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1. My Hero Academia (2016– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A superhero-admiring boy enrolls in a prestigious hero academy and learns what it really means to be a hero, after the strongest superhero grants him his own powers.
Stars: Daiki Yamashita, Justin Briner, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Ayane Sakura
Votes: 78,553
2. Back to School (1986)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.
Director: Alan Metter | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon
Votes: 36,236 | Gross: $91.26M
3. Freedom Writers (2007)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn
Votes: 85,429 | Gross: $36.61M
4. White Noise (I) (2022)
R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Madison Gaughan
Votes: 44,585
5. Still Alice (2014)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth
Votes: 143,549 | Gross: $18.75M
6. Antebellum (2020)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston
Votes: 29,833
7. Evil (2003)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linda Zilliacus
Votes: 42,106 | Gross: $0.02M
8. The Object of My Affection (1998)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A pregnant New York City social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Kali Rocha, Lena Cardwell
Votes: 21,533 | Gross: $29.11M
9. Proof (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Hope Davis, Jake Gyllenhaal
Votes: 46,326 | Gross: $7.52M
10. Submission (2017)
R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery
A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student.
Director: Richard Levine | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Kyra Sedgwick, Janeane Garofalo, Addison Timlin
Votes: 1,535 | Gross: $0.04M
11. Possession (2002)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 13,720 | Gross: $10.10M
12. Little Witch Academia (2017)
TV-Y7 | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Akko enrolls at the Luna Nova Witchcraft Academy. She's not the best student, but her bright attitude is the key to her and her friends' success.
Stars: Megumi Han, Erica Mendez, Alexis Nichols, Fumiko Orikasa
Votes: 4,051
13. Insatiable Coeds (2000 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 76 min | Drama
Insatiable Coeds is a compilation softcore video.
Director: Cybil Richards | Stars: Katherine 'Kat' Hare, Brandy Miller, Tess Broussard, Mellara Gold
Votes: 46
14. Lantana (2001)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
Director: Ray Lawrence | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong
Votes: 20,228 | Gross: $4.46M
15. The Red Pill (2016)
TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary
The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"
Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay
Votes: 12,051
16. Songcatcher (2000)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Music
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ... See full summary »
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Janet McTeer, Michael Harding, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin
Votes: 3,684 | Gross: $3.05M
17. An Acceptable Loss (2018)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
Libby teaches at a university but 4 years ago she was top aide to VP Rachel and was part of a total victory action. Rachel is now US president and worried about Libby keeping quiet. Libby also has a student spying on her.
Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Deanna Dunagan
Votes: 1,606 | Gross: $0.03M
18. Oleanna (1994)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
When a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Diego Pineda, Scott Zigler
Votes: 3,619 | Gross: $0.12M
19. Dark Matter (I) (2007)
R | 88 min | Drama
Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen | Stars: Ye Liu, Aidan Quinn, Meryl Streep, Peng Chi
Votes: 3,658 | Gross: $0.03M
20. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Ben Stein, Lili Asvar, Peter Atkins, Hector Avalos
Votes: 12,198 | Gross: $7.69M
21. American Friends (1991)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor ... See full summary »
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin, Alfred Molina
Votes: 863
22. Camouflage (1977)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the ... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul, Mariusz Dmochowski
Votes: 1,732
23. Publish or Perish (2023)
100 min | Comedy
A tenure-obsessed English professor accidentally takes a student's life. Desperate to protect his career, he makes a fateful decision, sending his life spiraling out of control.
Director: David Liban | Stars: Amie MacKenzie, James Shanklin, Katie Michels, Anastasia Davidson
Votes: 184
24. Butley (1974)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance
An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.
Director: Harold Pinter | Stars: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Georgina Hale
Votes: 881
25. Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors ... See full summary »
Director: Gay Dillingham | Stars: John Perry Barlow, Dean Chamberlain, Ram Dass, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock
Votes: 489
26. 21 Up (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield
Votes: 2,924
27. Private's Progress (1956)
102 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst, Peter Jones
Votes: 903
28. StuGo
TV-Y7 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Announced
Follow six middle school students who are tricked by a mad scientist to attend a fake academic summer camp, where they remain blocked for three months on a wild tropical island.
Stars: Lorraine Toussaint, Tania Gunadi, Deborah Baker Jr., Zach Reino
29. Rasganço (2001)
93 min | Drama
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Director: Raquel Freire | Stars: Ricardo Aibéo, Ana Teresa Carvalhosa, Isabel Ruth, Paula Marques
Votes: 232
30. Elliot Fauman, Ph.D. (1990)
PG-13 | Comedy, Romance
Psychology professor Elliott Fauman, Ph.D., in researching the lives and personalities of prostitutes, finds his "statistical architype" in actress Meredith Dashley. Fauman is unaware that ... See full summary »
Director: Ric Klass | Stars: Randy Lowell, Tim Abell, Randy Aaron Fink, Ira Smart
Votes: 21
31. Project Stargate - an unscientific comedy
Comedy, Drama | Post-production
A failed philosophy student's bet triggers his recruitment by a secret government organization concerned with psychic research. He must maintain his story and protect the department from a fearless military man's scrutiny.
