Teaching in movies
by RaccoonRocky | created - 24 Feb 2019 | updated - 6 days ago | PublicMovies in which the plot includes, as a main part, teaching or student-teacher relationships (not a complete list, only movies I've seen and liked)
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1. Front of the Class (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama
Brad Cohen who, despite being challenged by Tourette's Syndrome at a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: James Wolk, Treat Williams, Dominic Scott Kay, Sarah Drew
Votes: 8,894
Un bambino lotta con la Tourette fino a diventare un insegnante.
2. Good Will Hunting (1997)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 1,069,220 | Gross: $138.43M
3. Dead Poets Society (1989)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Votes: 546,756 | Gross: $95.86M
Sopravvalutato.
4. School of Rock (2003)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Music
After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack, Adam Pascal
Votes: 331,044 | Gross: $81.26M
5. La scuola (1995)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
It is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs: the pupils are not really diligent and the teachers give their worst both from a working and personal point of view.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Anna Galiena, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Antonio Petrocelli
Votes: 1,004
6. Bianca (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi, Remo Remotti
Votes: 3,589
Un professore di matematica un po' strano si innamora della collega di francese.
7. Detachment (2011)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu
Votes: 99,235 | Gross: $0.07M
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
PG | 152 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris
Votes: 856,580 | Gross: $317.58M
9. Wonder (I) (2017)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Family
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Izabela Vidovic, Julia Roberts
Votes: 178,520 | Gross: $132.42M
10. The Chorus (2004)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Music
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Kad Merad
Votes: 67,206 | Gross: $3.64M
11. Like Stars on Earth (2007)
PG | 162 min | Drama, Family
An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
Directors: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte | Stars: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Votes: 206,819 | Gross: $1.22M
Un bambino dislessico trova un amico in un maestro che lo capisce.
12. Ciao, Professore! (1992)
R | 100 min | Comedy
A teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and his students' family problems.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Isa Danieli, Gigio Morra, Sergio Solli
Votes: 2,270 | Gross: $1.11M
13.
Esami - La serie (2014–2016)
Episode:
ESAMI - Storia dell'Arte - Ceci n'est pas un Pips
(2014)
Comedy
Directors: Matteo Keffer, Maurizio Montesi | Stars: Caterina Guzzanti, Edoardo Ferrario, Leonardo Maltese
14. Freedom Writers (2007)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn
Votes: 85,423 | Gross: $36.61M
15. The Teachers (2020)
10 min | Short, Thriller
A dinner party welcoming a new teacher to the staff goes off the rails in this twisted look at our children's educators.
Director: Jaclyn Blythe | Stars: Keith Gallucci, Taylor Behrens, Jaclyn Blythe, Andrew Blandina
Votes: 14
16. The Emperor's Club (2002)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama
An idealistic prep school teacher attempts to redeem an incorrigible student.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Joel Gretsch, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 17,880 | Gross: $14.06M
17. The Wave (2008)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich
Votes: 115,173
18. The Good Teacher (2020)
26 min | Short, Drama
The Good Teacher is a film about the lives of school teachers in a low-income urban area and the challenges they face while trying to provide a quality education to students. Dominique ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Deon Jones | Stars: David Crane, Jasmine Akakpo, Khaleesa Alexander, Colin Richard Allen
Votes: 17
19.
How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020)
Episode:
Pilot
(2014)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Student Wes Gibbins begins attending law classes taught by renowned lawyer, the tough and enigmatic Annalise Keating. She offers five students the chance to work with her, while in a flash forward, the students chosen dispose of a body.
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee
Votes: 3,888
20. The Greatest American Hero: The Chosen One (2017)
13 min | Short, Sci-Fi
In 1986 the President of United States declared that Ralph Hinkley was the greatest American Hero. After him there was a superheroine... then everything has changed! The alien race that ... See full summary »
Director: Daniele Spadoni | Stars: Simone Scopa, Lorenzo Bonfatti, Franco Sartori, Carlo Felice
21.
