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Someday's Dreamers (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Someday's Dreamers is a manga written by Norie Yamada and illustrated by Kumichi Yoshizuki. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Dragon magazine from May 2002 to January 2003 and was later collected in two bound volumes. In 2006, ...
Style: anime, stylized, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, teenage love, wizards and magicians, love and romance, supernatural romance, apprentice, boarding school, youth, slice of life, wizard, magic, city life ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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After the Wizard (2011)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Kansas orphan turns to the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman for help during a difficult time. She imagines that things have not gone well in Oz since the Wizard left and that the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman must travel to Kansas to find ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, getting home, young heroes, heroes, orphan, escapades, imaginary, hopes, wizards and magicians, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, danger ...
Place: kansas
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Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Hanzo Academy is a prestigious prep school with a secret known only to a select few. Behind its walls is a training course for shinobi; trained spies and assassins that centuries ago had served the shoguns for their political and military needs. ...
Style: anime, ecchi, semi serious, humorous, exciting ...
Plot: ninja, rivalry, good versus evil, imaginary, best friend, friendship, athlete's life, escapades, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry, ninjitsu, female ninja ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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A Murder of Quality (1991)
Genre: Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley ...
Style: political thriller, crime thriller, mind bending, clever, serious ...
Plot: spy, espionage, murder, mysticism, glbt, boarding school, british spy, investigation, social differences, police investigation, uncover truth, private detective ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: latin america
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 7.4
 1K
Rockford (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that would look ...
Style: social, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, child, soul searching, boy, boarding school, best friend, family relations, friends, power relations, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, las vegas
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Sister Mary Explains It All (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: As Sister Mary delivers a lecture on sin and its consequences, she's interrupted by several of her former students, who have little positive to say about how a Catholic education has impacted their lives.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: nun, religions or cults, clergy, society, disorder, church, rivalry, catholic school, christmas, belief in the afterlife, lifestyle change, humour ...
Time: 21st century
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Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love ...
Style: gothic, suspense, psychotronic, gothic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: werewolf, lycanthropy, wolf, murder, school, mutant, animal life, boarding school, social relations, danger, dangerous animal, investigation ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
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The House That Screamed (1969)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, bullying, boarding school, humiliation, missing person, youth, obsession, society, woman in danger, lesbian, secret, serial killer ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: france, south of france, europe
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 5.9
 354
December (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In December of 1941, five teenage boys at a New England prep school hear the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and realize their lives are going to be changed forever. Released in 1991.
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, coming of age, preparatory school, world war, friendship, school, profanity, cons and scams, boarding school life, battles, friends, boarding school ...
Time: year 1991, year 1938, year 1941
Place: new england, pearl harbor, london, england
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie and cousin Sylvia, two very young children, are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel overseas. Only the servants and the prowling wolves are their companions. News arrives that Lord and Lady Willoughby are missing and an ...
Style: spooky, independent film, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, orphan, alternate history, coming of age, child in peril, chase, heroes, young heroes, escapades, good versus evil, rescue, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england
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 4.6
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Pretty Smart (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: porn industry, teenager, exploitation, teen angst, nudity, rivalry, rebellion, voyeurism, school, silly humor, rebelliousness, prank ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, greece, athens greece
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Presumed Dead in Paradise (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A rebellious teen becomes embroiled in a dark conspiracy that involves her late father, after everyone thinks she drowned while vacationing with her estranged stepmother on an island.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: boarding school, conspiracy, resort, estrangement, jungle, betrayal, vacation, uncover truth, teenager, danger, ocean, school ...
Time: 21st century
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The Student Connection (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The director of a school is surprised when a student commits a murder, so there are no alternative but to also eliminate the only eyewitness
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, freeze frame ...
Plot: serial killer, boarding school, murder, child in peril, dishonesty, witnessing a crime, femme fatale, danger, couple relations, couples, power relations, teachers and students ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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The New Adventures of Madeline (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Ludwig Bemelmans' classic books, MADELINE stars a clever little redheaded girl whose capricious antics have won the hearts of children, parents and educators everywhere. Narrated in rhyme by Christopher Plummer, who was awarded a Prime ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: best friend, friends, disorder, escapades, adventurer, youth, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, school, boarding school life, female protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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 5.4
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Bringing Rain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: BRINGING RAIN is the story of boarding school students that have suffered a scarring accident. Stuck together for the last month of school, they are faced with either dealing with the reality of the damage done, or drifting off into isolated ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, boarding school, isolation, teenage life, youth, school, life is a bitch, high school, amputee, friends, social relations, college ...
