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FilmNC-172004
Bad Education
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the… From TMDB
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Bad Education is a 2004 drama crime film, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez and Daniel Giménez Cacho.
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60 of 60 · most liked firstJust a reminder that the Game of Thrones guys have used their overall at Netflix to get a miniseries about the assassination of James Garfield greenlit. It is showrun by the screenwriter of the Hugh Jackman movie Bad Education and boasts an all star cast.
neutral · AI labelView post →HBO Films is adapting Mark Chiusano’s new book on George Santos into a “darkly comic” film written by Mike Makowsky, of Bad Education, produced by Frank Rich
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Pedro Almodovar Happy Birthday, 9/25/49, to Spanish filmmaker who energizes with hilarious, provocative, & heartfelt cinema. If you don't love Almodovar, we can't be friends! 🤣 88 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 99 All About My Mother 04 Bad Education 06 Volver #filmsky 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →I have watched often: Ronin, Bad Education, Godfather 2, Charade, Bullitt, all but three of the Mission Impossible films and all but one of the Daniel Craig James Bond films. I will post about one movie each day and throw in a picture of Stanford too. Hope you enjoy Crewsing Movies, starting soon.
positive · AI labelView post →PDX: "Night Voices" cstpdx.com/event/night-... Jeff Vandermeer & Theo Ellsworth in the Couv! whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-1... "The Kiss", "Bad Education" hollywoodtheatre.org "Social Reckoning", "Other Mommy" www.fandango.com "Beware Boiúna" familycinemas.com/movies/bewar...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s technically not Friday anymore, but I need it to be known that Super 8 is so precious to me, and I finally rewatched Bad Education after thinking almost constantly for six years that I should rewatch Bad Education #LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched
positive · AI labelView post →Ranging from a love story between Jesus and Barabbas to a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire Out Sep 26, translated by Frank Wynne
neutral · AI labelView post →Gael García Bernal - 📽️ Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004) In Almodóvar’s Vertigo homage, García Bernal plays a queer, Spanish inversion of the film noir femme fatale archetype. In a number of sterling outfits including several top notch drag looks, the Mexican star pops as much as the colours.
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to see “Bad Education” at the Hollywood Theatre this evening. Even though it was the film that inspired to me to start learning Spanish back in 2020, I had somehow forgotten just how dark it is.
neutral · AI labelView post →My only piece of Potterfic was sort of eggfic, a mashup with Almodovar after a long cinema session when I watched Bad Education and Prisoner of Azkaban (which is the one good film in the franchise).
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite movies are often about people screwing up and being arrested. Bad Education (2019) is such a film. It’s about top administrators at the Roslyn, New York school district and real-life embezzlement scheme, which came crashing down when the high-school newspaper broke the story in 2004.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw the 2019 #film Bad Education over the weekend. They should make more movies like it, #movies that focus on #corrupt people and #corrupt systems, but don’t oversimplify them. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Edu...
positive · AI labelView post →Was scrolling through HBO Max and saw that BAD EDUCATION (a great movie from the director of the fantastic THOROUGHBREDS) is leaving HBO Max....even though it was released on HBO Max. What is Zaslav doing?
positive · AI labelView post →I feel everyone needs to watch Bad Education. In addition to being a very fun film it's all about one of these small, hyper competitive Long Island school districts
positive · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 2004 (68/122) Now Watching 📽️ #2/11 Bad Education dir. Pedro Almodóvar rec'd by @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social, @hoodedjustice.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's Movie is Bad Education (2019) about enormous fraud.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone else seen Bad Education (2019)? Great film
positive · AI labelView post →jesus christ -- I saw La Mala Educación (Bad Education) in theaters but apparently memory holed every part of it except the pool scene
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy news: Apple is selling a bundle of All About My Mother, Talk To Her, Bad Education, Volver, and Broken Embraces for $15. Most have extras. Nice. 📽️ tv.apple.com/us/movie-bun...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bad Education aka La Mala Educacion 2004 EngSub-gaythemed,Crime,Drama Movie Link: playmogo.com/e/l0b8oufzo5q9 --Storyline: --Director Enrique is visited by Ignacio, his first childhood love. He brings him a screenplay about their upbringing and the abuse they suffered at the hands of priests...
