Highest-Rated Movies about 'Language Learning'

Das Boot (1981), A Prophet (2009), English Vinglish (2012), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Happiness (1998), Love Actually (2003), Monsieur Lazhar (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Language Learning movies.

#16. Nine to Five (1980)

Storyline: Meet Franklin Hart (Dabney Coleman). The biggest "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss on the planet. He thrills in taking advantage of his head female office staff; humiliating, downplaying, and condescending against them whenever conveniently possible, particularly his top assistant Violet (Lily Tomlin). Long-exhausted over his gruesome bullishness, Violet, alongside co-workers Doralee (Dolly Parton) and Judy (Jane Fonda) comprise comical methods of "doing him in", when a freak incident occurs. They then manage to kidnap Hart and trap him in his own house, while assuming control of his department, and productivity leaps. But just how long can they keep him tied up?

Plot Keywords: female protagonist, friendship between women, camera shot of feet, high heels, title spoken by character, cannabis, chauvinism ...

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#17. Crossing Over (2009)

Storyline: Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures.

Plot Keywords: doggystyle sex, illegal immigrant, mini skirt, breasts, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, lingerie ...

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#18. The New World (2005)

Storyline: Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newport's ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives, who have no personal property concept, turn hostile after a 'theft' is 'punished' violently on the spot. During an armed exploration, Smith is captured, but spared when the chief's favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads for the stranger who soon becomes her lover and learns to love their naive 'savage' way of harmonious life. Ultimately he returns to the grim fort, which would starve hadn't she arranged for Indian generosity. Alas, each side soon brands their own lover a traitor, so she is banished and he flogged as introduction to slavish toiling. Changes turn again, leading Smith to accept a northern-more mission and anglicized Pocahontas, believing him dead, becoming the mother of aristocratic new lover John Rolfe's son. They'll meet again for a finale in England.

Plot Keywords: fort, native american, existentialism, american history, armor, baby, baptism ...

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#19. Moonlight Mile (2002)

Storyline: A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.

Plot Keywords: graveyard, dancing, crying, crime scene, court, control freak, closet ...

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#20. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Storyline: John Truscott goes to Borneo to work with the Iban. He reports to Henry Bullard, who gives him a "sleeping dictionary"--one of the locals who teaches him the local language and culture. And who he gives John is Selima. And while teaching him, John finds himself attracted to her. And we says it's not allowed, both the locals and Bullard forbid him to be in a relationship with Selima. But he defies them which has dire consequences.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: heavy rain, three word title, female frontal nudity, sex scene, colony, pig, pillow talk ...

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#21. Shanghai Noon (2000)

Storyline: A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O'Bannon, a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge onto one misadventure after another.

Plot Keywords: temple, safe, explosion, stagecoach, railroad, ponytail, treason ...

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#22. Spanglish (2004)

Storyline: Flor emigrates to Los Angeles from Mexico in hopes of finding a better life for her and her daughter, Cristina. Hired by the John and Deborah Clasky as their housekeeper, Flor contends with the language barrier, Cristina's budding femininity, and the eccentric Clasky's way of life.

Plot Keywords: shopping, storytelling, kitchen, eating, food, shower, dog ...

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#23. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Storyline: A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Plot Keywords: coming of age, treehouse, animal cruelty, victorian era, language learning, inheritance, animal human communication ...

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#24. Splash (1984)

Storyline: Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later, he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he has seen and what he has imagined). Using maps from a sunken ship, the mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York City, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet.

Plot Keywords: mermaid, new york city, public nudity, happy ending, underwater scene, elevator, villain turns good ...

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#25. Doctor Faustus (1967)

Storyline: Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.—Jwelch5742

Plot Keywords: veterinarian, england, africa, talking animal, based on novel, street vendor, trial ...

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