Movies about schoolchildren

Movies about schoolchildren
List of the best movies about schoolchildren selected by visitors to our site: Elephant, Adventures in Public School, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Rushmore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Superbad, The Chorus, We'll Live Till Monday, Dead Poets Society, But What If This Is Love?.

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

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Country
Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Argentina, Jordan
Duration01:21
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Students, Pupils, Photographers
PlotFriendship, Weapon
PlaceSchool
StyleAction, Makes me think, Depressive, Serious

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: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryCanada, USA
Duration00:52
CharactersLosers
PlotFirst love
PlaceSchool, Party
TimeGraduation
StyleLight, Fascinating

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

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:34
CharactersDogs, Teens, Pupils, Friends, Losers
PlotLife, Friendship, First love, Family life
TimeSummer
StyleSoulful, By books, Touching

School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Students, Pupils, Losers
PlotLove, Friendship, First love, Love triangle, Depression
PlaceSchool, USA
StyleTouching

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: 7.5
Genrefantasy, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:18
CharactersWitch, Teens, Teachers, Harry Potter, Giants
PlotLove, Adventure, Magic, Superpowers, Friendship
PlaceSchool, England, Boarding school
StyleExciting, Action, Disturbing

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: 7.6
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:53
CharactersTeens, Pupils
PlotFriendship
PlaceSchool, Party

High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration01:35
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Musicians, Friends, Orphans
PlotMusic, Friendship, Intrigue, Parenting
PlaceSchool, France, Boarding school
TimeFuture
StyleTo cry, Touching

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

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:46
CharactersTeachers, Pupils
PlaceSchool

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: 8.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:08
CharactersTeachers, Students, Pupils, Poets
PlotFriendship, First love
PlaceSchool, Boarding school
StyleTo cry, Philosophical, Intellectual

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: 7.2
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:42
CharactersPupils
PlaceSchool

High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world id against them. Could they fight it and will the first love win?

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:16
CharactersTeachers, Trainers
PlotOn real events, Basketball, Friendship
PlaceCollege
StyleInspirational, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, For men

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: 7.2
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:49
CharactersTeens, Police, Pupils, Partners
PlotSkirmishes, Investigation, Friendship, Cheating, Undercover
PlaceSchool, Party
TimeGraduation

In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.

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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: 7.8
Genrecomedy, short
CountryUSA
Duration01:37
CharactersTeens, Pupils, Friends, Losers
PlotFriendship, Loneliness
PlaceSchool, USA

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: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:50
CharactersPupils
PlotCars, Friendship, First love, Fate, Radio
PlaceAircraft, School, Party, California, Small cities
StyleTo cry, Soulful

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:30
CharactersDogs, Childrens, Family, Friends
PlotMotorcycles, Friendship, Hypnosis
PlaceSchool, Small cities

Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:07
CharactersChildrens, Pupils, Difficult teens
PlotFirst love, Cheating, False accusations
PlaceSchool, Russia
StyleSoulful, Gloomy, Touching, Depressive, Serious

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: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:50
CharactersTeens, Pupils, Trainers
PlotDancing, First love, Baseball, Jealousy
PlaceSchool
StyleLight, To cry, Cute

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04
CharactersVampire, Teens, Werewolf, Indians, Immortals
PlotRevenge, Friendship, Mystery, Supernatural, Love triangle
PlaceForest
TimeFuture
StyleExciting, To cry, Touching, Gothic, Beautiful landscapes

Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:37
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Students, Pupils, Losers
PlotLove, Revenge, Friendship, Jealousy, Rivalry
PlaceSchool, Party, USA
StyleLight

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: 7.9
Genredrama
CountryEstonia
Duration01:39
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Pupils, Friends, Losers
PlotOn real events, Revenge, Fight, Friendship, Rivalry
PlaceSchool
StyleAction, Soulful, Heavy, Depressive, Serious

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
CountryUSA
Duration01:51
CharactersTeens, Pupils
PlotLoneliness, Uprising
PlaceSchool, USA, Los Angeles

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:56
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Pupils
PlotLove triangle
PlaceSchool, Scotland, Boarding school
StyleAction, To cry, Touching

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
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryGermany, USA
Duration02:03
CharactersTeachers, Difficult teens
PlotOn real events, Dreams
PlaceGhetto

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

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38
CharactersTeachers, Artists, Pupils, Losers, Parents
PlotLove, Love triangle, Depression, Parenting
PlaceVillage, School, Mountains, USSR, Party
StylePsychological problems, Gloomy, Makes me think, Touching, Depressive

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: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance
CharactersTeens, Gay, Teachers, Geniuses, Students
PlotDancing, Investigation, Swimming
PlaceSchool, Party
TimeNight
StyleAction, Fascinating, Tense

Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:37
CharactersTeens, Family, Students, Friends, Psychiatrists
PlotLove, Relationship, Friendship, Body exchange, Growing up
PlaceSchool, USA

Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:05
CharactersTeachers, Pupils
PlotFriendship
PlaceSchool, Russia, Small cities
StyleBy books, Gloomy, Makes me think, Serious

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
CharactersStudents, Pupils
PlotFriendship, First love, Birthday, Moving, Dreams
PlaceSchool, College, Party, New York
TimeNew Year, Graduation
StyleInteresting, Makes me think

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

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:20
CharactersTeens, Pupils, Friends, Losers, Difficult teens
PlotFriendship
PlaceSchool, Russia, Moscow
StyleTouching, Serious

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...





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