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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: 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: The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 65,000,000
Domestic: $ 63,860,942
International: $ 77,477,047
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.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 700,000
Domestic: $ 2,697,938
International: $ 1,962,543
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: 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.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,500,000
Domestic: $ 12,574,914
International: $ 13,521,938
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.
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
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.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,168,000
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
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: 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.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 500,000
Domestic: $ 303,624
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: 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: 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: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,030,064
International: $ 847,860
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.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,401,155
International: $ 523,372
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: 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