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

Wake Up Sid (2009), Ghost World (2001), Booksmart (2019), King Creole (1958), Jellyfish (2018), Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942), The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), Our Very Own (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Graduation movies.

#16. Slackers (2002)

Storyline: Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with Honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during the final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school.

Plot Keywords: slacker, roommate, geek, love interest, college buddy, professor, hedonistic ...

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#17. I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

Storyline: When Dennis Cooverman gives the commencement speech at his graduation, his friend tells him to let it all out. So he proclaims his love for head cheerleader Beth Cooper and says things about everyone in the graduating class as well as some other people. Later Beth confronts him and he invites her to his graduation party; to his surprise she and two of her friends actually do show up. But so do some of the people he offended with his speech, wanting to tear him apart; one of them is Beth's boyfriend, who has just dumped him.

Plot Keywords: valedictorian, popular girl, best friend, nerd, jock, bully, madcap ...

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#18. Get a Job (2016)

Storyline: Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

Plot Keywords: college graduate, couple, friend, coworker, witty, airy, amusing ...

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#19. Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

Storyline: Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes) is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle (Dame Helen Mirren), and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties, and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.

Plot Keywords: high-school student, friend, love interest, teacher, mother, principal, cheeky ...

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#20. The Sterling Chase (1999)

Storyline: 48 hours until graduation 1999 at Chadley University. Three students are competing for the most prestigious achievement, the Stirling Chase Award. Jenna (Alanna Ubach) is having trouble coming to terms with her deep-seated fear of intimacy, in particular the advances of one 'Bunz' Berstein.Alexis is the budding senator whose lesbian relationship and deaf roommate are conveniently used in her quest for 'open mindedness'. As the graduation ceremony approaches the third nominee, Darren, is forced to make a choice between forwarding his career or staying true to his friends and himself. Nice ending where each character parts with at least a bit of their ignorance.—kwedgwood@hotmail.com

Plot Keywords: lesbian, feminist, college student, girlfriend, black student, classmate, emotional ...

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#21. High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

Storyline: Troy and the gang of East High School are going through their senior year, facing graduating and going their separate ways. Coming to terms with the reality of it all, Troy wants to attend the nearby University of Albuquerque next year on a basketball scholarship, but Gabriella wants to attend Stanford University in California. Meanwhile, Sharpay, the school's shallow and spoiled rich girl, plots to go all out planning the school's final musical show with the idea to add music to her hopes and fears about the future. While Sharpay takes an up-and-coming British exchange student under her wing, her flamboyant fraternal twin brother, Ryan, has his sights set on something different after school. In addition, Troy's best friend and basketball teammate Chad, and Garbiella's best friend Taylor, all have their sights set on their plans after high school and come to terms with the reality of the real world.

Plot Keywords: teenager, girlfriend, lot, amusing, troy, singing, holidays ...

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#24. The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)

Storyline: Chrissie's last week of high-school in Downers Grove, IL. is a paranoid trip through a small Midwestern town gripped by a 'curse' that claims the life of one high school senior every year. With only five days to graduation, Chrissie Swanson is beginning to wonder if she will be the next victim of the Curse of Downers Grove.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: girl, victim, death, gory, grove, high school, curse ...

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#25. Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

Storyline: Young Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is in his last year of high school, and final examinations are right around the corner. However, all Andy can think about is participating in school clubs. When his workload simply gets too heavy, he has the bright idea to enlist the attractive Kathryn (Kathryn Grayson) to be his receptionist, which makes his girlfriend, Polly (Ann Rutherford), jealous. Unfortunately, Andy will need both Kathryn and Polly to help him if he is to pass his dreaded English test.

Plot Keywords: teen boy, girlfriend, secretary, mother, father, lighthearted, witty ...

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#26. Ernest Goes to School (1994)

Storyline: Dropout and school district employee Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) is in danger of losing his job because of a new rule that says all workers must be high school graduates. Ernest enrolls in classes, but the lovable dimwit struggles to retain information -- until teachers Gerta (Linda Kash) and Bobby (Bill Byrge) subject him to scientific experiments that turn him into a genius. Suddenly smart, Ernest also becomes an egomaniac, and unless he's careful he'll drive away his pals.

Plot Keywords: repairman, student, teacher, ernest p. worrell, principal, hilarious, madcap ...

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#27. Terror Train (1980)

Storyline: During a hazing, a fraternity of pre-med students has a particularly sinister prank in store for one their more timid pledges (Derek MacKinnon). With the help of a coed, Alana Maxwell (Jamie Lee Curtis), they pull off the prank so well that the pledge needs to be institutionalized as a result. After several years pass and people forget the incident, those involved with the prank are ready to celebrate their graduation by having a costume party on a train, but they haven't escaped their past yet.

Plot Keywords: frat boy, student, partygoer, magician, killer, pledge, frightening ...

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#28. One Day (2011)

Storyline: On July 15, 1988 -- the day of their college graduation -- two people from opposite sides of the tracks begin a lifelong friendship. Emma (Anne Hathaway), an idealist from a working-class family, wants to make the world a better place. Dexter (Jim Sturgess), a playboy, thinks the world is his oyster. For the next 20 years, the two friends reunite on the 15th of each July, sharing dreams, tears and laughter -- until they discover what they've been searching for, each other.

Plot Keywords: idealist, playboy, comedian, tv personality, daughter, student, melodramatic ...

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#29. High School (2010)

Storyline: The day after high-school senior Henry Burke (Matt Bush) smokes his very first joint, his principal (Michael Chiklis) institutes a mandatory drug test for all students. Since he'll lose his college scholarship if he fails the drug test, Henry forms a half-baked plan. He teams up with his stoner pal Breaux (Sean Marquette) to steal some prime weed from a drug dealer named Psycho Ed (Adrien Brody), and uses it to spike the brownies intended for the school's bake sale.

Plot Keywords: high-school student, valedictorian, principal, stoner, drug dealer, teacher, spirited ...

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