# The best movies about teachers

Teachers who change lives, impossible classes and the odd experiment that gets out of hand. According to Educación 3.0, El Cine en la Sombra and FilaSiete.

- 28 votes · 14 items
- Feb 13, 2025 · Macarena
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## Top 10

1. **The Chorus (2004)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A music teacher at a boarding school for troubled boys.
2. **Monsieur Lazhar (2011)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — An Algerian immigrant replaces a teacher who has died, in Montreal.
3. **The Class (2008)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A school year in a Paris secondary school; Palme d'Or.
4. **Butterfly's Tongue (1999)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — A boy and his village teacher in 1936.
5. **The Wave (2008)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A classroom experiment on autocracy that spirals out of control.
6. **Dead Poets Society (1989)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Mr Keating awakens his students at a boarding school.
7. **Matilda (1996)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Miss Honey against headmistress Trunchbull.
8. **Whiplash (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A drummer and his ruthless teacher.
9. **Dangerous Minds (1995)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A former Marine facing a tough class, based on a true story.
10. **Radical (2023)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A teacher at a border school in Matamoros changes the method.
11. **Freedom Writers (2007)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A teacher who gives her students a voice through diaries.
12. **School of Rock (2003)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A guitarist who poses as a substitute teacher.
13. **To Sir, with Love (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sidney Poitier at an East End London school.
14. **The Holdovers (2023)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A grumpy teacher and a student stuck at school over Christmas.

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