Drama
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Onion Field
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cell 2455 Death Row
The Lesson
Lady Joker
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
23 Blast
Viva la clase media
Vitória
Šek, na kterém chyběl podpis
Down the Arm of God
Just Go!
The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship
Newsies
The Teacher
Öğretmen Zeynep
Shall We Kiss?
Veronica Guerin
Remember the Titans
Matar al Nani
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Onion Field
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1979
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.Cheaper by the Dozen
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1950
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.Cell 2455 Death Row
IMDB 5.2 | Apr , 1955
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.The Lesson
IMDB 4 | Oct , 2014
The Lesson tells the story of Zane, a devoted teacher mentoring the senior class in a Latvian high school. She tries to live her life in the most meaningful way possible. She takes her mission as a teacher seriously, and works hard to help her students develop their talents. Even so, as a younger teacher it’s hard for Zane to keep her distance from the class – the students soon become a sort of family to her. When she realizes she’s falling in love with one of them, the others start to feel left out. She faces a stark choice between personal happiness and the pressures of society.Lady Joker
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 2004
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2024
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.23 Blast
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2014
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.Viva la clase media
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 1980
Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.Vitória
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2025
Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amidst conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. After months of recording suspicious activities, her initiative attracts the attention of a journalist, who approaches Nina and offers to support her in her mission.Šek, na kterém chyběl podpis
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1974
Down the Arm of God
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
Inspired by real stories, a young pastor, through a harsh winter in a small Texas town, follows his mission to help the homeless is faced with resistance by his congregation, exposing deep-seated prejudices and systemic failures.Just Go!
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2017
A young man who lost both his legs in a childhood accident comes to the rescue of the girl he loves when she is victimized by villains.The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 2017
The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship is a smart, sexy comedy that explores the truth about relationships today.Newsies
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2017
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.The Teacher
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2017
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.Öğretmen Zeynep
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1989
Zeynep, a young and idealistic teacher, has economic problems. Zeynep enters a world she doesn't want when she starts giving private lessons to a mafia boss's child.Shall We Kiss?
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2007
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.Veronica Guerin
IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 2003
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.Remember the Titans
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2000
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.Matar al Nani
IMDB 3.9 | Apr , 1988
The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.