Stars: Bill Mockridge, Piro Rempel, Alexandra Kuzmanovic, Maximilian Düppenbecker
32. The Genius and the Boys (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography
The documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as ... See full summary »
Director: Bosse Lindquist | Stars: Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Carleton Gajdusek
Votes: 65
33. Ladder of Philosophy
Documentary, History | Announced
Four philosophers - an atheist, an agnostic, a Christian, and a Hindu - settle down to discuss life, reason, faith, and whatever else comes to mind.
Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher
34. Gender Wars (2023 TV Special)
Documentary
Stars: Linda Bellos, Julie Bindel, Finn Mackay, Kathleen Stock
Votes: 19
35. Odyssey (IV) (2023)
102 min | Documentary
Six boys test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a creative problem-solving competition. The teens build a robot to tell a story about exclusion and mental health. But how does their solution measure up?
Director: Garrett Stiger | Stars: Ruben Barbero, Nathan Chu, Braylon Ervin, Jaytin Sampat
Votes: 9
36. Once Upon a Time in Britannia (2019 TV Special)
Documentary
A series of short documentaries, detailing how a mature student of creative writing wrote a script that a number of academics and experts believe was adapted without his knowledge and turned into Sky's hit television drama, Britannia.
Director: Ben Krushkoff | Star: Ben Krushkoff
Votes: 12
37. Imbalance
Drama | Pre-production
Elizabeth Drewer is an esteemed professor of philosophy whose principles of logic and rationality have always guided her. As the #Me Too movement comes to her university, a lawsuit against ... See full summary »
Director: Dale Griffiths Stamos
38. Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying & the Evergreen Equity Council (2019)
Documentary
Stars: Bret Weinstein, Peter Boghossian, Heather Heying, Helen Pluckrose
Votes: 17
39. Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender? (2021)
52 min | Documentary
Documentary film featuring interviews with experts, activists, parents, and educators discussing the medical and surgical gender transition of children.
Directors: Kallie Fell, Jennifer Lahl | Stars: Brynne, Natasha Chart, Elizabeth, Michelle Forcier
Votes: 25
40. Merge (I)
120 min | Documentary | Filming
Director: Rich Almeida | Stars: Basil Hubbard, Ned Sahin, Mo Motamedi, Frederick Bieber
41. The Letters
Drama, Horror, Mystery | Announced
Coastal California, 1991. To the horror of his pregnant wife, a bright young professor begins to unravel after the suicide of his wayward twin brother.
42. The Left Has Abandoned the Working Class (2017 Video)
12 min | Short, News
Stefan Molyneux argues that the Left has abandoned and betrayed the working class in favor of mass immigration and the votes and political power that come with them.
Star: Stefan Molyneux
43. Athens Academy
158 min | Drama
A new girl arrives at a mysterious boarding school where all the high schoolers are ancient Greek mythological characters.
Director: June Zaporojan | Stars: Dasia Allen, Cyrus Hazel, Sophia Quish, Brooke Murphy
44. What Pisses Me Off About Roy Moore and Stupid F&%king Republicans (2017 Video)
21 min | Short, News
Stefan Molyneux asks Republicans: Are you trying to lose?
Star: Stefan Molyneux
45. IBCSR: The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (2015)
52 min | Documentary
A 52-minute documentary about the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion in Boston Massachusetts, where the scholars are neuroscientists, computer programmers, evolutionary ... See full summary »
Director: Jenn Lindsay
46. Antistrofi metrisi (1984)
94 min | Drama
Director: Panos Papakyriakopoulos | Stars: Giannis Voglis, Kitty Arseni, Kostas Koukios, Nikos Papakonstantinou
47. Unearthed & Understood (2014)
20 min | Short, History
Film commissioned by the President's Commission on Slavery and University at the University of Virginia. Premiered at the October symposium, 2014.
Director: Eduardo Montes-Bradley | Stars: Julian Bond, Rita Dove, Alex Johnson Jr., Stanton Lucia
48. Colin Thiele: His Work and Legacy (2015 Video)
88 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Colin Thiele, Belle Alderman, Margaret Carmody, Nick Klomp
49. Adultolescence (2011)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
LEA, a young Chinese-American woman, once disowned by her immigrant mother and now struggling to make peace, goes through a painful, sometimes comedic, journey that has her teetering between a breakdown and breakthrough.
Directors: Diep Bui, Vicky Shen | Stars: Jeanne Sakata, Vicky Shen, Clementine Ngo Anh, Michael Yama
Votes: 22
50. Alternative Influence: YouTube Censorship Manifesto - Rebutted! (2018 Video)
83 min | News
Star: Stefan Molyneux