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1) Matilda
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
2) The red fury
Series
Publisher
Cerebellum
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The story of Frankie, a lost 10-year-old Indian boy who finds himself thrust into the bigotry of a turn-of-the-century white community. Only one man has the heart and courage to give him a home. Only one woman, the school marm, stands up for him against the entire town.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
4) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A college professor who has been fired for a racial slur begins to have an affair with a young woman who is half his age. The affair attracts the attention of her vengeful husband, and some tough decisions must be made by all.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer, who after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the University hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
9) Spinning man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.
10) Dismissed
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
David Butler is a discouraged but optimistic high school English teacher struggling to connect with his uninterested students. So when honor student Lucas Ward transfers into his class, he's thrilled to teach such a passionate scholar. David's excitement soon turns to fear however as he realizes that Lucas' perfectionism is pathological and that the vengeful pupil is willing to destroy anyone standing between him and a perfect GPA.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Rings: A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
The ring two: Six months after the frightening rampage and the cursed videotape that left so much death...