neutral · AI labelView post →Slept on it and I've come around to the idea that Disclosure Day is a middling movie elevated by compelling acting. Emily Blunt in particular is extraordinary. Was also happy to see Jeremy Shamos so soon after rewatching Bad Education.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite movies are often about people screwing up and being caught at it. Bad Education is such a film. It’s about top administrators at the Roslyn, New York school district and real-life embezzlement scheme, which came crashing down when the high-school newspaper broke the story in 2004.
positive · AI labelView post →If I were to tell you that there was a Bad Education film, you’d think me mad. But it exists.
neutral · AI labelView post →apologies to: Phantom thread, Inherent vice (two pta gauche), Inside Llywen Davis, Oslo August 31st, Cache, first spider verse movie, Still Life, Bad Education, Hugo, Pan's Labyrinth, Muholland Drive, power of the dog, old joy, I saw the tv glow, boyhood, inglorious basterds, jackass 2
neutral · AI labelView post →If I were to do a gay little movie night for my birthday, which of these movies do you all think would work best? Almodóvar's Bad Education Ray's Johnny Guitar Petzold's Phoenix
neutral · AI labelView post →6/20/26: Bad Education (2019) 🎥 7/10 I can't really find any faults with this film. It's well acted, paced, shot and eternally does an excellent job accomplishing what it sets out to do. It's just that what it wants to do can only be so good, ynkow?
positive · AI labelView post →Similar to the movie, "Bad Education"
neutral · AI labelView post →His film "Bad Education" is about the embezzlement.
neutral · AI labelView post →🌞 Good morning #Filmsky #Moviesky I have the day off and I need a chuckle and a big break from the news. I went to the library and rented a few movies that I’ve never seen, hopefully they do the trick. #NowWatching Bad Education (2019)
neutral · AI labelView post →limited myself to just one director per movie which is why Bad Education and Volver aren’t on here
neutral · AI labelView post →Pedro Almodovar, Bad Education, which is a movie and not a comic sorry but the colours always stick with me.
positive · AI labelView post →#bestgayever film selection: Bad Education 2004 NC-17 Spanish (sub) Pedro Almodóvar film follows two childhood friends (Fele Martinez and Gael García Bernal) who reunite over a film script, a revenge fantasy targeting an abusive priest at the Catholic school they both attended.
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a lot to like about Bad Education. It is a brave film that is unflinching in its storytelling. Choosing to tell gay stories is always brave, and so is a movie that speaks truth to power; especially when that power is the Catholic Church.
positive · AI labelView post →Our next Almodóvar film that we will be highlighting this month is 2004’s Bad Education starring Gael García Bernal
neutral · AI labelView post →Picked Pablo Larraín’s EMA and Pedro Almodóvar’s BAD EDUCATION as a double bill for movie club. We discussed freedom of expression in sexuality and art, queer and queer sex representation in film, chaos, and the power of the melodrama. Love my movie club fam. 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →It's been raining all day #today. Only got a short dog walk in this morning. Then we watched a movie ("Bad Education" with a great performance by Hugh Jackman). Still raining and nothing better to do, I went to donate blood at my local center, which I found out is open on Sundays. It was quick […]
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched this movie on HBO “Bad Education.” Not the best movie ever but EXTREMELY satisfying in this day and age. I won’t say anything more, you should just watch it.
positive · AI labelView post →Bad Education aka La Mala Educacion 2004 EngSub gaythemedmovi, Crime, Drama Movie Link: vidara.so/v/3MxxbCREyr... --Storyline: --Director Enrique is visited by Ignacio, his first childhood love. He brings him a screenplay about their upbringing and the abuse they suffered at the hands of priests..
