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Engineer Mark Thackeray arrives to teach a totally undisciplined class at an East End school. Still hoping for a good engineering job, he's hopeful that he won't be there long. He starts implementing his own brand of classroom discipline: forcing the pupils to treat each other with respect. Inevitab …ly he begins getting involved in the students' personal lives, and must avoid the advances of an amorous student while winning over the class tough. What will he decide when the engineering job comes through? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | fashionyouthracismangerdancedeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | london englandslummuseumenglandbusschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacher heronew teacherbabymusicianstudentteacherteenage girlsingerafrican americanteenager |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | british youthgym teacherteacher student romancecockney rhyming slangmarket stallmarket traderracist commentstreet marketschoolgirl crushclass tripmuseum triphigh school teacherhigh school studentboxing glovesdouble decker bus …popular teacherdedicated teacherdance scenesecondary schoolswinging sixtiesthames riversanitary napkinblack nylon stockingsteenage prankstertower bridgepatoisguianalondon bridgepolitenessgreengrocerwant adend credits roll callrejecttitle mentioned in songoutingreference to fred astairepunched in the guteast end londonresumecockneysaladjob offerreference to winston churchillauthoritychalkboardbustracialrudenessvendorwilltamponsignheadmasterironingadult actress playing teenage girlschoolteachermailboxblackboardbellreference to the beatlesprincipalbachelormathematicsmarketinspirationnew jobmenstruationteachingpresentcomma in titleracistlaughterenglishinterracial romancecrushrebelgossipinjuryraceapplauserecord playerfreeze frameclassstagegymstatuemini skirtmaprock bandboxingfour word titleclassroombritishtearsbooklettercryingdancingcigarette smokingbased on novelblood (See All) |
Glenn Holland is a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time', he can strive to achieve his true goal - compose one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world. As Holland discovers 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other … plans' and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success. (Read More)
| Themes: | anger |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipmusicianstudentteacherteenage girl |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentpopular teacherdedicated teacherblackboardreference to the beatlesprincipalinspirationteachingcrushrecord playerclassroom |
Teenager Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy at school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | fashionangerdance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipmusicianstudentteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | high school studentcrushrecord playergymrock bandtearscryingdancing |
Chicago Sun Times copy editor Josie Gellar (25), who was desperate to graduate from perfectionist copy editor to reporter, gets her chance when the goody owner orders the editor to cover the high-school scene by undercover. Josie, who was a frustrated, ridiculed nerd, gets a popular make-over from h …er drop-out, naturally funny brother Rob Geller. Both siblings find love and joys of youth again. But in Josie's case, it's sensitive bachelor teacher Sam Coulson, who enjoys sophisticated conversation. As the publication deadline approaches, the price of blowing their cover seems ever more daunting, yet inevitable unless she sacrifices her career. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | youth |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girl |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentpopular teacherbachelorteachingcrushclassroom |
County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferr …ed to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support. (Read More)
| Themes: | dancedeath |
| Locations: | london englandbusschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacher |
| Story: | boxing glovesreference to fred astaireinspirationteachingcrushrecord playerclassgymboxingclassroomtearsbooklettercryingdancing …cigarette smokingblood (See All) |
The outcast teenager Carrie White is bullied by her classmates at high school. Her mother, Margaret White, is a pious and paranoid woman that sees sin everywhere and the need of self-inflicting punishment. When Carrie has her first period, she does not understand what is happening to her and her cla …ssmates humiliate her in the changing room. The spiteful Chris Hargensen videotapes Carrie with her cell phone and posts it on the Internet. Their teacher Ms. Desjardin punishes the students, but when Chris challenges her, she is suspended and consequently is banned from the prom. Meanwhile, Carrie discovers that she has telekinesis and learns how to control her ability. Sue Snell, one of the girls that tormented Carrie, feels bad and asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to invite Carrie to go with him to the prom to make up for what she did to Carrie. But Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan plot an evil prank with her friends to seek vengeance for Carrie. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | angerdancedeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | gym teacherhigh school teacherhigh school studentsanitary napkinteenage prankstertamponmenstruationlaughterclassstagegymclassroomdancingbased on novelblood |
A day in the lives of a group of average teenage high school students. The film follows every character and shows their daily routines. However two of the students plan to do something that the student body won't forget.
