Top All Time School Movies

Here is my wife's list of top all time school movies!

1 Back To School - Rodney Dangerfield
2 Breakfast Club - Judd Nelson
3 Three Oclock High - Casey Siemaszko
4 Sixteen Candles - Molly Ringwald
5 Scream - Nev Campbell
6 Just One Of The Guys -
7 Can't Buy Me Love - Patrick Dempsy
8 American Pie - Jason Biggs
9 Dead Poets Society - Robin Williams - I snuck this one in
10 Say Anything - John Cusak

I know there are more

The Breakfast Club and School of Rock definitely stand out for me.

Zero For Conduct
The Paper Chase
High School Confidential!
Up the Down Staircase
To Sir, With Love
Blackboard Jungle
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Stand and Deliver
Getting Straight
The Wanderers
Heathers
Topaze
Summer School

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There's a lot of great ones but since no one ever gives it recognition I'll nominate Cooley High as a great high school movie. Terrific soundtrack too.

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Nice call with Heathers Mark. I think I'd have to go with Breakfast Club as the ultimate school film

Another one I like is Brick, even if it's quite different to most high school films. And to help represent Scotland I'll throw in Gregory's Girl. Also enjoy Mean Girls and Rushmore

And even though it's not the main element of the films Donnie Darko and Back to the Future both have some great school aspects

strangely enough Mark F failed to mention the classics



The Principal (1987)



Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

also, best TV shows set in and around school imo are :

Degrassi



Square Pegs



and my personal fave

The White Shadow

Clueless

I'll second a few that have been mentioned already.

Zero for Conduct
Brick
If

And a few others:

Baby It's You
Carrie
Fighting Elegy

The Breakfast Club (obviously) Clueless, Heathers and If... are brilliant choices. I love Scream, but have never thought of it as a high school movie. No reason it shouldn't be here, though.

+ rep to mark for adding Goodbye Mr. Chips. Wonderful film and one I, almost certainly, wouldn't have remembered to add myself.

My own additions to the list.



Class Of '84


Cruel Intentions


The Faculty

And, if it counts, Kes

couple others i thought of.

School Ties with Brendan Fraser and a very young Matt Damon and Ben Affleck



Making the Grade- Much funnier if you or someone you know attended private school.



Class

"Dazed and Confused"
"Grease"
"American Graffiti"

Good choice with The Faculty Honeykid

Another John Hughes film that belongs here: Pretty In Pink

Yeah well done with The Faculty HK! Forgot about it even though it's on my top 100 list. Didn't realise you were a fan of it as well

I'm shocked Wes Anderson's Rushmore was only mentioned once and Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse not at all. I'm not surprised nobody listed the satirical Lord Love a Duck, but I like it a lot. And if we're gonna drag TV shows into this, "Freaks and Geeks" rules the school.

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See also My Bodyguard, The Chocolate War, Election, Lucas, Heaven Help Us, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flirting, "The Wonder Years"...







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I love "Heathers"

Au Revoir Les Enfants, Gregory's Girl, If, Mean Girls, 10 Things I Hate About You, Innocence

Gregory's Girl! OMG, it's been years since I saw that one--

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