Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "literature-teacher"

1. The Boy Next Door (2015)

R | 91 min | Thriller

A woman, separated from her unfaithful husband, falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett

Votes: 45,466 | Gross: $35.39M

2. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)

Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm

Votes: 8,719

3. The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)

TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Horror

Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.

Director: McG | Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega, Emily Alyn Lind

Votes: 50,948

4. Veronica (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 105 min | Horror, Mystery

Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero

Votes: 47,573

5. Phenomena (1985)

R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Votes: 30,058

6. The Garden of Words (2013)

TV-14 | 46 min | Animation, Drama, Romance

On a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship.

Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano, Gou Maeda

Votes: 52,596

7. The Class (2008)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama

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.

Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel

Votes: 36,437 | Gross: $3.77M

8. Lust for a Vampire (1971)

R | 91 min | Horror

In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.

Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh, Yutte Stensgaard

Votes: 3,561

9. The Salesman (2016)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Thriller

While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.

Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati, Babak Karimi

Votes: 64,722 | Gross: $2.40M

10. Just the Two of Us (2023)

105 min | Drama, Thriller

Follows Blanche Renard, who meets Greg Lamoureux and believes he is the one. However, she soon finds herself caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive and dangerous man.

Director: Valérie Donzelli | Stars: Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Reymond, Romane Bohringer

Votes: 1,920

11. The Chair (2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Stars: Sandra Oh, Jay Duplass, Bob Balaban, Nana Mensah

Votes: 18,939

12. Laurence Anyways (2012)

Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Romance

A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.

Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye

Votes: 22,211

13. Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl and the biggest loser in high school must unite to win over their crushes.

Director: Ian Samuels | Stars: Shannon Purser, Kristine Froseth, RJ Cyler, Noah Centineo

Votes: 41,163

14. The Good Teacher (2024)

91 min | Drama

Based on true events. A young literature teacher is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. He has to face the allegations as the situation spread to a spiral out of control.

Director: Teddy Lussi-Modeste | Stars: François Civil, Shaïn Boumedine, Toscane Duquesne, Mallory Wanecque

Votes: 349

15. Down a Dark Hall (2018)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled teen named Kit Gordy is forced to join the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, just to find herself trapped by dark forces around its mysterious headmistress, Madame Duret.

Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles

Votes: 14,918

16. Sound of the Sea (2001)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses ... See full summary »

Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Jordi Mollà, Leonor Watling, Eduard Fernández, Neus Agulló

Votes: 2,273

17. Do Not Disturb (IV) (2023)

TV-MA | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

Ayzek, who has been a waiter on ferries for years, becomes unemployed due to the pandemic and eventually finds a job at a hotel on the night shift. However, who knows what will happen to Ayzek on his first night.

Director: Cem Yilmaz | Stars: Cem Yilmaz, Ahsen Eroglu, Celal Kadri Kinoglu, Özge Özberk

Votes: 9,822

18. Wild Reeds (1994)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

The fates of two partners are divided.

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny

Votes: 6,645 | Gross: $0.92M

19. Plain Clothes (1988)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.

Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, George Wendt, Diane Ladd

Votes: 1,076 | Gross: $0.29M

20. Zombie High (1987)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror

A college freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive, but she's having none of it.

Director: Ron Link | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Richard Cox, Kay E. Kuter, James Wilder

Votes: 1,447 | Gross: $0.02M

21. Dismissed (2017)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.

Director: Benjamin Arfmann | Stars: Kent Osborne, Dylan Sprouse, Rae Gray, Alycia Delmore

Votes: 8,004

22. Smart People (2008)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.

Director: Noam Murro | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elliot Page

Votes: 23,485 | Gross: $9.50M

23. The Substitute (2022)

112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A substitute teacher gets involved when one of his students is threatened by a drug kingpin.

Director: Diego Lerman | Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Alfredo Castro, Juan Minujín, Rita Cortese

Votes: 1,358

24. All That Matters Is Past (2012)

105 min | Drama

As kids, Janne befriends William. After years abroad, William returns to Norway and contacts her. She spends the summer with him. She's found half dead next to two dead men in the woods. What happened?

Director: Sara Johnsen | Stars: Maria Bonnevie, Inga Berger Schou, Tea Sandanger, Line Billa Ljøstad

Votes: 831

25. Musta valo (2022– )

Drama, Thriller

Anna and Henrik are thrust into a dangerous underworld when their son brings a heinous crime to their doorstep. Parental instincts quickly overcome morality as the couple does everything in their power to protect their family and future.

Stars: Maria Sid, Samuli Edelmann, Tommi Korpela, Janne Hyytiäinen

Votes: 198

26. Games of Love and Chance (2003)

123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Krimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou

Votes: 3,251 | Gross: $0.01M

27. School's Out (2018)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.

Director: Sébastien Marnier | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Emmanuelle Bercot, Luàna Bajrami, Victor Bonnel

Votes: 3,115

28. Evilenko (2003)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

Director: David Grieco | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Ruby Kammer

Votes: 3,541

29. The Extra Man (2010)

R | 108 min | Comedy

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes, Marian Seldes

Votes: 5,405 | Gross: $0.45M

30. My Mother's Killer Boyfriend (2019 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Thriller

When sweet and impressionable single mother Nicole (Amber Goldfarb) is set up with Jonathan (Damon Runyan), a charismatic and handsome professor, she's immediately swept off her feet and ... See full summary »

Director: Max McGuire | Stars: Amber Goldfarb, Damon Runyan, Sam Ashe Arnold, Lara Amersey

Votes: 270

31. The Yes Man (1991)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (... See full summary »

Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi, Anne Roussel

Votes: 887

32. Christmas Cupid's Arrow (2018 TV Movie)

90 min | Romance

Holly, a single college professor, signs up for an online dating service, but begins to grow suspicious when the guy's beautifully-written texts don't match his actions.

