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The Awakening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, afterlife, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, ghost child, supernatural power, twists and turns, investigation ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place: england, europe, britain
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Zombi Child (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, weird
Audience: teen drama
Plot: sisterhood, boarding school, zombie, cemetery, teenager, funeral, piano, voodoo, ghost, supernatural being, blaxploitation, beauty ...
Time: year 1962, year 1980, 2010s
Place: haiti
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 6.2
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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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Alex Rider (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a reluctant teen spy on his missions to save the world.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, unusual plot structure, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: intelligence agency, child spy, agent, espionage, boarding school, teen superhero, spy, spy hero, heroic mission, teenager, mission, secret mission ...
Place: london
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White Christmas (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: murderer, christmas, high school, serial killer, school, suicide, drug, student, isolated place, boarding school, puzzle, isolation ...
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Deep Powder (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Natasha is a reckless boarding school senior tabbed by her exclusive club to make its yearly cocaine run to Ecuador. Coming along for the ride is Danny, a twenty-year-old aspiring hockey player from the other side of the tracks, who may just ...
Style: tense, captivating, touching, suspense, semi serious ...
Plot: youth, boarding school, teenage life, fall in love, drug smuggling, couples, danger, society, high society, high school, love and romance, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ecuador, latin america
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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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 6.1
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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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The Silenced (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: girls' boarding school, boarding school, japanese occupation of korea, school, uncover truth, experiment, mysterious disappearance, dark secret, secret, investigation, mysterious character, mysterious girl ...
Time: 1930s
Place: south korea, indiana
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Blood Widow (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, boarding school, murder, couples, psychopath, danger, isolation, confined, strong violent content, youth, jealousy, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style: surreal, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, investigation, psychopath, female psychopath, chimpanzee, boarding school, telepathy, malice, psychic power, mysticism ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, alps, munich germany
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, tragic hero, dedicated educator, society, idealism, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
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Handsome Devil (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.
Style: touching, captivating, disturbing, teen, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, rugby, school, outcast, friendship between men, friendship, gay teenager, gay slur, rivalry, coming of age, gay crush, humiliation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: ireland
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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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The Nun (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of catholic school girls are victimized by a sadistic and jealous nun, "Sister Ursula". The girls drown the nun in a pool of "holy" water. Eighteen years later circumstances arise in which the nuns spirit is released to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, rough ...
Plot: ghost, evil nun, supernatural, ritual murder, boarding school, curses spells and rituals, curse, vengeance, religions or cults, haunted by the past, gory, danger ...
Place: barcelona, europe, spain
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K-12 (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other ...
Style: dark, rough, disturbing, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teen fantasy
Plot: brainwashing, boarding school, dark heroine, feminist, female friendship, teacher, patriarchy, feminism, social misfits, coup, magic, elementary school ...
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Little Witches (1996)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witch, demon, nun, occult, boarding school, black magic, human sacrifice, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, escapades, girls' boarding school ...
Time: 90s
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Wednesday (2022)
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: dark fantasy, gothic, exciting, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: supernatural, academy, teenage girl, friendship, student, high school, goth girl, werewolf, obsession, addams family, boarding school, witch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new england, vermont
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Lessons of a Dream (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An English teacher brings soccer to a German school in the 19th Century.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, serious, feel good
Plot: soccer, boarding school, dedicated educator, human spirit, ambition, boys' school, youth, rivalry, hopes, boarding school life, sport team, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany
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Greenhouse Academy (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: When teen siblings Hayley and Alex enter an elite boarding school, they find rivalry, romance and a mystery related to the recent loss of their mom.
Style: colorful, children's program, surprise ending, detective, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, ambition, space program, high school life, direction and purpose, middle school, cosmonaut, ambitious, female astronaut, school, high school ...
Place: california
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Go! Live Your Way (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Charismatic Mía gets a scholarship to an elite performing arts school, where she makes close friends but clashes with the owner's popular daughter.
Style: inspirational, light, colorful, captivating, scenic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, dance school, high school, teenager, school, singing, rivalry, dancing, love and romance, friends, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Place: argentina
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The Emperor's Club (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style: realistic, touching, inspirational, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: teacher, coming of age, dedicated educator, boarding school life, boarding school, youth, teachers and students, hardcase students, school, friendship, mentor, education ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., pennsylvania
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Evil (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style: psychological, rough, disturbing, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rebellion, coming of age, private school, rebelliousness, humiliation, corporal punishment, friendship, life is a bitch, high school, bully, bullying, boarding school ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Sassy, Go Go (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Despite their harsh educational environment, the cheerleading club has to keep it together for the students' sakes, and their own.
Style: captivating, light, humorous, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: high school, friendship, love and romance, confidence, rivalry, couple relations, school, dancing, jealousy, boarding school, cheerleading, teenager ...
Place: south korea
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by ...
Style: clever, detective, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: sherlock holmes, murder, private detective, friendship, school, who done it, boarding school, amateur detective, danger, investigation, high school friend, teenage life ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1985, 1870s, victorian era
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london, scotland yard
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Lost and Delirious (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lost and Delirious is the story of three adolescent girls' first love, their discovery of sexual passion, and their search for identities. Set in a posh, private boarding school surrounded by luxuriant, green forest, Lost and Delirious moves ...
Style: touching, sexy, psychological, depressing, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, coming of age, lesbian love, sapphic, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, gender, lesbian lover, boarding school, youth, lesbian sex ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
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Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Revolutionary Girl Utena is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The manga serial began in the June 1996 issue of Ciao and the anime was first broadcast in 1997. The anime and manga were created simultaneously, but, despite ...
Style: anime, stylized, touching, surreal, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, high school, lgbt, revolution, incest, revolutionary, surrealism, duel, fictional reality, love and romance, boarding school, fencing ...
Place: japan
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St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, pirate, treasure, treasure hunt, girls' school, teenager, girls' boarding school, rivalry, youth, friends, battle of the sexes, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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Selah and the Spades (2019)
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: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boarding school, school, black, high school life, teenager, teenage life, underage drinking, teenage girl, relationship problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, fight for supremacy ...
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Pudana: Last of the Line (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign culture and new customs, Neko rebels and decides to flee, hoping to get back to her family and old ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: boarding school, fish out of water, social relations, family relations, parents and children, society, youth, culture clash, village life, bittersweet, girl, indigenous people ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: russia, soviet union
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