Movies and TV shows set in yale university

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in yale university ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, independent film, cult classic and touching films and TV shows about / with family relations, father son relationship, dancing, kiss, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, college, telephone call, teenager and drink plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as yale university: The College Admissions Scandal (2019), Gilmore Girls (2000), The Skulls (2000), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), Splendor in the Grass (1961), American Psycho (2000), Experimenter (2015), I as in Icarus (1979), The Good Shepherd (2006), The Normal Heart (2014).

List of movies set in yale university

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The College Admissions Scandal (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
Audience: teens
Plot: music manager, felony, extortion, arrest, swimming pool, fbi, money laundering, soccer, mother, college, daughter, son ...
Place: yale university
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 8.2
 147K
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
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 5.6
 34K
The Skulls (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Luke's exultance at being selected for The Skulls (a secret society bred within the walls of a prominent Ivy League Campus) is soon overshadowed when he realises that all is 'not well in Wonderland'. For The Skulls is a breeding ...
Style: suspense, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: secret society, college, conspiracy, murder, manipulation, uncover truth, friendship, investigation, conspiracy theory, social differences, society, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, harvard university
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, touching, realistic, scenic ...
Plot: single mother, small town life, mother son estrangement, addiction, dysfunctional family, family relations, childhood memory, teenage boy, grandmother grandson relationship, mother daughter conflict, american dream, family drama ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, year 1997, year 2011, year 1946 ...
Place: kentucky, ohio, yale university, new haven connecticut
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Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, unrequited love, forbidden love, suicide attempt, small town life, promiscuity ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future
Place: kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa
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 7.6
 707K
American Psycho (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, surreal, brutal, stylized ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, dark humor, violence, materialism, psycho killer, mental illness, murder, yuppie ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, y2k, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, america, seattle, yale university, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.6
 20K
Experimenter (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his ...
Style: political, disturbing, philosophical, factual, melancholic ...
Plot: psychology, electric shock, experiment, biopic, science, scientist, insanity, couple relations, social experiment, workplace, inventions and discoveries, manipulation ...
Time: 60s, year 2015, year 1961, 20th century
Place: usa, connecticut, yale university
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, ...
Style: romantic, feel good, teen, touching, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, women, friendship, love story, coming of age, best friend, relationships, college, greek island, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: vermont, greece, connecticut, rhode island, new york ...
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I as in Icarus (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state ...
Style: political, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: political conspiracy, government corruption, assassination, kennedy assassination, witnessing a crime, uncover truth, political corruption, dedicated lawyer, state affairs, legal investigation, fighting the system, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: france, yale university
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot: cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
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The Normal Heart (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the ...
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: aids, gay, gays and lesbians, gay slur, homosexuality, terminal illness, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual, life is a bitch, friendship, gay love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1982, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, usa, ethiopia, manhattan new york city, yale university ...
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Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
Style: cynical, cult classic, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, showbiz, price of fame, rise and fall, terminal illness, singer, porn actress, actress, psychiatric nurse, drinking ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new york, new england ...
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 6.7
 33K
The Tender Bar (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her ...
Style: sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, writers, boy, male bonding, adult child friendship, coming of age, family relations, drunken man, bartender, family problems, bar owner, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1973
Place: long island, new haven connecticut, yale university, north carolina, manhattan new york city ...
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Very Good Girls (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, loss of virginity, female friendship, friendship, youth, wooing, love and romance, teenage life, love triangle, teenage sexuality ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, wisconsin, tennessee ...
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 6.5
 4K
Hawaii (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, epic ...
Plot: missionary, infidelity, state affairs, culture clash, fish out of water, religion, redemption, family relations, religions or cults, interracial relations, christian, royalty ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, regency period, 1820s, 1830s ...
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, boston, yale university ...
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 6.1
 338
Admissions (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League ...
Style: contemplative, independent film, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, family problems, mentally challenged, family life, parents and children, sister sister relationship, mental retardation, ghost writer, bad father, coming of age, youth, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, harvard university, yale university
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, depressing, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: suicide, suburbs, depression, overbearing parent, suicide attempt, teenager, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, teenage life, coming of age, friendship, suicidal ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, yale university
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 6.2
 52K
Orange County (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, high school, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family relations, drug, youth, horniness, sex with a minor, cheerleader, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: california, southern california, usa, yale university, mexico
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style: inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: feminism, teacher, art, college, teachers and students, art history, coming of age, dedicated educator, college life, women, gender, feminist ...
Time: 50s, year 2003, 1950s, year 1953, post world war two ...
Place: massachusetts, california, boston, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Laws of Attraction (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Style: romantic, light, not serious, talky, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: lawyer, workplace romance, opposites attract, divorce lawyer, couples, middle age romance, unlikely couple, legal, battle of the sexes, hotshot lawyer, urban, love story ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: ireland, new york, usa, yale university
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style: serious, political thriller, captivating, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: writers, twists and turns, politics, political conspiracy, investigation, betrayal, writer's life, spy, espionage, cia, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new england, new york, massachusetts, britain, oxford university ...
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Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dysfunctional family drama. Absent father, alcoholic brother Tim (Jim Carrey) try to cope with life. Fox movie of the week.
Style: cult classic, realistic, semi serious, talky, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, alcoholic, gay interest, substance abuse, glbt, gender, slice of life, recovery, happy ending, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 90s
Place: yale university
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 7.7
 5K
The Company (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 286 min.
TV show
Story: Real-life figures from the Cold War era mix with a fictional story based on a group of CIA operatives and their counterparts in the KGB, MI6, and the Mossad.
Style: captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, cia, spy, mole, politics, intrigue, suspicion, double life, state affairs, betrayal, power relations, danger ...
Time: 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: germany, europe, cuba, hungary, moscow russia ...
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 6.5
 14K
Chances Are (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not ...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, reincarnation, older woman younger man relationship, heaven, ghost, death, love, paradise, life & death, love story, dysfunctional family, unlikely couple ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 60s
Place: usa, washington d.c., cleveland ohio, yale university
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 6.7
 12K
Bamboozled (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: TV producer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it incredibly becomes ...
Style: thought provoking, black comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: racism, hip hop, blaxploitation, overnight success, rise and fall, civil rights, showbiz, media satire, society, artists and showbiz, black, satire ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: america, usa, harvard university, south carolina, yale university ...
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 140K
Accepted (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, college life, high school, youth, student, education, party, coming of age, slacker, campus, college student ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, yale university, harvard university
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 6.0
 3K
Tenure (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, teenager, teacher, business, fake dating ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, yale university
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 6.3
 50K
W. (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Switzerland, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. W takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and ...
Style: political, factual, cynical, sincere, horror comedy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: politics, president, election, oil, patriotism, rise to the top, u.s. president, iraq war, parents and children, american history, doubts and hesitations, head of state ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: iraq, middle east, washington d.c., texas, austin texas ...
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 5.5
 13K
Puppetmaster (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. His puppets become murderous little demons and escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics tune into the existence of ...
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot: puppet, evil doll, murder, supernatural, doll, deadly creature, killer doll, violence, transformation, puppet master, female nudity, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 80s, year 1939, 1930s
Place: new york, yale university, pacific ocean, california
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