Waterland

6.3

1992

95 mins

DramaMystery

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.

Steve

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.

Freedom Writers

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 7.9

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

The Substitute 2: School's Out

Year : 1998Rating : ⭐ 6.5

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in order to investigate Randall's murder.

Brave the Dark

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.7

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.

Around the Bend

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 5.9

A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.

A Dry White Season

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Rememory

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.1

The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

Cracks

Year : 2009Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

The Marsh King's Daughter

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.4

Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.

Submission

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 5.9

A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.

Child's Play

Year : 1972Rating : ⭐ 6.1

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Dirty Teacher

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 5.9

When a high school senior discovers her teacher is seducing her boyfriend, events turn deadly after the teacher tries to cover it up.

Peacock

Year : 2010Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.

12 Mighty Orphans

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 7.2

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Unknown

Year : 2006Rating : ⭐ 6.2

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

The Cokeville Miracle

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.5

On May 9, 1986, a small ranching community in Wyoming experiences a divine intervention when a couple detonates a bomb inside a crowded classroom.

The Wonder

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

Hillbilly Elegy

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.7

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Year : 1976Rating : ⭐ 7.0

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

Cheaters

Year : 2000Rating : ⭐ 6.3

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.