100 Best Teacher Movies for Inspiration and Fun

100 Best Teacher Movies for Inspiration and Fun

If you are not a student now, once you were a student. So you must have a favorite teacher movie that you’re willing to watch again and again. Many teacher movies are truly inspiring, exceptional, and worthy of your attention.

As an idealist math teacher for almost ten years, I believe heroes like teachers are often not celebrated enough. And thank movie directors, movies are good ways to shine a light on the real-life of teachers.

Why You Should Watch Teacher Movies?

An inspiring story of a dedicated teacher has a huge potential to make a difference in others’ lives! That’s why I have curated my favorite teacher movies below. I believe many of them will leave you with wisdom and positive lessons. There are a lot of dramas on my list, like Dead Poets Society, but there are also hilarious comedies such as School of Rock and Bad Teacher. But in general, an educator believes in a group of students who don’t believe in themselves in these movies. Yes, it sounds cliche.

Anyway, these movies are the best movies about teachers, and they focus on teachers, teaching, and the conflicts our educators often go through when trying to teach. I hope you enjoy them.

If you need a math movie list, you should dive into 6 Beautiful Math Movies Based on True Stories or 25+ Beautiful Math Movies for Mathematics Lovers.

When Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), a young German man, is suddenly released from an existence of inexplicable confinement, he is forced into regular society. Barely capable of communicating, Hauser is exploited in a circus sideshow until he is taken under the wing of the kindhearted Professor Daumer (Walter Ladengast), who slowly helps him acclimate to conventional life, even teaching him to read and write. Despite his best efforts, however, Hauser may not be able to escape the horrors of his...
Man-child Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) has been a spoiled rich kid all his life, and spends his days drinking and partying. When his father, hotel magnate Brian (Darren McGavin), becomes fed up with his son's irresponsible ways, he issues an ultimatum. Since Billy passed all his schooling thanks to his father's influence and bribes, he must retake and pass every grade in 24 weeks. Otherwise, the business will be turned over to Brian's conniving associate, Eric (Bradley Whitford)....
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who turned to math for salvation as a child after her father became ill. As an adult she now teaches the subject and helps her students through their own crises....
Veronica (Winona Ryder) is part of the most popular clique at her high school, but she disapproves of the other girls' cruel behavior. When Veronica and her new boyfriend, J.D. (Christian Slater), confront clique leader Heather Chandler (Kim Walker) and accidentally poison her, they make it appear a suicide. Soon Veronica realizes that J.D. is intentionally killing students he does not like. She races to stop J.D. while also clashing with the clique's new leader, Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty)....
When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it....
Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write and suffers constant abuse at the hands of her vicious mother (Mo'Nique). Precious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school. Under the patient, firm guidance of her new teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins the journey from oppression to self-determination....
In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest....
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