9. Mr. Holland's Opus

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  • PG

• Richard Dreyfuss
• Glenne Headly

To support his family, a devoted musician unwillingly takes a "day job" as a high school music teacher, leaving little time for his own creations and ideas.

8. School of Rock

• Jack Black
• Adam Pascal

When Dewey Finn, a failed rockstar who gets fired from his rock band, becomes the substitute teacher at an uptight school, he finds it impossible to put his passion aside, and he turns his students...Read more into rock-enthusiasts.

7. Stand and Deliver

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  • PG

• Andy Garcia
• Edward James Olmos

The true story of how high school teacher Jaime Escalante fought to transform the lives of his disenfranchised students, using innovative teaching methods to get a class full of resistant students to...Read more the point where they managed to ace an advanced calculus test in California.

6. The Emperor's Club

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  • PG-13

• Kevin Kline
• Emile Hirsch

As a battle of wills ensues between a professor and his stubborn new student, their initial animosity soon gives way to a strong bond that changes both of their lives.

5. The Great Debaters

• Denzel Washington
• Nate Parker

Based on the real-life experiences of American poet and Wiley College Texas professor Melvin B. Tolson, who encouraged students to start the school's first debate team in 1935, which managed to...Read more compete against Harvard in the national championship.

4. Dangerous Minds

• • MPAA
  • R

• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Courtney B. Vance

Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine turned teacher who breaks up with her husband. Her teacher friend tries to get her a temporary job as a teacher in the same school. Johnson struggles as she tries to...Read more deal with her bright but underachieving students.

3. Freedom Writers

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Hilary Swank
• Scott Glenn

The true story of how Erin Gruwell beat the odds and managed to unite her class of at-risk students who are divided by race and old hostilities.

2. To Sir, with Love

• Sidney Poitier
• Christian Roberts

A coloured, newbie teacher, is assigned to teach a group of poor white-skinned teenagers in London. He is facing plenty of obstacles dealing with them, especially in the 1960s, where racism against...Read more the black-skinned did not completely perish from existence.

1. Dead Poets Society

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  • PG

• Robin Williams
• Robert Sean Leonard

Shy student Todd Anderson attends the school where his older brother was famous along with his roommate Neil Perry. They meet John Keating, the new English teacher who creates a club called The Dead...Read more Poets Society,through which he tries to help his students restore balance in their lives.