Top Cast
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Mieko Takamine
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Mitsuko Miura
Eiko Hosokawa
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Fumiko Okamura
Principal Sekiguchi
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Masami Morikawa
Vice Principal Hosaka
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Eiko Takamatsu
Yoshioka
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Kimiyo Ōtsuka
Iwasaki
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Misao Matsubara
Matsubara
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Setsuko Shinobu
Tezuka
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Yaeko Izumo
Umezawa
Overview
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
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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.
The Ron Clark Story
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Imagine
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.
Steve
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health reasons', and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His unfaithful wife Laura tries to hurt him in any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and at least regain his own self-esteem.
The Browning Version
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.
A Dry White Season
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?
All Together Now
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
Moving
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.