The Corn Is Green (1979)

Drama
1999
Movie

Inherit the Wind

6.3
1999

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

7.6

TV Movie
2006
Movie

The Ron Clark Story

7.6
2006

Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.

Genre : TV Movie

6.8

Drama
2004
Movie

Iron Jawed Angels

6.8
2004

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

6.4

Drama
1996
Movie

To Sir, with Love II

6.4
1996

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.

6.7

Drama
1989
Movie

A Dry White Season

6.7
1989

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

6.1

Drama
2019
Movie

Heaven

6.1
2019

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world.

6.7

Drama
2003
Movie

Normal

6.7
2003

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

6.5

Drama
2014
Movie

Starving in Suburbia

6.5
2014

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

Drama
2000
Movie

Cheaters

6.3
2000

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.

6.6

Drama
2014
Movie

Return to Zero

6.6
2014

Based on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child.

Drama
1992
Movie

Waterland

6.3
1992

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.

6.5

Drama
1999
Movie

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

6.5
1999

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

Action
1998
Movie

The Substitute 2: School's Out

6.3
1998

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in order to investigate Randall's murder.

Genre : Action

6.1

Drama
1972
Movie

Child's Play

6.1
1972

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

6.5

Drama
2011
Movie

Girl Fight

6.5
2011

Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to upload onto the Internet a shocking video of them beating her up.

6.7

Drama
2016
Movie

Girl in the Box

6.7
2016

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

6.2

Action
1995
Movie

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

6.2
1995

Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.

Genre : Action

7.3

Drama
1941
Movie

How Green Was My Valley

7.3
1941

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.