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other than road trip, varsity blues, outside provindece can u guys name me some teen or college type movies. give the names of ones that involve frat/sortiy parties,varstiy team sports, dating, campus life, just any movie that involves teens or college type or young ppl and life movies.



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Originally Posted by joejoe
other than road trip, varsity blues, outside provindece can u guys name me some teen or college type movies. give the names of ones that involve frat/sortiy parties,varstiy team sports, dating, campus life, just any movie that involves teens or college type or young ppl and life movies.
My all-time favorite: The Breakfast Club.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

That's as close as I can get.
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Check out National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
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Originally Posted by Shaolin
Check out National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).

I was going to mention that one and American Graffiti ...
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Originally Posted by joejoe
other than road trip, varsity blues, outside provindece can u guys name me some teen or college type movies. give the names of ones that involve frat/sortiy parties,varstiy team sports, dating, campus life, just any movie that involves teens or college type or young ppl and life movies.
Good to Great
  • Wonder Boys (2000 - Curtis Hanson)
  • The Sure Thing (1985 - Rob Reiner)
  • Say Anything... (1989 - Cameron Crowe)
  • How I Got Into College (1989 - Savage Steve Holland)
  • National Lampoon's Animal House (1978 - John Landis)
  • Old School (2003 - Todd Philips)
  • PCU (1994 - Hart Bochner)
  • Real Genius (1985 - Martha Coolidge)
  • Back to School (1986 - Alan Metter)
  • Horse Feathers (1932 - Norman McLeoud)
  • The Freshman (1990 - Andrew Bergman)
  • The Way We Were (1973 - Sydney Pollack)
  • Carnal Knowledge (1971 - Mike Nichols)
  • The Shape of Things (2003 - Neil LaBute)
  • Storytelling (2001 - Todd Solondz)
  • Kicking & Screaming (1995 - Noah Baumbach)
  • The Paper Chase (1973 - James Bridges)
  • Oxford Blues (1984 - Robert Boris)
  • Fandango (1985 - Kevin Reynolds)
  • Gross Anatomy (1989 - Thom Eberhardt)
  • School Daze (1988 - Spike Lee)
  • Chariots of Fire (1981 - Hugh Hudson)
  • Without Limits (1998 - Robert Towne)
  • Love & Basketball (2000 - Gina Prince-Bythewood)
  • Rudy (1993 - David Anspaugh)

Below-Average to Godawful
  • Higher Learning (1995 - John Singleton)
  • Boys & Girls (2000 - Robert Iscove)
  • Loser (2000 - Amy Heckerling)
  • Slackers (2002 - Dewey Nicks)
  • The Skulls (2000 - Rob Cohen)
  • Gossip (2000 - Davis Guggenheim)
  • Urban Legend (1998 - Jamie Blanks)
  • The Curve (1998 - Dan Rosen)
  • Dead Man on Campus (1998 - Alan Cohn)
  • National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002 - Walt Becker)
  • "Porn 'n Chicken" (made-for-TV 2002 - Lawrence Trilling)
  • 1969 (1988 - Ernest Thompson)
  • Boys (1996 - Stanley Cochran)
  • American Pie 2 (2001 - James Rogers)
  • With Honors (1994 - Alek Keshishian)
  • The Waterboy (1998 - Frank Coraci)
  • The Program (1993 - David S. Ward)
  • Blue Chips (1994 - William Friedkin)
  • The Rules fo Attraction (2003 - Rogery Avery)
  • Mona Lisa Smile (2003 - Mike Newell)


Now, if you want to include Private Prep-Schools too, as they often feature on-campus living even though the students are pre-college aged, that would add things like Dead Poets Society, School Ties, Flirting, if..., The Browning Version, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Class, Taps, The Emperor's Club, Another Country and the Harry Potter flicks.

If you want to start going through High School stuff...that's a whole other list.
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Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelila
My all-time favorite: The Breakfast Club.
I've never seen The Breakfast Club. I'll make sure to remember this the next time I'm at the video store.


Here's a few more with some musicals thrown into the pot.

