Films about graduates

Films about graduates
List of the best films about graduates according to the audience: Easy A, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Detachment, Angrezi Medium, We'll Live Till Monday, Only the Strong, He's All That, Wonder, Prom Night, Napoleon Dynamite.

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

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: 7.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryIndia

    When his daughter decides to further her studies in London, a hardworking Haryanvi businessman does everything in power to make her dreams come true.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:46

    Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:39

    Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to kick several drug dealers off of the school property, Kerrigan, one of Stevens' old teachers, sees the impact that Stevens has on the students. Kerrigan gives him the task of teaching Capoeira to a handful of the worst at-risk students at the school.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, an influencer attempts to transform an unpopular classmate into prom king.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
    Duration02:15

    The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:32

    This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it's clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl's family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis).

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. Elle has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matriculating, and also Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is headed and has to decide if she should stay or not.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:20

    One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their universe, and looks like the ideal way to escape their daily lives...

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

    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: 5.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, India
      Duration01:44

      After graduation, five friends set out to make a difference in the world for God. Their ambitions are high, their passions are strong but will they have the courage to fulfill their calling regardless of what comes their way. The sacrifice they are asked to pay may just be too high. Through Godly council from an outside source, the group realizes that this is not their time after all, it's all His.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:38

      Andy is a new teacher at a inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. There is metal detectors at the front door and everything is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:05

      Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama
      CountryEstonia
      Duration01:39

      An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:07

      A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracized, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:12

      Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryFrance
      Duration02:08

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance

      A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, music
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:48

      Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:44

      When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left – an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks – to save the world from alien domination.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go undercover as her substitute in high school. Very soon he finds out that gang named Kings of Destruction is terrorizing the school.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryIndia

      A 10 year old boy living on an island sets off on a journey in pursuit of Akbar, his long lost elder brother.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Argentina, Jordan
      Duration01:21

      Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountryTurkey, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, Qatar
      Duration02:05

      Sinan is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score." by their senior prom.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.

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