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | angerdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girl |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentblackboardgymclassroomblood |
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Co …llins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do! (Read More)
| Themes: | racismdance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | studentteacherteenage girlsingerafrican americanteenager |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | ironingblackboardinterracial romanceapplauserecord playerclassclassroomtearscryingdancingcigarette smoking |
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Me …tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | anger |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | high school studentteachingfreeze framecryingbased on novel |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and …life will never be the same again. (Read More)
| Themes: | angerdancedeath |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipmusicianstudentteacher |
| Story: | want adpunched in the gutblackboardmenstruationcrushapplauserecord playermini skirtclassroomtearscryingdancingblood |
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | high school studentpunched in the gutprincipalgossipfreeze frameclassgymmini skirtclassroomtearscrying |
The bitter, cynical and lonely Barbara Covett is a tough and conservative teacher, near to retirement, who is loathed by her colleagues and students. In the loneliness of her apartment, she spends her spare time writing her journal, taking care of her old cat Portia and missing her special friend Je …nnifer Dodd. When Sheba Hart joins the high-school as the new art teacher, Barbara dedicates her attention to the newcomer, writing sharp and unpleasant comments about her behavior and clothes. When Barbara helps Sheba in a difficult situation with two students, the grateful Sheba invites her to have lunch with her family. Sheba introduces her husband and former professor Richard Hart, who is about twenty years older than she; her rebellious teenager daughter Polly; and her son Ben that has Down's Syndrome. Barbara becomes close to Sheba, but when she accidentally discovers that Sheba is having an affair with the fifteen year-old student Steven Connolly, Barbara sees the chance to manipulate and get closer to Sheba, hiding the secret from the school headmaster. When Portia dies and Sheba does not stay with Barbara in the veterinary office to see Ben in a theater play, Barbara plots a Machiavellian revenge against Sheba, creating a scandal and consequent turmoil in their lives. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | london englandschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentheadmasterclassclassroomcryingdancingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
In a 1950's mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957, everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event, Homer becomes inspired to learn how … to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd, Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of error. Unfortunately, most of the town and especially Homer's father thinks that they are wasting their time. Only one teacher in the high school understands their efforts and lets them know that they could become contenders in the national science fair with college scholarships being the prize. Now the gang must learn to perfect their craft and overcome the many problems facing them as they shoot for the stars. (Read More)
| Themes: | dancedeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherafrican americanteenager |
| Story: | mathematicsrecord playerclassgymclassroomtearscryingdancing |
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old child whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get … anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to 'be disciplined'. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family. One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover why. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself. (Read More)
| Themes: | anger |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipbabymusicianstudentteachersinger |
| Story: | street marketdouble decker busheadmasterironingblackboardpresentlaughterapplausefreeze frameclassclassroomtearscryingdancing |
This is the story of Enid and Rebecca after they finish the high school. Both have problems relating to people and they spend their time hanging around and bothering creeps. When they meet Seymour who is a social outsider who loves to collect old 78 records, Enid's life will change forever.
