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Movies: Best "preparatory school" Movies


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Dead Poets Society(1989)

2h 8min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4,921 votes)

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Scent of a Woman(1992)

R
| 2h 36min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 1,534 votes)

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

The Hate U Give(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 13min | Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 950 votes)

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Toy Soldiers(1991)

R
| 1h 52min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 133 votes)

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.

School Ties(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 160 votes)

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

The Under-Gifted(1980)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 203 votes)

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

Afterschool(2008)

1h 47min | Drama, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 40 votes)

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

Bad Kids Go To Hell(2012)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
2.3/5 (with 39 votes)

On a stormy Saturday afternoon, six students from Crestview Academy begin to meet horrible fates as they serve out their detentions. Is a fellow student to blame, or perhaps Crestview's alleged ghosts are behind the terrible acts?

Directed by Travis Mathews

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.

Coming Soon(1999)

R
| 1h 36min | Romance / Love, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.

Whirlygirl(2006)

R
| 1h 39min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

After a run in with a hot exotic dancer one wintry night straight-laced prep school student James will find himself on the ride of his life. Risking his future he follows this mysterious woman to New York City - ditching school dodging cops and partying at hot nightclubs along the way.

Restless Virgins(2013)

1h 29min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

A highly fictionalized dramatization of the sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school Milton Academy in the 2004-05 school year.

Directed by Jason Lapeyre - With Vanessa Marano
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December(1991)

PG
| 1h 33min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

In December of 1941, five teenage boys at a New England prep school hear the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and realize their lives are going to be changed forever. Released in 1991.

Nightmare at the End of the Hall(2008)

NR
| 1h 25min | TV Movie, Thriller, Drama, Horror
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Courtney Snow, an author with writer's block, still haunted by the suicide of her best friend while they were in prep school, finds herself teaching at the very same school while trying to get back on her feet. She encounters a young student, Laurel, who seems in every way to be the reincarnation of her best friend from years ago. Laurel seems to know things about Courtney that only dead friend would have known. Is she losing her mind or is it all a cruel hoax?

The Fraternity(2002)

1h 40min | Thriller
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie

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.

Prep School(2016)

1h 25min | Drama, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Upon learning of his girlfriend's infidelity, Greg, the star player of his elite private school’s rugby team, suffers an emotional breakdown, leaving his friends and teammates to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis in their own ways, ranging from heroic to apathetic to downright horrifying.

Naval Academy(1941)

1h 7min | Drama

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The Cobblestone Corridor(2015)

NR
| 25min | Crime, Mystery

Allan Archer, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper club at Alfred Pierce Preparatory School, has taken on the biggest case of his academic career: investigating the suspicious termination of English department chairman, Dr. Peter Carroll.