Director: Michael D. Sellers | Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, Jonathan Togo, Chad Michael Collins, Sasha Jackson

Votes: 366

33. Mourir d'aimer... (1971)

GP | 101 min | Drama

A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of her students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. ... See full summary »

Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bruno Pradal, Claude Cerval, Jean Bouise

Votes: 583

34. Skirt Day (2008)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

'Skirt Day' is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation - and Isabelle Adjani's first film in five years.

Director: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Khalid Berkouz, Yann Ebongé

Votes: 2,709

35. Stella (2008)

103 min | Drama

Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.

Director: Sylvie Verheyde | Stars: Léora Barbara, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guerard, Karole Rocher

Votes: 1,620

36. La grande lessive (!) (1968)

95 min | Comedy

An addiction is spreading in Paris: Television. Literature teacher Saint-Just is confronted by overtired pupils who can no longer keep their eyes open from all the TV. He and a colleague set out on a mission to save the pupils from the TV.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Roland Dubillard, Jean Tissier

Votes: 449

37. Silenced Tree (2020)

118 min | Drama

Hayati is a small-town literature teacher and a one hit wonder author who tries helplessly to hold on to his past: his shattering marriage, his sick old mother, a decaying walnut tree and ... See full summary »

Director: Faysal Soysal | Stars: Serdar Orçin, Sezin Akbasogullari, Mert Yavuzcan, Kubra Kip

Votes: 481

38. Beauregard (2009– )

185 min | Drama

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Stars: Jean-François Balmer, Pierre Boulanger, Anne Jacquemin, Joyce Bibring

Votes: 25

39. Mother of Mine (1926)

Not Rated | 65 min | Drama

A sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America -- who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education -- but things are not so simple.

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Jean Forest, Rolla Norman, Françoise Rosay, Cécile Guyon

Votes: 287

40. Spasatel (1980)

101 min | Drama, Romance

Student Asya Videneeva, her husband, school teacher Larikov, rescuer Vilya Tishin, residents of a provincial town. A strange interweaving of the fates of the heroes, a moral conflict, the uncertainty of relations.

Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Sergey Shakurov, Olga Belyavskaya

Votes: 141

41. Tender Age (1984)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

This film on campus life and love centers on the love triangle of a female teacher, a male student, and a female student.

Director: Joey Gosiengfiao | Stars: Eddie Rodriguez, Dina Bonnevie, Carmi Martin, Nova Villa

42. Esa maldita costilla (1999)

93 min | Comedy

A comedy about sex and love from four women's eyes.

Director: Juan José Jusid | Stars: Luis Brandoni, Susana Giménez, Rossy de Palma, Loles León

Votes: 418

43. È arrivato mio fratello (1985)

89 min | Comedy

Ovidio Ceciotti is a teacher, he is plump and he is not a man of character. He is treated badly by his school-master, by his students, by Lidia, his girl and even by his dog. One day his ... See full summary »

Directors: Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Carin McDonald, Armando Bandini, Beatrice Palme

Votes: 667

44. La baie d'Alger (2012 TV Movie)

Drama

The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algerie.In 1955 Louis is 15 years old and he lives with his grandmother Zoe.Zoe is friend with the president Steiger, leader of the French ... See full summary »

Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Catherine Jacob, Solal Forte, Anthony Sonigo, Margaux Chatelier

Votes: 50

45. Falling (2018)

33 min | Short, Drama

In the winter of 1994 in the French suburbs, Léo and Baptiste, two polar opposite students, meet up one evening to work on a school presentation.

Director: Benjamin Vu | Stars: Jean-Baptiste Le Vaillant, Solal Forte, Audrey Quoturi

Votes: 48

46. Tréfa (2009)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

It is 1912 and war looms on the horizon. The school year begins in a boarding school run by priests. Zoltán's father, is one of the masters and struggling with questions that challenge ... See full summary »

Director: Péter Gárdos | Stars: Lóránd Váta, Tamás Lengyel, Mihály Kovács, Zsolt Kovács

Votes: 174

47. Un mondo d'amore (2002)

86 min | Drama

The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of having seduced three paesan boys.

Director: Aurelio Grimaldi | Stars: Arturo Paglia, Gaetano Amato, Massimo Ferroni D'Andrea, Guia Jelo

Votes: 107

48. Nous, princesses de Clèves (2011)

69 min | Documentary

Has 1558 anything in common with 2009 ? Have nobles of King Henri III's court anything to do with today's young people from poor neighborhoods, most of whom immigrants'children ? Is there ... See full summary »

Director: Régis Sauder | Stars: Abou Achoumi, Laura Badrane, Morgane Badrane, Manel Boulaabi

Votes: 37

49. Carnets d'ado (2001–2003)
Episode: You'll Get Over It (2002)

Unrated | 86 min

When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school, he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes, and redefine his relationships with his friends and family.

Director: Fabrice Cazeneuve | Stars: Julien Baumgartner, Julia Maraval, Jérémie Elkaïm, François Comar

Votes: 2,117 | Gross: $0.04M

50. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: Windstruck (1999)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Josh has a spontaneous erection when Sam sits on his lap. Carmen accidentally sends everyone her e-mail about this embarrassing event. Harrison comforts hurt Brooke, while Sam and Josh bond. Lily's broke and finds a fast food job.

Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 84