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Plot Summary:
A story about a gipsy girl Kati who moves from Hungarian province to Budapest and starts going to school.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 57 min
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The Professor (1971)
Plot Summary:
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
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The Story Lady (1991)
Plot Summary:
When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter. Written by Schleppy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale
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Alba (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Ecuador, Mexico, Greece
Duration: 98 min
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The Beginning of a Story (1988)
Plot Summary:
A story about one summer from the life of 7 years old Marin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Family, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
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Just Like at Home (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Birth of a Nation (1983)
Plot Summary:
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
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And the Children Shall Lead (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Evergreen Tree (1961)
Plot Summary:
Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, the pair immediately gets to work, Dong-hyeok builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the inititive and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
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13 Never Again! (1996)
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13-year old Rikke sees Bea, the new girl in her class, as a challenge. After an endurance test to find which of them can lie longer in a circle of flames, they become friends. However, as a result of some unfortunate truths and half-truths, the friendship falters. Rikke feels that Bea has let her down, and resolves to continue the rivalry between them, but now in a less physical, more artful way. In addition we meet Rikke's elder sister Ninni, who has been in England to learn the language, and has had to leave her great love, a man twelve years her senior. The film is also about the problems Rikke encounters in fulfilling the expectations of those around her as she approaches womanhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 77 min
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The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton (1974)
Plot Summary:
A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Elementary (2016)
Plot Summary:
Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children, her own life, and of questioning her vocation. Little by little Florence realizes that we learning has no age limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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The New Classmate (2015)
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Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, avant garde
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Alternate Weeks (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 12 year old girl and her 8 year old brother live one week with their mother and the next week with their father. The girl blamers her mother, a super businesswoman for the divorce and turns all her anger on her. She prefers the weeks with her father who is flat broke after leaving his bank job to give people free hugs on street corners. Her brother channels his sense of injustice into the battle to save the planet. As the school year progresses and her parents struggle to mend their lives and as the girl approaches her 13th birthday, she learns to see the world in a new way.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Anton (1996)
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Anton is 10 years old. Anton's father was a jet fighter pilot who died in an accident. Anton's mother told Anton that his father is flying angels around in heaven. Anton is obsessed with aeroplanes (his bedroom is full of models and posters) and is (re-)building a full-size aeroplane in the Garage. He plans to use this aeroplane to fly up to his father. The film is about Anton coming to terms with his father's death and about friends, enemies and first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Family, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
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Negerkys og labre larver (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dette er en historie om to piger på 11 år. Nana, som har en hund, men som egentlig bare drømmer om være en anset ballerina, og Conny, der er tvunget til at gå til ballet, men som har et brændende ønske om at være berømt dyrlæge. Hvad vil der blive af de to? Og hvad vil der ske, når de endelig møder det verdensberømte pop-idol Michael Jackson? Og hvad med Anders, drengen, som bliver efterladt med tvillingebørn og netop har fået en billet til VM i Mexico? Er du forvirret? Det er pigerne ikke. De har fundet den perfekte løsning på rodet – bare se med her og tag del i løjerne!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 62 min
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Back Home (TV Movie) (1989)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, Rusty must adapt to a whole new way of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: crying
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Lantern Hill (1989)
Plot Summary:
In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the other girls tell her that her father, whom Jane believes to be dead, is actually alive. Soon after, Andrew Stuart sends word that he would like to meet his long-lost daughter, so Jane is sent by train to Bright River to stay with him, where she encounters an old mystery that she must help her father overcome, new friends, and the chance to bring her father and mother back together again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: crying
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
Plot Summary:
In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious, stylized
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The Sweetest Gift (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, emotional, realistic
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You're Out of Your Mind, Maggie (1979)
Plot Summary:
A first movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Secret Places (1984)
Plot Summary:
Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Great Pumpkin (1993)
Plot Summary:
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Italy, France, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, cult film
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teacher struggling for inspiration travels to the most remote school in the world. It takes being so far away to understand the importance of his work... and to appreciate the value of yak dung!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Bhutan, China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film, comedy drama, beautiful
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Bridge to Terabithia (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Alan & Naomi (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Naomi, a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Paris, moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. But despite Naomi's strange behavior and the language barrier, they slowly develop a deep and touching friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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Amy (1981)
Plot Summary:
A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Beyond the Blackboard (2011)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this movie tells the story a brand-new teacher and Mom who is given a tougher than expected teaching job and winds up teaching homeless children in a school that is housed in a room and called, literally, The School with No Name. She has some personal prejudicial hurdles to cross before she is able to be a true teacher for these children and of course there are hurdles like the lack of books and supplies.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, inspirational, realistic, learning
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Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
Plot Summary:
Stanley studies in the all-boys Holy Family High School in Andheri East, Mumbai. While his class-mates bring their own tiffin-boxes, Stanley does not do so on the pretext that his mother is away. His friends share their food with him, much to the chagrin of the Hindi Teacher: Babubhai Verma, who not only cajoles fellow-teachers, but also virtually forces the children to share their food with him. With extra classes being imposed on both students and teachers, and the recess-breaks being doubled, parents are also forced to pack more food in their children's lunch-boxes. The students continue to share their food with Stanley. Babubhai then warns Stanley that he must get a lunch box if he wants to attend school.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, touching, feel good, cult classic