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japanese junior high schooler

6.4

♡ 1

Comedy

Drama

food

Maya Ayabe Director

Hayato Ichihara as

Toshiya Sakai as

Hana Kino as

Kaho Tsuchimura as

Teacher Amarida (Ichihara Hayato) has been transferred to a new school and is still crazy about school lunches. He gets the shock of his life when school lunches are made more healthy but less flavorful. Amarida’s student rival Kamino (Sato Taishi) has also transferred to the same school and is outraged at the changes to school lunches.

After My Death

2017

Korean

7.2

♡ 1

75%

Kim Uiseok Director

Won-Hee Go as Han-sol

So-nee Jeon as Kyeong-min

Yeo-bin Jeon as Yeong-hee

Lee Tae-kyung as Yoo-ryi

When a school girl disappears, suicide is suspected, and one of her classmates is suspected of having goaded her into it.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

teacher student relationship

7.9

♡ 9

81%

86%

boys' boarding school

Sam Wood Director

Nigel Stock as John Forrester

Robert Donat as Mr. Chips

Austin Trevor as Ralston

Patrick Ludlow as (uncredited)

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

School Life

2019

French

6.5

♡ 5

100%

Mehdi Idir Director

Soufiane Guerrab as Messaoud

Aylam Orian as Messaoud

Christopher W. Jones as Redouane

Zita Hanrot as Samia Zibra

In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.

Tea and Sympathy

1956

older woman younger man relationship

7.3

♡ 5

82%

76%

based on play or musical

Drama

high school student

lgbt

preparatory school

Vincente Minnelli Director

Darryl Hickman as Al

Dale Van Sickel as Burly Man

Peter Miller as Pete

Tom Laughlin as Ralph

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

Blue Thermal

2022

japanese occupation of korea

6.5

♡ 3

Masaki Tachibana Director

Kengo Kawanishi as Kaede Hatori

Rie Takahashi as Kaori Mochida

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kuramochi Jun

Junya Enoki as Sorachi Daisuke

Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies from the moment Kuramochi takes her under his wing and up for a flight in a glider.

The Silenced

2015

Korean

5.7

♡ 18

42%

1930s

Action

girls' boarding school

Horror

Mystery

Thriller

Hae-Young Lee Director

Kim Dong-Hyun as Driver

Ji-won Uhm as Headmistress

Bo-Young Park as Joo-ran

So-dam Park as Yeon-duk

A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to discover what secret is hidden.

Sky of Love

2007

6.8

♡ 11

76%

Action

based on novel or book

Natsuki Imai Director

Ryûji Yamamoto as Hirokazu Sakurai

Yui Aragaki as Mika Tahara

Asami Usuda as Saki

Yûko Asano as Yasue Tahara - Mika's mother

Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.

Some Kind of Wonderful

1987

7.0

♡ 30

76%

Howard Deutch Director

John Ashton as Cliff Nelson

Eric Stoltz as Keith Nelson

Carmine Caridi as Museum Guard

Barbara Harris as Party Guest

Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. However, Watts realizes she likes Keith as more than just a friend and tries to convince him to stop pursuing Amanda. Matters are further complicated when Keith's invitation draws the ire of Amanda's rich yet snobby ex-boyfriend, Hardy Jenns, who makes plans to get even.

Waiting for Superman

2010

7.4

♡ 9

89%

Davis Guggenheim Director

Bill Strickland as Himself

Jonathan Alter as Himself

Charles Adam as Himself

Charles Adams as Himself

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

Flying Colors

2015

japanese high school girl

7.3

♡ 12

83%

Action

based on novel or book

Nobuhiro Doi Director

Shûhei Nomura as Reiji

Kasumi Arimura as Sayaka Kudo

Ken Yasuda as Takashi-sensei

Atsushi Itô as Tsubota-Sensei

A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.

To Sir, with Love

1967

parent child relationship

7.6

♡ 22

90%

James Clavell Director

Patricia Routledge as Clinty Clintridge

Lynne Sue Moon as Miss Wong

Cyril Shaps as Mr. Pinkus

Judy Geeson as Pamela Dare

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

Peppermint Soda

1977

French

7.0

♡ 5

91%

Diane Kurys Director

Denise Péron as Le professeur de dessin

Françoise Bertin as Le professeur de français

Dominique Lavanant as Le professeur de maths

Jacques Levavasseur as L'homme à l'imper

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.

Bridge to Terabithia

2007

7.2

♡ 150

85%

Gabor Csupo Director

Shelby Young as Ellie Aarons

Robert Patrick as Jack Aarons

Josh Hutcherson as Jess Aarons

Zooey Deschanel as Ms. Edmunds

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.

A First Farewell

2018

Uyghur

6.8

♡ 1

100%

mother son relationship

teacher student relationship

sick parent

Lina Wang Director

Yasan Kamisu as Isa's Father

Rahmati Kuramu as Kalbinur's Father

Kuramu Kasimu as Kalbinur's Grandfather

Tajigul Heilmeier as Kalbinur's Mother

When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.

Secret

2007

Chinese

7.5

♡ 7

86%

time travel

Jay Chou Director Alex Wu

Alex Wu as Music Teacher

Anthony Chau-Sang Wong as Sir Yip

Jay Chou as Ye Xiang Lun

Funky Tu as York

Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.

Ever Since We Love

2015

Chinese

5.1

♡ 3

Yu Li Director

Bingbing Fan as Liu Qing

Geng Han as Qiu Shui Yi Sha

Yi Sha as Teacher Bai Meng Li

Meng Li as Xiao Man

To Qiu Shui, a young lad in his most hungry, curious, and restless 20s, the whole world feels a little erotic. Studying at China's top medical college, he can break down men's carnal impulses with solid human anatomy knowledge but can't grasp the inner desire that draws him to three disparate romantic interests-the fairy-like hometown first love, the marriageable college girlfriend, and the sensuous working woman.

The Moth Diaries

2011

4.9

♡ 6

11%

Mary Harron Director

Alain Goulem as Detective

Sarah Gadon as Lucy

Scott Speedman as Mr. Davies

Judy Parfitt as Mrs. Rood

Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.

The Exam

2021

Kurdish

6.8

♡ 2

100%

Shawkat Amin Korki Director

Adil Abdolrahman as Karim

Vania Salar as Rojin

Hussein Hassan Ali as Sardar

Avan Jamal as Shilan

Rojin is a young Kurdish woman about to take the university entrance exam. Rojin's unhappily married older sister Shilan decides to help her pass at any cost, hoping to give her a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.

Mr. Pip

2012