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Are you a fan of intelligent, witty, and insightful stories that revolve around the life of a professor? Look no further! In this article, we'll delve into the best movies and TV shows that feature professors as main characters, exploring their personal and professional lives, struggles, and triumphs. From classic films to modern series, we've got you covered.

Cast

Robin Williams

Robert Sean Leonard

Ethan Hawke

Josh Charles

Dead Poets Society (1989)

8.3 12.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG

Story: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Plot: individual, friendship, philosophy, poetry, literature, professor, based on true story, coming of age, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: new england

Cast

Cantinflas

Rosita Arenas

u00c1ngel Garasa

Rebeca Iturbide

El señor fotógrafo (1953)

8.3 79 votes

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Country: Mexico

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Plot: amnesia, atomic bomb, photographer, gangster, professor, chemist, manicurist, mental clinic, ...

Cast

u00darsula Corberu00f3

Itziar Ituu00f1o

u00c1lvaro Morte

Pedro Alonso

Money Heist (2017) TV Show

8.2 19.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Spain

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 41

Audience: TV-MA

Story: To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.

Style: intense

Plot: stockholm syndrome, perfect crime, robbery, professor, flashback, heist, sexual tension, bank robbery, ...

Place: spain

Cast

Victor Sju00f6stru00f6m

Bibi Andersson

Ingrid Thulin

Gunnar Bju00f6rnstrand

Wild Strawberries (1957)

8.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Plot: adultery, dreams, nightmare, faith, identity, professor, journey in the past, aging, ...

Doctor Slump (2024) TV Show

8.1 145 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: Once rivals in school, two brilliant doctors reunite by chance — each facing life’s worst slump and unexpectedly finding solace in each other.

Style: romantic

Plot: depression, workaholic, professor, friendship, romcom, rivalry, romance, teacher, ...

Cast

Park Bo-gum

Park So-dam

Byeon Woo-seok

Lee Chang-hoon

Record of Youth (2020) TV Show

8.1 238 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: In a cutthroat world where the life you’re born into decides your success, three aspiring youths are determined to change that perception as they fight for their dreams.

Plot: love triangle, suicide, regret, photographer, professor, strong woman, beauty, banker, ...

Cast

Choi Min-sik

Choi Hyun-wook

Huh Joon-ho

Yunjin Kim

Notes from the Last Row (2026) TV Show

7.7 35 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A literature professor discovers a student's talent and offers him writing lessons — but as he sinks into the story, their sessions spiral into chaos.

Style: psychological, suspenseful

Plot: professor, based on play or musical, mind game, student, thriller, school setting, mind-bending, mentor-mentee relationship

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

George Segal

Sandy Dennis

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

7.7 923 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

Style: provocative

Plot: adultery, professor, married couple, guest, black humor, based on play or musical, campus, dysfunctional marriage, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Cantinflas

Silvia Pinal

Carlos Martu00ednez Baena

u00d3scar Pulido

El Portero (1950)

7.7 59 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Mexico

Duration: 113 min.

Story: Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

Plot: professor, horse race, caretaker, soldier, neighborhood

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Imelda Staunton

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

7.7 20.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

Plot: witch, dying and death, based on novel or book, court, magic, prophecy, loss of loved one, professor, ...

The Man from Earth (2007)

7.6 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.

Plot: immortality, birthday, legend, philosophy, professor, psychology, bible, time, ...

Still Alice (2014)

7.5 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Plot: mother, amnesia, based on novel or book, professor, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, family, illness, ...

Cast

Kevin Spacey

Kate Winslet

Laura Linney

Rhona Mitra

The Life of David Gale (2003)

7.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Plot: prison, journalist, death penalty, professor, death row, interview, murder, reporter, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Woody Allen

Martin Landau

Mia Farrow

Alan Alda

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

7.4 960 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Plot: adultery, new york city, assassin, professor, brother-in-law, murder, mistress, doctor, ...

Cast

Will Ferrell

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Dustin Hoffman

Emma Thompson

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

7.3 2.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

Plot: literature, professor, writer's block, love, fate, author, death, dying, ...

A Single Man (2009)

7.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, professor, grief, suicidal, los angeles, california, death of lover, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Wagner Moura

Alice Carvalho

Gabriel Leone

Isabu00e9l Zuaa

The Secret Agent (2025)

7.2 759 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Brazil, France

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: R

Story: Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

Plot: police, professor, secret agent, dictatorship, on the run, recife, brazilian politics, archives, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: brazil

Cast

Sean Connery

Rob Brown

F. Murray Abraham

Anna Paquin

Finding Forrester (2000)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Plot: dying and death, high school, friendship, scholarship, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, unsociability, becoming an adult, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Mel Gibson

Sean Penn

Natalie Dormer

Eddie Marsan

The Professor and the Madman (2019)

7.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Mystery

Country: France, Ireland

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Plot: based on novel or book, professor, lunatic asylum, biography, based on true story, mental patient, dictionary

Time: 19th century

Cast

Glenn Close

Jonathan Pryce

Christian Slater

Max Irons

The Wife (2017)

7.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden, Switzerland

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, professor, nobel prize, stockholm, sweden, flashback, ...

Time: 1960s, 1990s

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