The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

Genres: Drama

What to watch after The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

• Great Expectations (1946) — Same subject: spinster
• Tunes of Glory (1960) — Ronald Neame directed both
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
• Howards End (1992) — Same feel: complex, dramatic
• A Letter to Three Wives (1949) — Same feel: complex, dramatic
• Little Women (1933) — Same subject: coming of age