Top 20 movies like The School Teacher and the Waif

The School Teacher and the Waif

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.

The School Teacher and the Waif is of 0 hour(s) and 17 minute(s). It is Produced By:  American Mutoscope & Biograph. It was released on 1912-06-26. It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. People (People)

People

People is a film shot behind closed doors in a workshop/house on the outskirts of Paris and features a dozen characters. It is based on an interweaving of scenes of moaning and sex. The house is the characters' common space, but the question of ownership is distended, they don't all inhabit it in the same way. As the sequences progress, we don't find the same characters but the same interdependent relationships. Through the alternation between lament and sexuality, physical and verbal communication are put on the same level. The film then deconstructs, through its repetitive structure, our relational myths.

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3. People

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5. Kuroneko (藪の中の黒猫)

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6. A Chinese Ghost Story II (倩女幽魂II人間道)

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7. Invasion of Astro-Monster (怪獣大戦争)

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8. The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը)

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9. Unnatural Causes

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A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.

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10. L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach

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11. Return with Honor

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12. The Grifters

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A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.

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13. People

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14. The Steamroller and the Violin (Каток и скрипка)

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15. Friends Jokes (طرائف أصدقاء)

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16. Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage)

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18. Summerfield

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19. With a Right to Kill (Med ret til at dræbe)

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20. Return

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