Detention movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant detention movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, humorous, tense, emotional and realistic films and TV shows about / with detention, teenager, high school, youth, friendship, school, teenage life, survival, high school student and teenage girl plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as detention: Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012), The Breakfast Club (1985), Detention Adventure (2019), Detention (2011), The Holdovers (2023), Lemonade Mouth (2011), Seance (2021), A Goofy Movie (1995), One of Us Is Lying (2021), Detention (2003).
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List of detention movies
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On a stormy Saturday afternoon, six students from Crestview Academy begin to meet horrible fates as they serve out their detentions. Is a fellow student to blame, or perhaps Crestview's alleged ghosts are behind the terrible acts?
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, suspense, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, detention, teenage life, student life, teenager, trapped, popular girl, murder, seance, manipulation, zombie, danger ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style:
cult classic, teen, talky, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teenage girl, detention, teen angst, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1985
Place:
chicago, illinois, seattle
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Genre: Family
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Three nerdy friends and the school bully must get themselves thrown into detention to find the entrance to a labyrinth of trap-laden tunnels protecting the fabled hidden lab of Alexander Graham Bell.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, lighthearted, fast paced ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
school, detention, teamwork, friendship, teenager, friends, school bully, high school life, teenage life, laboratory, schoolboy, escapades ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, spoof, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, dark humor, time machine, time loop, youth, imaginary, social relations, survival, unrequited love, grizzly bear, american football, body swap ...
Time:
year 2011, year 1992, year 2003, year 2005, year 2008 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy ...
Style:
sentimental, compassionate, hilarious, f word
Plot:
boarding school, holiday, teacher, christmas, grieving mother, teen angst, detention, depressed man, vietnam war, grief, christmas eve, history teacher ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1971, 70s
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school ...
Style:
teen, thrilling, light, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
youth, high school, friends, teenage life, lifestyle, teenager, music band, high school life, follow your dream, friendship, artists and showbiz, coming of age ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At the prestigious Fairfield Academy, an elite boarding school for girls, six friends jokingly engage in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. Before morning, one of the girls is ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, slasher, teen horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lesbian, seance, evil spirit, ouija board, detention, ghost story, spirit, violence, ritual, revenge, ghost, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Though Goofy always means well, his amiable cluelessness and klutzy pratfalls regularly embarrass his awkward adolescent son, Max. When Max's lighthearted prank on his high-school principal finally gets his longtime crush, Roxanne, to notice ...
Style:
road movie, cult classic, slapstick, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
father son relationship, concert, anthropomorphic animal, near death experience, summer vacation, road trip, childhood, on the road, coming of age, eating pizza, vacation, dog ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
ohio, los angeles, usa, arizona, idaho ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lgbt teen, gay relationship, high school, gay teenager, closeted gay, detention, jail, gang, young adult, jailed, criminal, prison violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
teacher, ex soldier, high school, juvenile delinquent, detention, female assassin, high school student, rescue, kidnapping, corrupt cop, one man army, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bosnia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style:
romantic, teen, romantic comedy, rom com, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teen romance, teenage life, enemies to lovers, love and romance, teenage love, initially antagonists ...
Time:
y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of Ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
ghost, danger, supernatural, isolation, youth, high school life, teenage life, prank, detention, high school, stoner, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's X-Men meets The Breakfast Club. When five superhero teens are hauled into detention at their secret training academy, they have to work together to stop the sinister Kaelus from stealing all the students' powers.
Style:
sweet, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
superhero, teenage life, superheroine, supernatural ability, teenage protagonist, friendship, superhuman powers, good versus evil, fantasy world, first love, rivalry, super villain ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of oddball high school students find themselves trapped in detention with their classmates having turned into a horde of Zombies.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, horror comedy, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, high school, cheerleader, zombie attack, infection, high school student, school, supernatural, escapades, danger, social misfits, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's four years later, and a new group of students has been placed in Saturday detention at the infamous and prestigious Crestview Academy. When Siouxsie, sophomore 'undercrust,' crashes the party to avenge her sister's death, a ...
