The Other Half

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie ...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Arthur Penn

Cast

Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Menno Meyjes

Cast

John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Dennis Gansel

Cast

Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Nicholas Hytner

Cast

Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Laurent Cantet

Cast

François Bégaudeau, Franck Keïta, Arthur Fogel