Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "literature-professor"

1. Back to School (1986)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.

Director: Alan Metter | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon

Votes: 36,352 | Gross: $91.26M

2. The Voyeur (1994)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A troubled college professor becomes obsessed with the idea that his emotionally distant wife is having an affair with his invalid father.

Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Katarina Vasilissa, Francesco Casale, Cristina Garavaglia, Raffaella Offidani

Votes: 3,893

3. Guilty of Romance (2011)

144 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to ... See full summary »

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima

Votes: 5,855

4. Elegy (I) (2008)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 23,244 | Gross: $3.58M

5. Doctor Detroit (1983)

R | 89 min | Comedy

A pimp on the run trusts his sex workers to a meek professor of literature, who accepts the challenge.

Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Lydia Lei

Votes: 6,154 | Gross: $10.38M

6. Wit (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald

Votes: 11,425

7. Good (2008)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.

Director: Vicente Amorim | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 7,849 | Gross: $0.02M

8. The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nicholas Blandullo

Votes: 3,248

9. I've Loved You So Long (2008)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Director: Philippe Claudel | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill

Votes: 20,738 | Gross: $3.17M

10. Gurov and Anna (2014)

100 min | Drama, Romance

With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey's family hanging in the balance.

Director: Rafaël Ouellet | Stars: Sophie Desmarais, Andreas Apergis, Marie Fugain, Éric Bruneau

Votes: 277

11. The Perfect Student (2011 TV Movie)

R | 88 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Nicole Johnson is a well-respected criminology professor. When one of her students is accused of the brutal slaying of her roommate, Nicole is the only person who believes she is innocent and begins to investigate the murder.

Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Brea Grant, Josie Davis, Jay Pickett

Votes: 773

12. Love Is the Perfect Crime (2013)

110 min | Crime, Thriller

After a brief affair with her seductive professor, a young student mysteriously disappears. As the police and the girl's stepmother tighten the noose on the cryptic tutor, he experiences a long-forgotten feeling. Is love the perfect crime?

Directors: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Maïwenn, Sara Forestier

Votes: 2,165

13. Within the Whirlwind (2009)

90 min | Biography, Drama

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart, Benjamin Sadler

Votes: 1,113

14. Dunia (2005)

112 min | Drama, Romance

After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian ... See full summary »

Director: Jocelyne Saab | Stars: Hanan Turk, Mohamed Mounir, Fathi Abdulwahhab, Sawsan Badr

Votes: 321

15. The Wishing Tree (2012 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Family, Romance

A special Christmas tree decorated with handwritten wishes helps Evan and his group of orphaned students develop a connection and a sense of family.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Jason Gedrick, Erica Cerra, Richard Harmon, Amitai Marmorstein

Votes: 772

16. Au Revoir L'Ete (2013)

125 min | Drama

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Mayu Tsuruta, Taiga Nakano, Kanji Furutachi

Votes: 458

17. B-Girl (2009)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A story about a female breakdancer overcoming a brutal attack to claim her place in the world of underground hip-hop.

Director: Emily Dell | Stars: Julie 'Jules' Urich, Missy Yager, Wesley Jonathan, Drew Sidora

Votes: 721

18. Last Wedding (2001)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Sweeney | Stars: Ben Immanuel, Frida Betrani, Tom Scholte, Nancy Sivak

Votes: 357

19. Honey for Oshun (2001)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama

When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is helped in his search by a cousin and a taxi driver.

Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos, Mario Limonta, Saturnino García

Votes: 196

20. Chlap na strídacku (2020)

Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Happily married for fifteen years, Zuzana finds out one day that her husband has been having an affair with another woman for a long time. Zuzana does not hesitate and decides to visit her ... See full summary »

Director: Petr Zahrádka | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Ivana Chýlková, Lucie Zácková, Iva Janzurová

Votes: 141

21. La grande lessive (!) (1968)

95 min | Comedy

An addiction is spreading in Paris: Television. Literature teacher Saint-Just is confronted by overtired pupils who can no longer keep their eyes open from all the TV. He and a colleague set out on a mission to save the pupils from the TV.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Roland Dubillard, Jean Tissier

Votes: 451

22. The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)

70 min | Drama

The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.

Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román

Votes: 188

23. Beloved/Friend (1999)

87 min | Drama, Romance

Jaume, a sick professor of literature, decides to leave his heritage "an essay on the book of Ramón Llull" to his best student David, a hustler.

Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Josep Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas, David Selvas

Votes: 478

24. La conciergerie (1997)

101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jacques Laniel, a young policeman for whom everything seemed to turn into success, sees is universe falls over when his partner and friend is meanly killed before his very eyes.

Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Serge Dupire, Macha Grenon, Jacques Godin, Monique Spaziani

Votes: 201 | Gross: $0.25M

25. To the Other Side (2013)

20 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery

Pivoting around a novelist's fascinating story of a magic mirror--the extra-dimensional gate to a haunting realm--a Literature student locates her house, intent on crossing over. Will he ever find out what lurks hidden on the other side?

Director: Alicia Albares | Stars: William Miller, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Ramón Barea, Xenia Sevillano

Votes: 39

26. Il segno del comando (1992 TV Movie)

212 min | Mystery, Thriller

Professor Foster, invited to Paris for a lecture on Lord Byron's diary, following a magnificent discovery sees his life bound up with the discovery of the sign of command, an artifact that confers immortality on its rightful possessor.

Director: Giulio Questi | Stars: Robert Powell, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jonathan Cecil, Fanny Bastien

Votes: 17

27. Zborovna (2000– )

26 min | Short, Comedy

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Stars: Marián Zednikovic, Bozidara Turzonovová, Ján Króner Jr., Diana Mórová

Votes: 36

28. The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode: But at My Back I Always Hear (1997)

TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A university professor rejects an advance made by one of his students and discovers that her twisted obsession with him does not end with her death.

Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Terence Stamp, Michael Gross, Karen Elkin, Cary Lawrence

Votes: 101

29. Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode: Dream of Doom (1997)

TV-MA | 25 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Arthur Bristol is a college professor who is stuck in a series of dreams that he can't wake up from. Or is he?

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Keith Carradine, Lolita Davidovich, Gretchen Palmer, Adam Arkin

Votes: 99

30. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode: Star-Crossed - June 15, 1972 (1989)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

At a small Ohio college, Sam Beckett is a literature professor who must discourage the amorous advances of a student and finds the woman who left him at the altar. Sam hopes that resolving ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Teri Hatcher, Leslie S. Sachs

Votes: 825

31. Independent Lens (1999– )
Episode: The Great Pink Scare (2006)

TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary

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Directors: Daniel S. Miller, Tuggelin Yourgrau | Star: Terrence Howard

32. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea (2008)

TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of a maintenance worker at the Bodleian Library and the death of a popular Art student seem to be linked.

Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Darren Clarke, Haydn Gwynne, Sam Alexander, Emily Beecham

Votes: 888

33. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: The Lost Girls (2009)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The homicide of a weathercaster who was moonlighting as a prostitute uncovers a clue that could lead Dr. Langston to the missing woman from his New York and Miami cases.

Director: Alec Smight | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Eric Szmanda

Votes: 715

34. You (2018–2024)
Episode: Joe Takes a Holiday (2023)

TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Now living in London, Joe tries to lay low and resist old habits.. until he's forced to tie up loose ends and bond with wealthy socialites.

Director: John Scott | Stars: Penn Badgley, Tati Gabrielle, Charlotte Ritchie, Tilly Keeper

Votes: 3,252

35. Bored to Death (2009–2011)
Episode: I've Been Living Like a Demented God! (2010)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A professor hires Jonathan to track down a valuable item. George finds an alibi to explain the results of his drug test. Flushed with cash from his "Super Ray" comic book, Ray heads to the bar - and meets a familiar barfly.

Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, Ted Danson, Heather Burns

Votes: 408

36. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Generation of Vipers (2012)

TV-PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When it becomes widely known that a best-selling feminist author and lecturer has joined an Internet dating site, she apparently commits suicide.

Director: David O'Neill | Stars: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Jason Durr, Julie Cox

Votes: 678

37. Rosamunde Pilcher (1993– )
Episode: Das Geheimnis der Blumeninsel (2018)

Drama, Romance

John Harding resumes his job as literature professor in Plymouth to enable his wife Amy the means to attempt revitalizing the ailing family flowers nursery her grandparents started on the ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Serafini | Stars: Eva-Maria Grein von Friedl, Christian Natter, Marie Theres Relin, Urs Remond

Votes: 38