Best "schoolgirl" Movies of All Time

77 movies found (page 1/3):

The Feast of Amrita(2023)

The story will center on a high school girl named Tamahi, who encounters strange creatures while navigating a gigantic apartment building.

Trainspotting(1996)

| 1h 34min | Drama, Crime

4.0/5 (with 4,547 votes)

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Directed by Danny Boyle - With Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, ...

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time(2006)

1h 38min | Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

3.9/5 (with 877 votes)

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

Directed by Mamoru Hosoda

House(1977)

1h 28min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

3.7/5 (with 255 votes)

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi - With Kimiko Ikegami, Yōko Minamida

A Little Princess(1995)

1h 37min | Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.8/5 (with 433 votes)

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth.

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón - With Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Vanessa Lee Chester, Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Alison Moir, Arthur Malet, ...

Down a Dark Hall(2018)

1h 36min | Thriller, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

2.8/5 (with 300 votes)

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

Directed by Rodrigo Cortés - With AnnaSophia Robb, Rosie Day, Taylor Russell, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles, Uma Thurman, ...

A Girl at My Door(2014)

1h 59min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 62 votes)

Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.

Directed by July Jung - With Bae Doona, Kim Sae-ron, Song Sae-byeok, Jang Hui-jin

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings(2012)

2h 11min | Thriller, Animation, Fantasy

3.8/5 (with 47 votes)

Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.

Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal(2012)

1h 49min | Thriller, Animation, Fantasy

3.8/5 (with 45 votes)

As the young girls have discovered the truth about the cruel fate of a magical girl, one magical girl after another is destroyed. Throughout it all, there is one magical girl who continues to fight alone - Homura Akemi. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal is a retelling of the second half of the TV anime series.

Directed by Akiyuki Shinbo

The Notorious Bettie Page(2005)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 63 votes)

Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.

Directed by Mary Harron - With Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, David Strathairn, ...

Ju-on: White Ghost(2009)

1h 1min | Fantasy, Horror

3.0/5 (with 37 votes)

The spiteful ghosts of an abused girl and her grandmother, both mercilessly murdered, return to haunt and take victims under their grudge.

Directed by Ryūta Miyake - With Mihiro Kaneko, Akina Minami, Hiroki Suzuki

K-12(2019)

1h 32min | Music, Horror, Fantasy

3.9/5 (with 115 votes)

Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.

Directed by Melanie Martinez - With Emma Harvey, Maggie Budzyna

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The Life Before Her Eyes(2007)

1h 30min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery

3.0/5 (with 117 votes)

As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her best friend Maureen in the attack, Diana has been profoundly affected by the incident - her seemingly perfect life shaped by the events of that day.

Directed by Vadim Perelman - With Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri, Brett Cullen, Molly Price, Oscar Isaac, ...

The Perfect Education(1999)

1h 36min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.

Directed by Ben Wada - With Naoto Takenaka, Kazuki Kitamura, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Satō

The Machine Girl(2008)

1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 80 votes)

The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.

Directed by Noboru Iguchi - With Sugiura Asami, Minase Yashiro, Honoka, Noriko Kijima, Brina Palencia, Carrie Keranen, ...

The Falling(2015)

1h 43min | Drama, Mystery

2.6/5 (with 68 votes)

England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they attend, a mysterious epidemic of fainting breaks out that threatens the mental sanity and beliefs of the tormented people involved, both teachers and students.

Directed by Carol Morley - With Maisie Williams, Greta Scacchi, Joe Cole Lopez, Maxine Peake, Monica Dolan, Mathew Baynton, ...

Swing Girls(2004)

1h 45min | Comedy, Music

3.7/5 (with 39 votes)

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.

Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi - With Juri Ueno, Yūta Hiraoka, Miho Shiraishi, Nagisa Abe, Naoto Takenaka, Yuika Motokariya, ...

The Little Girl Who Conquered Time(1983)

1h 44min | Science Fiction, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Yoshiyama Kazuko is in the 3rd grade of junior high. One day, she's cleaning in the laboratory, she notices of the smell of lavender, and faints. Since then, she has acquired a mysterious power to travel time.

