Highest-Rated Movies about 'Freshman', Sort by Popularity

Speak (2004), The Sure Thing (1985), The Silent World (1956), 1000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story (2013), Gotcha! (1985), Dead Man on Campus (1998), Pledge (2018), Dr. Giggles (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Freshman movies.

#1. Speak (2004)

Storyline: In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is forced into the worst year of her life. Her best friend, Rachel Bruin, has turned against her with all other of Melinda's fellow students looking away; not daring to take a single glance at Melinda. All because of one stupid end-of-summer party.

Plot Keywords: freshman, mother, old friend, father, high-school student, art teacher, solemn ...

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#2. The Sure Thing (1985)

Storyline: College freshman Walter (Gib) Gibson decides to go cross country to visit his friend in California during winter break. Awaiting there is a bikini-clad babe whom his friend assures him is a "sure thing". Meanwhile, Allison, a cute (but somewhat retentive) girl at Gib's college has also decided to head out to Cal. to see her boyfriend during break. Gib and Allison are thrust together on a road trip from hell, and somewhere along the way, they find each others company to be tolerable. Now, what will become of Gib's "sure thing?"

Plot Keywords: freshman, college student, friend, beautiful woman, fiancé, cheeky, lighthearted ...

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#3. The Silent World (1956)

Storyline: Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school's executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Through various pressures, Jocko silences such involuntary accomplices as his roommate Harold Koble, football star Roger Gatt and freshmen Robert Marquales and Maynard Simmons, a girl-fearing cadet whom Jocko terrorizes into dating Rosebud, a town girl.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: explorer, sailor, diver, engaging, passionate, boat, indian ocean ...

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#5. Gotcha! (1985)

Storyline: Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a vacation in France where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only interested in him because he is a virgin. She takes him with her to East Germany where they are separated and he has to escape back to the west on his own, all the while being trailed by East German spies. He arrives home only to find the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his backpack. Then Sasha re-appears.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: freshman, czech, roommate, russian spy, beautiful woman, agent, amusing ...

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#6. Dead Man on Campus (1998)

Storyline: Josh, (Scott) a college student on a scholarship, gets taught the about crazy nightlife of being in college by his unreliable roommate Cooper (Gosselaar) and fails his midterms due to being unprepared. With Cooper's father no longer willing to pay his son's way through college, and Josh needing to keep up his grades or risk losing his scholarship, the two learn of a hidden clause in the school's rules that basically says "if your roommate commits suicide, you get straight A's." Since neither are willing to do so, they instead decide to invite a suicidal colleague in. - and push him over the edge.

Plot Keywords: college student, freshman, mentally ill person, depressed person, roommate, musician, amusing ...

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#8. Dr. Giggles (1992)

Storyline: The psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor, escapes from his mental institution to seek revenge on the town where his father was caught. The giggling doctor kills his victims with a surgical theme. His goal being to give one of the townfolk a heart transplant.—Rob Hartill

Plot Keywords: psychopath, freshman, boyfriend, father, police officer, townsperson, gory ...

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