Style:
non-linear, ambiguous ending, humorous, suspense, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school student, dark humor, drug addict, student, female protagonist, serial killer, cynical man, conspiracy, murder, bossy woman, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
coven, witch, high school, found footage, friendship, supernatural power, supernatural, vengeance, supernatural ability, women, deadly creature, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that.
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, entertaining, teen comedy
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
high school student, high school, friendship, teenage protagonist, husband wife relationship, teenage boy, teenage girl, interracial friendship, family relations, coming of age, anxiety, detention ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, History, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Afternoon detention with Ms. Foxtrot leads to magical, educational, and extremely gross journeys.
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Plot:
mad scientist, science, teleportation, historical character, detention, heroes, weirdo, creativity, friends, rivalry, teenage life, misfit partners ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The 17 years old Marco Weiss has spent as usual his holiday with his parents at the Turkish Rivera.But on the last day of his stay Marco is arrested for sexual abuse against the minor British girl Carolina.He will spend 247 days in provisional ...
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
prison, desperation, investigation, trial, district attorney, anguish, judge, flirting, propaganda, holiday, teen romance, arrest ...
Place:
turkey, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the ...
Style:
serious, tension, political drama
Plot:
injustice, mistaken identity, wrongful arrest, greek, detention, surveillance, mistrust, human rights, military base, empathy, evidence, paranoia ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fact based drama about one of the internment camps used by the American military during World War II to detain some 100,000 Japanese Americans (most of them U.S. born) following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, emotional, educational, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, american history, detention, identity, civil liberties, racism, trauma, evacuation, community, prejudice, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
(Khaled Degwy) who are enrolled in one of the terrorist groups that the killings, believing they are fighting for the sake of God, and when his brother (Ahmad) tries to join this group (Khaled) refuses, he is trying to stop him, but he joins, and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
terrorism, extremism, revenge, retribution, gang, gang member, terrorist group, terrorist, bandit, terrorist plot, criminal gang, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
Style:
captivating, psychological, political, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, prison life, prison, injustice, human rights, jailed, confined, military prison, jail cell, prison violence, prisoner, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their professional careers and start a family in 'the land of ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
interrogation, border crossing, interrogation room, airport, police interrogation, immigration, couples, problem, cross examination, power, anxiety, bureaucracy ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, political thriller, intercultural ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, human rights, mother, motherhood, life is a bitch, social injustice, social problems, parents and children, family relations, injustice, detention, bureaucracy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
germany, washington d.c.
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884
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.
Style:
suspense, rough, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
escape, undocumented immigrant, immigration, fear, violence, breakup, gang, arrest, court, tattoo, child protagonist, border ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, central america
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Romania, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, ...
Style:
historical drama, intense, political, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot:
soldier, revolution, freedom, oppression, secret police, civil unrest, conflict, protest, liberation, chaos, militia, accusation ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, political, tense ...
Plot:
illegal immigrant, illegal alien, refugee, immigration, war trauma, immigrant family, survival, bureaucracy, alienation, exile, integration, resilience ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, africa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three students stay after class for detention. After a while they realize they were left alone, and the doors to the school have been chained up. They find out they have a connection to one another. Each has a history bullying a student by the name ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, bullying, school, mockery, haunting, teenager, vengeful ghost, mysticism, paranormal activity, survival horror, trap ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Fisherman Raju is deeply in love with Satya. However, at one point, she urges him to stop going to the sea and look for other jobs. Ignoring her plea, Raju ventures out and accidentally drifts into Pakistani waters, where he is arrested.
Style:
tense, realistic, emotional, suspense, political ...
Plot:
fisherman, danger, detention, rescue mission, heroism, small town life, resilience, pow, moral dilemma, injustice, family drama, survival ...
Place:
pacific ocean
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