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi - With Tomoyo Harada, Ittoku Kishibe, Takako Irie, Toshie Negishi, Ken Uehara

Mutant Girls Squad(2010)

1h 25min | Thriller, Action, Science Fiction, Horror

2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.

Directed by Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi - With Yumi Sugimoto, Yuko Takayama, Suzuka Morita, Naoto Takenaka, Kanji Tsuda, Tak Sakaguchi, ...

The Belles of St. Trinian's(1954)

1h 31min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.

Directed by Frank Launder - With Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies, G. D. H. Cole, ...

High Kick Girl!(2009)

1h 21min | Adventure, Action

2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

High schooler Kei Tsuchiya joins The Destroyers when she decides that her longtime karate master is holding her back. She realizes her mistake but it's too late.

Directed by Fuyuhiko Nishi - With Rina Takeda, Ryuki Takahashi, Sayaka Akimoto, Tatsuya Naka

The Moth Diaries(2011)

1h 25min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 62 votes)

Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.

Directed by Mary Harron - With Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon, Scott Speedman, Laurence Hamelin, Julian Casey, ...

Project A-Ko(1986)

1h 26min | Action, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Earth. The not too distant future. A city is miraculously reborn just sixteen years after being completely destroyed by a giant meteor. At the prestigious Graviton High School for Girls, two new students are introduced. A-ko and her ditzy sidekick, C-ko.

Directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima

Tart(2001)

1h 34min | Drama, Crime

2.2/5 (with 26 votes)

A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

Directed by Christina Wayne - With Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Nora Zehetner, Mischa Barton, Alberta Watson, ...

Rita, Sue and Bob Too(1987)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.

Directed by Alan John Clarke - With Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir

The Debut(1977)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

Directed by Nouchka van Brakel - With Gerard Cox, Marina de Graaf, Kitty Courbois, Dolf de Vries, Pleuni Touw, Pieter Fleury, ...

Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad(2008)

1h 25min | Action, Horror

2.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The dead have risen to feast on the flesh of the living, and just when it seems that all hope for humanity has been lost, bikini girls with machine guns take one last shot at saving mankind from certain extinction. In the near future, a deranged scientist named Sugita has conducted a series of experiments intended to reanimate the dead. Unfortunately for the entire population of the planet, these experiments were a resounding success. Now, as a massive, shambling army of the undead launches a bloody war against their living counterparts, wandering beauties Aya (Eri Otoguro) and Reiko (Manami Hashimoto) team up to destroy every last zombie in sight. Unfortunately, Aya's sword-wielding schoolgirl sister Saki (Chise Nakamura) is in league with the nefarious Sugita. When Aya discovers that Saki has killed their father, she vows to take brutal revenge against her murderous younger sibling. Meanwhile, the zombie population is growing at an alarming rate.

Directed by Yōhei Fukuda - With Eri Otoguro, Chise Nakamura, Ai Hazuki, Ai Hazuki, Ayana Kinoshita, Chise Nakamura, ...

Concrete(2004)

1h 53min | Horror, Crime

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.

Directed by Hiromu Nakamura - With Sousuke Takaoka

School-Live!(2019)

1h 41min | Horror, Action

3.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Ebisuzawa Kurumi, Takeya Yuki, Wakasa Yuri, and Naoki Miki all attend the same high school. They also live on campus at the school. The girls enjoy their time at the school until students become infected by a virus and turn into zombies. The girls are surrounded by student zombies and they struggle desperately to survive.

Directed by Issei Shibata

Asian School Girls(2014)

1h 30min | Action, Thriller, Drama

1.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Kidnapped by a Los Angeles crime syndicate, a group of schoolgirls must fight and seduce their way to vengeance after one of them committed suicide, teaching the criminals a lesson in kicking butt and taking names.

Directed by Lawrence Silverstein - With Andray Johnson, Sam Aotaki

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