Along with the deepening of China's reform and opening up and the continuous development of the economy, the economic and cultural exchanges with all the countries in the world are becoming more and more frequent, so each field of the society needs a large number of comprehensive talents with strong professional techniques and high level of English. In recent years, they have paid much attention to the English teaching by the education departments, and have carried on the reform on the English teaching, and have integrated the English film teaching in the English Teaching in China, so that the English level of the college students has been improved greatly. Schema theory was put forward by the famous philosopher Kant. In recent years, it has been more widely used in the field of education, and the application of the schema theory in the English film teaching is beyond doubt an important means to improve the quality of the English teaching. In this paper, the author analyzes the application of the schema theory in the English film teaching mainly from three aspects of the basic meaning of the schema theory, the superiorities of the English film teaching and the application of the schema theory in the English film teaching.