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94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
365283 votes

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

93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
11830 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

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
307562 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

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
14594 votes

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

87 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
9147 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

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
116843 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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
41485 votes

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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

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

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
76225 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

84 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
54780 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

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
77852 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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
55019 votes

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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

So Not Worth It (2021)

Summary: New friends, new loves and new experiences mix together inside a colorful college dormitory in Korea that's home to students from around the world.

Release Date: June 18, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 0 h 35 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Mystic Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
15932 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

78 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3708 votes

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

78 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

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

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
8803 votes

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

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6915 votes

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

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3062 votes

Heaven Help Us (1985)

Summary: A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.

Release Date: February 08, 1985

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Michael Dinner

Writer: Charles Purpura

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: HBO Pictures, Silver Screen Partners

Distributor: HBO Max, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Incorporated Television Company (ITC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 6,070,794

73 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
21009 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

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Goodbye Children (1987)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Freedom Writers (2007)

If.... (1968)

The Great Debaters (2007)

Lean on Me (1989)

Fresh Meat (2011)

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

An Education (2009)

So Not Worth It (2021)

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Indignation (2016)

Detachment (2011)

Heaven Help Us (1985)

With Honors (1994)

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