Movies about school

Movies about school
List of the best movies about the school, selected by visitors to our site: Detachment, Freedom Writers, Coach Carter, The Breakfast Club, It's a Boy Girl Thing, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lady Bird, Triumph, Mean Girls, Spontaneous.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
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: 7.6
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryGermany, USA
Duration02:03

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:16

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

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: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:35

A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantasy, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:18

    Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – dubbed 'Dumbledore's Army' – to defend themselves against the dark arts.

    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: 5.7
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:37

      Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

      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: 5.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:27

      A spoiled, selfish teenager becomes infatuated with her teacher. She befriends his daughter as a way of worming her way into the family, and sets about manipulating every aspect of his life.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a drug abusing boss and even the mob if he ever hopes to land the girl of his dreams. Love is never easy!

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.

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      Genrecomedy
      CountryRussia

      Nastya is a talented athlete, a popular blogger and the first beauty of the school. When a new one comes into the class, she sets herself the goal of winning his attention, but she runs into indifference on his part. What will she have to do to win?

      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: 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: 7.5
      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
      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: 7.1
        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: 7.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

        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: 5.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, family, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

            The East High Wildcats are ready to have the time of their lives. Troy (Zac Efron) is thrilled when he’s offered a job in a country club, but it’s all part of Sharpay’s (Ashley Tisdale) plot to lure him away from Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). How will it all turn out? All questions are answered on the night of the club’s Talent Show.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, drama, family, sport
            CountryCanada, USA
            Duration01:50

            At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of carrying the legacy falls into the hands of Matt Warner, the son of the late Norman Warner who has always lived in the shadow of his father.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:39

            Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:33

            When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrecomedy
            CountryGermany
            Duration01:59

            A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

            After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

              On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:49

              William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

              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: 6.4
              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: 7.9
              Genrecomedy, drama, music
              CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Germany
              Duration01:35

              Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryCanada
              Duration01:34

              During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.

              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: 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
              Genremelodrama, musical
              CountrySoviet Union
              Duration01:31

              At high school, some pupils decide to play a 'practical joke' on their teacher. On the day of midterm exam all of them say they she had told them the wrong date for the exam. She almost believed them, but then asked a girl known for her honesty and the girl could not lie. As a result everyone in the class gets an F for that midterm. That's a real problem for some of them - with an F they cannot have perfect GPA and will not enter prestige Universities. They want revenge...

              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: 6.2
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA

                When a hopelessly romantic high school senior falls for a mysterious new classmate, it sets them both on an unexpected journey that teaches them about love, loss, and most importantly themselves.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrecomedy, melodrama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:38

                  Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together they'll face the school's mean girl and remind everyone that we are all someone's DUFF… and that's totally fine.

                  Markimdb: 5.3
                  Genrehorror, comedy
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:42

                    A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

                    Markimdb: 6.1
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
                    Duration01:34

                    Rebellious 16 year old Poppy from Mailibu is sent to an English boarding school. Realising her Father isn't coming back to rescue her she tries to get expelled.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genrefantastic, action, comedy
                    CountryJapan
                    Duration01:32

                    A mysterious creature destroys 70% of the moon. The creature then warns that if he is not destroyed by March of next year, Earth will be next. The creature also demands that he becomes the homeroom teacher for 3rd grade E class at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The government is powerless to say no. The creature then becomes the homeroom teacher of 3rd grade E class which consists of failed students including Nagisa Shiota (Ryosuke Yamada). The creature is called Teacher Koro. Meanwhile, the government requests that the students try to kill Teacher Koro even though he possesses super powers. The government offers a 10 billion yen reward for whomever successfully kills him. The students are confused by the situation, but decide to kill Teacher Koro. When their class begins with Teacher Koro, the students finds themselves having a good time with their new teacher.

                    Markimdb: 5.6
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryRussia
                    Duration01:44

                    A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her.

                    Markimdb: 5.8
                    Genrecomedy, melodrama
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                    With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.

                    Markimdb: 6.3
                    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
                    CountryUSA, Canada

                    A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrecomedy
                    CountryUSA

                    After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.

                    Genrecomedy

                    A thirty-seven-year-old woman wakes up from a twenty-year coma and returns to the high school where she was once a popular cheerleader to finish her senior year and become prom queen. The main plot is the empowerment of LGBTQ rights and progress through the years.

                    Markimdb: 5.5
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:30

                    Old friends reunite to accompany a friend on a road trip to rehab.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genrecomedy
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:10

                    A mono virus outbreak at Highland Park High takes out the most popular kids for two months, allowing the outcasts to rule the school.

                    Markimdb: 5.8
                    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration02:13

                    A timid and reclusive 18-year-old high school student is alienated by her parents and ruthlessly rejected by her peers. Desperate and isolated, she confides in her own reflection — and in the mirror she finds her imagined evil twin, someone who supports her, encourages her and knows all her secret desires. When the “girls” trade places, repressed sexuality and a ferocious violence erupt with a dangerous sense of freedom.




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