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacherteenage girlsinger |
| Story: | high school studentprincipalrecord playermini skirtcryingdancing |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | angerdeath |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | babymusicianstudentteacherteenage girlsinger |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | double decker busreference to winston churchillrecord playerrock bandtearsbooklettercryingdancingcigarette smokingblood |
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | fashion |
| Locations: | london englandengland |
| Characters: | musicianteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | double decker busmarketclassrock bandfour word titlebritishdancing |
High school teacher, Rainer Wegner, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He's less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more i …nvested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves? (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacherteenage girl |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentmailboxapplauseclassclassroomtearscryingdancingcigarette smokingbased on novelblood |
A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place …the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | babymusicianstudentteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | high school studentsignmailboxclassclassroomtearscryingdancing |
Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, 'Brian Johnson (XIV)' (qv) and Allison Reynolds have little in common, and with the exception of Claire and Andrew, do not associate with each other in school. In the simplest and …in their own terms, Claire is a princess, Andrew an athlete, John a criminal, Brian a brain, and Allison a basket case. But one other thing they do have in common is a nine hour detention in the school library together on Saturday, March 24, 1984, under the direction of Mr. Vernon, supervising from his office across the hall. Each is required to write a minimum one thousand word essay during that time about who they think they are. At the beginning of those nine hours, each, if they were indeed planning on writing that essay, would probably write something close to what the world sees of them, and what they have been brainwashed into believing of themselves. But based on their adventures during that nine hours, they may come to a different opinion of themselves and the other four. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | angerdance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentadult actress playing teenage girlprincipallaughterclassbookdancing |
Young Caucasian Dan Dunne teaches history and coaches the girls basketball team at a Brooklyn high school populated primarily by black and Hispanic students. To the chagrin of his superiors, Dan bucks the outlined curriculum of historical facts in favor of the philosophy of historical events, genera …lly discussing the concept of dialectics. As such, he captures the imagination of his students, at least in the classroom. Outside of the classroom, Dan's life is in shambles. He has a distant but cordial relationship with his family. He uses illicit drugs rampantly. Although his former girlfriend Rachel was able to clean up her drug habit, Dan believes that rehab will not work for him. Due to a combination of these issues, he treats women poorly. Thirteen year old Drey is a student in his class and a player on his basketball team. Drey has her own problems. Her parents are divorced, with her father a virtually non-existent figure in her life and her EMT mother generally absent as she is always working to provide for Drey. Her older brother Mike is incarcerated for selling drugs for a local dealer named Frank. Mike took the fall for Frank, who in turn protects Drey whether she wants to be associated with him or not. Dan and Drey's relationship changes when Drey catches Dan, believing he is alone, smoking crack in the girl's locker room bathroom. He is totally stoned. Their resulting friendship, which is seen as inappropriate by the few who know, is based on each being unable to dea… (Read More)
| Themes: | racismdance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlsingerafrican americanteenager |
| Story: | high school teacherinspirationracistclassgymclassroombookdancingcigarette smoking |
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Toget …her, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess deal with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him. (Read More)
| Themes: | angerdeath |
| Locations: | museumschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | museum tripblackboardcrushraceclassroomtearsdancingbased on novel |
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacherteenager |
| Story: | teacher student romancehigh school studentcrushgossipfour word titleclassroomcrying |
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of … uncontrollable events. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenager |
| Story: | high school studentblackboardgossipclassclassroombook |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacher herobabystudentteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | mathematicsteachingclassclassroomtearsbooklettercryingdancingcigarette smoking |
This is England: Mods, New Romantics, and Skinheads are the major youth sub-cultures of this very English summer of 1983 and young 12-year-old Shaun is left wandering aimlessly alone and lost during the start of his school holidays, until his chance meeting with Woody and his fun and friendly Skinhe …ad pack. Finding a new lease of life; girls, parties, Ben Sherman shirts, Doc Martin boots and shaven hairstyles young Shaun is welcomed, life during this summer holiday has got a whole lot better. That is until Combo arrives on the scene bitter, dangerous, racist, militant and psychotic life for young Shaun has just approached his first major crossroads. This is England is a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life through the eyes of young Shaun and his new gang, and dealing with the bitterness of outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War; Thatcher's Britain: Did we ever have it so good? When you see Shaun, ask Him. (Read More)
| Themes: | youthracismdeath |
| Locations: | englandschool |
| Characters: | musicianstudentteachersinger |
