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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

666k - Douban

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

537k - Douban

Detachment (2011)

Summary: A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

Release Date: February 01, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Tony Kaye

Writer: Carl Lund

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Paper Street Films, Appian Way, Kingsgate Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 72,689

International: $ 1,616,021

273k - Douban

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

127k - Douban

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

86k - Douban

Cracks (2009)

Summary: A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.

Release Date: March 18, 2011

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Jordan Scott

Writers: Ben Court

, Caroline Ip

, Jordan Scott

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Antena 3 Films, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Element Pictures, Future Films, Industry Entertainment, John Wells Productions, Killer Films, Scott Free Productions

Distributor: IFC Films, Showtime Networks

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 29,683

International: $ 72,177

53k - Douban

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

41k - Douban

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Summary: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Release Date: June 01, 2024

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: John Krokidas

Writers: Austin Bunn

, John Krokidas

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Killer Films, Benaroya Pictures, Outpost Studios, Bow Street Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,030,064

International: $ 847,860

28k - Douban

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

25k - Douban

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

21k - Douban

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

21k - Douban

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

16k - Douban

Goodbye Children (1987)

Summary: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.

Release Date: October 07, 1987

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Louis Malle

Writer: Louis Malle

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), MK2 Productions, Stella Film, NEF Filmproduktion & Vertrieb (I), Soficas Investimages, Images Investissements, Sofica Créations, Rai 1

Distributor: Orion Classics, HBO Max, Orion Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Italy, West Germany

Language: French

Domestic: $ 4,542,825

International: $ 32,788

7k - Douban

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

7k - Douban

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

7k - Douban

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

Writers: Laurent Cantet

, Robin Campillo

, François Bégaudeau

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Haut et Court, France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, Soficinéma 3, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Agence Nationale pour la Cohésion Sociale et l'Egalité des Chances (ACSE), La Région Île-de-France, Cofinova 4, Fonds Images de la Diversité, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 3,766,810

International: $ 25,536,695

6k - Douban

Butterfly (1999)

Summary: Spain, 1936. Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime.

Release Date: September 24, 1999

Genres: Drama, War

Director: José Luis Cuerda

Writers: Rafael Azcona

, José Luis Cuerda

, Manuel Rivas

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: 14+

Production: Canal+ España, Grupo Voz, Las Producciones del Escorpión, Sociedad General de Televisión (Sogetel), Televisión Española (TVE), Televisión de Galicia (TVG) S.A.

Distributor: Miramax

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 2,092,682

International: $ 5,645,447

5k - Douban

If.... (1968)

Summary: In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.

Release Date: May 21, 1969

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Lindsay Anderson

Writers: David Sherwin

, John Howlett

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Memorial Enterprises

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Gateway Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

3k - Douban

Indignation (2016)

Summary: In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

Release Date: November 03, 2016

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: James Schamus

Writers: Philip Roth

, James Schamus

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bing Feng Bao Entertainment, FilmNation Entertainment, Likely Story, RT Features, Roadside Attractions, Summit Entertainment, Symbolic Exchange, X-Filme Creative Pool

Distributor: Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment

Countries: United States, China, Brazil, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,401,155

International: $ 523,372

3k - Douban

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

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Detachment (2011)

The Theory of Everything (2014)

An Education (2009)

Cracks (2009)

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Freedom Writers (2007)

The Great Debaters (2007)

The History Boys (2006)

Goodbye Children (1987)

Half Nelson (2006)

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

The Class (2008)

Butterfly (1999)

If.... (1968)

Indignation (2016)

Lean on Me (1989)

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