Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "french-teacher"

1. Final Destination (2000)

R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.

Director: James Wong | Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke

Votes: 280,746 | Gross: $53.33M

2. Screwballs (1983)

R | 80 min | Comedy

Frolicking youth comedy about zany high school students set in the 1960s.

Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Peter Keleghan, Kent Deuters, Linda Speciale, Alan Deveau

Votes: 3,687 | Gross: $2.08M

3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

PG | 115 min | Drama, Mystery

During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse

Votes: 41,251 | Gross: $0.23M

4. Fist Fight (2017)

R | 91 min | Comedy

When one school teacher unwittingly causes another teacher's dismissal, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

Director: Richie Keen | Stars: Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan, Christina Hendricks

Votes: 45,751 | Gross: $32.19M

5. Free Solo (2018)

PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport

Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.

Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Cheyne Lempe

Votes: 77,847 | Gross: $17.54M

6. LOL (2012)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

As a new year at school begins, Lola's heart is broken by her boyfriend, though soon she's surprised by her best friend, promising musician Kyle, who reveals his feelings for her.

Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Miley Cyrus, Douglas Booth, Ashley Greene, Demi Moore

Votes: 58,210 | Gross: $0.05M

7. The French Teacher (2019)

90 min | Drama

A French teacher has her personal life transformed after she begins an affair with a student half her age. The present collides with the past, as long-buried family issues are unearthed in this complex, intergenerational drama.

Director: Stefania Vasconcellos | Stars: Marie Laurin, Patrick McGowan, Anna Maiche, Tina Masafret

Votes: 208

8. Princess Protection Program (2009 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A princess whose country has been invaded goes into hiding in Louisiana, where she has to learn to act like an ordinary teenager.

Director: Allison Liddi-Brown | Stars: Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Nicholas Braun, Molly Hagan

Votes: 26,637

9. If Looks Could Kill (1991)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy

Michael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France, to graduate high school. He is, however, mistaken for an agent and people try to kill him. There are 007 style cars, cuties, crooks etc.

Director: William Dear | Stars: Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett

Votes: 7,717 | Gross: $7.79M

10. Student Bodies (1981)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school.

Directors: Mickey Rose, Michael Ritchie | Stars: Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Joe Flood

Votes: 5,384 | Gross: $5.17M

11. Diabolique (1996)

R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates

Votes: 15,416 | Gross: $17.10M

12. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main

Votes: 12,420

13. Lost Horizon (1973)

G | 150 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy

Votes: 2,867 | Gross: $8.28M

14. Madame (I) (2017)

TV-14 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich man's fortune cookie: "Tonight you'll meet someone special." He meets a maid, made aristocrat for the evening to avoid 13 at the dinner party in Paris. They spend the night together, while the hostess stalks them.

Director: Amanda Sthers | Stars: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma, Michael Smiley

Votes: 8,612

15. House of D (2004)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.

Director: David Duchovny | Stars: David Duchovny, Téa Leoni, Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin

Votes: 9,829 | Gross: $0.37M

16. Waiting for the Hearse (1985)

94 min | Comedy

Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.

Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Julio De Grazia

Votes: 7,347

17. Dismissed (2017)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.

Director: Benjamin Arfmann | Stars: Kent Osborne, Dylan Sprouse, Rae Gray, Alycia Delmore

Votes: 8,016

18. Last Night (I) (1998)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.

Director: Don McKellar | Stars: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell

Votes: 10,158

19. Phffft (1954)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak

Votes: 2,014

20. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Approved | 141 min | Drama, Romance

A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 5,400

21. The Boy in the Dress (2014 TV Movie)

63 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Dennis, a 12-year-old boy, enjoys football and fashion. The film shows the reactions of his family and friends to his eclectic activities.

Director: Matt Lipsey | Stars: Billy Kennedy, Felicity Montagu, Tim McInnerny, Temi Orelaja

Votes: 965

22. Polar Park (2023– )

53 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Crime author Rousseau travels to Mouthe. Here, Brother Giacomo is waiting for him, who has important info about Rousseau's deceased mother. But when he arrives, Giacomo has just died. Rousseau decides to investigate.

Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Guillaume Gouix, India Hair, Pierre Lottin

Votes: 636

23. Misbehaviour (2008)

95 min | Drama

An over-protected private college student comes of age as she comes to terms with the notion of punishment in all areas of her life. She discovers that all the people close to her have their own deviated agendas.

Director: Michel Zgarka | Stars: Cindel Chartrand, Andrew Avatis, Alexandra Woodward, Erna Erkat

Votes: 139

24. Common Ground (2000 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Drama

This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy," a woman joins the Navy during the 1950s and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts,... See full summary »

Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Erik Knudsen, Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Margot Kidder

Votes: 1,099

25. Adoration (2008)

R | 100 min | Drama, Romance

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard, Louca Tassone, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 3,484 | Gross: $0.29M

26. Vacationland (2006)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A high-school senior ditches his girlfriend for a gay romance with his best friend.

Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Brad Hallowell, Gregory J. Lucas, Hilary Mann, Michael John Dion

Votes: 685

27. Alice in Acidland (1969)

Unrated | 55 min | Drama

College students Alice, who lives with her widower father, and nymphomaniac Kathy are invited to a pool party by their lesbian French teacher Frieda. Alice gets drunk and uses LSD, then ... See full summary »

Director: Donn Greer | Stars: Julia Blackburn, Roger Gentry, Donn Greer, Sheri Jackson

Votes: 685

28. Margie (1946)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari, Alan Young

Votes: 870

29. Barking at the Stars (1998)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.

Director: Zdravko Sotra | Stars: Dragan Micanovic, Natasa Tapuskovic, Nikola Simic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic

Votes: 8,323

30. The Circle (2014)

Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality.