| Story: | punched in the gutracistenglishclasstearscryingcigarette smokingblood |
Poppy Cross is happy-go-lucky. At 30, she lives in Camden: cheeky, playful, frank while funny, and talkative to strangers. She's a conscientious and exuberant primary-school teacher, flatmates with Zoe, her long-time friend; she's close to one sister, and not so close to another. In this slice of li …fe story, we watch her take driving lessons from Scott, a dour and tightly-wound instructor, take classes in flamenco dance from a fiery Spaniard, encounter a tramp in the night, and sort out a student's aggressive behavior with a social worker's help. Along the way, we wonder if her open attitude puts her at risk of misunderstanding or worse. What is the root of happiness? (Read More)
| Themes: | dance |
| Locations: | london englandbusschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteachersinger |
| Story: | street marketteachingclassclassroombookdancingcigarette smoking |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | angerdance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | musicianteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | ironingreference to the beatlesrecord playerstagerock bandbookcryingdancingcigarette smoking |
Teacher Francois Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but eac …h teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin's class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. Even Marin has his breaking point, which may result in him doing things he would probably admit to himself are wrong. But after all is said and done, there is next year and another group of students. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | high school teacherteachingclassclassroomcigarette smoking |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working …but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
| Locations: | london englandenglandbusschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | adult actress playing teenage girlgossiprecord playerclassmapclassroomtearsbooklettercryingdancingcigarette smoking |
Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His roommate, Neil Perry, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their … new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each does so in his own way, and is changed for life. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacher herostudentteacherteenage girl |
| Story: | popular teacherdedicated teacherschoolteacherteaching |
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th year as head coach, Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) is trying to lead his Wes …t Canaan Coyotes to their 23rd division title. When star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker) suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon (James Van Der Beek), a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game. "Varsity Blues" explores our obsession with sports and how teenage athletes respond to the extraordinary pressures places on them. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | studentteacherteenage girlafrican american |
| Story: | high school studentrebelinjuryclassmini skirtclassroomtearscryingcigarette smokingblood |
Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine, hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. She has recently separated from her husband. Her friend, also teacher in the school, got the temporary job for her. After a terrible reception from the students, she tries unconventional methods of teach …ing (using karate, Bob Dylan lyrics etc) to gain the trust of the students. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacher |
| Story: | high school teacherdedicated teacherteaching |
In a world difficult to comprehend, Nathan struggles to connect with those around him - most of all his loving mother - but finds comfort in numbers. When Nathan is taken under the wing of unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr. Humphreys, the pair forge an unusual friendship and Nathan's talents w …in him a place on the UK team at the International Mathematics Olympiad. From suburban England to bustling Taipei and back again, Nathan builds complex relationships as he is confronted by the irrational nature of love. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girl |
| Story: | high school studentsecondary schoolblackboardmathematicsinterracial romanceapplausefour word titlecryingdancingblood |
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are … sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences. (Read More)
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipnew teacherstudentteachersingerafrican american |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | authoritygossiprecord playerclassgymclassroomtearscryingdancingcigarette smoking |
Adele is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. She dreams of something more. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adele's friends reject due …to her sexuality, and by association most begin to reject Adele. Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself openly. Together, Adele and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality, and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | museumschool |
| Characters: | studentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Story: | high school studentrejectclassclassroomtearscryingcigarette smoking |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his … mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity. (Read More)
| Themes: | angerdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | studentteacherteenage girlafrican americanteenager |
| Story: | high school teacherhigh school studentapplauseclassstagegymclassroomtearscryingcigarette smokingbased on novelblood |
