College Movies

List of the best college youth movies selected by our site visitors: Chasing Sleep, The Minus Man, Private School, The In Crowd, Kaboom, Altered States, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Teen Wolf, Happy Campers, We Are Marshall.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, detective
CountryCanada, USA, France
Duration01:40

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. As locals start to disappear, it becomes apparent that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:26

Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Bahrain

Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Chaos and rampant hormones reign when teenage counselors are left in charge during their summer-camp director's absence.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:11

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, sport
CountryUSA

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:39

There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA

Seven college students are picked to travel to a private island owned by the reclusive Vincent King and his film-obsessed wife Mary Shelley to study island wildlife. But is isn't long when a mysterious killer begins killing the students one-by-one, and modeling them after gory murder scenes from numerous horror films.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Czech Republic
Duration01:34

    Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

      When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrecomedy, sport
      CountryUSA

      A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he got her pregnant... with twins... all while she's going through a rather inconvenient Christianity phase. Could it be that being the good guy and doing what's right are two very different things?

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, New Zealand, Germany

      When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity. As she tries to convince the rest of her dorm that the Boogeyman does exist, the evil force grows stronger and her friends begin to pay the price. Now she must stop this ultimate evil before the entire campus falls prey.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's best friend since college; she's a tough-talking schoolteacher who plays therapist to all Patti's problems, while she's got a few of her own.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

      Markimdb: 2.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      After graduating college, things didn't quite work out the way Russ planned. Now he's back home, with miserable jobs, no girl, and little chance of the future he always dreamed of.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Lonely college freshman Alex has closed himself off from his peers, who all appear to have this whole "college thing" figured out. But everything changes one night when Alex takes a leap and attends a party at Shithouse - a legendary party fraternity - where he forges a strong connection with Maggie.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. "Loverboy's" reputation soon makes him very popular, but when Mom Bodek suddenly feels like some extra anchovies, things are looking grim for young Randy

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:15

      Back in 1982, a Texas University student who is curious about the male sex fantasies he's been having, decides he needs to hook up with an out gay student on campus.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Brilliant trivia whiz Paul Tarson is great at answering little questions but horrible at answering the big ones – like what’s he going to do after grad school? When his father withdraws his funding, Paul is forced to confront his future and much procrastinated dissertation deadline…until he discovers the First Annual Ann Arbor Pub Trivia Tournament.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      In this modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Elinor and Marianne find themselves penniless after their father’s fortune is taken away. As they look for ways to pay the bills, they encounter people who judge them and try to keep them down in the dumps. Add falling in love into the mix, and determining whom to trust becomes a mine field. Can the sisters find a balance between relying on their hearts and using good sense without losing everything they hold dear?

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:30

      A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      College good guy Joe is drawn into a battle to save the world from arch-enemy Ferris. Joe's heirloom pendant just happens to be the key to the staff that opens doors to the Crossworlds. When Laura shows up to check on the key and Ferris' goons begin their assaults, they run to semi-retired adventurer A.T. for help and guidance.

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