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

1. Matilda (1996)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 174,470 | Gross: $33.08M

2. Kindergarten Cop (1990)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt

Votes: 162,544 | Gross: $91.46M

3. Precious (II) (2009)

R | 110 min | Drama

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.

Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey

Votes: 116,210 | Gross: $47.57M

4. Summer School (1987)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.

Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Patrick Labyorteaux

Votes: 22,112 | Gross: $35.66M

5. Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids.

Stars: Gabe Kaplan, Ron Palillo, John Travolta, Marcia Strassman

Votes: 7,534

6. Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)

TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, History

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton

Votes: 4,782

7. Freedom Writers (2007)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.

Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn

Votes: 85,348 | Gross: $36.61M

8. Dangerous Minds (1995)

R | 99 min | Biography, Drama

LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.

Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett

Votes: 57,051 | Gross: $84.92M

9. Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama

A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes

Votes: 9,874

10. Stand and Deliver (1988)

PG | 103 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.

Director: Ramón Menéndez | Stars: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris

Votes: 22,315 | Gross: $13.99M

11. The Miracle Worker (1962)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson

Votes: 20,495 | Gross: $5.45M

12. To Sir, with Love (1967)

Approved | 105 min | Drama

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

Director: James Clavell | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall

Votes: 20,403 | Gross: $42.43M

13. Lean on Me (1989)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama

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.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Beverly Todd, Robert Guillaume, Alan North

Votes: 22,968 | Gross: $31.91M

14. Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

PG | 143 min | Drama, Music

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis

Votes: 41,685 | Gross: $82.57M

15. Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

PG | 112 min | Drama, Family

Akeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.

Director: Doug Atchison | Stars: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer, Curtis Armstrong

Votes: 21,618 | Gross: $18.81M

16. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

M/PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin

Votes: 9,857

17. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

Directors: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills

Votes: 11,583

18. High School High (1996)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.

Director: Hart Bochner | Stars: Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher, Mekhi Phifer

Votes: 14,236 | Gross: $20.95M

19. The Miracle Worker (1979 TV Movie)

Unrated | 98 min | Biography, Drama

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.

Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Patty Duke, Diana Muldaur, Charles Siebert, Anne Seymour

Votes: 758

20. Born Yesterday (1950)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Howard St. John

Votes: 12,409

21. Super 30 (2019)

Not Rated | 154 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for IIT aspirants in Patna.

Director: Vikas Bahl | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Nandish Singh Sandhu, Veerendra Saxena

Votes: 36,939 | Gross: $2.27M

22. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

G | 155 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker

Votes: 3,812 | Gross: $2.55M

23. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002 TV Movie)

99 min | Drama

In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Martin Clunes, Victoria Hamilton, Conleth Hill, John Wood

Votes: 963

24. Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Rachel is a lonely school teacher who lives with her mother. When a man from the big city asks her out, she starts thinking about where she wants her life to go.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons

Votes: 4,052

25. Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Approved | 124 min | Drama

The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White

Votes: 2,477

26. The Dark Horse (2014)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama

A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.

Director: James Napier Robertson | Stars: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, James Napier Robertson

Votes: 6,583 | Gross: $0.06M

27. Female Teacher: Twice Raped (1983)

70 min | Drama

High school science teacher Kojima Miho is very popular among male students.

Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Kiriko Shimizu, Makoto Yoshino, Yukiko Tachibana, Takahiro Hori

Votes: 35

28. Forever Mary (1989)

102 min | Drama, Crime

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo

Votes: 1,228

29. Christy (1994 TV Movie)

110 min | Drama

A young teacher comes to the impoverished mountain region of Cutter Gap, Tennessee in 1912 and tries to make a difference. Based on the best-selling novel by Catherine Marshall.

Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Kellie Martin, Tyne Daly, Randall Batinkoff, Tess Harper

Votes: 464

30. Standing Tall (2015)

R | 120 min | Drama

A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.

Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Rod Paradot, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier

Votes: 3,857 | Gross: $0.02M

31. A Lesson Before Dying (1999 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall

Votes: 1,121

32. To Be and to Have (2002)

Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Family

A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.

Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin, Guillaume

Votes: 8,415 | Gross: $0.78M

33. Sir (1993)

Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Bombay-based Professor Amar Verma lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Shobha, and 6 year old son, Kunal. When a gang-war breaks out between Veljibhai and Chhapan Tikle alias Jimmy... See full summary »

Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Pooja Bhatt, Atul Agnihotri, Paresh Rawal

Votes: 396

34. Mga munting tinig (2002)

109 min | Drama

A young idealistic teacher enters her kids in a city choral competition. A victory there would not only gain funds for the school, but prove to these children of poverty how even they can afford to hope.

Director: Gil Portes | Stars: Alessandra De Rossi, Dexter Doria, Gina Alajar, Amy Austria

Votes: 134

35. Imtihan (1974)

Not Rated | 153 min | Family, Drama

An idealistic college professor strives to reform the criminal element in his college but one of his students accuses him of sexual harassment.

Director: Madan Sinha | Stars: Vinod Khanna, Tanuja Samarth, Bindu Desai, Ranjeet Bedi

Votes: 98

36. Le maître d'école (1981)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Coluche, Josiane Balasko, Jacques Debary, Charlotte de Turckheim

Votes: 1,155

37. The Mighty Pawns (1987 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 57 min | Drama, Family, Sport

Caring and tough: That's how you could describe the principal, teacher, and parent who combined their efforts to transform a struggling bunch of misfits, otherwise known as D Class, into a united team of national chess contenders.

Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Paul Winfield, Alfonso Ribeiro, Terence Knox, Rosalind Cash

Votes: 55

38. The Confidence Man (2001)

94 min | Crime, Mystery

Trust, loyalty and betrayal. Don't even trust your best friend! Policeman Stevie Grimes never lost his trust in the police force but has been suspended a few months for accidentally ... See full summary »

Director: Tripp Reed | Stars: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Jack Conley, Barbara Alyn Woods, Amir Abou-Rass

Votes: 64

39. Dear Teacher (1981 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

Pretty young teacher Annie Cooper, who's fresh out of college is assigned to a sixth grade history class of an indeterminate elementary school. The pilot episode for this failed sitcom ... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: Melinda Culea, Rebecca York, Nan Martin, John Welsh

40. To Sir, with Love (1974 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

A Black foreign-exchange teacher must adapt his lesson plans in order to instruct the lower-middle-class London students who are his pupils.

Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Hari Rhodes, James Grout, Rosemary Leach, Roddy Maude-Roxby

Votes: 26

41. Hai Hai Nayaka (1989)

Comedy, Romance

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Director: Jandhyala | Stars: V.K. Naresh, Sri Bharathi, Suryakantham, Kota Srinivasa Rao

Votes: 114

42. Mon maître d'école (2015)

82 min | Documentary, Family

When Marcel Pagnol meets The Class

Director: Émilie Thérond

Votes: 80

43. The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode: The Miracle Worker (2000)

TV-PG | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A television remake of William Gibson's classic play about Annie Sullivan's efforts to draw Helen Keller from her world of darkness, blindness, deafness and silence.

Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Alison Elliott, Hallie Eisenberg, Lucas Black, Kate Greenhouse

Votes: 1,777

44. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode: Gently Upside Down (2011)

TV-MA | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the body of a missing schoolgirl is discovered in a wood, Gently and Bacchus are thrown into the new world of pop and media celebrity.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Vincent Regan, Kate Bracken, Jade Byrne, Kieran Bew

Votes: 396