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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

8.9 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

8.6 - ZR Critics
6 votes

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

7.4 - ZR Critics
4 votes

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

7 - ZR Critics
3 votes

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

7 - ZR Critics

Assembly Required (2021)

Summary: Home repair experts compete to rebuild and breathe new life into everyday household items.

Release Date: February 23, 2021

Genre: Game-Show

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Boxing Cat Entertainment, ITV America, Wheelhouse Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

6.9 - ZR Critics
21 votes

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

6.9 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

6.7 - ZR Critics
4 votes

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

6.6 - ZR Critics
13 votes

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

6.6 - ZR Critics
2 votes

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

6.5 - ZR Critics

The Paper Chase (1973)

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.

Release Date: October 16, 1973

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: James Bridges

Writers: John Jay Osborn Jr.

, James Bridges

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Thompson-Paul Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,851,898

6.4 - ZR Critics
1 votes

Fresh Meat (2011)

Summary: A comedy that follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far, university.

Release Date: December 16, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Lime Pictures, Objective Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

6.3 - ZR Critics
4 votes

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

6.2 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

6.1 - ZR Critics
3 votes

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

6 - ZR Critics
5 votes

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Summary: The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.

Release Date: March 18, 1988

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Ramón Menéndez

Writers: Ramón Menéndez

, Tom Musca

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: American Playhouse, Olmos Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Disney Channel, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 13,994,920

6 - ZR Critics
5 votes

With Honors (1994)

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.

Release Date: April 29, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Alek Keshishian

Writer: William Mastrosimone

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Spring Creek Productions, Warner Bros.

Distributor: WGN, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,016,254

6 - ZR Critics
1 votes

The Mistress (1985)

Summary: Maxine is the manager of a florist shop, she is also having an affair with married man Luke Carpenter, who's wife Helen, is totally unaware of the affair.

Release Date: January 17, 1985

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English