Dear Evan Hansen

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 24 Sept 2021 · English

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

Zero Day

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 3 Sept 2003 · English

Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.

A Kid Like Jake

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 1 Jun 2018 · English

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

The Man Without a Face

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 25 Aug 1993 · English

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Also suspected of being a paedophile, he is befriended by Chuck, causing the town's suspicions and hostility to be ignited.

Detachment

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 24 Apr 2011 · English

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Dead Poets Society

Movie · 8.3 / 10 · 2 Jun 1989 · English

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Giant Little Ones

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 3 Jan 2019 · English

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

Bang Bang You're Dead

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 11 Jun 2003 · English

A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team.

Out of My Mind

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 19 Jan 2024 · English

Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student's untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 24 Feb 1969 · English

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

To the Stars

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 25 Jan 2019 · English

Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

The Miracle Worker

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 23 May 1962 · English

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.