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Tolkien(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 608 votes)

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.

Crows Zero II(2009)

2h 13min | Action, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 89 votes)

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.

Directed by Takashi Miike - With Shun Oguri, Takayuki Yamada, Meisa Kuroki, Shunsuke Daitō, Tsutomu Takahashi, Yūsuke Izaki, ...

Yentl(1983)

PG
| 2h 12min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 96 votes)

Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

Zero for Conduct(1933)

42min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

Directed by Jean Vigo - With Pierre Blanchar, Jean Dasté, Delphin, Albert Riéra, Félix Labisse, Henri Storck, ...

Brother's Keeper(2021)

1h 25min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out.

Directed by Ferit Karahan - With Ekin Koç, Mahir İpek

Once Upon a Time in High School(2004)

3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

A model student transfers to the notorious Jungmoon High School known for its severe corporal punishment by teachers and power struggles between school gangs.

Directed by Yoo Ha - With Kwon Sang-woo, Han Ga-in, Lee Jeong-jin, Seo Dong-won

The History Boys(2006)

R
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 85 votes)

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips(2002)

1h 39min | Kids & Family, Drama
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping's and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head.

Directed by Stuart Orme

Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1939)

NR
| 1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 46 votes)

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

Heaven Help Us(1985)

R
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.

Full of Grace(2022)

1h 49min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.

Directed by Roberto Bueso - With Carmen Machi, Paula Usero, Pablo Chiapella, Manolo Solo, Nuria González

Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)

G
| 2h 35min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.

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Dorm(2006)

1h 51min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.

Wide Awake(1998)

2.8/5 (with 31 votes)

The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved grandfather, embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of life.

You Are Not Alone(1978)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 28 votes)

Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more.

Shout(1991)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

Child's Play(1972)

PG
| 1h 40min | Thriller, Horror, Drama
2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Tea and Sympathy(1956)

2h 2min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 19 votes)

Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.

Saint Ralph(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the minutes tick by. It's the fictional tale of a wayward 9th grader, Ralph (Adam Butcher), who is secretly living on his own while his widowed, hospitalized mother remains immersed in a coma. Frequently in trouble with Father Fitzpatrick (Gordon Pinsent), the principal of his all-boys, Catholic school, Ralph is considered something of a joke among peers until he decides to pull off a miracle that could save his mother, i.e., winning the Boston Marathon. Coached by a younger priest and former runner, Father Hibbert (Campbell Scott), whose cynicism has been lifted by the boy's pure hope, Ralph applies himself to his unlikely mission, fending off naysayers and getting help along a very challenging path from sundry allies and friends.

Absolution(1978)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.

Talisman(1998)

R
| 1h 12min | Horror, Science Fiction
1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

As the millenium draws near, an evil being awakens. Fused to an ancient Talisman for centuries -- Theriel, the Black Angel is summoned from his resting place to usher in the end of the world. The ghastly messenger must claim seven human sacrifices to complete the ritual and open the gates of Hell. A teenage boy and girl have been chosen to assist the angel in its deadly mission, yet they alone are the world's only hope for salvation.

Directed by David DeCoteau

Bless the Beasts & Children(1971)

1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.

Boys Grammar(2005)

8min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes at an exclusive private boys school.

Directed by Dean Francis

A Feast At Midnight(1994)

PG
| 1h 45min | Kids & Family, Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.

Directed by Justin Hardy - With Christopher Lee

A Separate Peace(2004)

1h 32min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill(1948)

1h 32min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.

The Happy Years(1950)

3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

A Separate Peace(1972)

1h 44min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives.

Directed by Larry Peerce - With Parker Stevenson

Dazed in Doon(2010)

55min | Drama

A delightful, heart-warming romp through the lives of boys growing up at The Doon School, the ‘Eton’ of India; arguably India’s most famous boarding school whose alumni comprises of some highly distinguished, prominent achievers in Indian public life. Howly (to howl is to cry) is a lonely boy who comes of age while negotiating the rough and smooth of growing up in such a school, in the journey of friendship, loyalty, betrayal and the discovery of self-worth.

Directed by Ashvin Kumar

Reflections of Murder(1974)

1h 37min | Thriller, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.

Directed by John Badham - With Tuesday Weld
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