A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

Mad About Music

1938

English

7.0

♡ 2

72%

Norman Taurog Director

William Frawley as Dusty Turner

Mildred Kornman as Schoolgirl

Ann Bupp as Schoolgirl

Betty Jane Graham as (uncredited)

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

My Wonderful Life

2021

Polish

5.9

♡ 4

64%

Lukasz Grzegorzek Director

Agata Buzek as Joanna 'Jo' Lisiecka

Hubert Grysztar as Schoolboy

Mikolaj Dumanowski as Schoolboy

Aleksandra Stefanowicz as Schoolgirl

A caring daughter, a laid-back mother, a popular teacher, a wife you are thick as thieves with – Joanna – is outstanding in each of these roles. But in none of them does she feel like herself. That is why she leads a double life. She has a secret she shares with no-one.

The Brides of Dracula

1960

English

6.6

♡ 29

79%

parent child relationship

vampire

vampire hunter (slayer)

vampire slayer

Terence Fisher Director

Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing

Yvonne Monlaur as Marianne Danielle

Jill Haworth as Schoolgirl

Marie Devereux as Village Girl

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957

English

6.4

♡ 7

65%

Frank Launder Director

Aileen Lewis as Actress in Play

Alastair Sim as Miss Amelia Fritton

Bernard Fox as Photographer

Lesley Scoble as Schoolgirl

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.

Carry on Teacher

1959

English

6.2

♡ 7

53%

Gerald Thomas Director

Leslie Phillips as Alistair Grigg

Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Stevens - Saboteur

Joan Sims as Sarah Allcock

Francesca Annis as Schoolgirl

When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power, and bombs!