Movies and TvShows featuring "academia" theme.
In a world where almost everyone has superpowers, Izuku Midoriya is born without any, but he dreams of becoming a hero. When he is chosen by the number one hero, All Might, to inherit his powers, Izuku begins his journey at U.A. High School, a prestigious school for aspiring heroes. Alongside his classmates, Izuku faces challenges, villains, and the intense competition of the Hero Course, all while learning what it truly means to be a hero.
Lewis is a British detective TV show set in Oxford, England. It follows Detective Inspector Robert Lewis and his partner Detective Sergeant James Hathaway as they solve complex crime cases. The show also explores the personal lives of the detectives and their interactions with colleagues and the criminal justice system. Lewis is known for its intriguing whodunit plots and its focus on forensic science. It has gained popularity for its cozy mystery style and captivating storytelling.
University Challenge is a long-running quiz show that first aired in 1962. It features teams of university students competing against each other in answering general knowledge questions. The show is known for its challenging questions and intense competition.
Little Witch Academia tells the story of Akko Kagari, an energetic and headstrong young witch-in-training who attends Luna Nova Witchcraft Academy. Along with her friends, Lotte and Sucy, Akko goes on exciting and whimsical adventures, learning important lessons about friendship, magic, and self-discovery. From navigating the challenges of school life to facing off against dangerous magical creatures, Akko and her friends prove that determination and teamwork can overcome any obstacle.
Honor, an ambitious high school senior, is determined to get into Harvard. She devises a plan to take down her top three competitors but falls for her biggest rival, Michael, causing unexpected complications.
Discover the story of All Might and how he became the world's greatest hero in this action-packed anime film.
An accomplished molecular biologist moves out of the lab in a quest to make an encyclopedia documenting all the fruit fly species in North America.
Set in 2005, socially invisible Kahar risks tainting his family’s KUDRAT legacy when he volunteers for the Pilihanraya in order to protect his best friend. In this opportunity to rebrand himself, we witness the transformation of Kahar, from what begins as a noble act steers Kahar into the path of malevolence and tyranny.
The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.
A young teacher named Erin Gruwell inspires her racially divided class of at-risk students at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. Based on a true story, Erin uses unconventional methods to engage her students, including having them keep diaries and teaching them about the Holocaust. Through her efforts, the students begin to transform their lives and find hope for the future.
Still Alice is about a linguistics professor named Alice who, at her 50th birthday party, starts to experience memory loss. Upon visiting the doctor, she is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease. The film follows Alice's journey as she copes with the disease and her relationships with her husband and children become strained. She faces challenges in her career and tries to make the most of the time she has left before her memory fades away completely. Still Alice depicts the heartbreaking effects of Alzheimer's Disease on both the individual and their loved ones.
Follow the Gladney family as they navigate the conflicts of everyday life while grappling with universal mysteries. A cataclysmic train accident disrupts their lives, leading to a chemical waste cloud and a major evacuation. As they face the effects of the exposure, their fears of death and anxieties come to the surface. When Babette joins a shadowy clinical trial, Jack seeks revenge on a mysterious man in his hallucinations. In the end, the family finds reconciliation and joy in unexpected places.
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle their former classmate to death as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in a chest and host a dinner party, with their guests including the victim's fiancée and father. Throughout the evening, their guest of honor, Rupert Cadell, starts to suspect and confronts them. As the tension increases, the truth is revealed and the police are called.
After the death of her mathematician father, a troubled young woman must decipher her father's mathematical proof, while dealing with her overbearing sister and her own growing mental instability.
Cheat is a psychological thriller TV show that revolves around academic cheating and the subsequent police investigation. The story explores the dark and intense world of academia, where students resort to unethical means to gain an unfair advantage. As the investigation unfolds, the characters are pushed to their limits, and the line between right and wrong blurs.
Possession is a gripping drama about forbidden love, secret affairs, and the lengths people will go to hold onto what they desire. Set in Yorkshire, England, the film follows two academics who uncover a series of passionate letters exchanged by two Victorian poets. As they delve deeper into the past, their present lives become entangled in a web of obsession, deceit, and desire. Will they be able to resist the pull of the past or will they succumb to their own desires? The film explores themes of love, betrayal, and the consequences of our actions.
Brace yourselves - the new kids are here. Five talented black scholarship students, and an elite private school with a reputation problem. One of them will have to change...
The greatest thinkers/comedians of our time ask the questions no one else will.
Six middle schoolers are tricked into attending a fake academic summer camp by a mad scientist. Now they’re stuck for three months on a wild tropical island with mind-reading manatees, giant fighting fungi and fashion-forward mutants.