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The brilliant 2006 British comedy drama film The History Boys is adapted by Alan Bennett from his hugely successful, award-winning play, and features its tremendous original cast. The brilliant 2006 British comedy drama film The […]
French film-maker Laurent Cantet won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008 for his moving and humorous school-set film The Class [Entre Les Murs]. Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Cannes Palme d’Or-winning school-set film The Class [Entre […]
The fresh and funny 2015 comedy drama Né Giulietta, né Romeo [A Little Lust] is a likeable, well meaning film starting from bullying and homophobia among teenagers at an Italian high school, where gay teenager […]
Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1944 Swedish drama Frenzy [Hets] [Torment] stars Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin and Mai Zetterling, and won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay, is an […]
Director James Gilbert’s 1972 Australian romantic comedy drama Sunstruck stars Harry Secombe, who is ideally cast as Stanley Evans, an amiable but reticent Welsh teacher who acts on a poster he sees offering work in […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1958 black and white crime drama Violent Playground is a little-known, but quite well-done film from the British neo-realist school, with Liverpool part-time policeman and juvenile liaison officer Sergeant Truman (Stanley Baker) […]
Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]