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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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Spona (1998)
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
Plot tags:
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Spare the Rod (1961)
Plot Summary:
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, black and white
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Flower in the Pocket (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys' quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a puppy. But when the animal is sent away for being a nuisance, the boys are devastated. For the first time, Sui realizes that all his children ask is simply to love and be loved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
Plot Summary:
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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Daughter of the Sun (1962)
Plot Summary:
Herschell Gordon Lewis and David Friedman collaborated on this nudie classic that features the stunning Rusty Allen as a teacher who must defend herself against the school board after they find her naked in a nudist colony's magazine. Allen argues that the sun is a source of happiness and morality. The institute's lawyer decides to investigate for himself, and soon everyone is swimming, playing volleyball, and more, all sans clothes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Replacing Dad (1999)
Plot Summary:
Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her daughter's young teacher, and has to deal with the kids, the town and her love to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
Plot Summary:
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Never On A Sunday (2006)
Plot Summary:
Julio Salas dies after a long illness, but it is Sunday and due to financial difficulties, his family is forced to contract the services of a modest funeral home, whose owner having taken charge of the corpse, sells it to the University. The nephew learns of the deal and demands that his uncle s body end up in the cremation oven, falling in love with the funeral owner s daughter in the process. This story about a corpse that cannot find peace, is handled in accordance with the canons of black comedy over which the director displays a skillful mastery, provoking, with the aid of some excellent actors, grotesquely hilarious situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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The Lifeguard (1979)
Plot Summary:
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Castle of Cloads (1970)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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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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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
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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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Plot Summary:
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial review by fiscal authorities drive the firm to ruin. Ada, his wife, starts to be unfaithful and this is another strong hit to his life. But it isn't still enough, a tragedy is waiting Mombelli behind the corner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Next to Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Olja is a high school history teacher, married to a painter whose latest exhibition provoked violent reactions from Serbian nationalists. One night, a group of masked hooligans attacks her. They film the attack and upload the clip to YouTube. The next day Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She takes away their mobile phones, and in the heat of the moment decides to lock them in the school building, also disconnecting the school phones and the internet. In order to solve the problem together, and with inability to leave the school, students begin to communicate. During that night, a generation that was written off before they were ever given a chance will learn more than they ever expected about themselves and their classmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Great Minds (2017)
Plot Summary:
Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, touching, social
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The Teacher (2016)
Plot Summary:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, dark comedy, allegory, non-linear
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The Gospel According to Vic (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Negatives (1968)
Plot Summary:
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Gokusen: The Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the Japanese TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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Adam & Paul (2004)
Plot Summary:
This movie follows a day in the life of two Dublin Heroin addicts, Adam and Paul. Adam is the taller and slightly smarter of the two while Paul is his sidekick. Since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hopeless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, bleak, dark comedy, depressing, bad ending, art house, gloomy
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Sweet Dreams (1981)
Plot Summary:
Michele Apicella is a young film and theater director, who lives his troubles as an artist. In Italy reach the Eighties, and Michele, who was contestant in the Sixties, now finds himself in a new era full of crisis of values and ignorance. So Michele, with his works, meants to represent the typical outcast and left indifferent intellectual outcast who establishes a breach between him and the world of ordinary people.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical
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Bustin' Loose (1981)
Plot Summary:
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country. What could possibly go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, hood, road movie, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious, sentimental, funny
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Take a Girl Like You (1970)
Plot Summary:
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, romantic comedy, sexy, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Women in Love (1969)
Plot Summary:
Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily -- but they become increasingly complicated as the trip continues. Rupert and Ursula are determined to stay faithful to one another, while the aloof Gerald and the eccentric Gudrun turn to infidelity and sexual exploration.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: visual, erotic, sexy, sexual, scenic, retro, cult classic, historical drama, erotic drama, sincere
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Empties (2007)
Plot Summary:
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic, existential, independent film
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World's Greatest Dad (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, clever, melancholic, dark, disturbing, cult classic, hilarious, offbeat, philosophical
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West Is West (2010)
Plot Summary:
Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, witty, sentimental, semi serious, realistic