School shooting movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant school shooting movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out disturbing, serious, realistic, tense, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with school shooting, high school, mass murder, youth, school massacre, murder, bullying, teenage life, teenage boy and violence plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as school shooting: Run Hide Fight (2020), Zero Day (2002), Pivot Point (2011), Hello Herman (2012), Elephant (2003), Heart of America (2002), The Class (2007), The Fallout (2021), The Desperate Hour (2021), Beautiful Boy (2010).

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 6.3
 27K
Run Hide Fight (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
Style: suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, gay, homosexual, homosexuality, violence, father daughter relationship, heroes, social misfits, bullying, true crime, interracial relations, mass murder ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 7.2
 5K
Zero Day (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style: disturbing, psychological, mockumentary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school shooting, found footage, vengeance, brutality, suicide, friendship, serial killer, high school, bullying, childhood, rebellion, justice ...
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 6.0
 86
Pivot Point (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological drama that follows four high schoolers down a dark ride. As each struggle separately in their own lives they will soon discover that their lives are interconnected in ways they never would have guessed. They also effect each other in ...
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing
Plot: school shooting, justice, death, police, suicide, high school, depression, showdown, twists and turns, gay porn, car wreck, school ...
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 5.5
 1K
Hello Herman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: school shooting, social relations, haunted by the past, youth, losing-it hero, bullying, high school, loneliness, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, murder ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, iowa
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 7.1
 97K
Elephant (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 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.
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological, realistic, controversial ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, mass murder, teacher, school, violence, murder, high school, youth, teenager, serial killer, boy ...
Time: year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon
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Heart of America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: school shooting, high school, bullying, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, psychopath, teenage life, bully, life is a bitch, society, youth, social misfits ...
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 7.9
 16K
The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
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 7.0
 33K
The Fallout (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
Style: suspense, emotional, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lgbt, school shooting, lesbian love, high school student, teenage life, teenage crush, psychological trauma, tragic event, post traumatic stress, social problems, family problems, love ...
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The Desperate Hour (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A woman desperately races to save her child after police place her hometown on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: school shooting, race against time, saving a life, child in peril, rescue, kids in trouble, threat, parents and children, child killer, save the day, problem, threat to kill ...
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Beautiful Boy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Style: realistic, bleak, emotional, psychological, social ...
Plot: mass murder, school shooting, college, grief, couples, murder, death, haunted by the past, family problems, psychology, sociology, school massacre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Derwin and Derick, Neo-Nazis, plan to commit a school shooting and kill themselves after a sick joke by the school jocks.
Style: independent film, underground film, controversial, biting, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school shooting, bullying, high school, satire, killings, true crime, revolt, serial killer, dark humor, murder, vengeance, goth girl ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, colorado
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 7.2
 19K
Polytechnique (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Style: disturbing, black and white, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: school shooting, mass murder, murder, psychopath, atrocity, hostage, serial killer, interview, misogynist, woman in danger, winter, student ...
Time: 90s, year 2009, year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: canada, montreal, france, quebec
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American Yearbook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Will is the kid-next-door, but is relentlessly terrorized by school bullies. Then the mysterious Chance eventually convinces Will that they should get a gun and take the bullies out: pull a Columbine.
Style: independent film
Plot: bullying, school shooting, high school, killings, school massacre, teen angst, photography, killing, homicide, fury, weapons, school teacher ...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot: psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, depression, mental illness, sociopath, teenager, antisocial behavior, childhood, mother son relationship, boy ...
Time: year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, united kingdom, connecticut, usa, new york
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And Then I Go (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, bullying, teenage boy, school shooting, boy, tragedy, police, revenge, best friend, friendship between boys, school, junior high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
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Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former high school student, Jason Copeland, returns to his school to take his revenge on the teachers for failing him out of school.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: school shooting, serial killer, killer, captive, held captive, hostage, vengeance, school, high school, psychopath, power relations, confined ...
Time: 90s
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The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her best friend Maureen in the attack, Diana has been profoundly affected by the incident - her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, suspense, mindfuck, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, school shooting, adultery, murder, best friend, guilt, tragedy, self sacrifice, adulthood, haunted by the past, teenager, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2007
Place: connecticut
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Utoya - July 22 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from terrorist Anders Breivik while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: summer camp, terrorist attack, terrorism, massacre, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, teenage protagonist, school shooting, group of friends, serial killer, nordic, terrorist ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: oslo norway
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Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.
Style: realistic, harsh, suspenseful, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, school shooting, depression, teacher, bully, school, social misfits, high school, teenage life, violence, childhood, fighting the system ...
Place: oregon
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 6.4
 40
Eric LaRue (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic, bleak
Plot: school shooting, mother, teenager, murder, murderer, mother and son, teenage son, teenage boy, classmate, killings, trauma, mass murder ...
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An American Terror (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Josh wakes each day to a series of Hells. Between uncaring parents and bullying at school he has little to live for. After a brutal event and ensuing humiliation of an online video, Josh and his friends decide to take revenge by staging a massacre ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot: survival, teenage life, danger, gory, psychopath, isolation, twists and turns, serial killer, terror, fear, bullying, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the day that Antoinette Tuff considered suicide, she realized that all of her challenges had prepared her for a purpose; to save an Atlanta school under siege from a deranged killer bent on murdering the students.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, christian film
Plot: school shooting, hostage situation, threat, shooter, murderer, threat to kill, mental disorder, psycho killer, faith, gunfight, child hostage, hostage ...
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 7.0
 2K
Blackbird (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). ...
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: school shooting, false accusation, bullying, coming of age, society, social relations, injustice, small town, perjury, school massacre, boyhood, criminal justice ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada
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 7.0
 5K
Accused (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of ...
Style: anthology, captivating, dramatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom, suspect, violence, court, school shooting, anger, shooter, violent, surgeon, hostage, hostage situation, threat ...
Time: 2020s
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 7.4
 25K
Quicksand (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Maja, a student in Stockholm, finds herself on trial for murder after a tragedy at her school. More doubts and suspicions arise when new revelations are made.
Style: tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, school shooting, student, youth, murder, nordic, court, runaway, vengeance, adaptation, society, disorder ...
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Cokeville Miracle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: On May 9, 1986, a small ranching community in Wyoming experiences a divine intervention when a couple detonates a bomb inside a crowded classroom.
Style: spiritual, suspenseful, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: divine intervention, faith, christian, miraculous event, spirituality, little girl, little boy, loss of faith, ghost, elementary school, tragedy, evacuation ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: wyoming
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 6.8
 8K
The Dirties (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Style: disturbing, controversial, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, high school, school shooting, found footage, filmmaking, vengeance, misfit, best friend, violence spree, anxiety, self esteem, solidarity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, usa
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 6.0
 4K
Belzebuth (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of ...
Style: scary, detective, neo noir, gothic horror, tense ...
Plot: satanism, demon, supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, sacrifice, good versus evil, dangerous attraction, dark secret, orphan, devil worship, blood ...
Place: mexico
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I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott- the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
Style: christian film, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: high school, christian, youth, death, plan, tragic event, notebook, prom, murder, group of friends, friendship, school ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, colorado
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 5.9
 1K
White Rabbit (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot: bullying, mental illness, high school, school shooting, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, imagination, child abuse, house ...
Time: 21st century
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