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Bad Education (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira Genre: (Drama) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_educat...
neutral · AI labelView post →i hadn't realized this shared DNA with Bad Education. loved both! (and made me pull out that movie for a rewatch after listening to the podcast)
positive · AI labelView post →Bad Education is one of my favorites from him. Damn good movie! If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It can be a hard watch but it's worth it.
positive · AI labelView post →30+ years ago, I created a workshop to inform our school leaders about ethics, integrity, legality based on the true story found in BAD EDUCATION, a 2020 HBO Film. It is worth your watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAkU... Background: nymag.com/nymetro/urba...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Bad Education 1080p (iTunes)(CA) C$4.99 (Foreign) (iMDB) 7.3 Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira
neutral · AI labelView post →And Hugh could’ve competed against himself in “Bad Education” for Best TV Movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →Christmas tree up, watched the film Nativity on Netflix which was cute and now the Bad Education Christmas special. Happy winter!
neutral · AI labelView post →Not being deliberately contrary here, but I always preferred Mathew Horne. Brilliant as the cringe headmaster in Bad Education, PLUS an awesome turn as Dad in the Horrid Henry film.
neutral · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? The Crying Game 1992 and, Bad Education (La mala educación, 2004) Or drop Bad Education and swap in Some Like it Hot 1959
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Bad Education is available today on (Google Play) for $4.99 Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved Bad Education. My grandmother knew Tassone personally because she was from Roslyn and worked for the board of Ed. She watched that movie four times and died furious that he had a pension
positive · AI labelView post →This is Jack Whitehall from the movie The Bad Education
neutral · AI labelView post →#30dayfilmchallenge Day 29 : Your favorite foreign language film (any Almoldóvar film really) #badeducation
positive · AI labelView post →I wish Bucky had more to do, but the biggest surprise was Mel. I didn’t realize she was the girl from Blockers and Bad Education until half way through the movie. #Thunderbolts #marvel #movies
neutral · AI labelView post →the movie Hurricane Bianca? I watched that one! she also had a cameo in the show Bad Education but i don't know if she was a teacher in that or just had an appearance..
neutral · AI labelView post →One bad thing is that every time I’m flicking through channels and see “Bad Education” is on, I think “Cool” because I think it’s the Good Katie Holmes film that’s basically The Demon Headmaster, but it’s always just the Really Shit Jack Whitehall Sitcom.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a film critic at the @latimes.com, I wrote about Almodovar's "La Mala Educación" ("Bad Education"), a film about the repression & censorship of artists and intellectuals under Franco & the church's abuse. Editors made me remove the word "fascist." In a piece about Franco's Spain. In 2004.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've now watched every Pedro Almodovar film up to and including Bad Education. They're all good except for Live Flesh. I was expecting that to be him at his outrageous best, but it felt a little inert. It's not as camp or punk as his earlier work, and it lacks to Hitchcock flavor of the later films.
positive · AI labelView post →Film 77: A film I knew nothing about before hitting play - BAD EDUCATION (Taiwan, 2022) While it moves into more familiar gangster territory towards the end, it has a really good dynamic regarding peer pressure and one-upmanship among young men ⭐️⭐️⭐️
positive · AI labelView post →This film treads the fine line between providing an entertaining and sexy piece of cinema with the identification of the serious issues of sexual abuse committed if not always by the clergy, then certainly under their auspices, in Franco's Spain. The story centres around aspiring actor "Angel" (Gael Garciá Bernal) who turns up, unannounced, at the door of his former schoolfriend. This man "Enrique" (Fele Martinez) has gone on to become a successful film director and, perhaps optimistically,…
positive · AI labelView post →Wait so that Landscape with Invisible Hands movie that only just started marketing this week ahead of a Friday release is by the guy who did Thoroughbreds and Bad Education? Why is that not a bigger deal? Thoroughbreds was so goddamn good.
neutral · AI labelView post →If #BadEducation is going to go down the road of bringing new actors/writers forward every few years I'm all up for that. Writing needs to make them look good. The "accidentally printing the internet" plot is very good, having twice accidentally downloaded wikipedia.
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