Highest-Rated Movies about 'High School Student'

Risky Business (1983), The Art of Getting By (2011), Hiding Out (1987), The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), Ashby (2015), How I Got Into College (1989), The English Teacher (2013), Full of It (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best High School Student movies.

#2. 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: youth, coming of age, romance, rebellion, confusion, new york, indie film ...

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#3. Hiding Out (1987)

Storyline: A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. They hide him because of death threats. He gets caught in a gun battle and has to flee. He ends up hiding out as a student in a high school. He has to adjust to how things have changed as a teenager. The bad guys find him and he has fight it out in the high school gym.—John Julien <jcjulien@eos.ncsu.edu>

Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, teen, coming of age, disguise, high school, identity crisis ...

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#5. Ashby (2015)

Storyline: ASHBY is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. A seventeen-year-old kid (Ed) trying to understand who he wants to be in the world, befriends a terminally ill ex-CIA contract killer (Ashby) who is trying to make peace with his life and God before he goes. 'Making peace' might just entail killing three old bosses who have tricked him into breaching his strange moral code.

Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, coming of age, black comedy, american film, friendship, father-son relationship ...

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#6. How I Got Into College (1989)

Storyline: The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of going to their alma mater of the University of Michigan, while Marlon fights his grades and SAT scores.—Craig D. Barker <cdbarker@umich.edu>

Plot Keywords: comedy, teen, campus, college, coming of age, romance, inspirational ...

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#7. The English Teacher (2013)

Storyline: Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature. She maintains no close personal relationships aside from those she has with her favorite authors and stories. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she devours on the page, and she likes it that way. But Linda's simple life turns an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Michael Angarano) returns to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father, Dr. Tom Sherwood (Greg Kinnear), to face reality and go to law school. Linda can't stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play - a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work - as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl ...

Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, education, teacher, school, theater ...

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#9. Barely Lethal (2015)

Storyline: Megan Walsh has been training to be an international assassin for Hardman. However, while she is on a mission, she notices how other teenagers her age seem to be having fun and enjoying their lives. Desiring a normal life, she bails out of a mission and enrolls in a student exchange program, while in the process of being adopted by a foster family. She soon becomes a part of the high school and is subjected to the pressures and life of being in its environment.

Plot Keywords: action, comedy, teen, spy, high school, adventure, coming of age ...

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#10. Angel Town (1990)

Storyline: A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the gang. When they learn of this, they target both the mother and her new tenant.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: action, crime, martial arts, los angeles, revenge, immigration, mentor ...

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#11. So Undercover (2012)

Storyline: Molly is a teen who works with her father, an ex-cop turned P.I. One day an FBI agent approaches and wants her to work for them. They want her to keep an eye on the daughter of a man who is going to testify against a criminal. So they send her to the college where the daughter is attending. And she tries to fit in while keeping an eye on her and trying to see if there's someone there who doesn't appear who they are.

Plot Keywords: action, comedy, teen, high school, spy, crime, adventure ...

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#12. Expelled (2014)

Storyline: Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who always charms his way out of trouble. However, after his third strike at school, the principal has had enough and expels him. Never defeated, Felix resorts to his infamous ways and devises a plan with his brother (Marcus Johns), best friend (Matt Shively), new friend (Lia Marie Johnson) and classmate (Andrea Russett) to hide it from his parents.

Plot Keywords: comedy, sci-fi, teen, school, alien, friendship, adventure ...

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#13. Death Note (2017)

Storyline: Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L.

Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, supernatural, psychological, dark, detective, horror ...

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#14. College Road Trip (2008)

Storyline: Melanie Porter (Raven-Symone)is a talented high school graduate who has selected a University 800 miles from home. Her over protective father, James (Martin Lawrence) doesn't want her to be so far away, so he cooks up a plot to try to convince her to go to a local University. On the guise of going to her selected university, he forces a visit to his preferred (close to home) school. This is a typical road trip movie with lost cars, bumming rides on buses and planes, covering that difficult time of life when a father loses control of his daughter.

Plot Keywords: comedy, family, adventure, teen, campus, road trip, father-daughter relationship ...

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