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Plot Summary:
Set in Polish high school in the year 1969, a story about a group of first year students who are trying to get through the year by finding a way around an eccentric history teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Family, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
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Iqbal & the Superchip (2016)
Plot Summary:
Iqbal and Sille are best friends and have always lived next door to each other. Their street must undergo urban regeneration and Easelman and The Swine will unluckily be in charge of the project. For the construction project is in fact a cover to get their hands on the oil they have discovered beneath Blågårdsgade. Iqbal and Sille must now fight against the villains and get the money to buy back their building, so they don't have to move away from each other. When Iqbal discovers a chip with magic energy, the kids manage to convince Easelman and The Swine to buy the chip so they can reclaim their building. But the villains deceive the children, and now Iqbal, Sille and the grown-ups in Blågårdsgade must put in every effort to retrieve the chip and expose the villains' secret plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
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Point, Point, Comma... (1972)
Plot Summary:
A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Time of Secrets (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and unearthed secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Billie Turf contra Kwel (1983)
Plot Summary:
Denheuvel boarding school. Billie Turf, the fattest student in the world, is always in conflict with Master Kwel. This time Turf studies hypnosis, pretends to be baroness and thieves arrive who have paid for the school fees.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Mysterious Miss C. (2002)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric teacher (Marie-Chantal Perron) causes children at her elementary school to change the way they look at themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Professor Albeit (1998)
Plot Summary:
High school teacher falls in love with his "best" female student.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Barking at the Stars (1998)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Prom Pact (2023)
Plot Summary:
It's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top "promposals." Mandy is only focused on getting into her dream school Harvard, but as she starts tutoring basketball all-star Graham, she must re-evaluate whether her dream school is worth the cost of everything she believes in.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Rebel High (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rebel High is a 1987 social satire film about the chaos and mayhem that modern western cities' high schools became. It is based on a US novel by Evan Keliher.Made in Canada, most of the cast is relatively unknown and in many cases uncredited.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film
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P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Where the Tracks End (2023)
Plot Summary:
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Mister Twister: Class of Fun (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on the highly popular series of children books comes the cheerful film-comedy Teach! chronicling the funny misadventures of a young intern teacher at an elementary school.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Sunstruck (1972)
Plot Summary:
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, dark comedy
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Baby and Me (2008)
Plot Summary:
Joon-soo (Jang Geun -Seok) is a rebellious high school kid who often get in fights. One day, his parents give him an ultimatum and leaving him alone in the house, Joon-soo decides to have a party at his parent's home. He then goes shopping for groceries and comes upon an unexpected surprise. A little toddler sits in a shopping basket wearing the name tag "Han Woo-ram" (Mason Moon) and points to Joon-soo as his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, touching, emotional, not serious
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Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, campy
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Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good
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Grange Hill (1978)
Plot Summary:
Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest-running programmes on British television when it ended its run in 2008. It was created by Phil Redmond who is also responsible for the Channel 4 dramas Brookside and Hollyoaks; other notable production team members down the years have included producer Colin Cant and script editor Anthony Minghella. After 30 years, the show was cancelled and the last episode was shown on 15 September 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: children's program
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Bert: The Last Virgin (1995)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shredderman Rules (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nolan Byrd (Devon Werkheiser) is a scrawny and shy 9th grader who, like all the other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell). When their teacher, Mr. Green (Tim Meadows), allows the students to do a computer project, Nolan, who has a particular knack with technology, decides to catch Bubba in action.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic, semi serious
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War of the Buttons (1962)
Plot Summary:
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. When he is beaten by his father for having lost his buttons, the leader of the Longueverne army, Lebrac, has an idea which will give his side the advantage: next time, he and his brave soldiers will go in battle without their clothes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, sincere, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, not serious, witty, realistic, crying, fairy tale, sexy
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Mr. Donkey (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A.B. Normal College (Todo na 'yan! Kulang pa 'yun!) (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dominic (Ogie Alcasid) and Miguel (Mikey Macapagal Arroyo), the school's most notorious students, are challenged when the school participates in a quiz show to upgrade the image of the school. With the gorgeous Professor Eula Yulo (Rufa Mae Quinto) as their mentor, the three are out to prove to everyone that they are more than just troublemakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Plot Summary:
Coming of age story for two girls, Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a catholic boarding school for girls. The story spans three years and follows the girls and their many pranks including setting off fire alarms, smoking cigars in the basement and putting bubble baths in the nuns' sugar bowls. As the girls mature, they gain a greater respect for their teachers and the commitment and devotion required to be a nun, leading one of them to make a life changing decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental, funny, light, surprise ending
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Ciao, Professore! (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational, sexy, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic
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Love at First Hiccough (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anja is a beautiful and very well proportioned high school senior... and still a virgin. She insists that she wants her first time to be with a guy, who knows what it's about. Her rich (and arrogant, pretentious and obnoxious) boyfriend Peter serves the purpose, and he's more than willing. In fact, he's pushing forward as much as he can, but Victor, a freshman who has a serious crush on Anja, has other plans. Her first time should definitely not be with this buffoon, and he's ready to take it VERY far!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Ducoboo 3 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Back to school for Ducobu, Léonie Gratin and Latouche. But this year, a major rival for Ducobu arrives at school: TGV, the king of cheating 3.0. While the financial situation of Saint-Potache becomes disastrous, the two dunces will have to unite their creativity to win a song contest and save their school.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Our School's E.T. (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious