Public school movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant public school movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, humorous, emotional, inspirational and sincere films and TV shows about / with public school, school, teacher, teenager, coming of age, education, high school, youth, teacher student relationship and bullying plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as public school: Bad Education (2019), Abbott Elementary (2021), Transfusion (2023), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971), Mustache (2023), Good and Bad at Games (1983), Room 222 (1969), El Hareefa (2024), Vaathi (2023), Scandal in a Small Town (1988).
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List of public school movies
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
Style:
cynical, suspense, controversial, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
gay interest, embezzlement, gay, investigative journalism, gay club, public school, infidelity, deception, money, profanity, lgbt, school ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, long island, north america, manhattan new york city, las vegas ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their ...
Style:
sitcom, satirical, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
school, satire, public school, black, workplace, teacher, lgbt, slice of life, coworker, gay, african american, black american ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, dramatic, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
taliban, criminal underworld, superman, public school, son, ambulance, money, rehearsal, beer, destruction of property, drinking, sniper ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1971 television serial adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name.
It was originally shown on the BBC1 Sunday tea time slot, which often showed adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience. ...
Style:
period piece, dramatic, period drama, earnest
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, high school life, public school, friendship, literary, class system, boarding house, peer pressure, english countryside ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
It’s the mid-90’s in Northern California and 13-year-old Pakistani-American ILYAS is facing a major crisis — his parents yanked him out of his comfortable Islamic private school and now he has to face life at public school. Ilyas’ fears ...
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
puberty, coming of age, adolescence, middle school, teenager, new school, boy, school, self acceptance, identity, acceptance, schoolboy ...
Place:
california, northern california
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
bullying, revenge, humiliation, boarding school, public school, retribution, manipulation, toxic masculinity, class conflict, moral ambiguity, coming of age, obsession ...
Time:
60s, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969 until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 for its ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, comedy drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
high school, education, teacher, social issues, black, tolerance, social commentary, teenage life, idealism, public school, slice of life, counselor ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Egypt
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Uprooted from his old life when he transfers schools, a gifted footballer finds a second chance with a local team chasing a coveted championship.
Style:
inspirational, motivational, emotional, realistic
Plot:
second chance, football, underdog, friendship, determination, public school, youth, class differences, competition, coming of age, teamwork, championship ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An assistant maths teacher takes up a tedious task of transforming underprivileged students despite the politics around education in the 90s.
Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
teacher, education, teachers and students, determination, student, social problems, social issues, fight, battles, political conflict, reform, motivation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of as she is nothing of a blushing virgin. But she is far from a whore and brings up her daughter Julie, a high school student, ...
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
small town, courtroom, teacher, single mother, scandal, racism, anti semitism, mother daughter relationship, prejudice, reputation, courage, education ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
TV show
Story:
Bitter Sweet Life (Hayat Bazen Tatlidir) is the story of Hayat, a history teacher at a top private school. Her job makes it financially possible for her little sister, Gözde to attend the school as a student. One day Hayat gets an urgent phone call ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot:
school, teacher, fighting the system, high school teacher, female teacher, school teacher, friendship, high school life, sister sister relationship, workplace situations, sisters, workplace ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, inspirational, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, hopes, family drama, personal growth, soccer, resilience, dignity, coming of age, teenager, youth, identity crisis, redemption ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The life of a public school epitomized by disobedient student Jonah Takalua, self-absorbed private school exchange student Ja'mie King, and megalomaniac drama teacher Mr. G.
Style:
sitcom, captivating, realistic, humorous, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school student, teacher, high school, school, satire, teachers and students, bully, society, teenage life, misfit, public school, dog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Dan Burgess is a Christian. Dan Burgess thinks he's not impacting anyone for the LORD. Dan Burgess thinks he's missing out on "all the fun". Dan Burgess wants out of the Christian life. Then... one day... Dan Burgess is forced to ...
Style:
christian film
Plot:
christian, faith, evangelical christianity, preaching, religious conversion, teen romance, bible, teenage angst, public school, coming of age, adolescence, christian teen ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, reflective, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, teacher student relationship, high school life, teachers and students, high school teacher, student, teacher, education, school, middle school, school teacher ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 673 min.
TV show
Story:
David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but ...
Style:
historical drama, touching, clever, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
boys' school, world war two, preparatory school, shell shock, private school, writers, grief, schoolboy, boarding school, public school, teacher, college life ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
britain, europe, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, humorous, sentimental, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teacher, teachers and students, rivalry, youth, teenage life, everyday life, social problems, society, idealism, struggle, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Ireland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent ...
Plot:
teacher student relationship, biopic, adoptive father, theatre play, cathedral, binge drinking, persuasion, shame, sunrise, dead mother, audition, cinema ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
wales, oxford 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: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The headmaster of a government school brings in several changes at her institution despite facing odds from various quarters.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
school principal, school, coworker, problem solving, female protagonist, high school life, workplace, countryside, high school principal, math teacher, protest, public school ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's iconic novel, Puberty Blues tells the story of two girls, Debbie and Sue, of innocence lost and experience gained against the backdrop of Australia in the 1970s.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, best friend, youth, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, surfing, teenager, society, couples, high school, high school student ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
5 teachers deal with terrible conditions in public schools but renew everyday their faith on the work they do.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
teacher, school, teachers and students, high school life, workplace situations, school teacher, coworker, social problems, teacher student relationship, workplace, closeted gay, religious intolerance ...
Place:
sao paulo brazil, brazil
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Style:
crying, queer cinema
Plot:
aids, gay brother, family relations, deceased father, public school, gay, computer, hospital, hiv, brother sister relationship, school teacher, hiv positive ...
Place:
new york, baltimore
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Melinda is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial ...
Plot:
political violence, children, city, rural setting, school teacher, partisan, hopes, teaching, book, teacher, school, new teacher ...
Time:
year 2002
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
Style:
sexy, emotional, disturbing, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
transgender, lesbian, lgbt, gender, grandmother granddaughter relationship, single mother, transsexual, gay, lgbtqi, strong female character, starting over, teenager ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style:
sweet, teen, touching, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teens, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, coming of age, music band, musician's life, rock and roll, teenager, singing, bullying, dream girl, adolescence, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1985, future ...
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland, london, nebraska, england
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the same people that brought you "Little Miss Sunshine," Hamlet 2 is the story of Dana Marschz, a high school drama teacher facing the cancellation of his program. A spoof on the typical story of bringing inner city and privileged ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, teen, stylized, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, teacher, teachers and students, closeted homosexual, satire, cheerleader, love triangle, school, dysfunctional family, youth, rehearsal, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
tucson arizona, usa, arizona, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style:
emotional, touching, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hurricane katrina, high school sports, cheerleader, rivalry, sport team, high school, basketball coach, starting over, contests and competitions, human spirit, athlete and trainer, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style:
clever, sincere, teen, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, high school, debate, nothing goes right, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, misfit, contests and competitions, teacher, youth ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The show's title is an amalgamation of the ...
Style:
parody, sketch comedy, not serious, cynical, humorous ...
Plot:
stupidity, satire, social satire, sketch, gender bending, sexual humor, lifestyle, social misfits, human nature, misfit, society, absurd humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, europe, paris france, london
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