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Teacher Movies

Name: Teacher Movies
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Films about teachers who inspire, challenge, and change their students' lives.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Dead Poets Society	1989	Peter Weir	8.3	Drama	United States of America	129	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.
The Hunt	2012	Thomas Vinterberg	8.1	Drama	Denmark	116	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.
3 Idiots	2009	Rajkumar Hirani	8	Drama, Comedy	India	171	Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life mise...
Like Stars on Earth	2007	Aamir Khan	8	Drama	India	162	Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in cl...
The Whale	2022	Darren Aronofsky	7.8	Drama	United States of America	117	A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Another Round	2020	Thomas Vinterberg	7.6	Comedy, Drama	Denmark	117	Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
Coach Carter	2005	Thomas Carter	7.6	Drama, History	Germany	136	Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
The Holdovers	2023	Alexander Payne	7.6	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	133	A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has jus...
The Wave	2008	Dennis Gansel	7.5	Drama, Thriller	Germany	107	A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
Bad Education	2004	Pedro Almodóvar	7.4	Drama, Crime	Spain	105	When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school.
A Single Man	2009	Tom Ford	7.3	Drama, Romance	United States of America	100	Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to l...
The Piano Teacher	2001	Michael Haneke	7.3	Drama, Romance	France	131	Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Dangerous Minds	1995	John N. Smith	7	Drama	United States of America	99	Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-no...
Mona Lisa Smile	2003	Mike Newell	6.9	Drama, History, Romance	United States of America	117	Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to ch...
Election	1999	Alexander Payne	6.9	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	103	Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.
Here Comes the Boom	2012	Frank Coraci	6.2	Comedy, Action, Drama	United States of America	105	A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
Antlers	2021	Scott Cooper	6.2	Drama, Horror, Mystery	United States of America	99	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.

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