Movie

Private Lessons

“When EMANUELLE's Sylvia Kristel is your teacher the bedroom is the classroom”

★ 5.7(131)19811h 27m

Comedy Romance

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Private Lessons is streaming on ARROW in Canada. Availability checked 11 June 2026.

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Good to know

Director: Alan Myerson
Release date: 1981-05-01
Runtime: 1h 27m
Language: English
Box office: $26,279,000
Budget: $2,800,000
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: Jensen Farley Pictures

Private Lessons — trailer

About Private Lessons

Private Lessons is a 1981 movie in the Comedy and Romance genres, directed by Alan Myerson, starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman and Eric Brown. It has a runtime of 1 hour 27 minutes. It holds an average rating of 5.7/10 from 131 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Private Lessons in Canada — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter to look after him when Phillip's father is out of town for the summer on a "business" trip. But Mr. Filmore's unscrupulous chauffeur, Lester Lewis, takes advantage of Phillip's crush on Nicole to hire her to seduce the youth, then draws her into a plot to fake her own death in a blackmail scheme aimed to drain Phillip's trust fund.

Cast

Sylvia Kristel

Mallow

Howard Hesseman

Lester

Eric Brown

Philly

Patrick Piccininni

Sherman

Ed Begley Jr.

Jack Travis

Pamela Jean Bryant

Joyce

Meridith Baer

Miss Phipps

Ron Foster

Fillmore

Peter Elbling

Waiter

Beans Morocco

Green

Dan Greenburg

Hotel Owner

Marian Gibson

Florence

Themes & keywords

first timechauffeurbathroomblackmailsexual attractionstatutory rapelustteenage boysexual desirefatal attractionolder woman younger man relationshipsexual awakeningsex lesson