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My favorite high-school movies
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items My favorite high-school movies, a little comedy, drama, coming-of-age movies or even noir films mixed in these teen years
Juno. is a powerful dramedi, its main character is Juno, a witty teenage girl whose boredom doesn't lead her to the mall. Instead, she makes a one-time trip into the arms of her best friend Paulie Bleeker. When Juno discovers that she's pregnant, she...
Juno (Single-Disc Edition)
Carrie is not a typical high school movie, it's a terror movie, but what a movie!!!Directed by Brian de Palma, adaptating a novel written by Stephen King. It tells us a story involving a withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who fa...
Carrie (1976)
Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay when they were young! A beautiful couple and a very entertained story! Tom Cruise in his star-is-born breakthrough as a Chicago suburban prepster whose college-bound life spirals out of control when his parents go out...
Risky Business
This critically acclaimed cult favorite, written and directed by Richard Linklater (The School of Rock), explores the last day of school - and one wild night - in the lives of high school students in 1976. Complete with bongs and bell bottoms, macram...
Dazed and Confused
Hoosiers could be well considered as one of the best sports films ever, with a great small-town basketball story that resonates with both young and old audiences. The movie features outstanding performances, particularly Gene Hackman's portrayal as C...
Hoosiers
The Breakfast Club is an iconic portrait of 1980s American high school life. When Saturday detention started, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any ...
The Breakfast Club
It's not a typical story on high-school times but it's captivating, Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going ...
Donnie Darko
a little of drama and vintage times… In this classic, coming-of-age drama, multi-talented comedian Robin Williams, earned an Oscar-nomination for his protrail of the passionate, free-spirited Professor Keating, who inspired a group of students to abs...
Dead Poets Society
A sharp comedy which portraits a teenager Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), after being home-schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents, suddenly winds up in a suburban Illinois high school. But not even growing up in the jungle could have prepared Cady f...
Mean Girls
Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That's something the school's teenage musicians, actors, dancers and dreamers strive for. Fame sings the body electric, celebrat...
Fame: The Original Movie
A genuine stand-up-and-cheer movie about a courageous high school football team's fight to fulfill their destiny and live their dream. Billy Bob Thornton stars in a true American story of how one legendary Texas town made hope come alive under the ex...
Friday Night Lights
Righteous teen comedy starring Alicia Silverstone as Cher, Beverly Hills high school student and pampered daughter of a widowed lawyer, who tries to help her classmates and family with romance and fashion advice, while eventually coming to examine th...
Clueless
“Bueller…Bueller…?” Sorry, not here! Instead, high-schooler Ferris Bueller (Mathew Broderick), his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), and his best bud Cameron (Alan Ruck) are off on the spontaneous romp through Chicago known as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Y...
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller Edition)
Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Lookout, Looper) is a high school loner, someone who knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the “who” and “why” and plunges in...
Brick
A very young Sean Penn stars as the unforgettable Jeff Spicoli in the film that defined the outrageous and bold teen comedy genre, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Follow a group of Southern California high school students as they explore their most imp...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola explored the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES joins the melancholy of teenage longing and the rules of their overprotective religious parents-as ...
The Virgin Suicides
Time for classics! Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier star in a gritty urban drama about a highschool teacher who will not allow himself to be defeated by his toughinner city students ... even when he is assaulted and his pregnant wifeis threatened.This g...
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
Get ready to rock 'n' roll with the hit screen rendition of the Broadway musical look at '50s teen life. Can greaser gang leader Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian good girl Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) continue their summertime romance w...
Grease
Working class Andie (Molly Ringwald) and rich kid Blane (Andrew McCarthy) are star-crossed high school lovers from opposite sides of the tracks. With the senior prom fast approaching, can their romance survive the unrequited crush of Andie's best pal...
Pretty in Pink
Maybe you could consider this movie as a beautifully shot documentary or an an elegant recreation of high school. The violence level is controversial, but it's a movie made by Gus Van Sant and he always says something that we should have in mind
Elephant
Napoleon Dynamite is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, ducking it out with his brother Kip and avoiding his scheming Uncle Rico. When t...
Napoleon Dynamite
Popular, pretty Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is in dilemma. A family rule forbids her from dating until her unpopular, rebellious, boy-hating older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) gets a suitor of her own. In an attempt to win Bianca, a potential boyf...
10 Things I Hate About You
Masterpiece! James Dean brought his explosive presence to the screen in Nicholas Ray's movie. Oscar-nominees and Golden Globe-winners Natalie Wood ("Splendor in the Grass") and Sal Mineo ("Exodus") both earned Oscar nominations for their powerful performances in ...
Rebel Without a Cause