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Directed by John G. AvildsenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Martial arts,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Romance,
Martial artsThemes L'adolescence,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Teen movieActors Ralph Macchio,
Pat Morita,
Elisabeth Shue,
Martin Kove,
Randee Heller,
William ZabkaRating72%
Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), a high school senior, moves with his mother Lucille (Randee Heller) from Newark, New Jersey to Reseda, a neighborhood in the Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley area. Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric but kind and humble Okinawan immigrant named Kesuke Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita)., 1h39
Directed by John N. SmithOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
CrimeThemes Films about education,
Films about music and musicians,
Hip hop films,
Gangster filmsActors Michelle Pfeiffer,
George Dzundza,
Robin Bartlett,
Courtney B. Vance,
Beatrice Winde,
John NevilleRating65%
LouAnne (Michelle Pfeiffer), a discharged U.S. Marine, applies for a teaching job in High School, and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect. Showing up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything. They immediately coin the nickname "White Bread" for LouAnne, due to her race and apparent lack of authority, to which LouAnne responds by returning the next day in a leather jacket and teaching them karate. The students show some interest in such activities, but immediately revert to their former behavior when LouAnne tries to teach the curriculum., 1h47
Directed by Arthur HillerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about educationActors Nick Nolte,
JoBeth Williams,
Ralph Macchio,
Judd Hirsch,
Richard Mulligan,
Morgan FreemanRating60%
The film opens with a typical Monday morning at John F. Kennedy High School; "typical" events including a fight between teachers, a student with a stab wound and talk of an upcoming lawsuit. We meet haggard Vice Principal Roger Rubell (Judd Hirsch) and clueless Principal Eugene Horn (William Schallert), as well as stuffy lawyer and JFK alumna Lisa Hammond (JoBeth Williams), who is in charge of taking depositions for the Calvin case, in which a recent graduate is suing the school for granting him a diploma despite his illiteracy. , 2h7
Directed by John G. AvildsenOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about racism,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Political filmsActors Stephen Dorff,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
John Gielgud,
Morgan Freeman,
Daniel Craig,
Simon FentonRating71%
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed Englishwoman on a homestead in rural Natal, little Peter Philip is schooled in the ways of England by his mother and the ways of Africa by a Zulu nanny (Nomadlozi Kubheka), whose son Tonderai is also his best friend. Their easy life is forever shattered, however, when the farm's cattle are claimed by rinderpest. PK's mother succumbs to a nervous breakdown, and he is sent away to a conservative Afrikaans boarding school while she recovers., 1h35
Directed by Jean-Pierre AmérisOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Films about education,
Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films about disabilities,
La cécité,
Personne sourde ou muette,
Sign-language films,
French Sign Language films,
Films about language and translationActors Isabelle Carré,
Brigitte Catillon,
Laure Duthilleul,
Ariana Rivoire,
Noémie Churlet,
Patricia LegrandRating74%
En 1897, un artisan modeste interne sa propre fille Marie Heurtin chez les Filles de la Sagesse parce qu'elle est sourde et aveugle de naissance et qu'elle est incapable de communiquer. Intriguée, la sœur Sainte-Marguerite s'occupe d'elle., 1h46
Directed by Arthur Penn,
Ulu GrosbardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Films about education,
Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Théâtre,
Films about disabilities,
Films based on plays,
La cécitéActors Anne Bancroft,
Patty Duke,
Victor Jory,
Inga Swenson,
Andrew Prine,
John BlissRating80%
Les parents d'une fillette devenue aveugle et sourde alors qu'elle était encore bébé, font appel à une institutrice spécialisée, elle-même mal-voyante., 2h3
Directed by James MarshOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Biography,
RomanceThemes Films about education,
Films about mathematics,
Films about disabilitiesActors Felicity Jones,
Eddie Redmayne,
Emily Watson,
Harry Lloyd,
David Thewlis,
Charlie CoxRating77%
In 1963, Cambridge University astrophysics student Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) begins a relationship with literature student Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones). Although Stephen excels at mathematics and physics, his friends and professors are concerned over his lack of thesis topic. After Stephen and his professor Dennis Sciama (David Thewlis) attend a lecture on black holes, Stephen speculates that black holes may have been part of the creation of the universe and decides to write his thesis on time., 2h15
Directed by Ron HowardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
RomanceThemes Films about education,
Medical-themed films,
Films about mathematics,
Psychologie,
Films about psychiatryActors Russell Crowe,
Ed Harris,
Jennifer Connelly,
Paul Bettany,
Christopher Plummer,
Josh LucasRating81%
In 1947, John Nash (Crowe) arrives at Princeton University. He is co-recipient, with Martin Hansen (Lucas), of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. At a reception, he meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Richard Sol (Goldberg), Ainsley (Jason Gray-Stanford), and Bender (Rapp). He also meets his roommate Charles Herman (Bettany), a literature student.