The Emperor's Club (2002)

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Genres: Drama

What to watch after The Emperor's Club

• To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
• The Last Station (2009) — Michael Hoffman directed both
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937) — Same feel: moralistic, dramatic
• The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)