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Good Will Hunting (1998)
, 2h6Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about mathematics, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Psychanalyse
Actors Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, Casey Affleck
Twenty-year-old Will Hunting (Damon) of South Boston is a self-taught, genius-level intellect with an eidetic memory, though he works simply as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and spends his free time drinking with his friends, Chuckie (Affleck), Billy (Cole Hauser) and Morgan (Casey Affleck). When Professor Gerald Lambeau (Skarsgård) posts a difficult problem taken from algebraic graph theory as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the graduate students and Lambeau himself. As a challenge to the unknown genius, Lambeau posts an even more difficult problem and chances upon Will solving it. Fearing he will lose his sole means of (a meager) income, Will flees and skips going into work the next day. That night, Will meets Skylar (Driver), a British orphan about to graduate from Harvard, who plans on attending medical school at Stanford.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
, 2h8Directed by Peter Weir
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd
In 1959, shy Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) begins his senior year of high school at Welton Academy, an elite prep boarding school. He is assigned one of Welton's most promising students, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), as his roommate and is quickly accepted by Neil's friends: romantic Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), overachiever Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), best friends Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero) and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston), and mischievous beatnik Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen).
, 2h10Directed by David Yates
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman
Lord Voldemort retrieves the Elder Wand from Albus Dumbledore's grave. After burying Dobby, Harry Potter asks the help of goblin Griphook, Ron, and Hermione to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux may be there. Griphook agrees, in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor. Wandmaker Ollivander tells Harry that two wands taken from Malfoy Manor belonged to Bellatrix and to Draco Malfoy, but Malfoy's has changed its allegiance to Harry.
The 400 Blows (1959)
, 1h39Directed by François Truffaut, Robert Bober, Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Pierre Repp, Luc Andrieux
Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a young boy growing up in Paris during the early 1950s. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble), Antoine frequently runs away from both places. The boy finally quits school after being caught plagiarizing Balzac by his teacher. He steals a typewriter from his stepfather's (Albert Remy) work place to finance his plans to leave home, but is apprehended while trying to return it.
Mary and Max (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Adam Elliot
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films about school violence
Actors Bethany Whitmore, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, John Flaus
In 1976, eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) lives a lonely life in Mount Waverley, Australia. At school, she is teased by her classmates because of an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead; while at home, her distant father, Noel, and alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother, Vera, provide little support. Her only comforts are her pet rooster, Ethel; her favourite food, sweetened condensed milk; and a Smurfs-like cartoon show called The Noblets. One day, while at the post office with her mother, Mary spots a New York City telephone book and, becoming curious about Americans, decides to write to one. She randomly chooses Max Jerry Horowitz's name from the phone book and writes him a letter telling him about herself, sending it off in the hope that he will become her pen friend.
Diabolique (1955)
, 1h54Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Assassinat, Films about education, Psychologie, Films about sexuality
Actors Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Jean Brochard
A second-rate boarding school is run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delassalle (Meurisse). The school, though, is owned by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina (Clouzot), and Delassalle flaunts his relationship with Nicole Horner (Signoret), a teacher at the school. Rather than antagonism, the two women are shown to have a somewhat close relationship, primarily based on their apparent mutual hatred of Michel, who is physically and emotionally abusive to both.
Where Is The Friend's House? (1987)
, 1h19Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children
As he prepares to do his homework, Ahmed realizes that he accidentally brought home a notebook belonging to one of his classmates. Knowing that his friend may be expelled if he does not have the notebook in order to complete his homework, Ahmed goes looking for his classmate.
The Miracle Worker (1962)
, 1h46Directed by Arthur Penn, Ulu Grosbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about education, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, La cécité
Actors Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, John Bliss
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.
Front of the Class (2008)
, 1h35Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about education, Films about disabilities
Actors James Wolk, Treat Williams, Patricia Heaton, Mike Pniewski, Sarah Drew, Kathleen York
Brad Cohen's story starts as a young boy whose mother helped doctors to realize that he had Tourette syndrome. With his mother's help and the support of his school principal, Brad eventually becomes an award-winning teacher.
The Browning Version (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Anthony Asquith, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an aging Classics master at an English public school, and is forced into retirement by his increasing ill health. The film, in common with the original stage play, follows the schoolmaster's final few days in his post, as he comes to terms with his sense of failure as a teacher, a sense of weakness exacerbated by his wife's infidelity and the realization that he is despised by both pupils and staff of the school.
Balak-Palak (2013)
, 1h49Directed by Ravi Jadhav
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education, Children's films
Actors Sai Tamhankar, Madan Deodhar, Prathamesh Parab, Prathamesh Parab, Kishor Kadam, Anand Abhyankar
Silenced (2011)
, 2h3Directed by Hwang Dong-hyeok
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Gong Yoo, Jeong Yu-mi, Kim Hyun-soo, Jang Gwang, Baek Seung-hwan, Kim Ji-young
Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo) is the newly appointed art teacher at Benevolence Academy, a deaf school children in the fictional city of Mujin, North Jeolla Province. He has a dark past - his wife was a high school student who committed suicide and his daughter is under the care of his mother. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. In-ho does not give up, however, trying to show the kids that he cares. When the children finally open up, In-ho faces the shocking and ugly truth about the school and what the students have been enduring in secret: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children’s rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yoo-jin (Jung Yu-mi). But he and Yoo-jin soon realize the school’s principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth. In addition to using "privileges of former post" (Jeon-gwan ye-u) the accused do not hesitate to lie and bribe their way to get very light sentences.
Donnie Darko (2001)
, 1h53Directed by Richard Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Time travel films, La sexualité des mineurs, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about school violence
Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
On October 2, 1988, Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a troubled teenager living in Middlesex, Virginia, is awakened and led outside by a figure in a monstrous rabbit costume, who introduces himself as "Frank" and tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. At dawn, Donnie returns home to find a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. His older sister, Elizabeth (Maggie Gyllenhaal), informs him the FAA investigators do not know where it came from.
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
, 1h54Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about education, Politique, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Films about school violence
Actors Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Matt Stone, Chris Rock, Keanu Reeves
Ce film est un documentaire critique de la société américaine qui tente de répondre à cette question : « Pourquoi le nombre d'homicides par arme à feu est-il proportionnellement plus élevé aux États-Unis que dans les autres pays ? ». Le titre fait référence à la fusillade du lycée Columbine à Littleton (Colorado) en 1999 où 12 lycéens et un professeur sont assassinés par deux de leurs camarades.