Topic: Education

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claire Maurier · Albert Rémy · Guy Decomble

Plot 14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he discovers that she has...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Yukiko Shimazaki · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Jûkichi Uno

Plot A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based...

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Anne Bancroft · Patty Duke · Andrew Prine · Inga Swenson

Plot Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Wei Minzhi · Zhang Huike · Tian Zhenda · Gao Enman

Plot In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one...

Direction Héctor Lozano · Eduard Cortés · Menna Fité

Cast Francesc Orella · Pere Ponce · Pau Durà · Mar del Hoyo

Plot TV Series (2015-2018). 3 Seasons. 40 Episodes. TV series about a high school philosophy teacher, Merlí, who teaches in an original way, and about the students of his class, including...

Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Cast Merve Dizdar · Deniz Celiloglu · Musab Ekici · Ece Bagci

Plot A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life....

Direction Christophe Barratier

Cast Gérard Jugnot · François Berléand · Jean-Baptiste Maunier · Jacques Perrin

Plot Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation for minors. What he discovers disconcerts him--the current situation is repressive....

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York

Plot Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Robin Williams · Robert Sean Leonard · Ethan Hawke · Josh Charles

Plot Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the...

Direction Maria Speth

Cast Dieter Bachmann · Aynur Bal · Önder Cavdar

Plot The focus of the planned film is on the sixth grade students from the Georg Büchner School. In particular, the students in class 6 B. Children between the ages of...

Direction Aamir Khan

Cast Darsheel Safary · Aamir Khan · Tanay Chheda · Tisca Chopra

Plot 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 are just not important in the world...

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · Jean Kent · Nigel Patrick · Ronald Howard

Plot Andrew Crocker-Harris, "The Crock" as his students call him, knows he isn't loved like the fictional Mr. Chips, but in the span of just over a day he is forced...

Direction Rajkumar Hirani

Cast Aamir Khan · Kareena Kapoor · Madhavan · Sharman Joshi

Plot Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly...

Direction José Luis Cuerda

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Manuel Lozano · Uxía Blanco · Gonzalo Uriarte

Plot For Moncho, it's an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of...

Direction Gus Van Sant

Cast Matt Damon · Robin Williams · Minnie Driver · Ben Affleck

Plot Matt Damon stars as Will Hunting, a closet math genius who ignores his gift in favor of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben Affleck among them)....

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Torreton · Maria Pitarresi · Nadia Kaci · Didier Bezace

Plot Daniel is schoolmaster of a kindergarten in a small French town. The local economy, which depended entirely on coal production, has been mired in a depression ever since the mines...

Direction Nicolas Philibert

Plot How do we learn to live with others and their wishes? Director Nicolas Philibert poses this question in a village schoolhouse in Auvergne, where Georges Lopez teaches 13 children, ages...

Direction Dennis Gansel

Cast Jürgen Vogel · Frederick Lau · Jennifer Ulrich · Max Riemelt

Plot A high-school teacher assigned the thankless task of teaching autocracy as part of the school's project week decides to spice up his lessons by conducting a decidedly unorthodox experiment in...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Cargol · François Truffaut · Françoise Seigner · Jean Dasté

Plot A movingly austere recreation of the true story of a young boy returned to 19th-Century society after growing up in the wild.

Direction John Ridley · Clement Virgo · Gregg Araki · Julie Hébert

Cast Felicity Huffman · Timothy Hutton · Regina King · Lili Taylor

Plot It takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana, where a public high school student accuses several members of a private school's championship basketball team of sexually assaulting him and then taking photos...