Up the Down Staircase (1967)
• June 28th, 1967 • 2h 4min
Drama
Overview
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Fine Young Men
Released on: 2025-05-23
Drama, Thriller
After a year abroad, seventeen-year-old Alf returns to his Catholic boys' school, only to find that ...
The Café at the Edge of the World
Released on:
Comedy, Drama, Adventure
Stressed ad executive John takes a break at a remote cafe, finding existential questions on the menu...
Birds Without Names
Released on: 2017-10-28
Mystery, Drama, Romance
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has myster...
Scarface
Released on: 1932-04-09
Crime, Action, Drama
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
Crash
Released on: 1996-07-17
Thriller, Drama
A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an un...
The Docks of New York
Released on: 1928-09-16
Drama, Romance
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...
Policewoman
Released on: 2000-05-10
Drama
A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her per...
Andrei Rublev
Released on: 1966-12-16
Drama, History
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
Aparajito
Released on: 1956-10-11
Drama
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...
City Lights
Released on: 1931-02-06
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...
Cool Hand Luke
Released on: 1967-11-01
Drama, Crime
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...
The Pride of the Firm
Released on: 1914-04-30
Comedy, Drama
Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. T...
Doctor Zhivago
Released on: 1965-12-22
Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
Do the Right Thing
Released on: 1989-06-14
Drama
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
The Precipice
Released on: 1984-01-19
Drama
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on th...
The Jazz Singer
Released on: 1927-10-06
Drama, Music
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...
The Most Precious of Cargoes
Released on: 2024-11-20
Animation, Drama, History
Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and...
Kolya
Released on: 1996-05-15
Drama, Comedy
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...
Closely Watched Trains
Released on: 1966-11-18
Comedy, Drama, War
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
Cruel Intentions
Released on: 1999-03-05
Drama, Romance
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...