Boarding school movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant boarding school movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, melancholic, psychological, suspense, realistic and sexy films and TV shows about / with boarding school, coming of age, teenager, school, friendship, youth, teenage girl, high school, boarding school life and teacher plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as boarding school: Boarding School (2018), Level 16 (2018), All I Wanna Do (1998), Wild Child (2008), While the Wolf's Away (2017), Tower Prep (2010), The Chorus (2004), Young Royals (2021), Cracks (2009), Looking for Alaska (2019).
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List of boarding school movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
In an inaccessible place between the mountains and isolated from the world, a school is located next to an old monastery. The students are rebellious and problematic young people who live under the strict and severe discipline imposed by the center ...
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, captivating, sinister ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, reform school, supernatural, threat, coming of age, reformatory, secrets, isolation, dark secret, supernatural power, problem child, mysticism ...
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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, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dark secret, boarding school, punishment, female protagonist, distopia, discipline, isolation, girls' boarding school, obedience, imprisonment, pervert, vaccine ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, period piece, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, gender, teenage life, teenage love, high school, battle of the sexes, school, youth, bullying, girls' school, friendship between girls ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1998, year 1963, 80s
Place:
new york state, new jersey, tokyo
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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, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
Style:
heartbreaking, atmospheric, psychological, compassionate, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, boy, friendship, boyhood, fighting the system, sex with a minor, confined, social relations, bittersweet, society, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ian Archer wakes up one morning to find himself at a mysterious academy for teens with special abilities. Unable to find answers to his questions from the school’s faculty and cut off from any kind of outside contact or means of escape, Ian forms ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, heroic, stylized
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, investigation, supernatural ability, teenage life, boarding school, suspicion, high school hunk, escape attempt, mysterious place, isolation, supernatural power, teenager ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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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: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, captivating, saga, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay youth, gay lead character, heir to the throne, royal family, forbidden love, teenager, teenage boy, love affair ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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22K
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, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
A new arrival at a boarding school falls in love with a beguiling female student.
Style:
touching, suspenseful, sweet, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, fall in love, youth, teenager, boarding school, destiny, love affair, hopes, car accident, love, couple relations, riddles and clues ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
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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: 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, 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, 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: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.
Style:
atmospheric, brutal, sadistic, bloody, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
danger, boarding school, youth, death, smoking, disciple, gang, teenager, murder, school, training, private school ...
Time:
80s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, enigmatic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder mystery, boarding school, death of friend, dealing with death, experiment, teenager, dungeon, siblings relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, latina, unspoken love ...
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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: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Style:
touching, psychological, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
lgbt teen, boys love, friendship, gay teenager, teenage life, boys' school, boarding school, youth, boyhood, gay love, friend, child ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Don Wallace arrives at Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school in the English countryside where the children of the wealthiest are groomed to dominate society. But the monolithic rules of the British upper class change when greed and recklessness ...
Style:
horror comedy, perverse, funny, slasher, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, teenage boy, death, teenager, boy, monster, creature, friendship, teacher, secret, halloween, group of friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zip and Zap, two mischievous twins, were placed in the Esperanza, a school where the games are prohibited. There will found the Club of Marble, child resistance to challenge the authority of adults. Thanks to her intelligence, her courage and her ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, sentimental
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
boarding school, secret movement, courage, coming of age, treasure hunt, greed, strong female character, superhero, undisciplined, arachnophobia, father son conflict, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
basque country, spain
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA, Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?
Style:
gothic, horrifying, stylized, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, boarding school, supernatural, obsession, making love, mysterious character, friends, youth, danger, social relations, haunted by the past, girls' school ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
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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: 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, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, heartbreaking, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
boarding school, imagination, childhood, princess, orphan, servant, little girl, fantasy life, child, girls' boarding school, coming of age, children ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, future, victorian era, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, england, britain, africa ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only other four female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame ...
Style:
scary, demonic, gothic, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, trance, haunted house, black magic, private school, troubled teen, possessed, ghost, talent, boarding house, schoolgirl, hearing voices ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, boarding school, school, black, high school life, teenager, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, drug use, teenage girl, power struggle, fight for supremacy, underage drinking ...
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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, sentimental, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
feminism, teacher, college, coming of age, art, art history, feminist, gender, life philosophy, teachers and students, dedicated educator, boarding school ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2003, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, california, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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:
sexy, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, boarding school, power relations, isolation, love affair, teaching the ways of the world, orphan, youth, teachers and students, abuse, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago ...
Style:
gothic, dark comedy, dark fantasy, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural, academy, teenage girl, friendship, high school, boarding school, supernatural power, addams family, werewolf, goth girl, student, teenager ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new england, vermont
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