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24 results for “academic thriller”

A Teacher's Obsession

2015 ★ 4.9

A high-school English teacher becomes dangerously obsessed with a star athlete who needs academic help. A Teacher's Obsession is a 2015 television movie classif

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Killer Grades

2021 ★ 6.7

Proud mom Katherine has just found out that her daughter Michelle has earned a spot on the academic decathlon team. But, when a student winds up in the hospital

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Peepers

2010 ★ 3.7

A rag-tag group, led by the eagle-eyed Steve, take to Montreal's chilly rooftops under cover of night. They're on the prowl for the perfect peep desperate to gl

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The Substitute

2026 ★ 0.0

A top high school student is blackmailed into taking a substitute college entrance exam, leading to a manipulation crime thriller. The Substitute is a televisio

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Miller's Girl

2024 ★ 6.3

A talented young writer embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher assigns a project that entangles them both. Miller’s Girl is a 2024 film centered on the

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Peripheral Visions

2025 ★ 0.0

A student struggling on his essay mistakenly stumbles across an otherworldly phenomenon that threatens his very concept of reality, sending him spiralling down

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THE HUM

2026 ★ 0.0

During his class, Leo, who struggles with ADHD, fights to write a single word while the sensory overload of the room pushes him to his breaking point. The film

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Friendly Rivalry

2025 ★ 8.7

A high-teen mystery thriller about a close relationship between teenage girls in a harsher survival competition than entrance examinations. Friendly Rivalry is

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Sanctuary

2014 ★ 0.0

Four people in a high rise condo fight for their lives against a malevolent force that seeks to destroy them. But when a mysterious being in a familiar body fin

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Bad Genius

2024 ★ 6.8

A highly-gifted student sees an opportunity to escape her roots by helping wealthy classmates cheat on key exams, but at great risk to her future. Topic: Film "

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Spinning Man

2018 ★ 5.6

Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be su

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UNABOMBER

2026 ★ 0.0

Follow Ted Kaczynski's transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry

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Prime Target

2025 ★ 6.8

A brilliant math student is on the verge of a major breakthrough when a shadowy enemy tries to stop him. Fighting for answers—and his life—he teams up with a go

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The River King

2005 ★ 5.8

Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it w

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Obedience

2026 ★ 0.0

Two young individuals sign up to take part in a study on memory. Guided by a local professor, the participants are led through a sterile process designed to tes

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"Pimpernel" Smith

1941 ★ 7.1

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. H

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Hostel

2011 ★ 5.1

A hostel is a student's second home, but what happens when this safe place turns into a torture house? A gripping thriller, depicting the effects of ragging. Ho

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Student Seduction

2022 ★ 5.3

Annie, who in a desperate attempt to bring up her grades, joins a cheating ring and, under its influence, starts a relationship with her lacrosse coach, and a s

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Higher Learning

1995 ★ 6.3

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a

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Chance and Violence

1974 ★ 4.6

A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked b

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Haunted Universities

2009 ★ 5.0

A rescue worker responds to emergencies around the city as eerie phenomena begin to torment students in this collection of macabre tales. Haunted Universities i

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Our Kind of Traitor

2016 ★ 6.0

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants

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Straw Dogs

1971 ★ 7.2

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife

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Designated Survivor

2016 ★ 7.1

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills eve

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