Movies where at least half the story centres around a school, no matter the level--elementary, middle, high, or college--so long as the central characters are attending or teaching.
Suggestions for detail or other movies are more than welcome.
- Zero for Conduct
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- The Browning Version (1951)
- Blackboard Jungle
- If....
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo
- Up the Downstairs Case
- Goodbye, Children (Au revoir les enfants)
- Scuola, La
- Class of 1984
- The Principal
- Music of the Heart
- The Emperor's Club
- Rushmore
187, High School High, Volcano High, Higher Learning, Battle Royal, The Graduate, Scary Movie, Apt Pupil, Scent of a Woman, Back to the Future 1 and 2, Toy Soldiers, and Orange County. Those are my recommendations.
Some suggestions:
- Zero for Conduct
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- The Browning Version (1951)
- Blackboard Jungle
- If....
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo
- Up the Downstairs Case
- Goodbye, Children (Au revoir les enfants)
- Scuola, La
- Class of 1984
- The Principal
- Music of the Heart
- The Emperor's Club
- Rushmore
You can speculate these also La Residencia, Suspiria, The Woods and Ondskan
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