Boarding school life movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant boarding school life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, harsh, melancholic, emotional and sincere films and TV shows about / with boarding school life, boarding school, youth, school, friendship, teacher, coming of age, teenager, childhood and adolescence plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as boarding school life: The Emperor's Club (2002), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Wild Child (2008), Abandoned (2001), Innocence (2004), St. Trinian's (2007), Never Let Me Go (2010), House of Anubis (2011), School Ties (1992), Cracks (2009).
Best films
List of boarding school life movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, dedicated educator, coming of age, boarding school life, ethics, school teacher, schoolboy, boarding school, teachers and students, youth, hardcase students, boys' school ...
Time:
20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s, future
Place:
washington d.c., pennsylvania, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
child abuse, juvenile delinquency, abuse, boarding school life, corporal punishment, gay rape, punishment, dedicated educator, child rape, boyhood, reformatory, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
ireland, europe, spain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, light, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
boarding school, teenager, teenage girl, school, youth, teenage life, girls' boarding school, love and romance, rebellious daughter, popularity, friendship, girls' school ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s
Place:
england, europe, california, malibu california, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
corporal punishment, orphan, kids in trouble, children, male bonding, coming of age, life is a bitch, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, friendship, boarding school life, teenage life ...
Time:
60s, year 1960
Place:
hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Style:
disturbing, art house, surreal, erotic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, friendship, childhood, coming of age, boarding school life, girls' boarding school, forest, female protagonist, society, school, dark and stormy night, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
Style:
witty, teen, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, teachers and students, school, adolescence, friendship, high school, girls' boarding school, culture clash, transformation, police investigation, happy ending, youth ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
dystopia, boarding school, existentialism, distopia, childhood, cloning, sadness, friendship, transplant, couples, love story, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1978, 2010s, 50s, year 2010, 70s ...
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
House of Anubis is a jointly Nickelodeon British, American, and Belgian mystery television series based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis aired in the Netherlands and Belgium. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert ...
Style:
light, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
mysterious disappearance, high school, boarding school life, teenage life, investigation, boarding school, friends, school, disappearance, riddles and clues, young heroes, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man ...
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, coming of age, friendship, preparatory school, anti semitism, american football, justice, boarding school life, prejudice, judaism, working class, youth ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1992, 80s
Place:
israel, massachusetts, harvard university, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, erotic, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, obsession, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian, sexualized violence, lgbtq, teenage girl, asthma, boarding school life, child abuse, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
europe, england, spain
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Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, disturbing, harsh, touching ...
Plot:
boxing, nazi, friendship, nazi germany, boarding school, german soldier, anti semitism, pow, boys' school, youth, military school, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, cape town south africa, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
Style:
controversial, surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revolution, boarding school life, boarding school, sex, private school, social satire, homosexuality, school shooting, boys' school, violence, coming of age, corporal punishment ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
england, california, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, ...
Style:
bleak, tense, visually appealing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prison life, punishment, sexual abuse, juvenile detention, island, prison, rebellion, child abuse, boarding school life, protest, isolation, survival ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, japan, poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, political ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, boarding school life, lgbtq, boys love, gay slur, coming of age, gay love, playwright, drag, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, england
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Black Hole High is a Canadian science fiction television program which first aired in North America in October 2002 on NBC and Discovery Kids. It is set at the fictional boarding school of the title, where a Science Club investigates mysterious ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, enigmatic, captivating, adult cartoon ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
boarding school life, teenage life, high school life, dedicated educator, youth, magic, teenager, high school, time travel, supernatural, mysticism, teachers and students ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style:
homoerotic, lgbt cinema, realistic, sad, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay interest, male homosexuality, homosexual, coming of age, friendship, skinny dipping, masturbation, homoerotic friendship, gay teenager, betrayal, small town ...
Time:
60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
france, algeria, africa, europe, south of france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Zoey 101 is an American television series which originally aired on Nickelodeon from January 9, 2005 until May 2, 2008. It focuses on the lives of teenager Zoey Brooks and her friends as they attend Pacific Coast Academy, a fictional boarding school ...
Style:
semi serious, sitcom, humorous, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, teenage life, boarding school life, teenage love, battle of the sexes, best friend, lifestyle, youth, teachers and students, friendship, male female relationship, female protagonist ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style:
realistic, touching, teen, romantic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, love, high school, bullying, male pubic hair, white male black female relationship, teenage life, teenage love, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, year 1965, 60s, 70s
Place:
australia, paris france, africa, kenya, uganda
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style:
touching, inspirational, uplifting, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, teacher, childhood, music, teachers and students, abuse, musician, children, boarding school life, friendship, boss, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2004
Place:
france, new york, switzerland, europe, paris france ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become ...
Style:
scary, rough, psychological horror, suspense, harsh ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boarding school, corporal punishment, stepfather, stepfather stepson relationship, boy, coming of age, supernatural horror, life is a bitch, child, lgbt, brutality, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, sexy, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenager, sex, voyeurism, cheerleader, high school, coming of age, girls' boarding school, friends, bare breasts, college, man disguised as a woman, peeping tom ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Almost a year after the tragic death of their genius mother, Ela-Lee and Alfie are given the opportunity to join the prestigious school their mother had attended. "The Greenhouse", as it is called, is a school for the young and ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, twisted, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
school, investigation, boarding school life, secrets, high school life, teenage life, puzzle, brother sister relationship, teenager, murder mystery, uncover truth, private investigation ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
boys' school, buddies, boarding school life, rebellion, friendship, youth, male nudity, family relations, rebelliousness, boss and employee, boarding school, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled ...
Style:
bleak, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
boarding school life, school, supernatural, politics, rescue, isolation, siblings relations, boarding school, prodigy, danger, science, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the tragic passing away of his mother, Joseph Ignace alias Jassiya (Rushabh Patni) is sent to a Catholic Hostel where he can continue his studies as well as live in the hostel. The sudden separation from his mother, diet, and familiar ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, gujarati
Plot:
friendship, human spirit, redemption, social misfits, hopes, society, youth, social differences, boarding school life, bittersweet, boarding school, cross cultural relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style:
touching, emotional, rough, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
private school, coming of age, violence, rebelliousness, rebellion, bullying, humiliation, bully, corporal punishment, friendship, abuse, high school ...
Time:
1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place:
europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be teenage boys! But while Mademoiselle Bertoux is delighted to stage “Romeo and Juliet” with real ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
twins, teenage love, mistaken identity, best friend, mischievous children, love and romance, youth, disorder, fall in love, boarding school life, monkey, boarding school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a traveling circus. Also features Mickey Rooney and ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
circus, youth, clown, boarding school life, baseball, retirement home, foster parent, young heroes, orphan, chase, heroes, hopes ...
Time:
90s
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