Best Schoolteacher Movies

The 27 best-rated schoolteacher movies on 3eyedraven, ranked by a weighted audience score so the genuinely great rises above one-off perfect ratings. Every title has cast, ratings, trailers and where to watch.

27 titles

Dead Poets Society 1989 ★ 8.3

The Birds 1963 ★ 7.5

The Teacher Who Promised the Sea 2023 ★ 7.8

Pay It Forward 2000 ★ 7.4

Radio 2003 ★ 7.3

Twenty-Four Eyes 1954 ★ 7.7

Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939 ★ 7.4

Mr. Nobody Against Putin 2025 ★ 7.4

Bigger Than Life 1956 ★ 7.2

The Lost Bus 2025 ★ 7.0

Dangerous Minds 1995 ★ 7.0

This Land Is Mine 1943 ★ 7.1

There Was a Father 1942 ★ 7.0

Up the Down Staircase 1967 ★ 7.1

Just Go with It 2011 ★ 6.7

Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1969 ★ 6.8

The Night House 2021 ★ 6.6

Wet Season 2019 ★ 6.4

Cobweb 2023 ★ 6.4

The Sect 1991 ★ 6.3

Wetherby 1985 ★ 6.0

The Private Lesson 1975 ★ 5.4

The Way We Weren't 2019 ★ 5.0

Teachers 1984 ★ 5.7