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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.
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The Principal
Film · 1987 · also 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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Dangerous Minds
Film · 1995 · also dramaFormer Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible f...
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The Hate U Give
Film · 2018 · also dramaRaised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend,...
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Freedom Writers
Film · 2007 · also dramaA young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
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Lean On Me
Film · 1989 · also dramaWhen principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he m...
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A Dry White Season
Film · 1989 · also dramaDuring 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 cu...
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One Eight Seven
Film · 1997 · also dramaWhen a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal...
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Brave the Dark
Film · 2025 · also dramaWhen 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 be...
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The Lost Bus
Film · 2025 · also dramaA determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
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Apt Pupil
Film · 1998 · also dramaOne day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussande...
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