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Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. The brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom and at home. One student's act of kindness gives the proud academic the inspiration and courage to build his new life.
Publisher
Latitude/Lascaux-Words and Pictures, L.P
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
3) D.O.A
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for Dexter Cornell. He has just twenty-four hours to find out who poisoned him and why. In his bizarre and deadly search everyone has a secret and is a suspect, even the woman who loves him.
4) Bad teacher
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is a foul-mouthed, ruthless junior high teacher who can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiance, she begins to woo a rich, handsome substitute. Competing for his affections is overly energetic colleague, Amy. Elizabeth also finds herself fighting off the advances of a sarcastic gym teacher. The consequences of her outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers and herself an...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Former collegiate wrestler Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old, apathetic high school teacher. When budget cutbacks threaten to cancel some of the school?s programs and lay off its music teacher (Henry Winkler), Scott creates a scheme to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Everyone thinks Scott is crazy ? most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek). In his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he inspires...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
9) Soul
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
11) Match
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Toby is an eccentric, pot-smoking Manhattan ballet instructor whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a young couple from Seattle, presumably there to interview him about his colorful life as a dancer in the 1960's. As Tobi spins salacious tales from his former career, an ulterior motive for the couple's visit emerges, forcing the trio to confront a secret that may connect them all. Driven by Stewart's tour-de-force performance, it moves...
12) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
14) Irrational man
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Enter
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A philosophy professor experiences an existential crisis until he discovers new purpose in life when he begins dating one of his students.
15) 6 family movies
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The Ron Clark story: An innovative teacher takes risks and dreams big in one of Harlem's toughest classrooms.
Music of the heart: Even after a decade of success stories teaching music to inner-city youth, Roberta Guaspari finds her violin program may be cut.
Solomon's choice: A family is torn when their teenage daughter is diagnosed with leukemia and their medically-unstable son is the best bet for a bone marrow transplant.
A Song from the heart:...
16) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of grand animated classics, Disney's 11th animated masterpiece introduces two literary classics to the screen. Here, The Wind in the Willows and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow come together in one fabulous adventure - in its own theatrical form.
19) God's country
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
20) Mad about men
Series
Publisher
Carlton Film Distributors
Pub. Date
1954.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the innovative little British comedy "Miranda". That film was about a mermaid coming out of water and befriending every male she met. This one picks up some time after with Miranda and also as stuffy teacher Caroline going to Cornwall to sell her house so she can marry snooty Peter Martin.