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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.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 16,400,000
Domestic: $ 95,860,116
International: $ 140,000,000
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
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: 13+

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 72,689
International: $ 1,616,021
Summary: Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 138,433,435
International: $ 87,500,000
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.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: 14+

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 2,092,682
International: $ 5,645,447
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.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 21,000,000
Domestic: $ 36,605,602
International: $ 6,489,573
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
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: PG

Language: French
Domestic: $ 4,542,825
International: $ 32,788
Summary: A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
Runtime: 2 h 24 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 23,000,000
Domestic: $ 82,569,971
International: $ 23,700,000
Summary: A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United Kingdom, Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 35,893,537
International: $ 87,833,151
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.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 30,236,407
International: $ 35,149
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.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,706,659
International: $ 10,700,442
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.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 31,906,454
Summary: A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,851,898
Summary: In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Summary: An idealistic prep school teacher attempts to redeem an incorrigible student.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,500,000
Domestic: $ 14,118,751
International: $ 2,199,698
Summary: Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man's demands when he holds the papers hostage.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 20,016,254
Summary: A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 29,683
International: $ 72,177
Summary: Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 65,000,000
Domestic: $ 63,860,942
International: $ 77,477,047
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.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: 14A

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 17,510,118
International: $ 32,304,439
Summary: The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 13,994,920
Summary: A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,500,000
Domestic: $ 31,853,080