Composition Class / 1938

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

Russian Lessons / 2010

Russian Lessons sees its two filmmaker-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, report from different posts on the frontline of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.

Death Row - Nel braccio della morte / 1999

Nel sud degli anni '40, un afro-americano viene ingiustamente accusato dell'omicidio di bianco, proprietario di un negozio. In sua difesa, il suo avvocato bianco lo mette sullo stasso piano di un umile animale, ad indicare che non aveva la capacita' di capire cosa stesse facendo. Viene comunque condannato a morte, ma la sua madrina (con l'aiuto della zia della maestra), convince la maestra della scuola ad andare a visitare il condannato tutti i giorni e ad insegnargli che lui non e' soltanto un animale ma un essere umano con la sua dignita'.

Education of Love / 1961

.A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of mischievous working-class 3rd graders that initially proved to be much more than she can handle. Yet it is the matronly bond that is formed with her little urchin flock and her gradual understanding of the their poverty-stricken home lives outside of the classroom that raises the stakes for her as a teacher. It doesn't hurt that her empathetic male colleague Kit Chang provides support for her dilemmas also provide her a prospect as love interest. With growing ties with her students and school, Lin finds herself accepting the challenge for education of her community with her own education of love.

Dutch in Seven Lessons / 1948

A film-within-the-film scenario involving a cameraman who's given a week to photograph the aerial highlights of Holland for a travelogue.

The Piano Lesson / 1995

1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.

Lessons of Love / 2019

69-year-old Jola puts on elaborate make-up, while her husband spouts casual abuse in the background, how she never had much in her head and is basically worthless when it comes down to it. So Jola leaves Italy on a train bound for her native Poland. There, on the beach, she takes a trip down memory lane with her girlfriends: how she married the young man who got her pregnant, swore to care for him “in good times and in bad”, raised her six children and put up with punches, put-downs and her husband’s drinking problem. And now? Now she dresses elegantly, and takes singing and dance lessons. In the process, she meets a gentleman her age, Wojtek, and the two strike up a friendship. But divorce, at her age? What will her family, her friends or the church say? Of course, one can just leave, everyone is free to choose, but is it the right move?

Lessons of Love / 20197.01 voti

Thirty-year-old Yuri and his father run the last farm left in a small, remote mountain village. Desperate to find love, Yuri meets a young woman in a strip club. Chiara Campara's fiction film debut takes a hyperreal approach to portray forgotten members of society, giving the story an incredibly authentic feel.

Kamen Raidā Gītsu: Henshin Kōza / 2022

Kamen Rider Geats: Transformation Lessons is a short movie showing the transformation of Kamen Rider Geats from the eponymous series. It was released on the show's premiere day.

Portrait of a Thief / 2015

A pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.

Poškolák / 1976

An animal lover, Miloš , brings a small mouse to school, which causes a lot of excitement in the classroom. Miloš remains for punishment after school, however, when the teacher notices that Miloš is bringing lunch to his sick grandmother, she lets him go home. However, Miloš cannot get home with lunch. Somewhere, he lost the key he wears on the string around his neck.

Private Lessons / 2020

Yeong-il is often attached to Jae-hyun, who always attends to his poetry lectures. Jae-hyun is not interested in poetry, but he doesn't want to miss out on Yeong-il's class. After all, Yeong-il decided to give private lessons to Jae-hyun, who failed to submit his assignments.

Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô / 1934

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

First Lesson / 1940

The Dawn / 2006

A group of students singed up for a college credit course about indigenous cultures at a rural retreat. But, when darkness falls, the students find out that the curriculum also included their bloody deaths. Terror begins when darkness reigns and survival depends on staying alive until......The Dawn.

Chernobyl and Fukushima: The Lesson / 2016

Chernobyl 1986. A nuclear reactor exploded, spewing out massive quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. Within days, the pollution had spread across Europe. Living on land contaminated with radioactivity would be a life-changing ordeal for the people of Belarus, but also for the Sami reindeer herders of central Norway. It even affected the Gaels of the distant Hebrides. Five years ago there was a meltdown at the Fukushima reactor, and thousands of Japanese people found their homes, fields and farms irradiated, just as had happened in Europe. This international documentary, filmed in Belarus, Japan, the lands of Norway's Sami reindeer herders and in the Outer Hebrides, poses the question: what lessons have we learned?

Lesson / 1987

A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions.

The Lesson / 2016

The story of a boy, named Khalid. At school they called him “Hippo“. But Khalid does everything so his fellow students will like him. He may not be the best football player, but he can write beautiful poetry. In a pinch, he can distract the teacher until she forgets the math quiz. Luckily, he has a grandpa at his side to help him out, and then there is s a girl who likes him and makes his classmates to change their minds about him.