The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
Episode:
The Gorilla Experiment
(2009)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Romance
Sheldon attempts to help Penny understand physics to impress Leonard, while Howard becomes jealous when Bernadette takes an interest in Leonard's research.
Director: Mark Cendrowski | Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Votes: 4,199
22. The Night House (2020)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit
Votes: 67,236
23. Point de fuite (1987)
TV-MA | 10 min | Short, Comedy
A math teacher arrives at classroom to give a lesson on perspective only to find her students sitting there completely naked and in silence. Totally confused, she proceeds with the class. But there's a catch.
Director: Olivier Smolders | Stars: Catherine Aymerie, François Galland, Stéphanie Dessens, Sarah Lefévre
Votes: 441
24. Half Nelson (2006)
R | 106 min | Drama
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
Director: Ryan Fleck | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Jeff Lima
Votes: 91,987 | Gross: $2.69M
25.
The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
Episode:
The Thespian Catalyst
(2011)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Romance
To improve his skills as an instructor, Sheldon asks Penny to give him acting lessons. Meanwhile, Raj begins having impure fantasies about Bernadette.
Director: Mark Cendrowski | Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Votes: 3,831
26. Another Round (2020)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe
Votes: 195,274
27. The Class (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
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.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 36,443 | Gross: $3.77M
28. A Serious Man (2009)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed
Votes: 149,992 | Gross: $9.19M
29. Election (1999)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Loren Nelson, Chris Klein
Votes: 104,586 | Gross: $14.88M
30. Arrivano i prof (2018)
100 min | Comedy
The Manzoni High School in Milan is the worst in Italy. When the percentage of those promoted falls to 12%, it's time for the last resort: to entrust the classes to the worst of the available teachers.
Director: Ivan Silvestrini | Stars: Claudio Bisio, Lino Guanciale, Maurizio Nichetti, Maria Di Biase
Votes: 755
31. Forever Mary (1989)
102 min | Drama, Crime
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo
Votes: 1,228
32. Scuola elementare (1955)
100 min | Comedy
Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Riccardo Billi, Mario Riva, Lise Bourdin, Alberto Rabagliati
Votes: 98
33. Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista (1975)
110 min | Comedy
The Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his character.
Director: Flavio Mogherini | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Janet Agren, Stefano Satta Flores, Paola Borboni
Votes: 133
34. Evil (2003)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linda Zilliacus
Votes: 42,100 | Gross: $0.02M
35. Butterfly (1999)
R | 96 min | Drama, War
Based in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.
Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Uxía Blanco, Gonzalo Uriarte
Votes: 9,759 | Gross: $2.09M
36. Dangerous Minds (1995)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama
LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett
Votes: 57,101 | Gross: $84.92M
Questo film si basa sull'assunto che per insegnare non serva essere preparati ma solo avere tanta tanta passione, tanto che un ex marine con molta passione riesce a interessare la sua classe.
37. Kindergarten Cop (1990)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt
Votes: 162,798 | Gross: $91.46M
38. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,812 | Gross: $33.80M
39. A Professor (2021– )
55 min | Comedy, Drama
Dante Balestra is a philosophy professor who, after many years of absence, returns to Rome to take care of his son Simone. He has a non-conformist teaching method and establishes a very special relationship with his students.
Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Nicolas Maupas, Damiano Gavino, Elisa Cocco
Votes: 543
40. Diario di un maestro (1973– )
135 min | Drama, Reality-TV
A new teacher in a poor Rome suburb tries innovative methods to reach troubled students, but his efforts are opposed by the school administration.
