Highest-Rated Movies about 'Prep School', Sort by Popularity

Tea and Sympathy (1956), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), Looking for Alibrandi (2000), The Emperor's Club (2002), School Ties (1992), Cruel Intentions (1999), Words and Pictures (2013), The Art of Getting By (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prep School movies.

#1. Tea and Sympathy (1956)

Storyline: Tom Lee is a sensitive boy of 17 whose lack of interest in the "manly" pursuits of sports, mountain climbing and girls labels him "sister-boy" at the college he is attending. Head master Bill Reynold's wife Laura sees Tom's suffering at the hands of his school mates (and her husband), and tries to help him find himself.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>

Plot Keywords: student, teacher, wife, father, tramp, melodramatic, emotional ...

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#2. It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

Storyline: Craig is a high-school junior, in the gifted program, infatuated with his best friend's girl. When he realizes he's suicidal, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, thinking they'll do an observation, help him, and send him home in time for school the next day. Once in, however, he must stay for a week; the juvenile ward is being renovated, so he's in with adults as well as a few youths. Bobby, a man with a young daughter, shows him around; Craig notices Noelle, about his age. He tries to keep his friends from finding out where he is. Little things: he draws, goes to therapy, sings, helps Bobby rehearse an interview. Is this the stuff of insight?

Plot Keywords: teen boy, mental patient, teen girl, doctor, mentor, endearing, emotional ...

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#3. Looking for Alibrandi (2000)

Storyline: Alibrandi ultimately concerns a senior high school girl embracing her Italian heritage, but moving toward the less traditional Australian way of life. A wonderful cast who play their roles superbly. The film plays on several levels. It will make you laugh and cry and ultimately better realise the dramas in life, how we adapt and how cope.

Plot Keywords: teen girl, single mother, grandmother, classmate, teen boy, father, amusing ...

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#4. The Emperor's Club (2002)

Storyline: 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 a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Plot Keywords: retiree, cheater, wife, teacher, student, prep school, competition ...

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#5. School Ties (1992)

Storyline: David Greene is brought into a prestigious 1950s school to help their football team to beat the school's old rivals. David, however, is from a working class background, so he isn't really "one of them", but he's very successful at making friends. David is a Jew, and has to keep this a secret from his friends for fear of being rejected.

Plot Keywords: football player, student, girlfriend, headmaster, dark, inspiring, uneasy ...

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#6. Cruel Intentions (1999)

Storyline: Kathryn Merteuil and Sebastian Valmont are seductive, manipulative step-siblings who get what they want when they want it. Kathryn makes a bet with Sebastian: Sebastian must bed Annette, daughter of the headmaster at their school, before the end of summer break. Annette has stated that she would wait until love and marriage to sleep with a man. If Kathryn wins, she gets Sebastian's vintage 1959 Jaguar Roadster. If Sebastian wins, he gets Kathryn, the only girl he knows he'll never have. Also in play is Cecile, a naïve girl whose mother had enlisted Kathryn to help her fit in at her new school. However, Kathryn (with Sebastian's help) plans to ruin Cecile's reputation as revenge on Kat's ex-boyfriend, who left her for Cecile.

Plot Keywords: rich girl, stepbrother, stepsister, stepmother, social climber, brash, witty ...

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#7. Words and Pictures (2013)

Storyline: A flamboyant English teacher (Clive Owen) and a new, stoic art teacher (Juliette Binoche) collide at an upscale prep school. A high-spirited courtship begins and she finds herself enjoying the battle. Another battle they begin has the students trying to prove which is more powerful, the word or the picture. But the true war is against their own demons, as two troubled souls struggle for connection.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: woman, man, teacher, art teacher, english teacher, student, brooding ...

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#8. The Art of Getting By (2011)

Storyline: Believing the quote that you are born alone, die alone and everything else is an illusion, George doesn't see the point of life, school, or homework. Then he meets Sally and he now has a reason to go to school and make friends, even if he's not ready to admit to himself or to her that he likes her. The school's principal and art teacher introduce him to an alumni, and successful artist, Dustin, who can help guide George along life's path, but other distractions start surfacing, and George might not even be able to graduate from high school.

Plot Keywords: slacker, rich girl, artist, stepfather, teacher, mother, charming ...

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#9. Toy Soldiers (1991)

Storyline: Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious boys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis School to put the son of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis School would be an even better bargaining chip.

Plot Keywords: student, terrorist, dean, headmaster, fbi agent, friend, crafty ...

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#10. Outside Providence (1999)

Storyline: A boy from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, caught up in the drug scene of the mid-70s, gets in trouble one too many times with the law. To stave off a jail term, his father arranges for him to be placed into a prep school in Cornwall, Connecticut. The terms: Graduate, or else.—Matt Cotnoir <theman@ids.net>

Plot Keywords: high-school student, best friend, brother, father, love interest, heartwarming, emotional ...

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#11. Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Storyline: A cyber-attack reveals the identity of all active undercover agents in Britain, leaving Johnny English as the Secret Service's last hope. Called out of retirement, English dives head first into action with the mission to find the mastermind hacker. As a man with few skills and analogue methods, Johnny English must overcome the challenges of modern technology to make this mission a success.

Plot Keywords: retired spy, special agent, teacher, hacker, villain, undercover agent, amusing ...

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#12. Bill (2007)

Storyline: Bill is unhappy: he has married a banker's daughter and has a dead end job at the bank; his wife Jess is tied to daddy's wallet; and, Bill is developing a gut from lack of exercise and constantly eating candy bars. He dreams of buying a donut franchise to be independent of Jess's dad. Bill is roped into a mentoring program at his old prep school, assigned a smart-mouthed kid who pops up when least expected. When Jess starts an affair with Chip, a local TV personality and vain Rob Lowe look-alike, it sends Bill, the kid, and a young sales clerk from a lingerie shop on a quest to win back Jess and get the donuts. What about self-respect?

Plot Keywords: lover, executive, con artist, emotional, prep school, trouble, affair ...

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#13. Cry Wolf (2005)

Storyline: Nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth. When a young woman is found murdered, a group of local high school students decide to further scare their classmates by spreading online rumors that a serial killer called "The Wolf" is on the loose. By describing "The Wolf's" next victims, the students' game is to see how many people they can convince - and if anyone will uncover the lie. But when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins. As someone or something begins hunting the students themselves, the game turns terrifyingly real.

Plot Keywords: serial killer, student, suspenseful, club, prep school, game, consequences ...

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#15. The Covenant (2006)

Storyline: Four best friends, young warlocks of the same coven who all share a same secret: a magic powers, suddenly have to protect themselves from a stranger-another warlock just like them who has come to town to destroy their coven after a 300 years old hate...

Plot Keywords: student, father, warlock, friend, witch, family member, thrilling ...

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