Good News (1947)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Back to School (1986)
Dangerous Minds (1995)
Grease (1978)
Fame (1980)
Finding Forrester (2000)
The Male Animal (1942)



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Mean Girls is the best teen type movie ive seen in a long time



A system of cells interlinked
16 Candles
Weird Science


Both pretty high school-ish
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My friends are obsessed '10 things I Hate about You'- I personally enjoy 'Ferris Buellars Day Off' other than that I really don't get into 'teen' flicks that much, I enjoy the better ones, but usually I just watch them because I am with people that watch them.
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I completely forgot about PCU, thanks for the reminder Holden.



No ones mentioned Old School yet?

Old School and Animal House = 2 best
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OK, OK. Since everybody seems so interested in High School flicks too...
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982 - Amy Heckerling)
  • Rushmore (1998 - Wes Anderson)
  • My Bodyguard (1980 - Tony Bill)
  • Election (1999 - Alexander Payne)
  • Heathers (1989 - Michael Lehmann)
  • The Virgin Suicides (1999 - Sofia Coppola)
  • The Chocolate War (1988 - Keith Gordon)
  • Heaven Help Us (1985 - Michael Dinner)
  • Dead Poets Society (1989 - Peter Weir)
  • The Browning Version 9194 - Mike Figgis)
  • Finding Forrester (2000 - Gus Van Sant)
  • Mischief (1985 - Mel Damski)
  • Napoleon Dynamite (2004 - Jared Hess)
  • Carrie (1976 - Brain DePalma)
  • Lucas (1986 - David Seltzer)
  • Angus (1995 - Patrick Read Johnson)
  • Saved! (2004 - Brain Dannelly)
  • Footloose (1984 - Herbert Ross)
  • Clueless (1995 - Amy Heckerling)
  • Mean Girls (2004 - Mark Waters)
  • Flirting (1991 - John Duigan)
  • Class (1983 - Lewis John Carlino)
  • Orange County (2002 - Jake Kasdan)
  • Ferris Beuller's Day Off (195 - John Hughes)
  • Better Off Dead (1985 - Sabage Steve Holland)
  • Three O'Clock High (1987 - Phil Joanou)
  • Dazed & Confused (1993 - Richard Linklater)
  • Summer School (1987 - Carl Reiner)
  • The Breakfast Club (1985 - John Hughes)
  • Some Kind of Wonderful (1987 - Howard Deutch)
  • Elephant (2003 - Gus Van Sant)
  • if... (1968 - Lindsay Anderson)
  • Donnie Darko (2001 - Richard Kelly)
  • Hiding Out (1987 - Bob Giraldi)
  • 3:15 (1986 - Larry Gross)
  • Can't Buy Me Love (1987 - Steve Rash)
  • Rock 'n Roll High School (1979 - Allan Arkush)
  • To Sir, With Love (1967 - James Clavell)
  • Mr. Holland's Opus (1995 - Stephen Herek)
  • Up the Down Staircase (1967 - Robert Mulligan)
  • WarGames (1983 - John Badham)
  • The Hollywood Knights (1980 - Floyd Murtux)
  • Hoosiers (1986 - David Anspaugh)
  • All the Right Moves (1983 - Michael Chapman)
  • School Ties (1992 - Robert Mandel)
  • Reckless (1984 - James Foley)
  • Porky's (1982 - Bob Clark)
  • Tuff Turf (1985 - Fritz Kiersch)
  • 187 (1997 - Kevin Reynolds)
  • The Principal (1987 - Christopher Cain)
  • Dangerous Minds (1995 - John Smith)
  • Lean on Me (12989 - John Avidlsen)
  • Stand & Deliver (1989 - Ramon Menendez)
  • Blackboard Jungle (1955 - Richard Brooks)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955 - Nicholas Ray)
  • High School Confidential! (Jack Arnold)
  • Ordinary People (1980 - Robert Redford)
  • The Ice Storm (1997 - Ang Lee)
  • The Last Picture Show (1971 - Peter Bognadovich)



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Great list as usual Holden. Here's a couple more...not sure if they're worth mentioning, but...

Flubber (1998)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) (Loved Kurt Russell in his younger years!)

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)



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Since you decided to mention all those highschool movies, I'm glad you included The Virgin Suicides. One of my all-time favourites..