Drama
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Carried Away
Mademoiselle
Sincerity
Paathshaala
Fortress
Clockwork Mice
Coming Out
Normal
Last Summer
Echoes of the Rainbow
Kids on the Slope
The Survival of Dana
Pretty in Pink
Driving Lessons
Examination
And Then I Go
Lolita
The Opposite of Sex
Gemini
The Principal
SIMILAR MOVIES
Carried Away
IMDB 5.4 | Jan , 1996
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.Mademoiselle
IMDB 6.9 | Jun , 1966
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.Sincerity
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1987
The film tells the story of two young people who chose different paths in life.Paathshaala
IMDB 4.9 | Apr , 2010
A new English school teacher ends up leading both teachers and students to revolt against the school management.Fortress
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1985
After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.Clockwork Mice
IMDB 4.2 | Jun , 1995
When new teacher Steve Drake joins the faculty at a school for special-needs students, his unorthodox instruction methods raise eyebrows. But attitudes begin to change when he makes a connection with a particularly unruly student.Coming Out
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 1989
Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.Normal
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 2007
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.Last Summer
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1969
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.Echoes of the Rainbow
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 2010
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.Kids on the Slope
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2018
Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.The Survival of Dana
IMDB 0 | May , 1979
High school student Dana moves to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles after her North Dakota parents get divorced and falls in with the wrong crowd.Pretty in Pink
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 1986
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.Driving Lessons
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2006
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.Examination
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2016
A school physician whose son is being bullied at school finds that he must conduct a routine medical examination of one of his son's chief tormentors.And Then I Go
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 2017
In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school daily, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.Lolita
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1997
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.The Opposite of Sex
IMDB 6.1 | May , 1998
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.Gemini
IMDB 5.2 | Apr , 2017
Gemini is a special child with some behavioral disorders. She is an adopted child and to make things even more difficult, her parents are not in the best of terms. She is often ridiculed by her peers, but two of her teachers realize her potential and urges her to egg on.The Principal
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1987
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.