American movies about school

List of the best American movies about the school, selected by visitors to our site: Zapped, Carrie, Coin Heist, You Get Me, X-Men: First Class, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S, Fist Fight, The Hate U Give, 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, Love, Simon.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5
Genrefantasy, comedy, family
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:42

Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command. But she soon learns that it isn't the cure-all she had hoped for.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:40

A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

When a crisis threatens to destroy their high school, four teens hatch a daring plan to raise $10 million. Step one? Breaking into the U.S. Mint.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

After arguing with his girlfriend, Ali, Tyler lands in the arms of sexy new girl, Holly. The next morning, he finds that not only does Ali agree to take him back, but Holly is a new student at their school and is dead set on her new man.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:06

    Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Students from Zombietown are transferred to a high school in a suburban town preoccupied with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

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

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
    Duration02:18

    After crash-landing on Earth, two royal teen aliens on the run struggle to blend in with humans as they evade intergalactic bounty hunters.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    Maddy and Cole were inseparable friends until high school started and Maddy became the most popular girl on campus. When she starts feeling lonely and heartbroken, she reconnects with Cole and the duo conspire to destroy the ultimate teen popularity contest

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:26

    Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration00:52

    A socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school against his suffocating but loving mother's wishes.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      On the most important day of his young life, a high school senior is forced to relive his failed attempt at losing his virginity over and over again, until he gets it right.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

        A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

          Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
          CountryUSA, Russia
          Duration01:28

          A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

          Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school and finds his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't really equipped to teach them...he's not exactly experienced romantically.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

            In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

            Markimdb: 4.4
            Genrethriller
            CountryUSA

            After leading a jury to wrongly sentence a man, Abigail enters her new teaching job at the law school with a newfound commitment to ethics. When she takes over her new class, it includes Vincent, an intensely ambitious student who will do anything for an A. When Abigail fails him for academic dishonesty, Vincent threatens that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. As Vincent's devious plot begins to unravel, she must take her life into her own hands, or Vincent will take it himself.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
            CountryUSA

            Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genredocumentary
            CountryUSA

            A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration02:22

              In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

              In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from an curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago. Eventually, Norman decides to cooperate, but things don't go according to plan. Now, a magic storm of the witch threatens Blithe Hollow as the accursed dead rise. Together with unexpected new companions, Norman struggles to save his town, only to discover the horrific truth of the curse. With that insight, Norman must resolve the crisis for good as only he can.

              Markimdb: 5.6
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryRepublic of Ireland, Sweden, USA
              Duration02:22

              Evan Birch, a family man and esteemed philosophy professor at a distinguished college, is the prime suspect when a female student goes missing.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrehorror, drama
              CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy, USA

              In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genredrama, military, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:18

              A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.

              Markimdb: 4.1
              Genrecomedy, musical, family
              CountryUSA
              Duration00:30

              A group of rule-abiding prep school students – Zack, Lawrence, Freddy, Summer and Tomika – learn to take risks and reach new heights thanks to substitute teacher Dewey Finn, a down-on-his-luck musician who uses the language of rock ‘n’ roll to inspire his class to form a secret band. Throughout the school year, these middle-school classmates find themselves navigating relationships, discovering their unknown talents and learning lessons on loyalty and friendships.

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrehorror, comedy, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:02

              Following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:43

              Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

              Markimdb: 5.3
              Genrethriller, drama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:18

              In August 2015, an ISIS terrorist boarded train #9364 from Brussels to Paris. Armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, the terrorist might have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. One was a college student, one was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the U.S. Air Force, and the other was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three pals proved fearless as they charged and ultimately overpowered the gunman after he emerged from a bathroom armed and ready to kill.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genremelodrama, drama, biography
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

              The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

              Markimdb: 5.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
              CountryUSA

              Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrefantasy, adventure, family
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:46

              In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.

              Markimdb: 5.7
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:45

              A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.

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