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Kanopy
90
8.1
/76819/
81
/1455/
82
/1177/
4.4
/137727/
100
/52/
93
/872/
100
/19/

Tokyo Story (1953)
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
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Kanopy
78
7.4
/11758/
74
/352/
69
/143/
3.3
/4640/
89
/122/
84
/1315/
81
/31/
cc age 12+

Waiting for "Superman" (2010)
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
poster
78
7.8
/44683/
76
/596/
72
/282/
3.8
/20565/
83
/6/
84
/209/

English Vinglish (2012)
In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.
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Hoopla
77
7.3
/223543/
72
/4700/
69
/3453/
3.8
/470713/
87
/212/
77
/4670/
81
/42/
cc age 18+

Blue Valentine (2010)
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
poster
76
7.2
/9825/
71
/329/
67
/124/
3.8
/7178/
93
/127/
74
/1337/
84
/30/
cc age 17+

Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.
poster
Kanopy
83
76
7.8
/8717/
75
/131/
73
/145/
4.0
/9097/
97
/59/
91
/336/
87
/26/

To Be and to Have (2002)
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
poster
75
7.1
/103388/
68
/2161/
70
/2047/
3.5
/244785/
74
/163/
78
/4089/
70
/37/
cc age 17+

Elephant (2003)
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
poster
75
7.0
/193098/
75
/9830/
71
/4713/
3.8
/974177/
92
/25/
73
/10656/
72
/21/
cc age 9+

Matilda (1996)
Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, don’t agree. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.
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Kanopy
71
7.2
/9417/
66
/234/
68
/185/
3.7
/4803/
84
/31/
73
/37/
74
/13/

Far from Men (2015)
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.
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Kanopy
70
7.7
/110333/
76
/2949/
76
/1917/
3.9
/203428/
59
/69/
74
/662/
52
/20/
cc age 17+

Detachment (2011)
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
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Netflix
69
7.0
/45112/
71
/3207/
73
/1303/
3.0
/128370/
84
/76/
89
/272/
cc age 8+

Leo (2023)
Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher.
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Disney Plus
68
5.4
/604/
59
/82/
62
/20/
3.1
/774/
100
/12/
81
/8/
58
/4/
cc age 10+

World's Best (2023)
Twelve-year-old mathematics genius Prem discovers his recently deceased father was a famous rapper and immediately sets out to learn more about his father’s life and passions. Empowered by imaginative hip-hop music-fueled fantasies, Prem is determined to find out if hip-hop truly is in his DNA.
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Kanopy
78
64
7.4
/6485/
74
/265/
74
/254/
3.7
/7521/
90
/10/
86
/8/

The Silent Revolution (2018)
Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.7
/3157/
66
/44/
59
/45/
3.4
/981/
68
/28/
72
/62/
64
/23/
cc age 17+

Joe the King (1999)
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.
poster
77
64
7.5
/3472/
73
/69/
71
/60/
3.8
/2978/
93
/1347/

Melody (1971)
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
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Kanopy
78
63
7.6
/120859/
77
/4067/
74
/3520/
3.6
/149167/
91
/7/

The Wave (2008)
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.
poster
59
6.0
/21910/
62
/505/
57
/289/
2.9
/12978/
61
/23/
40
/267/
62
/7/
cc age 17+

All the Right Moves (1983)
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
poster
Kanopy
57
6.5
/71706/
67
/2336/
64
/1465/
3.1
/25806/
64
/74/
51
/860/
53
/24/

The Awakening (2011)
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
poster
AMC+
55
IMDb 61
6.5
/259687/
68
/8428/
66
/4688/
3.1
/297682/
34
/112/
63
/20262/
31
/21/
cc age 18+

Silent Hill (2006)
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
poster
75
55
7.3
/3063/
71
/29/
72
/41/
3.4
/899/
88
/8/
82
/34/

We Shall Overcome (2006)
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
poster
61
52
6.2
/4789/
61
/108/
63
/130/
3.1
/2064/
58
/384/

Premonition (2004)
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
poster
71
52
7.0
/1515/
64
/49/
64
/62/
3.7
/9265/
83
/6/

Typhoon Club (1985)
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
poster
78
50
7.9
/1174/
83
/81/
80
/221/
3.6
/4714/

Strings (2013)
María's routine at school is altered by the arrival of a very special child. Soon, they become close friends.
poster
50
6.1
/76421/
64
/2133/
59
/1388/
2.7
/35344/
35
/195/
41
/2050/
41
/41/
cc age 13+

Larry Crowne (2011)
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.
poster
Netflix
50
5.7
/221561/
58
/7759/
56
/4870/
2.5
/185388/
46
/189/
36
/5784/
47
/38/
cc age 17+

Bad Teacher (2011)
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
poster
72
49
7.1
/1780/
72
/46/
69
/50/
3.7
/8889/
74
/29/

A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)
When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
poster
Netflix
74
46
7.4
/1516/
74
/98/
70
/26/
4.0
/10947/
cc age 13+

All the Empty Rooms (2025)
A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.
poster
46
5.3
/37015/
61
/3015/
54
/1663/
2.2
/29230/
24
/165/
37
/1068/
45
/36/
cc age 14+

The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
On Aug. 21, 2015, the world watches in stunned silence as the media reports a thwarted terrorist attack on a train that's bound for Paris -- an attempt prevented by three young Americans traveling together through Europe. The heroic and courageous actions of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone help to save the lives of more than 500 passengers on board.
poster
65
37
6.1
/2032/
62
/33/
48
/22/
3.4
/639/
89
/9/
65
/18/

The District (2004)
In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...
poster
71
30
7.0
/1287/
66
/41/
69
/18/
3.7
/7126/
81
/4/

Serpent's Path (1998)
With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza member tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death.
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Fandor
62
29
5.5
/477/
61
/5/
62
/4/
80
/5/
52
/53/

Purgatory House (2003)
An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a lonely teen who abandons her life of turmoil and drug addiction, only to find herself caught somewhere between heaven and hell. There, she must choose whether she will accept her drab existence or discover within herself the power to change.
poster
Kanopy
63
28
6.5
/1677/
61
/91/
60
/17/
3.1
/12153/
67
/1/

Letter to a Pig (2024)
A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
poster
68
25
6.6
/837/
71
/29/
68
/32/
3.5
/546/

The Flying Classroom (1973)
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
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Plex
48
24
5.0
/1321/
49
/42/
55
/36/
2.7
/1614/
36
/1/

Horror High (1973)
A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig "Mr. Mumps" from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him - the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff.
poster
44
19
5.7
/1277/
46
/18/
51
/25/
3.2
/239/
17
/12/
44
/13/
31
/8/

Blackmail Boy (2003)
In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure
poster
62
14
6.8
/501/
61
/21/
58
/18/
3.2
/340/

A Matter of Perspective (1987)
A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
14
6.4
/902/
59
/39/
53
/14/
3.3
/242/

Cider with Rosie (2015)
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
poster
?
8.9
/21/
80
/2/

That's Democracy (2016)
There's this fantastic improv show on WNYC called "The Truth". Headed up by a chap named Jonathan Mitchell, these guys generate a story, usually dark and ironic, and then workshop the hell out of it with their ridiculously talented cast, then edit it down into something succinct and powerful. All of their pieces are worth a listen, but this one, called "That's Democracy", I knew at once would make a tremendous short film. Jon Bowden and I contacted TheTruth in New York, and managed to strong-arm them into letting us to turn their podcast into a film. And so here it is...
poster
?
30
/1/

Maria Ada (2012)
Maria Ada is a famous urban legend that tells the story of a teacher who died leaving two sons behind while his ghost occasionally comes to life trying to recover them. Oscar and Jose, two friends and former classmates, tell about the tragic ghost apparitions and their constant bickering with an albino boy. A friend from the same classroom could only see the ghost, because in Equatorial Guinea they say that albinos have four eyes.
poster
?
60
/1/
80
/1/

The Last Day (2024)
A schoolteacher begins pulling his students into a mysterious void as punishment for their misdeeds against him throughout the school year.
poster
?
10
/1/

Our Class Works Together (1964)
A group of children build a model community. They learn the importance of planning and solving problems together, and of sharing ideas and work.
poster
?
6.8
/32/
40
/1/
75
/2/

More Than Four Hours (2016)
On his first day on the job, a high school algebra teacher mixes up his medication to disastrous results.
poster
35
?
4.0
/123/
26
/3/
40
/3/

Le Prof (2000)
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.
poster
?
6.8
/6/
100
/1/

Dear June (2023)
After June and Charlie break up, Theo finds a scrapbook containing their fondest memories together, and he becomes obsessed with their relationship. He convinces June to try and win Charlie back by recreating moments from the book. Dear June follows the intricacies of a relationship going downhill and explores how straight men view and tokenize sapphic relationships.
poster
fuboTV
62
?
6.6
/2439/
65
/292/
63
/301/
2.9
/32625/

The Good Teacher (2024)
Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
poster
?
5.5
/57/
62
/4/
60
/4/

Das Sexabitur (1978)
Disguised as her daughter, Anna's mother slips into French lessons to supplement little daughter's notes. She strikes her best in class, but she also shows what she is capable of in the group in the afternoon. As the headmaster uncovers the mother-daughter delusion, it becomes all the more praiseworthy.
poster
?
6.7
/77/
62
/4/
50
/8/

Daniel (2018)
Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.
poster
55
?
7.7
/157/
40
/2/
50
/1/

The Lost Pencil (1960)
After one of the pupils lost his pencil in the classroom, the other children accuse Dika that he stole it. Dika decides to fight for the truth, and luckily his teacher is the only one who believes him.


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