Films like The Kindergarten Teacher
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
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Blue Car
Film · 2003 · also dramaMeg is a gifted but emotionally scarred 18-year-old who finds solace in writing poetry. Mr. Auster, her English teacher, recognizes her talent and encourages her to enter...
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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 Talented Mr. Ripley
Film · 1999 · also dramaTom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who...
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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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Blame
Film · 2018 · also dramaA drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high sch...
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Submission
Film · 2018 · also dramaA well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
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Shirley
Film · 2020 · also dramaA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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The Tracey Fragments
Film · 2007 · also dramaTracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, cluel...
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Strange Weather
Film · 2016 · also dramaYears after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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Lorelei
Film · 2020 · also dramaA man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret an...
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