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Dead Poets Society
1989 film directed by Peter Weir

Good Will Hunting
1997 film by Gus Van Sant

The Theory of Everything
2014 film directed by James Marsh

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 film directed by Steven Spielberg
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949 American animated package film

Whiplash
2014 film directed by Damien Chazelle

Gone Girl
2014 film directed by David Fincher

Soul
2020 American computer-animated film

A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 film directed by Elia Kazan

Driving Miss Daisy
1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford
Taare Zameen Par
2007 film directed by Aamir Khan

Lolita
1962 USA film by Stanley Kubrick

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023 film directed by James Mangold

50 First Dates
2004 film by Peter Segal
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
2017 film by David Soren

Mona Lisa Smile
2003 film directed by Mike Newell

Rope
1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock

The Karate Kid
1984 film directed by John G. Avildsen

School of Rock
2003 film by Richard Linklater

Precious
2009 film by Lee Daniels

The Hunt
2012 film by Thomas Vinterberg

The Salesman
2016 Iranian film by Asghar Farhadi

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 film directed by Mike Nichols

Doubt
2008 film by John Patrick Shanley

Bad Teacher
2011 film by Jake Kasdan

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 film by John Hughes

The Blue Angel
1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg

The Whale
2022 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

The Happening
2008 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

A Serious Man
2009 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Another Round
2020 film directed by Thomas Vinterberg

Still Alice
2014 film directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

Kindergarten Cop
1990 film directed by Ivan Reitman

The Piano Teacher
2001 film directed by Michael Haneke

The Wave
2008 film by Dennis Gansel

Lolita
1997 film by Adrian Lyne

Pay It Forward
2000 film directed by Mimi Leder

Weapons (2025 film)
Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film directed, written, co-produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.

The Chorus
2004 film by Christophe Barratier

Children of a Lesser God
1986 film by Randa Haines

The Witches of Eastwick
1987 film by George Miller

Cellular
2004 film directed by David R. Ellis

Project Hail Mary (film)
Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film; Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, and Lionel Boyce appear in supporting roles. The film follows Ryland Grace, a school teacher who awakens aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he got there.

Coach Carter
2005 film directed by Thomas Carter

Enemy
2013 film directed by Denis Villeneuve

A Single Man
2009 film by Tom Ford

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 film by Renny Harlin

Matilda
1996 film directed by Danny DeVito

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998 film directed by Steve Miner

The Class
2008 French film directed by Laurent Cantet

The Dead Zone
1983 film by David Cronenberg

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1939 film by Sam Wood

Throw Momma from the Train
1987 film directed by Danny DeVito

Black Narcissus
1947 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

The Nutty Professor
1996 film directed by Tom Shadyac

The Children's Hour
1961 film directed by William Wyler

The Miracle Worker
1962 film by Arthur Penn

The Faculty
1998 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

Black
2005 film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

American Fiction
2023 film directed by Cord Jefferson