Films like Blackboard Jungle
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is s...
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To Sir, with Love II
Film · 1996 · also dramaAfter thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be...
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Class of 1984
Film · 1982 · also crime and dramaAndy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a...
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The United States of Leland
Film · 2003 · also crime and dramaA withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the com...
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The Substitute 2: School's Out
Film · 1998 · also crimeWhen 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 tur...
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Wanda
Film · 1970 · also crime and dramaAfter a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
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True Believer
Film · 1989 · also crime and dramaEddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's gre...
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The Unforgivable
Film · 2021 · also crime and dramaA woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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The Public Eye
Film · 1992 · also crime and dramaA crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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The Principal
Film · 1987 · also crime and dramaBurglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even...
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Reasonable Doubt
Film · 2014 · also crimeWhen up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the...
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