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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Summary: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

Release Date: December 19, 2003

Genre: Drama

Director: Mike Newell

Writers: Lawrence Konner

, Mark Rosenthal

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Revolution Studios, Red Om Films

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video, HBO Max, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 63,860,942

International: $ 77,477,047

23000000 - Budget

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

Summary: A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Release Date: January 19, 1996

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Stephen Herek

Writer: Patrick Sheane Duncan

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Hollywood Pictures, Interscope Communications, Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney+, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Domestic: $ 82,569,971

International: $ 23,700,000

21000000 - Budget

Freedom Writers (2007)

Summary: Erin Gruwell, a young teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school, inspires her class of at-risk students, deemed incapable of learning, to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Release Date: January 05, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Writers: Richard LaGravenese

, Freedom Writers

, Erin Gruwell

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Double Feature Films, MTV Films, Jersey Films, Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 21,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,605,602

International: $ 6,489,573

18000000 - Budget

School Ties (1992)

Summary: In 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.

Release Date: September 18, 1992

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Mandel

Writers: Dick Wolf

, Darryl Ponicsan

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,715,067

16400000 - Budget

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: June 09, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Peter Weir

Writer: Tom Schulman

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, A Steven Haft Production

Distributor: Touchstone Home Video, CBS, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,400,000

Domestic: $ 95,860,116

International: $ 140,000,000

15000000 - Budget

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Summary: A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Release Date: November 26, 2014

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: James Marsh

Writers: Anthony McCarten

, Jane Hawking

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Working Title Films, Dentsu Motion Pictures, Fuji Television Network

Distributor: Focus Features

Countries: United Kingdom, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,893,537

International: $ 87,833,151

15000000 - Budget

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: January 05, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Richard Eyre

Writers: Patrick Marber

, Zoë Heller

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films, UK Film Council, BBC Films, Scott Rudin Productions, Ingenious Film Partners

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,510,118

International: $ 32,304,439

15000000 - Budget

The Great Debaters (2007)

Summary: A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Release Date: December 25, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Denzel Washington

Writers: Robert Eisele

, Jeffrey Porro

, Tony Scherman

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Harpo Films, Marshall Production, Roth Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,236,407

International: $ 35,149

12500000 - Budget

The Emperor's Club (2002)

Summary: An idealistic prep school teacher attempts to redeem an incorrigible student.

Release Date: November 22, 2002

Genre: Drama

Director: Michael Hoffman

Writers: Ethan Canin

, Neil Tolkin

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Beacon Communications, Fine Line Features, Horsepower Films, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,500,000

Domestic: $ 14,118,751

International: $ 2,199,698

10500000 - Budget

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Summary: A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

Release Date: October 31, 1986

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Randa Haines

Writers: Mark Medoff

, Hesper Anderson

, James Carrington

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,500,000

Domestic: $ 31,853,080

10000000 - Budget

Lean on Me (1989)

Summary: The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.

Release Date: March 03, 1989

Genre: Drama

Director: John G. Avildsen

Writer: Michael Schiffer

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Norman Twain Productions, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,906,454

10000000 - Budget

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Summary: Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Release Date: January 09, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Gus Van Sant

Writers: Matt Damon

, Ben Affleck

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, Lawrence Bender Productions

Distributor: Miramax, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), HBO Max, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,433,435

International: $ 87,500,000

7500000 - Budget

An Education (2009)

Summary: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Release Date: February 05, 2010

Genre: Drama

Director: Lone Scherfig

Writers: Lynn Barber

, Nick Hornby

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: BBC Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Wildgaze Films, Endgame Entertainment, An Education Distribution, Odyssey Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, HBO Max, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000

Domestic: $ 12,574,914

International: $ 13,521,938

5100000 - Budget

The Genesis Code (2010)

Summary: A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.

Release Date: August 25, 2010

Genre: Drama

Directors: C. Thomas Howell

, Patrick Read Johnson

Writer: Michael W. Leighton

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Genesis Productions, CK Pictures

Distributor: America Saga Releasing

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,100,000

2000000 - Budget

The History Boys (2006)

Summary: An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Release Date: October 13, 2006

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Writer: Alan Bennett

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films, BBC Two Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,706,659

International: $ 10,700,442

1168000 - Budget

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Summary: A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

Release Date: March 25, 1955

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Richard Brooks

Writers: Richard Brooks

, Evan Hunter

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,168,000

700000 - Budget

Half Nelson (2006)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: August 25, 2006

Genre: Drama

Director: Ryan Fleck

Writers: Ryan Fleck

, Anna Boden

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hunting Lane Films, Journeyman Pictures, Silverwood Films, Truly Original, Traction Media, Verisimilitude

Distributor: THINKFilm

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 700,000

Domestic: $ 2,697,938

International: $ 1,962,543

500000 - Budget

The Chocolate War (1988)

Summary: The Vigils are a gang of students at Trinity Catholic School... part of the tradition. They control the other boys by intimidation and the threat of violence.

Release Date: November 18, 1988

Genre: Drama

Director: Keith Gordon

Writers: Robert Cormier

, Keith Gordon

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: G

Production: Management Company Entertainment Group (MCEG)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Domestic: $ 303,624

0 - Budget

The Class (2008)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: March 13, 2009

Genre: Drama

Director: Laurent Cantet