Padosan (1968), From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980), The Chorus (2004), The Awful Truth (1937), Profondo rosso (1975), The Piano Teacher (2001), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), Jeremy (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Music Teacher movies.
Storyline: Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to fall for her.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: professor, music teacher, musician, janitor, singer, gangster, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The bane of young Bart Collins' existence is the piano lessons he's forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker, the only person he detests because of his dictatorial nature. Bart feels that Dr. Terwilliker has undue influence on his widowed mother Heloise. Bart constantly daydreams of a place--the Terwilliker Institute--at which the evil madman is its overlord. The mad doctor's built a piano so immense that it needs 500 children to play it.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: young boy, single mother, plumber, music teacher, uncle, amusing, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of a young teacher who fights against the board of education in her bid to teach underprivileged kids in a Harlem school the beauty of music through the violin. In her struggle she loses everything as the system comes down on her with all their might but her determination for the kids happiness helps her to battle back with wonderfully inspirational results.
Plot Keywords: violinist, music teacher, student, principal, melodramatic, powerful, harlem, n.y. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautiful model, Trilby, and becomes infatuated with her, but she, in turn, falls for a young artist called Billee who also loves her. One day Svengali hypnotizes Trilby to cure her headache, but also examines her upper palate and decides it is an ideal cavity for great singing. He convinces her to fake her suicide, so Billee and friends will forget her, and goes on a singing tour with her. Svengali uses his powers to make her sing wonderfully and Madame Svengali, as Trilby is now known, becomes a sensation throughout Europe. But Billee discovers the ruse and begins to follow the pair, upsetting Svengali enough to have him cancel performances too frequently, so they no longer can perform in Europe. They go to Egypt, but Billee relentlessly follows.—Arthur Hausner <genart@volcano.net>
Plot Keywords: music teacher, student, singer, love interest, dark, eerie, europe ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: There's something strange going on at the graffiti-covered Lincoln High, as teachers are carrying loaded guns, and the students have to walk through a metal detector before they enter the classroom. Before long, the school's new music teacher, Andrew Norris, will learn firsthand that it's even worse than it looks, as the drug-plagued institution is the territory of the charismatic Peter Stegman and his brutal gang of crazed followers. Now, under those dire circumstances, it's only a matter of time before the professor and the pupil lock horns, with unforeseen consequences. But, do drastic times call for drastic measures? In the end, is there a cure for violence?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: teacher, music teacher, student, security guard, rape victim, gang member, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side-the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boys appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother."—GMeleJr
Plot Keywords: mother, father, son, music teacher, uncle, psychiatrist, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Walt Koontz, a homophobic cop, ends up with paralyzed vocal cords because of an unfortunate stroke. His therapy includes singing lessons from a neighbor who is not only flamboyantly gay but also pre-operative transgender. Both of them are equally prejudiced; Koontz against non-heterosexuals and the neighbor against closed-minded straight people.
Plot Keywords: retiree, security guard, music teacher, gay man, transvestite, emotional, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: All three previously married but now single, best friends sculptress Alex Medford, cellist Jane Spofford and writer Sukie Ridgemont are feeling emotionally and sexually repressed, in large part due to the traditional mores overriding their small New England coastal town of Eastwick. After their latest conversation lamenting about the lack of suitable men in Eastwick and describing the qualities they are looking for in a man, mysterious Daryl Van Horne and his equally mysterious butler Fidel arrive in town. Despite being vulgar, crude, brazen and not particularly handsome, Daryl manages to be able to tap into the innermost emotions of the three friends, and as such manages to seduce each. In turn, the three women blossom emotionally and sexually. After an incident involving one of the town's leading citizens, the ultra conservative Felicia Alden, the three women begin to understand how and why Daryl is able to mesmerize them so fully. The three decide to experiment with some powers ...
Plot Keywords: stranger, sculptor, journalist, music teacher, divorcée, witch, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Back in his prime, Scott Voss (Kevin James) was a collegiate wrestler with some fairly impressive moves. Now, at 42, he teaches biology at troubled Wilkinson High School. Mr. Voss has begun to grow deeply indifferent in his role as an educator when a troubling announcement stirs him to action. Effective immediately, Wilkinson High will be eliminating all extracurricular activities. Suddenly, the most apathetic teacher on the staff has a reason to get involved. But how is a typical high-school teacher like Mr. Voss supposed to raise the $48,000 needed to save the music program from going belly up? Upon learning that some MMA fighters earn $10,000 just for stepping into the ring, Mr. Voss vows to get back in shape, and subject himself to a series of brutal beatings so his students won't have to go without.
Plot Keywords: high-school teacher, music teacher, wrestler, nurse, student, embezzler, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him. They concoct a plan - blacken his record in front of the Ministry Inspector and then he won't ever be able to get another job!—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: headmaster, student, inspector, child psychologist, english teacher, music teacher, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Plot Keywords: composer, fiancée, wife, father, music teacher, spirited, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war. Mindzhenty was arrested, tortured and eventually released, but was persecuted to the extent that he wound up taking refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest for many years, still acting as a spokesman for the Hungarians who wanted the Russian occupation forces and their Hungarian collaborators out of the country.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: cardinal, music teacher, army colonel, journalist, brutal, dark, budapest, hungary ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle')and would-be singer Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine). When Nancy and Martin fall in love but quarrel over her old flame, David Parker (William Leslie), Nancy returns to her teaching job. Jerry reunites Nancy and Martin and, in turn, succumbs to the charms of his new secretary Marge Stevenson (Lucy Marlow).—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: music teacher, fiancé, science teacher, singer, songwriter, publisher, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Divided into four chapters - Son, Daughter, Father and Mother - "Four Windows" is a look inside the brains of a not-so-normal German family. Son leaves for school but actually cruises the local gay video arcade. Dad hires a hooker, Mom flirts with the handyman and Daughter rides the subways, looking to share some intimate moments. At dinner that night, the secrets they hold come to a head.
Plot Keywords: old woman, pianist, music teacher, prisoner, young woman, intense, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances, but in the streets, for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day they find stolen government documents forgotten some place. They decide to return them to their legal owners, but instead of the expected reward money, all they get is a load of trouble.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: homeless person, alcoholic, music teacher, friend, government agent, pitcher, madcap ...
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