While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.

Sami Blood

2016

Swedish

7.3

♡ 6

97%

Amanda Kernell Director

Malin Crépin as Elise

Andreas Kundler as Gustav

Hanna Alström as Lärarinnan

Anders Berg as Vetenskapsman 1

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Department Q: The Absent One

2014

Danish

7.1

♡ 20

Action

based on novel or book

boarding school

co-worker relationship

co-workers relationship

Mikkel Nørgaard Director

Fares Fares as Assad

Pilou Asbæk as Ditlev Pram

Danica Curcic as Kimmie

David Dencik as Ulrik Dybbøl

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

Zombie High

1987

English

4.3

♡ 17

7%

Ron Link Director

Kay E. Kuter as Dean Eisner

Clare Carey as Mary Beth

Susan Barnes as Mom

Sherilyn Fenn as Suzi

A freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive.

School Life

2016

English

7.3

♡ 3

Neasa Ní Chianáin Director

Dermot Dix as Self

Amanda Leyden as Self

John Leyden as Self

John and Amanda teach Latin, English and guitar at a fantastical stately home-turned-school. Nearly 50-year careers are drawing to a close for the pair who have become legends with the mantra: “Reading! ’Rithmetic! Rock ’n’ roll!” But for pupil and teacher alike, leaving is the hardest lesson.

Zombi Child

2019

French

5.9

♡ 13

85%

Bertrand Bonello Director

Mathilde Riu as Adèle

Louise Labeque as Fanny

Sayyid El Alami as Pablo

Judith Lou Lévy as Soigneuse de la classe

Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

A Man and a Woman

1966

French

7.5

♡ 11

75%

Claude Lelouch Director

Anouk Aimée as Anne Gauthier

Gérard Sire as Announcer

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis Duroc

Yane Barry as Mistress of Jean-Louis

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

Qodrat

2022

Indonesian

6.2

♡ 6

Charles Gozali Director

Pritt Timothy as Old Man in Cell

Cecep Arif Rahman as Rochim

Eduward Manalu as Tanti's Husband

Marsha Timothy as Yasmin

A former clergyman finds himself back in his old boarding school where the disturbances experienced by its community might help him regain his faith and tie up loose ends in regards to his son's death by a deadly spirit.

Never Let Me Go

2010

English

7.1

♡ 95

71%

70%

Action

based on novel or book

Mark Romanek Director

John Gillespie as Male Office Worker

Keira Knightley as Ruth

Andrew Garfield as Tommy

Ella Purnell as Young Ruth

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

Boys

1996

English

4.9

♡ 3

15%

Stacy Cochran Director

Matt Malloy as Bartender

Skeet Ulrich as Bud Valentine

Chris Cooper as Mr. John Baker

Winona Ryder as Patty Vare

Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid routine. The moment arrives when he stumbles upon a woman, Patty Vare, unconscious in a field. Deciding to risk it, John takes her to his dorm to look after her, much to the disapproval of his friends. John's decision proves fateful as he and Patty grow close to one another. However, she may be keeping secrets from him.

Le pupille

2022

Italian

6.8

♡ 4

92%

Alice Rohrwacher Director

Alba Rohrwacher as

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as

Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Rosa

Tatiana Lepore as Signora delle pere

During WWII, in the days leading up to Christmas, a woman arrives at an Italian Catholic boarding school for orphaned girls with a large cake and a plea for them to pray for her boyfriend, who is having an affair.

The Tribe

2014

Ukrainian

7.0

♡ 65

87%

Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi Director

Yana Novikova as Anya

Oleksandr Dsiadevych as Gera

Hryhoriy Fesenko as Sergei

Rosa Babiy as Svetka

Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group."

The Chorus

2004

French

7.8

♡ 6

68%

Christophe Barratier Director

Kad Merad as Chabert

François Berléand as Headmaster Rachin

Jacques Perrin as Pierre Morhange adulte

Marie Bunel as Violette Morhange

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

Before the Fall

2004

German

7.4

♡ 13

67%

Dennis Gansel Director

Tom Schilling as Albrecht Stein

Justus von Dohnányi as Gauleiter Heinrich Stein

Götz Schubert as SS-Führer

Dennis Gansel as Trainer Boxverein

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

I Killed My Mother

2009

French

7.4

♡ 29

87%

parent child relationship

relationship

Romance

Xavier Dolan Director

François Arnaud as Antonin Rimbaud

Benoît Gouin as Directeur du pensionnat

Xavier Dolan as Hubert Minel

Francis Ducharme as Pensionnaire agressif #2

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

Evil

2003

Swedish

7.7

♡ 13

68%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

Mikael Håfström Director

Lennart Hjulström as Headmaster Lindblad

Gustaf Skarsgård as Otto Silverhielm

Sannamari Patjas as Stina

Ulf Friberg as Tranströmer

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

This Is Paris

2020

English

6.9

♡ 3

63%

social media influencer

Alexandra Dean Director

Joan Rivers as Self

Kathie Lee Gifford as Self

Kyle Richards as Self - Paris' Aunt

Kim Kardashian West as Self - Paris' Friend and Former Assistant

Meet the real Paris Hilton for the very first time as she embarks on a journey of healing and reflection, reclaiming her true identity along the way.

The Brides of Dracula

1960

English

6.6

♡ 29

79%

parent child relationship

vampire

vampire hunter (slayer)

vampire slayer

Terence Fisher Director

Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing

Yvonne Monlaur as Marianne Danielle

Jill Haworth as Schoolgirl

Marie Devereux as Village Girl

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.