To Sir, with Love

7.5

1967

105 mins

Drama

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.

Dead Poets Society

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 8.3

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

The Ron Clark Story

Year : 2006Rating : ⭐ 7.6

Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.

All Together Now

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.7

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?

Night and the City

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 7.5

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

Coach Carter

Year : 2005Rating : ⭐ 7.6

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Year : 2003Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

The Miracle Worker

Year : 2000Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.

Pay It Forward

Year : 2000Rating : ⭐ 7.4

Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.

Lilting

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 7.0

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

London River

Year : 2009Rating : ⭐ 6.7

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Year : 1969Rating : ⭐ 7.0

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

The Beautiful Game

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.

The Girl in the Book

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 5.8

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

My Dinner with Hervé

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.3

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

Elvis

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.4

The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars

Year : 2012Rating : ⭐ 6.8

A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.

The Sense of an Ending

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Inside Llewyn Davis

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 7.2

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

Giant Little Ones

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

The Emperor's Club

Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 7.1

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.