Lolita

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 27 Sept 1997 · English

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Whiplash

Movie · 8.4 / 10 · 10 Oct 2014 · English

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

Cracks

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 4 Dec 2009 · English

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Cheaters

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 20 May 2000 · English

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

Othello

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 15 Dec 1995 · English

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

Brave the Dark

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 23 Jan 2025 · English

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.

Class of 1984

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 20 Aug 1982 · English

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

Gracie

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 1 Jun 2007 · English

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

May December

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 16 Nov 2023 · English

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Freedom Writers

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 5 Jan 2007 · English

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

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 20 Sept 2012 · English

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

Madeline's Madeline

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 10 Aug 2018 · English

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.