A man about forty years of age tells the story from when he was a teenager in upscale suburban Detroit of his and three of his friends' fascination with the mysterious and doomed Lisbon sisters. In 1974, the sisters were seventeen year old Therese, sixteen year old Mary, fifteen year old Bonnie, fou …rteen year old Lux, and thirteen year old Cecilia. Their fascination still remains as they try to piece together the entire story. The sisters were mysteries if only because of having a strict and overprotective upbringing by their father, who taught math at the girls' private co-ed school, and overly devout Catholic mother, who largely dictated the household rules. The story focuses primarily on two incidents and the resulting situations on the girls' lives. The first was an action by Cecilia to deal with her emotions over her life. And the second was the relationship between Lux - the sister who pushed the boundaries of the household rules most overtly in doing what most teenagers want to do - and Trip Fontaine, he who could have any girl he wanted but wanting solely Lux. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | death |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | high school teachertamponschoolteacherteachinggossiprecord playerclassclassroomtearscryingdancingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
It's the proverbial end of the summer 1962 in a small southern California town. It's the evening before best friends and recent high school graduates, Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander, are scheduled to leave town to head to college back east. Curt, who received a lucrative local scholarship, is see …n as the promise that their class holds. But Curt is having second thoughts about leaving what Steve basically sees as their dead end town. Curt's beliefs are strengthened when he spots an unknown beautiful blonde in a T-bird who mouths the words "I love you" to him. As Curt tries to find that blonde while trying to get away from a local gang who have him somewhat hostage, Curt may come to a decision about his immediate future. Outgoing class president Steve, on the other hand, wants to leave, despite meaning that he will leave girlfriend, head cheerleader and Curt's sister, Laurie Henderson, behind. Steve and Laurie spend the evening "negotiating" the state of their relationship. Meanwhile, two of their friends cruise around town for the evening. Steve has left his car to meek and mild-mannered Terry "Toad" Fields to look after during his absence. The wheels give Toad a new sense of confidence, which he uses to try and impress Debbie Dunham, a more experienced girl generally out of his league. And John Milner, who is seen as the king of the street race in his souped-up yellow deuce coupe, tries to get rid of precocious pre-teen, Carol Morrison, who has somehow become his passenger… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | angerdance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teenage girlteenager |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | high school studentauthoritycrushracerecord playerclassgymmini skirttearsbookdancing |
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's ste …ady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | death |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | busschool |
| Characters: | teacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | high school studentpresentrecord playerclassstagegymclassroombookcryingdancingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harr …owing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. (Read More)
| Themes: | anger |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | babystudentteacher |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | blackboardmathematicsteachingapplauserecord playerclassmaptearsdancingblood |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
| Themes: | youthdeath |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | studentteachersinger |
| Story: | headmastermathematicsmarketclassmapclassroombritishtearsbooklettercryingcigarette smokingblood |
Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Matt Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights t …o their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally. (Read More)
| Themes: | anger |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | studentteacher |
| Story: | schoolteacherblackboardapplausestagegymmapclassroomblood |
Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipbabystudent |
| Story: | schoolteacherblackboardprincipalraceclassclassroomtearscrying |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a …nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Locations: | london englandenglandbus |
| Characters: | babymusiciansinger |
| Story: | street marketlondon bridgerock bandbritishcryingdancingcigarette smokingblood |
A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a traveling carnival globe of death and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady, New York, desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes) who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt r …ider's son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an ambitious police officer, Avery Cross, (Bradley Cooper) looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. The sweeping drama unfolds over fifteen years as the sins of the past haunt the present days lives of two high school boys wrestling with the legacy they've inherited. The only refuge is found in the place beyond the pines. (Read More)
| Themes: | angerdeath |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | babystudentafrican americanteenager |
| Story: | high school studentpresentracistinjuryapplausetearscryingdancingcigarette smokingblood |
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love …s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)
| Themes: | death |
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlteenager |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | ironingmailboxclassclassroomtearsbooklettercryingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | teen movie |
| Themes: | dance |
| Mood: | high school |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | high school studentdance scenecrushclassclassroomtearsbooklettercryingdancingbased on novel |
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "phil …istines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili. (Read More)
| Mood: | high school |
| Locations: | museumschool |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlsingerteenager |
| Story: | record playerclassboxingclassroomtearsbooklettercrying |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s …eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismdance |
| Locations: | bus |
| Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlsingerafrican american |
| Story: | classmapclassroombookletterdancing |
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