The Other Half

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie ...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Arthur Penn

Cast

Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Nadia Tass

Cast

Hallie Eisenberg, Alison Elliott, David Strathairn

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Dennis Gansel

Cast

Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Laurent Cantet

Cast

François Bégaudeau, Arthur Fogel, Franck Keïta

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Joel Schumacher

Cast

Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio