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79 films tagged school, showing 50
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2017 · Family
A boy with a facial difference starts school for the first time at ten, and the film hands the story around to the people near him. Warm and openly designed to move you.
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2025 · Drama
In 1983 a Scottish schoolboy starts swearing uncontrollably in class, years before anyone can tell him why, and his school treats it as bad behaviour. Based on a real life, following him from twelve into his twenties.
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2025 · Romance
A law student from a lower-caste family falls for a classmate from a privileged one, and her relatives make sure he knows what they think of that. A love story about caste, and it does not soften the humiliation.
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2020 · Comedy
Four schoolteachers in their forties test a theory that people do better with a bit of alcohol in their blood, so they start drinking at work. It follows the four of them over a term and swings between funny and sad.
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2025 · Horror
A teenager moves to a small Missouri town where the adults blame the local kids for burning down the factory, and someone in the town's clown mascot suit starts killing them off. A straight-ahead slasher.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A gold-medal student remakes himself as the college troublemaker to impress a girl, drops out with dozens of failed exams, and then lies his way into a job he never earned. Long, and it follows him for years.
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2025 · Horror
In 1988 an outcast at Shadyside High signs up to run for prom queen against the popular clique, and a masked killer starts working through the candidates. A straight-ahead slasher, most of it on prom night.
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2025 · Drama
A Swedish seventeen-year-old joins an all-boys final-year class in Trieste in 2007, where three of them take her in as one of the lads and each quietly wants more. Coming of age, with a friendship under strain.
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2025 · Comedy
A year into the pandemic, a class of Spanish school leavers finally get their trip to Mallorca, and a new outbreak confines them to their hotel rooms. They throw the party anyway.
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2000 · Action
A class of Japanese ninth-graders is taken to an island, handed weapons, and told that in three days only one of them may be left. It moves fast and does not soften what the kids do to each other.
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2025 · Drama
A twelve-year-old who is close to her deaf mother starts at a school full of much richer kids and begins to feel ashamed of where she comes from. Quiet and small, and it stays close to her.
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2025 · Action
A kung fu prodigy moves from Beijing to New York with his mother, having promised her he is done with fighting, and lands straight in the way of the local karate champion. It runs on training scenes and a tournament, and it moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An American student arrives at Oxford for a year of Victorian poetry and falls for the man who splashed her with his car and then turns up teaching her class. Netflix romance, old colleges, big feelings.
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2025 · Comedy
A graduate student at a small college in Maine is raped by her thesis adviser, and the film follows the years of her life around it. Quiet, often funny, with her best friend never far away.
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2025 · Comedy
A high-schooler who hates her curly hair is set on the new salon's straightening treatment and on the popular boy she likes, and ends up becoming friends with the transfer student whose mother owns the salon. It is light and sweet.
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2025 · Drama
A literature student starts seeing a boy from her college, and slowly finds out what he expects of her: who she talks to, how she behaves. It stays with her for the length of the relationship.
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2025 · Drama
In sanctions-era Iraq a nine-year-old is picked at school to bake the cake for Saddam Hussein's birthday, and flour and eggs are nowhere to be found. She sets off for the city with her grandmother to trade for them.
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2019 · Comedy
Two straight-A students find out the night before graduation that the classmates they looked down on got into the same colleges, so they cram four years of fun into one evening. It is one long night, mostly the two of them talking.
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2023 · Comedy
Two unpopular high school seniors start a self-defense club, mostly as a way to get near the cheerleaders they like. Broad, rude, and set in a version of high school where nothing has consequences.
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2025 · Drama
A shy sixteen-year-old at a Catholic school joins the girls' choir and attaches herself to the confident Ana-Marija, then finds herself drawn to a man working on the convent they are staying in. It is quiet and close, and mostly set on the retreat.
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2026 · Horror
A transfer student finds a skull-shaped whistle in a dead classmate's locker, and everyone who blows it is hunted by a version of themselves. It is a teen horror film built on one rule, and it moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
An introvert hoping to reinvent herself at college picks the friendliest girl at orientation as her roommate, and the year sours from there. A dean tells the whole story to two students who think they have it bad.
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2026 · Comedy
Two college roommates take an experimental drug, learn the hallucinations only stop if they eat, and set out across the dorm for the pizza they ordered. One night, one building, and a run of very silly trials.
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2026 · Musical
Sophie, sixteen, is rehearsing the lead in her school's production of Waitress when her mother's cancer comes back and turns terminal. It is a musical, and it plays out over the run-up to the show.
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2022 · Drama
Two thirteen-year-old boys who have been inseparable their whole lives start a new school, where the other children ask what exactly they are to each other. Quiet, slow, and close to their faces.
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2026 · Comedy
A middle-class couple set about getting their nine-year-old into an expensive private school, and tell themselves it is all for his future. A black comedy about parents and social class.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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2026 · Drama
The last eleven days of Samuel Paty, a French history teacher, after a student's father names him online for showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons in a lesson on free speech. It goes day by day.
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2026 · Drama
After her brother dies, June moves to Milan and starts at an international school, where the model student takes her in and his best friend, who fights in illegal MMA bouts, does not. A teen romance that turns on which one she picks.
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2026 · Drama
A bright middle school student with a demanding father uncovers a long-kept family secret while working on his final school project. It is a coming-of-age story that plays out between home and school.
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2026 · Drama
On the eve of senior year, Callie and Minnie's friendship is upended, and Minnie starts spending her time with Callie's mother instead. A coming-of-age drama that sits with the two of them.
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2001 · Science fiction
A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.
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2018 · Comedy
A thirteen-year-old girl posts advice videos nobody watches and tries to get through the last week of middle school. Small scenes shot close up, and often hard to watch out of sheer embarrassment.
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2007 · Comedy
Two best friends about to leave for different colleges try to buy drink for a party, mostly so the night will mean something. The plan rests on a fake ID with one name on it.
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2014 · Drama
A first-year drummer at a competitive music school wins a seat in the top band, which is run by a conductor who teaches through humiliation. It is mostly the two of them in one room.
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2011 · Fantasy
The last of the Harry Potter films picks up mid-run, with three teenagers hunting the objects keeping a dark wizard alive, and ends at the school where it all started. Most of it is the final battle.
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2004 · Fantasy
In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry learns that the man who broke out of the wizard prison is looking for him. Greyer and rainier than the first two, and it moves quickly for a long film.
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2007 · Comedy
A sixteen-year-old finds out she is pregnant and picks a couple in the suburbs to raise the baby. Everybody talks in a very particular way, and the whole thing is over in an hour and a half.
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2017 · Comedy
A high school senior in Sacramento calls herself Lady Bird, wants to go to college on the other coast, and fights with her mother about all of it. Short scenes, one school year, funny and quick.
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2008 · Horror
A bullied twelve-year-old in a snowed-in Stockholm suburb makes friends with the girl who has moved in next door and only comes out at night. It is very quiet and very cold, and it takes its time.
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2004 · Comedy
A sixteen-year-old raised in Kenya starts at an American high school and gets adopted by the three most popular girls in it. Fast, quotable, and a joke every few seconds.
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2004 · Comedy
A teenager in small-town Idaho draws mythical creatures, feeds his brother's llama and helps a friend run for class president. Deadpan, barely plotted, and full of long flat pauses.
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2024 · Drama
Two Black teenagers meet at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s and get each other through it. It is shot almost entirely from inside their eyes, so you see what they see and little else.
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2012 · Animation
A boy who can see and talk to dead people turns out to be the only one who can stop a three-hundred-year-old curse waking up his New England town. Stop-motion, funny, and scarier than most films aimed at kids.
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2016 · Horror
A lifelong vegetarian starts at the veterinary school where her older sister is already a student, and hazing week makes her eat raw meat. Bloody, funny in places, and hard to watch in others.
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2023 · Thriller
An Oxford scholarship student is invited to spend the summer at the enormous country estate of his rich, easy-going classmate. Long lunches in the heat, and it gets uncomfortable early.
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2003 · Comedy
A broke guitarist takes his flatmate's substitute teaching job at a posh prep school and quietly turns his fourth-grade class into a rock band. Loud, silly, and mostly kids learning to play.
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2010 · Drama
A Harvard undergraduate builds a website that spreads from campus to campus, and is sued by the friend who funded it and by classmates who say he took their idea. Told through the two depositions, with a great deal of fast talking.
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2015 · Horror
Two students are left behind at a Catholic boarding school over the winter break, while a young woman hitches a ride through the snow toward them. Very slow, very quiet, and told out of order.
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2023 · Comedy
A disliked teacher at a New England boarding school is stuck minding the boy nobody collected for Christmas 1970, along with the cook who has just lost her son. Slow, snowy, and mostly the three of them.
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