Drama
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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A Summer Place
Fame
The Heiress
Blackboards
Too Fat Too Furious
Stand and Deliver
The Distributor
My Son
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
The Milky Way
K2
The Ten Commandments
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Horn of Plenty
Tribute to the Teachers
Teach Me, Ma'm!
The Great Bazaar
Pygmalion
Jude
Faith Like Potatoes
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A Summer Place
IMDB 5.3 | Dec , 2021
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IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 2009
At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and more. Over four years, these young men and women will see if they truly have the dedication and talent to achieve success, while still juggling regular schoolwork, feelings of self-doubt, and budding romances.The Heiress
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1949
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.Blackboards
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2000
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?Too Fat Too Furious
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 2005
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IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 1988
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IMDB 10 | Sep , 2024
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IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2017
The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...The White Hell of Pitz Palu
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1929
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.The Milky Way
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1995
Girl meets boy in deserted planetarium.K2
IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 1991
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IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 1923
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IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 1936
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.Horn of Plenty
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2008
An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.Tribute to the Teachers
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 1977
A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and what it means to them.Teach Me, Ma'm!
IMDB 2 | Jul , 1998
Graduating student Jayson sees a seductive woman in the grocery store and later finds out that she is his new substitute teacher.The Great Bazaar
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2006
Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking for a job, to get back what was stolen from him and return home. The other will do anything to avoid having to go back with his family. They become friends and together they reinvent the world.Pygmalion
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1938
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.Jude
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1996
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.Faith Like Potatoes
IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 2006
Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu Natal,South Africa.