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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Korean
Description
After 16-years pass, a group of former students decide to visit their sickly, wheel-chair bound teacher Ms. Park at her country cottage for an impromptu class reunion before the frail woman dies. Once the tearful hellos are complete, it becomes clear that the ex-classmates have blossomed into raging alcoholics, bulimics and plastic surgery addicts, thanks to Ms. Park's early childhood schooling. Soon, the happy gathering turns into a nightmare as...
2) Mohabbatein
Publisher
Yash Raj Films Home Entertainment
Language
Hindi
Description
Gurukul is a private boys' school whose principal demands strict adherence to rules and traditions from his faculty and students, with immediate expulsion for any non-compliance. Karan, Sameer and Vicki are room-mates and best buddies who question this inflexible authority. Their young, handsome and sympathetic music teacher Raj Aryan is on their side in a crusade to humanize the bootcamp spirit of Gurukul.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Edition
Original UK ed.
Language
English
Description
John Jasper is haunted and restless. Unhappily settled as choirmaster in the provincial cathedral town of Cloisterham, Jasper finds himself striving for the divine in his music even as he struggles against madness brought on by ennui and opiates. Aware of his unraveling, Jasper believes his salvation may be found in the arms of Rosa, his prized pupil. His only obstacle is her fiance, Edwin Drood - Jasper's nephew.
5) Luce
Language
English
Formats
Description
Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
6) The Duff
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body refers to her as "Designated Ugly Fat Friend" to her prettier, more popular friends. With her universe turned upside down, she ignores words of wisdom from her favorite teacher and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help set her apart from the pack and erase her label forever. In doing so, she hopes to land her crush Toby, and to overthrow the...
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Language
English
Description
This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark uses persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm-- changing their lives forever.
9) Larry Crowne
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
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. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.
10) Half nelson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Edition
Widescreen version : Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted University chemistry teacher who stumbles onto a magical potion in his lab. The mixture transforms the scholarly knucklehead into a suave and smooth-talking Romeo. His Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
12) Renaissance man
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An unemployed advertising executive takes a job teaching Army recruits English.
13) Detachment
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless...
14) That's what I am
Publisher
WWE Studios
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a well-meaning English teacher pairs a well-liked student with the school's biggest outcast on an important class project, determined to teach both boys courage and acceptance.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
In a dramatic turn, Matthew Perry follows up his success on FRIENDS with this critically acclaimed made-for-television film. Perry plays Ron Clark, a real-life teacher facing the challenges of working at one of Harlem's toughest schools. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Clark manages to make a difference without ever losing hope.
17) Oh Lucy!
Publisher
Film Movement
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
日本語
Description
Setsuko is a single, emotionally unfulfilled woman, seemingly stuck with a drab, meaningless life in Tokyo. At least until she's convinced by her niece, Mika to enroll in an unorthodox English class that requires her to wear a blonde wig and take on an American alter ego named "Lucy." This new identity awakens something dormant in Setsuko, and she quickly develops romantic feelings for her American instructor, John. When John suddenly disappears from...
18) Jack
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Jack suffers from a disorder that makes him look 4 times as old as he is, so when the 10-year-old attends school for the first time, he runs into some obvious difficulties.
19) Spinning man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.
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