A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Casts Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Ann Bell, Geoffrey Bayldon, Faith Brook, Patricia Routledge, Christopher Chittell
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Official Story
(Un)alarmed
Hanover Street
Madame Olga's Pupils
Remember the Night
Kandahar
My Life on Ice
A Curtain Raiser
Shiner
Blackboards
Utakata no omoi
White Hunter, Black Heart
Stand and Deliver
Guilty at 17
Husbands and Wives
A Christmas Gift from Bob
The 12 Dogs of Christmas
All Things Fair
Ghost Dance
Performance
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Official Story
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1985
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.(Un)alarmed
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2022
Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.Hanover Street
IMDB 5.5 | May , 1979
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.Madame Olga's Pupils
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 1981
Madame Olga is the owner of a luxurious brothel in London, England. One of the brothel's new clients, a young man, falls in love with her. He wishes to have more than sexual relationships with the woman.Remember the Night
IMDB 7.3 | Jan , 1940
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.Kandahar
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2001
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.My Life on Ice
IMDB 5.4 | Feb , 2003
Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize that he is infatuated with the teacher himself.A Curtain Raiser
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 2006
Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is late again.Shiner
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2000
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.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?Utakata no omoi
IMDB 2 | May , 1999
Koizumi, a high school track and field coach, was enthusiastic about the talent of marathon runner Shizuo and his dreams of becoming an international runner. However, after graduating from high school, Shizuo, who failed to take the entrance examination, became an office clerk in Tokyo, while being loved by a male customer. Koizumi went to Tokyo and resumed Shizuo's training. Koizumi confessed his feelings for Shizuo, and the two thereafter began a love affair.White Hunter, Black Heart
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1990
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.Stand and Deliver
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 1988
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.Guilty at 17
IMDB 5.7 | Jul , 2014
A teenager becomes overwhelmed with guilt after her lies to support a friend's claim of sexual assault lead to the accused teacher's suicide.Husbands and Wives
IMDB 7 | Sep , 1992
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.A Christmas Gift from Bob
IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 2020
James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.The 12 Dogs of Christmas
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2005
This holiday tale has all the elements of a classic heartwarmer--cuddly dogs, small town spirit, and even a full-fledged Christmas pageant. Set during the meager years of the Great Depression, 12 DOGS OF CHRISTMAS follows the story of Emma, a 12-year-old who is sent to live in Doverville, a rural town, with her aunt. The town has, like the rest of the nation, fallen on lean times and seem to have lost all interest in celebrating. However, Emma manages to enlist the town's dogs into a colorful holiday pageant that reminds the inhabitants that even the Great Depression cannot ruin the spirit of Christmas.All Things Fair
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1995
Stig is a 15-year-old pupil of 37-year-old teacher Viola. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity while she is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a relief from her drunk and miserable husband.Ghost Dance
IMDB 5 | Dec , 1983
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'Performance
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 1970
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.