Flirting (1990), Our Father (2002), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Citizen Kane (1941), Me, Myself and Mum (2013), The Browning Version (1951), The Heiress (1949), Diabolique (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Boarding School movies.
Storyline: In an indictment of the British public school system, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently, the catch phrase, "which side would you be on" becomes quite stark.
Plot Keywords: anti-hero, teenager, headmaster, prefect, girlfriend, boyfriend, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their children's boarding school. Slowly the widower and widow reveal themselves to each other, with each revelation hidden by a misperception. They become closer and closer, until she reveals that she can't have a lover because her husband's memory is still far too strong. Much of the film is told wordlessly in actions or through hearing each person's thoughts.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: widower, widow, child, race car driver, emotional, tender, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.
Plot Keywords: deaf mute, woman, nun, gripping, boarding school, blindness, growing up ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. The movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, not the answering of them. Even though both the movie and the book it was based on claim to be inspired by real events, the story is completely fictional.
Plot Keywords: student, young girl, young boy, headmistress, teacher, police officer, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos, the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate headmistress named Carmen and a kindly Professor Casares, both of whom are sympathetic to the doomed Republican cause. Despite their concern for him, and his gradual triumph over the usual schoolhouse bully, Carlos never feels completely comfortable in his new environment. First of all, there was that initial encounter with the orphanage's nasty caretaker, Jacinto, who reacts even more violently when anyone is caught looking around a particular storage room the one with the deep well. Second, and more inexplicable, is the presence of a ghost, one of the former occupants of the orphanage named Santi. Not long after Carlos' arrival, Santi ...
Plot Keywords: boy, professor, headmistress, caretaker, eerie, emotional, spain ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. She arrives at the Tanz dance academy in the pouring rain and is refused admission after another woman is seen fleeing the school. She returns the next morning and this time is let in. She learns that the young woman she saw fleeing the previous evening, Pat Hingle, has been found dead. Strange things soon begin to occur. Suzy becomes ill and is put on a special diet; the school becomes infested with maggots; odd sounds abound; and Daniel, the pianist, is killed by his own dog. A bit of research indicates that the ballet school was once a witches' coven - and as Suzy learns, still is.
Plot Keywords: schoolgirl, ballerina, teacher, witch, student, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, both of whom are in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal which disrupts all their lives.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: student, teacher, wealthy woman, doctor, engaging, melodramatic, boarding school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Coming-of-age story for two girls, Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding), who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a Catholic boarding school for girls. The story spans three years and follows the girls and their many pranks including setting off fire alarms, smoking cigars in the basement, and putting bubble baths in the nuns' sugar bowls. As the girls mature, they gain a greater respect for their teachers and the commitment and devotion required to be a nun, leading one of them to make a life-changing decision.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: student, nun, mother superior, prankster, friend, classmate, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A village in Southern France, 1962. The Algerian war is coming to an end. Teenagers Maïte and François are friends. François realizes he has feelings for his classmate Serge, who is instead attracted to Maïte - but Maïte is more interested in politics than in Serge. Her views are opposed to those of Henri, another classmate of the boys. The four of them entangle in a game of tensions and emotions.
Plot Keywords: student, farmer, communist, teacher, friend, brooding, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the dead of winter, a troubled young woman (Emma Roberts) embarks on a mysterious journey to an isolated prep school where two stranded students (Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton) face a sinister threat from an unseen evil force.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, friend, evil spirit, teacher, father, mother, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. After nearly twenty years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, teacher, lover, student, schoolboy, schoolteacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as missing in action however, her life goes from one of plenty to that of a poor house maid. Mrs. Minchin agrees to keep her on at the school, but in the absence of her tuition payments, she has to work for her keep. She is soon cleaning out the fireplace and scrubbing floors and is dubbed the little princess by her former schoolmates. She also refuses to accept that her father is dead and prowls the hospitals in the hope of locating him. Luck - and Royal intervention - assist her in her quest.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: little girl, maid, schoolgirl, headmistress, charming, endearing, boarding school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.
Plot Keywords: friend, teen boy, teen girl, nurse, classmate, bleak, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A girl (Zoé Auclair) arrives at a mysterious boarding school that is isolated from the outside world.
Plot Keywords: young girl, student, teacher, headmistress, friend, bully, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.—Sonya Roberts <sonya_roberts@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: schoolgirl, celebrity, composer, valet, mother, classmate, amusing ...
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