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.

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed....
Adventures of a Mathematician is the story of a Polish immigrant and mathematician, Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer. When I was a math student in university, this was the type of movie I dreamed of one-day making. This movie balances the science, history, and biography part of a biopic. The math and science in...
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with a tight budget, Beane must reinvent his team by outsmarting the richer ball clubs. Joining forces with Ivy League graduate Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), Beane prepares to challenge old-school traditions. He recruits bargain-bin players whom the scouts have labeled as flawed, but have game-winning potential. Based on the book by Michael Lewis....
Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams)....
When cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go under cover as high-school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety...
A unique relationship develops between an eccentric, reclusive novelist and a young, amazingly gifted scholar-athlete. After the novelist discovers that the young athlete is also an excellent writer and secretly takes him on as his protégé, they develop an unlikely friendship. As they learn more about each other, they learn more about themselves, and ultimately, with the help of his new mentor, the basketball star must choose the right path....
Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region....
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