Movies and TvShows featuring "abusive-teacher" theme.

Matilda, a sweet and intelligent girl, defies her neglectful parents and takes a stand to change her life. With her sharp mind and vivid imagination, she discovers her telekinetic powers and uses them to overcome challenges and protect her friends. Along the way, she unravels the dark secrets of her past and finds a new home with her caring teacher, Miss Honey. Matilda's story is a heartwarming tale of courage, resilience, and the power of imagination.

After the death of his wife, a widower holds auditions for a new wife. He becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman who turns out to be a sadistic killer. As the plot unfolds, the widower finds himself trapped in a web of sadism and murder.

Foxfire follows a group of high school girls who form a girl gang called Foxfire. They bond over shared experiences of abuse and powerlessness, and seek revenge against those who have wronged them. The film explores themes of friendship, empowerment, and the struggle for independence.

A story about young love, parents, and the challenges of growing up.

Set in 1960s Denmark, a young boy rebels against his oppressive school and pursues his passion for music, facing challenges and oppression along the way. Inspired by Martin Luther King, he fights for his dreams and challenges the status quo.

Neds follows the story of a young boy named John McGill as he navigates his way through the turbulent streets of a working-class neighborhood in Scotland. Dealing with an abusive father, bullying at school, and the lure of joining a gang, John must confront his own fate and find a way to break free from the cycle of violence and despair.

GO is a Japanese movie released in 2001. It tells the story of Sugihara, a Korean-Japanese teenager, who is caught between two cultures and faces racism and prejudice in Japan. He gets involved with the yakuza and becomes a boxer, while also navigating a complicated love story.

Thirst is a 1949 movie that delves into the intertwined lives of multiple characters, exploring themes of love, infidelity, loss, and personal growth. The story revolves around a couple facing marital issues and the impact it has on their lives and the people around them. As the plot unfolds, secrets are revealed, alliances are tested, and decisions made that alter the course of everyone's lives forever.

Crazy First Love is a South Korean sex comedy that revolves around a university student named Tae Il who falls madly in love with a beautiful and enigmatic girl named Ho Jung. Tae Il, desperate to win her heart, disguises himself as a woman and enters a women-only university to be close to her. Chaos ensues as Tae Il struggles to keep his true identity a secret, leading to hilarious situations and misunderstandings. Will Tae Il's crazy plan succeed in winning Ho Jung's heart?

Tree of Knowledge is a coming-of-age drama set in the 1950s, following the story of a new student who becomes an outcast in a strict school. She experiences loneliness, rivalry, and teenage crushes while dealing with a violent and abusive teacher. The plot explores themes of friendships, conformity, and the consequences of spreading rumors.

A group of high school students come up with a kidnapping scheme to teach their strict literature teacher a lesson. However, the plan takes a dark turn when they accidentally kill him, leading to a series of lies, deception, and cover-ups.

After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town Joe and townie mastermind Jennifer quickly join forces. They are determined to succeed on a campus over-populated with jaded mega-rich kids awash in trust funds, abortions, and drugs galore.

In this animated short, writer/director Hart Snider takes us back to junior high school in the late ’80s for a dark but funny coming-of-age story. Back in the era of the Walkman, Pac-Man, and Wayne Gretzky, Hart finds himself lost amongst his pubescent peers. He lacks the confidence to ask the girl of his dreams out on a date, and he’s just discovered that he’s required to take shop class, when he’d been hoping to register for Home Economics instead. Hart dreads shop class and his terrifying teacher, Mr. P. Threatened by the school bully, and lectured by Mr. P. on the horrifying consequences of using industrial power tools, Hart wants nothing more than to follow the scent of freshly baked cookies all the way back to that Home Ec. room down the hall. Try as he might, Hart just can’t succeed in shop. He fails assignment after assignment as Mr. P. continues to break him down. But he perseveres, and discovers a few things about himself along the way.

Lucas is a new student at a prestigious private school. He thrives, but is at odds with his tyrannical teacher Jon, as he challenges the strict agenda that Jon wants to preserve for everything in the world. When Jon sees that Lucas has an influence on the class' talented girl Caroline, he cannibalizes her and makes her break down. The injustice makes Lucas so angry that he takes up the matter with Principal Helle. The next day, everything seems to be in perfect order, but Lucas has stuck his nose too far forward.

A primary school art teacher and his young pupil bond while exploring the forest together, but things change when they decide to go swimming in a pond.