Time: 21st century
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Natural Sciences (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, coming of age, search for father, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: rebelliousness, power relations, boarding school, teaching the ways of the world, isolation, love affair, orphan, youth, teachers and students, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian sex ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
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Vampire High (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Vampire High is a Canadian TV series which originally aired from 2001 to 2002. The show centered on a group of young vampires subjected to a daring experiment by the "Elders": taken in by a boarding school that also housed mortal ...
Style: serious, captivating, touching, gothic, slasher
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, vampire human love, supernatural, boarding school, teenage love, supernatural ability, teenage life, teachers and students, youth, isolation, adolescence vs adulthood, troubled teen ...
Place: beverly hills
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Blue Drop (2007)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: All the blue drop stories revolve around a war between humanity and the Arume, an alien race consisting soley of women. Both manga series are set after the war while the anime is set before. The two manga series feature some degree of sexual ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, captivating, sincere
Plot: boarding school, heroes, danger, hotshot hero, space and aliens, human alien relationship, rebellion, friendship, alien invasion, alien, betrayal, double life ...
Place: japan
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 4.6
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Bloodmoon (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the small town of Coopers Bay, there are two Hi-schools situated right next to each other. There’s Winchester, an all boys comprehensive and St Elizabeth’s, a girl’s only Catholic faculty. They are separated by woodland where pupils from ...
Style: slasher, bloody, independent film, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, teacher student sex, exploitation, student, dead teenager, murder, clergy, youth, investigation, rivalry, betrayal, power relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: oceania
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A Sinful Life (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.
Style: dark comedy, thinking, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: social services, profanity, disaster, family relations, family problems, religions or cults, boarding school, single parent, self discovery, youth, danger, babies and infants ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
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 5.9
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Gakuen Heaven (2006)
Genre: Animation, Romance
Country: Japan, Germany
TV show
Story: Gakuen Heaven is a media franchise originating from the PC game Gakuen Heaven: Boy's Love Scramble, originally released by the company SPRAY. The franchise gradually expanded to include more games, drama CDs, manga, and anime.
Style: anime, yaoi, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, buddies, youth, gay athlete, childhood friend, school, gay interest, occupation, lgbtq ...
Place: japan, asia
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 5.2
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Chasing Holden (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Neil Lawrence (DJ Qualls) is sent to a boarding school by his father. During his first couple days he meets T.J. (Rachel Blanchard) who he falls in love with. After being assigned a paper on Holden Caufield - the main character in J.D. Salinger s ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, independent film, humorous
Plot: boarding school, obsession, teenage life, teenage love, youth, fall in love, father son relationship, writers, hospital, school, coming of age, misfit ...
Place: new york, usa
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Private Romeo (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Romeo and Juliet has never been more provocative than in this contemporary all-boy staging. Writer/director Alan Brown transfers the setting from fair Verona to a high school military campus where a small group of boys from rival schools act out the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, true love, gays and lesbians, gay love, gym, boys love, cadet, forbidden love, lgbtq, youth, gender ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.0
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To Find a Man (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, friendship, family relations, family problems, boarding school, battles, couples, friends, youth, society, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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 6.8
 350
Inuk (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greenland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Several years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.
Style: realistic, captivating, contemplative, visually appealing, melancholic ...
Plot: dog sled, self discovery, journey, redemption, teaching the ways of the world, haunted by the past, winter, teenage life, culture, indigenous people, boy, landscape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greenland
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David Copperfield (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, social differences, young heroes, society, life is a bitch, child as adult, adulthood, rich and poor, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
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Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, exciting ...
Plot: family relations, master and servant, couples, danger, mute or deaf, countryside, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, friendship, intellectual disability ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: france
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 5.0
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Enigma (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls boarding school to enact bloody revenge against the elitist coeds responsible for her condition.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: vengeance, supernatural, danger, prank, school, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, youth, social misfits, teenage life, misfit, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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 6.5
 14K
Dutch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style: light, road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa
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