dream(2011)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 35min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.

A Child Is Waiting(1963)

1h 42min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away(2013)

2h | Drama
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

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.

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Abducted(2021)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, Action, TV Movie
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Melanie is married to Tom, a controlling, cold and self-centered man who happens to be a prison warden. He finds her to be a liability to his career aspirations and secretly plans to have her kidnapped and killed, by Jack, a dangerous inmate.

Directed by Richard Roy

American Kickboxer(1991)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Action
2.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and then challenged by Denard for $100,000. Will B.J. accept and get even with Denard?

Directed by Frans Nel

Non è mai troppo tardi(2014)

3h 20min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper school, who he deems inadequate. At that time the public broadcasting network Rai decides to realize a program to educate millions of Italians.

Directed by Giacomo Campiotti

Two Loves(1961)

1h 36min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.

Teachers are People(1952)

7min | Animation
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teacher" (Goofy, naturally). After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher's apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George's mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write "I will not bomb the school again" 100 times!

Directed by Jack Kinney

At Berkeley(2013)

4h 4min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts, and the future of higher education in the United States.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman

The Third Word(1956)

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.

Directed by Julián Soler - With Sara García

Tenured(2015)

1h 20min | Comedy
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)

It's dark times for Ethan Collins, a severely depressed, foul-mouthed elementary school teacher whose wife's recent infidelity and departure have left him questioning everything in his life.

Nightjohn(1996)

1h 32min | Drama, TV Movie
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the true meaning of freedom.

A Circle of Children(1977)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.

Special Education(1977)

1h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.

A Touch of Greatness(2005)

58min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Many of Cullum's projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness.

The Academy of Muses(2015)

1h 32min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to regenerating the world through poetry. The controversial project triggers a series of situations dominated by words and desire.

IRA(2021)

23min | Documentary

A documentary-short on the life of Ira Sanders, a commodity trader turned educator whose first-hand experiences on 9/11 greatly influence his life.

Selam(2013)

1h 43min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

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Directed by Levent Demirkale - With Burcin Abdullah, Yunus Emre Yildirimer, Fatma Karanfil, Selma Alispahic, Miraj Grbić

School Life(2019)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

John and Amanda teach Latin, English and guitar at a fantastical stately home-turned-school. Nearly 50-year careers are drawing to a close for the pair who have become legends with the mantra: “Reading! ’Rithmetic! Rock ’n’ roll!” But for pupil and teacher alike, leaving is the hardest lesson.

Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin, David Rane

The Shallow End(2016)

12min | Drama

Christian, a 20-yr-old swim teacher, is having a hard time recovering from an incident where one his students almost drowns on his watch.

What Is A Good Teacher(2000)

1h 29min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. Kong is not a typical Hong Kong teacher. He isn't happy just teaching his students in his class, but he would rather go to rave parties and play along with them, as well as follow his female students and sit with them in their revision classes. However, by the time Mr. Kong wins the hearts of his students, the school revealed that he is not qualified to be a teacher.

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