Ira, You'll Get in Trouble (1971)

As the debate over the state of America's public school system rages on, one thing everyone agrees on is the need for great teachers. Yet, while research proves that teachers are the most important school factor in a child's future success, America's teachers are so woefully underpaid that almost a third must divide their time between a second job in order to make a living. Chronicling the stories of four teachers in different areas of the country, American Teacher reveals the frustrating realities of today's educators, the difficulty of attracting talented new teachers, and why so many of our best teachers feel forced to leave the profession altogether. But this wake-up call to our system's failings also looks at possibilities for reform. Can we re-value teaching in the United States and turn it into a prestigious, financially attractive and competitive profession? With almost half of American teachers leaving the field in the next five years, now is the time to find out.

独裁政治を学ぶ体験授業をきっかけに洗脳されていく高校生たちの姿を描き、ドイツで大ヒットを記録した心理スリラー。アメリカで起こった実話をドイツの高校に置き換え、『エリート養成機関 ナポラ』のデニス・ガンゼルがメガホンを取った。主演には『エーミールと探偵たち』などに出演するドイツの俳優ユルゲン・フォーゲル。単純な興味や好奇心、ゲーム感覚から、あっという間に集団狂気に変化していく様子は、実話ならではのリアルさを帯び、身の毛もよだつほどのラストも衝撃的だ。

アリゾナ州の砂漠に隕石が墜落。近くの大学で講義をしていた生物学者アイラと地質学者ハリーは、現場で採取した不思議な液体から地球上に存在しない構造を有したDNAを発見する。それは驚異的な速度で単細胞へと進化し増殖していった。再び墜落現場に赴た二人は、そこが奇妙な軟体生物と昆虫らしき生命体に覆われ、独自の環境を築きつつあるのを目撃する。

冴えない高校教師が、財政難でリストラの危機を迎えた学校を立て直すべく一念発起し、賞金獲得目指して総合格闘技の大会に出場するハートフル・コメディ。勤め先の高校で、経営難のため学校内での音楽活動廃止と、顧問のマーティーの解雇を知らされた生物教師のスコットは激怒する。この危機を救うためには、莫大な資金が必要だった。そこで、負けてもファイトマネーがもらえる総合格闘技に出場して資金を集めようとする。ずんぐりむっくりな体系のスコットは、レスリング経験があったのだ。そして、負け続けながらも金を稼いでいくのだが…。

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

「モンスター上司」のチャーリー・デイと、俳優としても活躍する人気ラッパーのアイス・キューブが教師役で共演した学園コメディ。卒業式の日を迎えたルーズベルト高校。気の弱い英語教師キャンベルは、毎年恒例の卒業イタズラや、予算カットによる解雇の恐怖に不安を募らせていた。そんな中、鬼教師として恐れられる歴史教師ストリックランドを思いがけず怒らせてしまったキャンベルは、ストリックランドから決闘を言い渡される。その噂は瞬時に学校中に広まり、キャンベルは大ピンチに陥ってしまう。

生活のために仕方なく音楽教師になったホーランド。やる気のない素振りの生徒らに可能性を見出した彼は、音楽の素晴らしさを必死に伝えようとしていく。感動の涙を呼んだリチャード・ドレイファス主演の名作。

Teacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject, but her routine is forever altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father reenter her life.

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.

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.

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.

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.

Edwige Fenech plays the sexy private teacher of Franco (Alfredo Pea) who immediately falls madly in love with her. Franco tries and tries to seduce her by faking his own suicide.

A high-school teacher in 1983 and a detective in 2015 join forces through their dreams to change the perilous fate of the woman they both love—30 years apart.

In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening at the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world - the beggar mob.

Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out girls. She also drags him to her disco-dancing lessons. His friendship with Matt becomes his first love, and then Matt turns on Tom with homophobic venom. Later, Matt and Matt's new girlfriend trash the classroom of an effeminate teacher with more vicious homophobia. At first, Tom joins in heaping scorn on the teacher, then he has to decide if it isn't time to open the closet door. A crisis of sorts ensues with his mom, and disco proves to be a balm.