Stars: Bruno Cirino, Massimo Bonini, Luciano Del Croce, Romano Di Mascio
Votes: 112
41. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
110 min | Drama, Family
An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji | Stars: Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pem Zam
Votes: 6,606
42. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 84,621 | Gross: $17.51M
43. Registro di classe. Libro primo 1900-1960 (2015)
54 min | Documentary, History
School registers are made to record the students' absences and grades. But not all students are equal, not all of them are given the same opportunities. In this journey lasting over a ... See full summary »
Directors: Gianni Amelio, Cecilia Pagliarani
Votes: 8
44. Easy! (2011)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.
Director: Francesco Bruni | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Brunori, Franco Campiti
Votes: 1,732
45. You Are Not Alone (1978)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Two precocious boys explore their sexuality at boarding school.
Directors: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen | Stars: Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg, Ove Sprogøe, Elin Reimer
Votes: 4,201
46. Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx
Votes: 21,190 | Gross: $2.01M
47. La prima pietra (2018)
77 min | Comedy
Director: Rolando Ravello | Stars: Corrado Guzzanti, Kasia Smutniak, Serra Yilmaz, Valerio Aprea
Votes: 302
48. Gifted (2017)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer
Votes: 130,455 | Gross: $24.80M
49. The Edited (2021)
11 min | Short
An earnest, misfit girl enters a strange school where they literally edit history, science, and literature, and teach that Big Brother is actually the hero of George Orwell's 1984. Will ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Choit | Stars: Trista Nabors, Melissa Shoshahi, Matt Larson, Sonia Elsie
Votes: 16
50. In the House (2012)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 34,323 | Gross: $0.35M
51. Scarborough (2018)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Two couples - each comprising a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough.
Director: Barnaby Southcombe | Stars: Jessica Barden, Jordan Bolger, Edward Hogg, Jodhi May
Votes: 862
52. The Professor (I) (2018)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A college professor lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Director: Wayne Roberts | Stars: Johnny Depp, Rosemarie DeWitt, Odessa Young, Danny Huston
Votes: 37,330
53. The Mess You Leave Behind (2020)
TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Based on the novel of the same name winner of the Primavera award 2016. Raquel, a young literature teacher, gives her marriage a second chance and moves to her husband's birth town, which hides a dark secret she will try to unravel.
Stars: Inma Cuesta, Bárbara Lennie, Tamar Novas, Arón Piper
Votes: 10,721
54. Educazione fisica (2022)
88 min | Drama
After three Middle School students are found guilty of an atrocius crime, the principal calls their parents to discuss about it. Soon the gym is turned into a fierce courtroom to unveil the lies and truths of the case.
Director: Stefano Cipani | Stars: Sergio Rubini, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Claudio Santamaria, Angela Finocchiaro
Votes: 253
55. Class of 1999 (1990)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Three ex-military robots are reprogrammed as teachers and secretly placed in a school where most students are part of organized gangs. They begin to respond violently to unruly students, and their military training starts to take over.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach
Votes: 8,648 | Gross: $2.46M
56. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,132 | Gross: $4.54M
57. La scuola più bella del mondo (2014)
98 min | Comedy
A student exchange between an excellent school from the north of Italy to an African school goes wrong. It results in an exchange with the worst school in Italy, from Naples.
Director: Luca Miniero | Stars: Christian De Sica, Rocco Papaleo, Lello Arena, Miriam Leone
Votes: 459
58. The Hunt (2012)
R | 115 min | Drama
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm
Votes: 364,668 | Gross: $0.69M
59. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
At Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert
Votes: 5,948 | Gross: $0.73M
60. The Breakfast Club (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
Votes: 436,863 | Gross: $45.88M
61. The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
Director: Ilker Çatak | Stars: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak, Michael Klammer
Votes: 16,050
62. Trust (2024)
136 min | Drama
Based on the book by Domenico Starnone
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Elio Germano, Pilar Fogliati, Vittoria Puccini, Isabella Ferrari
Votes: 184
63. Un mondo a parte (2024)
113 min | Drama
Michele decide to leave the capital and moves to a remote dying village in the national park of Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise. The small village of Rupe is a idillic place, both in winter and ... See full summary »
Director: Riccardo Milani | Stars: Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele
Votes: 297
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