Director: Stefan Haupt | Stars: Matthias Hungerbühler, Peter Jecklin, Marie Leuenberger, Stefan Witschi

Votes: 1,695

31. A Season in France (2017)

100 min | Drama

An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire, Aalayna Lys, Ibrahim Burama Darboe

Votes: 600

32. The Life Before This (1999)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe.

Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea

Votes: 566

33. The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

The socialist mayor of Saint-Juire has set his heart on building a cultural and sports complex in the village meadow. He's a well liked by the local people and has managed to raise the loans needed for the complex thanks to his contacts.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, Clémentine Amouroux

Votes: 1,737

34. Barcelona (A Map) (2007)

90 min | Drama

6 characters--contemporary archetypes of urban solitude--in an old Barcelona building: an old husband and wife, her sister, and 3 tenants: a teacher of French, a young ex-footballer, now security guard, and a pregnant Latin American girl.

Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Núria Espert, Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Jordi Bosch

Votes: 233

35. A Year Without Love (2005)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.

Director: Anahí Berneri | Stars: Juan Minujín, Mimí Ardú, Carlos Echevarría, Javier van de Couter

Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.02M

36. American Promise (2013)

TV-PG | 135 min | Documentary

This intimate documentary follows the 12-year journey of two African-American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of their sons.

Directors: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson | Stars: Idris Brewster, Joe Brewster, Miles Brewster, Michèle Stephenson

Votes: 302 | Gross: $0.09M

37. Glorious Betsy (1928)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, History

The real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott

Votes: 163

38. Club de femmes (1936)

81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Deval | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Valentine Tessier, Else Argal

Votes: 139

39. Gambling Daughters (1941)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Mystery

A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Cecilia Parker, Roger Pryor, Robert Baldwin, Gale Storm

Votes: 34

40. Playboy Number One (1937)

Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short

Professor Pierre Ginsberg, extraordinary French instructor, is sailing with a wealthy couple as their instructor and guide in France. But when his client tries out his French in the dining ... See full summary »

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Willie Howard, Janet Reade, Louis Sorin, Ruth Leavitt

Votes: 19

41. Tu es... (1995)

80 min | Drama

Does love conquer all?

Director: Vladimir Makeranets | Stars: Anna Kamenkova, Vadim Lyubshin, Inga Ilm, Regimantas Adomaitis

Votes: 114

42. Café, Croissant, French? (2014– )

Comedy

While Béa enjoys living in California, she is still startled by the Americans' lack of 'savoir vivre' and it can only show in her teaching. Her students on the other side have a different agenda.

Stars: Roxanne Alexia Sinclair, Alex Barone, Christina Stanley, Gregory Scott

43. Imogène (1989–1996)
Episode: Imogène dégaine (1992)

87 min

After a little training in which Imogène had to jump off a car,to run to a castle and shoot several enemies.the Director tells her that she has a new important mission: the protection of ... See full summary »

Director: Thierry Chabert | Stars: Dominique Lavanant, Jean Benguigui, Riton Liebman, Louba Guertchikoff

44. Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)
Episode: Dead Water (1994)

TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alleyn's old French teacher, the landlord of an idyllic Scottish island is receiving death threats because she's blocking its development as a health spa.

Director: John Woods | Stars: Ewen Bremner, Jane Lapotaire, Eleanor David, Margaret Tyzack

Votes: 123

45. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: Kaddish (1997)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Munch's high school love interest, Helen Rosenthal, is raped and murdered, leaving Munch and Kellerman trying to solve the case. Grief and 1960's nostalgia engulf Munch, and meanwhile he connects with Helen's mourning daughter.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes

Votes: 145

46. Joséphine, ange gardien (1997– )
Episode: Le tableau noir (1998)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Joséphine has a new mission "Thierry".Thierry is a French teacher in a college of the suburbs of Paris who has lost recently his wife.Before meeting and helping Thierry , Joséphine meets a ... See full summary »

Director: Laurent Dussaux | Stars: Mimie Mathy, Patrick Pineau, Natalia Dontcheva, Jérémie Lippmann

Votes: 12

47. Weird Science (1994–1998)
Episode: Magnifico Dad (1994)

Approved | 23 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Giving Gary's mother a wish results in his Dad switching places with a sexy hunk which doesn't turn out as he thinks it will.

Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Michael Manasseri, John Asher, Lee Tergesen, Vanessa Angel

Votes: 46

48. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Cat Among the Pigeons (2008)

TV-14 | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A foreign revolution, a kidnapped princess, and a trove of priceless rubies are linked to a prestigious girls' school, where staff members are brutally murdered.

Director: James Kent | Stars: David Suchet, Harriet Walter, Raji James, Adam De Ville

Votes: 2,243

49. Vanity Fair (1998)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1998)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Romance

Becky Sharp, an orphan, has been raised in Miss Pinkerton's school and leaves to become a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley's two young girls.

Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Danielle Hawley, Paul Brightwell, Natasha Little, Sara Powell

Votes: 30

50. Miranda (2009–2015)
Episode: Teacher (2009)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

Miranda wants to create a romantic moment between herself and Gary. Flat-mate Stevie thinks a knowledge of French might help and takes her to her French class. The tutor - who cops off with... See full summary »

Director: Juliet May | Stars: Miranda Hart, Sarah Hadland, Tom Ellis, Patricia Hodge

Votes: 407