Blackbeard's Ghost (1968), Accident (1967), Angrezi Medium (2020), Dark Matter (2007), Footnote (2011), Candyman (1992), A Woman of Distinction (1950), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Academia movies.
Storyline: After accidentally reciting some magic words, track coach Steve Walker (Dean Jones) summons the ghost of the dreaded pirate Blackbeard (Peter Ustinov). The spirit explains to Steve that he was cursed by his wife to roam the Earth until he performs one good deed. Since Steve is the only one who can hear or see Blackbeard, he has no choice but to aid him in his task. Together, they help Professor Backer (Suzanne Pleshette) stop a gang of crooks from taking over an inn for the elderly.
Plot Keywords: ghost, blackbeard, coach, professor, criminal, love interest, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A married Oxford don (Dirk Bogarde) lusts for a student (Jacqueline Sassard) amid academic high jinks and tragedy.
Plot Keywords: professor, student, fiancée, beautiful woman, somber, emotional, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When his daughter decides to further her studies in London, a hardworking Rajasthani businessman does everything in power to make her dreams come true.
Plot Keywords: student, half brother, rival, police officer, family, amusing, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jorge is a 25-year old janitor who desperately tries to find himself a new, and especially, better, job. This undertaking is complicated by the fact he takes care of his handicapped father who had a hart infarct seven years earlier. His soon-to-be-released brother Antonio finds a girlfriend (Paula) in jail who wants to get pregnant. When Antonio finds out he's infertile, Jorge is asked to make Paula pregnant. To make the dilemma even heavier, Jorge's childhood sweetheart Natalia returns after many years. Meanwhile, Jorge's best friend Israel (nicknamed Sean) secretly photographs men visiting an erotic masseur to find out something he didn't bargain for.—Marco van Hoof <k_luifje7@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: astrophysicist, mentor, chinese immigrant, professor, wealthy woman, husband, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious national award, is the jewel that brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: professor, son, wife, scholar, amusing, profound, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, but the people of the area are really afraid. When she ignores their warnings and begins her investigation in the places that he is rumored to appear, a series of horrible murders begins. Could the legend be true?
Plot Keywords: graduate student, professor, ghost, detective, friend, neighbor, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: dean, professor, father, publicist, love interest, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rose and Gregory, both Columbia University professors meet when Rose's sister answers Gregory's "personals" ad. Several times burned, the handsome-but-boring Gregory believes that sex has ruined his life, and has deliberately set out to find and marry a woman with absolutely no sex appeal. Greg thinks he's found what he's looking for in Rose, a plain, plump English Lit professor who can't compete with her gorgeous mother and sister. More out of mutual admiration and respect than love, Greg and Rose marry. Greg assumes that Rose understands that he is not interested in a sexual relationship. He's mistaken, and their marriage is nearly destroyed when Rose tries to consummate their relationship. While Gregory is out of the country on a lecture tour, Rose diets and exercises to transform herself into a sexy siren in a last-ditch attempt to save her marriage.
Plot Keywords: professor, mother, sister, fiancé, charming, spirited, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes suspects Kim of stealing 50 dollars from him and that starts tension, intrigues, mistrust.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: academic, professor, husband, wife, girlfriend, musicologist, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As renowned for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) is crafting yet another masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds Fred and Rose disrupt her creative process and marriage to literary critic - and philandering professor - Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg). As Stanley spars to maintain academic dominance over his would-be protégé Fred, Rose attempts to dampen her own ambitions and adjust to married life while living under the roof of their fiery intellectual hosts with quicksilver loyalties and myriad neuroses. When the motives of Shirley's literary muse prove elusive, Rose's curiosity and trusting nature make her tender prey for a brilliant author whose only allegiance is to her work.—Mae Moreno
Plot Keywords: academic, writer, author, newlywed, husband, wife, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of Coleman Silk (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with young troubled janitor Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children, and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all of his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life became unravelled.
Plot Keywords: professor, writer, janitor, husband, wife, brooding, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem: she's engaged to stuffy professor James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine's uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who's portrayed as a fun loving humble genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris.
Plot Keywords: mechanic, student, professor, albert einstein, lighthearted, playful, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An egghead (Austin Pendleton) and his think-tank colleagues brainwash a professor (Alan Arkin) to think he's from another planet.
Plot Keywords: professor, scientist, genius, soldier, amusing, madcap, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brothers Helmut (Bill Nighy) and Karl Hoffmann (John Shea) grow apart during World War II. Swept away by the hysteria of the Third Reich, blue-collar Karl becomes a storm trooper, but struggles to advance because of his lack of education. Helmut, a literature student at the University of Munich, disappoints his adviser, Professor Rosenberg (José Ferrer), by dropping out to join the SS. Both brothers fall for torch singer Mitzi (Lucy Gutteridge) -- though only one will live to regret his actions.
Plot Keywords: ss officer, brother, professor, adolf hitler, singer, soldier, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Homicide detective Amanda Reeve (Rachel Hunter) is assigned to the shocking case of a murdered law professor. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose in the same city, cutting up prostitutes and leaving the Dallas police force in the dust. Amanda's case gets racier when she catches wind of rumors that the law professor was handing out high marks in exchange for sexual favors. Most stirring of all, U.S. Senate candidate Edward Mills (James Russo) may have ties to the crimes.
Plot Keywords: district attorney, detective, law student, professor, senator, serial killer, dark ...
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