Whiplash
Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Why you'll love it
The film portrays a music teacher who pushes his student to the brink of his sanity in his pursuit of perfection.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
Why you'll love it
Dolores Umbridge, a teacher at Hogwarts, uses her position to impose strict rules and punishments.
School of Rock
Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack
After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.
Why you'll love it
While not a traditional villain, the protagonist poses as a substitute teacher and manipulates his students into forming a rock band.
Matilda
Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson
A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
Why you'll love it
The school principal, Miss Trunchbull, is a villainous character who terrorizes her students.
The Faculty
Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris
When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.
Why you'll love it
In this film, teachers at a high school are taken over by parasitic aliens turning them into villains.