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- A young author takes a tutoring position at the estate of a legendary writer.
- Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and more, in deciding what to do with an heirloom, the family piano.
- The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
- A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
- A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
- A sexy piano teacher is the object of desire of one of the young boys in her class. One of his classmates finds out where she lives and hides outside her place, taking pictures of her undressing and writhing naked on her bed. He uses those photos to blackmail her into dressing up and acting like a hooker while teaching the class, and from there things get interesting.
- Two schoolboy delinquents learn a lesson that they will never forget when a teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct them.
- Siggi is in prison during the post-war period and tasked to write an essay. He remembers that his father was supposed to ban his profession from a friend who was a painter and Siggi was supposed to help him but he rebelled.
- In a small Bulgarian town Nadezhda, a young teacher, is looking for the robber in her class so she can teach him a lesson about right and wrong. But when she gets in debt to loan sharks, can she find the right way out herself?
- Follows the story of an Englishman who was disappointed after going to work in a school in Argentina, but his life changes after he finds a small penguin who becomes his friend and teacher of life's most important lessons.
- Online fashion model Hyo-jeong faces imminent threat of being unemployed because of the younger and more fashionable generation coming after her. While replying on surgical procedures and treatments, Hyo-jeong hears about a mysterious yoga class that helps make perfect body shape from her old high school classmate, Ga-yeong. Hyo-jeong eventually attends the yoga class with three classmates: Mi-yeon, a boxer who failed to keep her body fit, Ji-won, who has unstable mental condition, and Ye-na, a movie star who is morbidly obsessed with her appearance. Meanwhile, police start to investigate the enigma behind this yoga class after finding out that a murder in the neighborhood was committed by a woman named Bo-ra, a former yoga class student.
- Teenage student Olivier (Verley) meets 25 year-old Frédérique (Delon), wife of race car driver Enrico (Hossein), and start an affair. But guilt and doubt storm over Olivier's mind.
- A scriptwriter comes to Paris to work on her film. There she takes up tango lessons and forms a relationship with the dancer.
- It follows Amir, a 43-year-old teacher, and Lian, a 17-year-old student, who engage in an emotional conflict in a fight for justice.
- An African-American family struggles to retain their heritage, in the form of a history told in the carvings on the family piano. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano and use the money to buy farmland, but sister Berniece won't part with it.
- Psychological criminologist and ex-FBI special agent Dr. Bryanna Fox and her class of graduate students study convicted murderers; they evaluate their personality traits and develop psychological profiles.
- This documentary explores various urban legends around Hollywood's most elusive star.
- A woman finds her life unraveling after she makes friends with her daughter's teacher.
- Ken Malansky is a student taught by Perry. Ken hears his girlfriend was assaulted by another student so he confronts him but finds him dead, the weapon his own knife. Perry is slow to take the case as the victim is a close friend's son.
- Seven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes.
- A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime, a teenager's errand to the village market for bread ends in a nightmarish confrontation with local police. Sadistic shower room confrontation, unsanitary detention facilities and a tomblike prison cell become classrooms on the horrors of the human soul. As his fellow captives are tortured, die or quietly lose their minds, the naive 13-year-old becomes an unwilling witness to startling lessons in honor, hatred, conscience and survival. Contains nudity and mature themes.
- A drug dealer with a vendetta disrupts a detention at a local school after the hosting teacher witnesses him murdering one of her students. It's up to this tough teacher and her resourcefulness to save the day.
- Seventeen years ago Camille, a gallery owner, and Grace, a civil servant, made a verbal adoption agreement: Grace would raise Camille's son Christopher with the provision that all three live in close proximity, and that the existence of the arrangement be kept from the child forever. This triangle changes drastically when Christopher, now a heterosexual teenager, becomes HIV-positive through sex and drugs and is thrown into maturity much too early. Camille lives her life in the New York art world, and poets and writers regularly gather at her apartment to read their work. The poets' voices echoing across the common courtyard to Chris become the continuous physical bridge between their lives. Via courtyard windows and the resonance of sound, a mystical link forms as Camille steps into a role in his life that she never really wanted nor would have imagined.
- Cathy a beautiful and idealistic young schoolteacher, lost her promising career and her freedom for having a sexual relationship with Chris one of her 16 year-old students. After receiving a sympathetic letter from another former student, Eve, Cathy learns that Chris, in an effort to gain the "respect" of his peers, was the one responsible for leaking the evidence that imprisoned her, and that he continues to brag at her expense. After four years of being tortured by her thoughts and by her fellow inmates for being a supposed rapist, Cathy is released from prison, with one last lesson to teach Chris about love and betrayal.
- Based on the 1933 book by acting teacher Richard Boleslawski, a teacher meets with an eager student, leading to six important lessons that she will come to learn over the course of her acting career.
- Portrait of writer Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung.
- Loser Vitya didn't want to do homework and was punished. Eats shoots and leaves.
- The prophet Jonah chooses to disobey Jehovah's command to preach judgment upon the Assyrian city of Nineveh; but through the dramatic events that follow, he discovers the true meaning of courage and mercy.
- The beauty and resilience of the humble sunflower inspires an artist's life, work and commitment to helping others face their own challenges following a devastating diagnosis.
- Seiji Hasumi has become a ruthless murderer and psychopath.
- Two thirtysomething Los Angelenas perpetually find themselves making hilariously awkward mountains out of everyday, mundane mole hills.
- A raw, intimate look at what dying looks like at The Isaiah House, a non-profit hospice in Rochester, New York. Servicing the marginalized community, a team of volunteers provide dignity, self-worth, and love to everyone they care for.
- Three objects are used in a different way from that for which they were created. These objects are endowed with voice and consciousness. In their reflections they convey the absurd arguments that support and promote domestic violence.
- "Unsung hero" German Diez, pianist and pedagogue, formed accomplished classical musicians creating a community around him and passing down a tradition directly from Liszt. Piano Lessons explores relationship between artist and mentor.
- During her 92 birthday party, Madeleine stunned her kids and grandkids when she told them that she fixed the day she wanted to die.Her intention was to prepare them slowly for her near departure but conflicts start.Only Diane her daughter respects her choice ....
- It's a fathers job to teach his daughter the important lessons in life, which can be a bit tricky if you're dead.
- Emily, rising starlet, interviews her director's maid Pepa claiming that she is doing research for her next big movie role. But when the questions get personal, Pepa is forced to delve deep into her own history erasing the line between telenovela and real life.
- A 19th century French schoolmaster gives his last lesson before the occupying Germans take over the village and the school.
- Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and escort, Chet Vernon. Helen is so anxious to experience life in the big city that she falls in love with visiting New York architect John Galvin almost immediately after his arrival. Several weeks later, the two marry and move to New York, where, after a series of painful experiences, Helen finally realizes John's selfishness. In the end, she gratefully returns home and becomes Chet's wife.
- A 12 year Girl is bought by two Men, much older than her to marry her.
- In this documentary about the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, we follow the eccentric man in his simple life.
- How do township residents in slums cope with crime, unemployment and poverty in a country still very much struggling with racism, underdevelopment and inequality?
- The Ultimate History Lesson is a 5-hour journey examining the history, root-causes, and consequences of public schooling. Former New York City and New York State School Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, illustrates HOW and WHY our public schools are dumbing us down... and what We can do about it. With more than 200 footnotes, and more than 30 classic texts referenced; this 5-hour interview session, memorializing John's research, publications, and life experiences, forms an impeccable family resource and reference library of The Underground History of American Education and its effects on 21st Century America. Each hour focuses on examining the evolution of ideas, which manifest today in the phenomenon of public schooling. By dissecting the history and presenting you with the references, you're left at the end of each hour, with a copious amount of information to digest; from which you can continue your own personal journey of discovery. This interview also includes solutions, documents, and references; asking only that you consider the information - THINK FOR YOURSELF - and communicate with others in order to share a higher-level of awareness. This presentation is offered as a public service thanks to the generosity of the subscribers of the Tragedy and Hope online community, which is an international research and study group, composed of individuals who have screened our productions, and seek to take the next-steps in enacting strategic solutions.