Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Una directora Extraordinaria
TITLE DETAILS

Una directora Extraordinaria

2026-06-18 · 85 min · Not rated

Comedy · Drama

In December 2018, Mónica, the principal of the Pehuajó National College, hands over the keys to the high school so the bathrooms can be renovated. The work is delayed, and classes begin with portable toilets. One day, the architect disappears. Mónica must fight against bureaucracy and maintain order at the school. The students will join her in her struggle. The film is inspired by a true story.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Fabiana Urricelqui
Production companies
Unavailable
Countries
Unavailable
Status
Released

Top Cast

Analía MalvidoAnalía MalvidoMónica Ayala
Luciana DulitzkyLuciana DulitzkyGraciela Risutti
Verónica BelujeIrene
Sol BordigoniCecilia Gómez
Ramiro VayoRamiro VayoJorge (Intendente)
Bruno TignanelliManuel (Empleado municipal)
Diamela JuncoAzul (Presidenta del Centro de Estudiantes y alumna)
Lautaro TorresAlumno
Julián CardosoDocente
Braian LenainMisael (Alumno)

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

The Substitute
★ 5.9
The Substitute2022Drama

Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

Therapy Done Right
★ 7.6
Therapy Done Right2026Comedy · Drama

A psychoanalyst who's lost faith in traditional therapy crosses every boundary to help a blocked novelist in this cutting Argentine dark comedy.

Inseparables
★ 7.3
Inseparables2016Comedy · Drama

Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.

The People Upstairs
★ 6.4
The People Upstairs2020Comedy · Drama

Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.

Patricia, A Hidden Passion
★ 5.8
Patricia, A Hidden Passion2020Comedy · Drama

Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.

Official Competition
★ 6.6
Official Competition2021Comedy · Drama

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

The House of Tomorrow
★ 6.8
The House of Tomorrow2019Comedy · Drama

The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.

CQ
★ 5.9
CQ2001Comedy · Drama

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Instructions Not Included
★ 7.7
Instructions Not Included2013Comedy · Drama

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

Lady Windermere's Fan
★ 6.9
Lady Windermere's Fan1925Comedy · Drama

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

Down the Rabbit Hole
★ 6.8
Down the Rabbit Hole2024Comedy · Drama

Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.

Lost Embrace
★ 6.6
Lost Embrace2004Comedy · Drama

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.

In the Soup
★ 6.8
In the Soup1992Comedy · Drama

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

Landline
★ 6.2
Landline2017Comedy · Drama

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

SubUrbia
★ 6.2
SubUrbia1997Comedy · Drama

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Gloria
★ 6.6
Gloria2013Comedy · Drama

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
★ 7.5
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl2024Comedy · Drama

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

Live Twice, Love Once
★ 7.5
Live Twice, Love Once2019Comedy · Drama

A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Code 3
★ 7.1
Code 32025Comedy · Drama

A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.

Fist Fight
★ 6.0
Fist Fight2017Comedy

When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

Similar titles

Dying Young
★ 6.7
Dying Young1991Drama

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

Underdogs
★ 6.5
Underdogs2008Drama

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks make all convicts volunteer for only seven slots. Except burly macho Moskowitch 'Mosk', who cares only for the manly work out contest. The warden blackmails him, he can only do the contest if his assigned pup passes the first test. All dogs must pass or the project is halted. Unlike the others, Mosk only starts caring for his canine when it gets sick.

Nanny McPhee
★ 6.7
Nanny McPhee2005Comedy

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

Martian Child
★ 6.7
Martian Child2007Comedy · Drama

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Tiya's Dream
Not rated
Tiya's Dream2008Drama

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she doesn’t listen. She is staring at the window. Outside, some children are playing rugby... Abderrahmane Sissako's contribution to 8 (2008).

The Mighty Pawns
★ 7.0
The Mighty Pawns1987Drama

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

Sin piedad
★ 10.0
Sin piedad2025Drama

Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.

In the Army Now
★ 5.1
In the Army Now1994Comedy

Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no sooner than they finish basic training they find themselves at war as part of the water purification team.

Kindergarten Cop
★ 6.1
Kindergarten Cop1990Comedy

Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
★ 6.3
Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt2003Comedy · Drama

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

Oneway-Ticket to Korsør
★ 4.0
Oneway-Ticket to Korsør2008Comedy · Drama

Rasmus defends his Ph.D in Danish literature entitled "The Romantic Idiot", but with his special qualifications there are not many jobs around. To reduce his study loan he settles for a temporary teaching job at an adult education programme in the provincial town of Korsør. Here, Rasmus meets a complex group of people and takes part in their lives. He falls dramatically in love with one of his pupils, Signe, who dreams of having a child with her partner, Camilla. Playing the role of a romantic idiot in Korsør just isn't plain sailing for Rasmus.

Hoshiar Singh
★ 8.0
Hoshiar Singh2025Drama

Denied education for being 'unfit', Hoshiar Singh later seeks to become a teacher. The system throws obstacles at him, leading him to create an innovative teaching approach and lifestyle.

Two Much for the Job
★ 5.0
Two Much for the Job2022Comedy

After five years enduring horrible work conditions, Sophia finally gets chosen for a long-awaited transfer from her thankless teaching job at a rough middle school. Ecstatic to start a new life teaching at the French Lycée in Barcelona, her hopes are dashed to bits when a well- connected, over-qualified teacher at an upscale Paris school cuts in to take the position. Determined to stand her ground, Sophia and her clever neighbour Mr. Picard join forces to sabotage her competitor’s candidacy.

Heritage Africa
★ 6.2
Heritage Africa1989Drama

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.

The Wave
★ 7.5
The Wave2008Drama

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

The Class
★ 7.0
The Class2008Drama

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

The History Boys
★ 6.6
The History Boys2006Drama

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

The Miracle Worker
★ 7.9
The Miracle Worker1962Drama

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

The Miracle Worker
★ 7.3
The Miracle Worker2000Drama

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.

The Beautician and the Beast
★ 6.7
The Beautician and the Beast1997Comedy

A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.