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- The best high school movies reflect discovering one’s self (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), questioning authority (Dead Poets Society), taking wild risks (Better Luck Tomorrow), and working for a better future (Hoop Dreams).
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4 days ago · The best high school movies reflect discovering one’s self ( Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ), questioning authority ( Dead Poets Society ), taking wild risks ( Better Luck Tomorrow ), and working...
- Elephant
A variety of adolescents at a suburban high school drift...
- Juno
When precocious teen Juno MacGuff becomes pregnant, she...
- The Edge of Seventeen
The film boasts great acting and spot-on casting, especially...
- Elephant
Aug 16, 2023 · Below, we’ve rounded up 25 of our fave high school movies—everything from the kickoff, commonly credited as 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause, to today’s top Netflix films. 1. Do Revenge...
Going by release order, see our selections of the 25 essential high school movies since 1998!
- Clueless
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Mean Girls
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- American Graffiti
- Dazed and Confused
- Sixteen Candles
- 0 Things I Hate About You
- High School Musical
- She’S All That
Writer/director Amy Heckerling’s mid-1990s take on Jane Austen’s novel Emma turned Alicia Silverstone into a star—and introduced viewers to a whole new teenage vernacular. Rich, privileged Beverly Hills high schooler Cher match-makes her friends and teachers, sometimes with hilarious results—but can she get her own love life right? As if! Cluelessa...
Charming Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has a knack for getting out of trouble, so he hatches an ingenious plan for a fake sick day from school. His best friend and his girlfriend come along for an epic ditch day in Chicago, but his snarling principal and his jealous sister (Dirty Dancing’sJennifer Grey) are hot on his tail. This classic 1986 m...
New girl Cady (Lindsay Lohan) had been educated with her zoologist parents in Africa, so when she starts at an all-American high school, she can’t help noticing similarities between her classmates and primates in the wild. As she joins in the social behavior of normal teenagers, she has to decide whether to hang out with her new down-to-earth buds,...
It’s hard to believe this 1982 teen classic starringJennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates is over 40 years old—it’s just as real, raw and raunchy as it was back then. While it certainly has funny moments, it also tackles tough subjects like losing your virginity, abortion—and getting caught in a compromising position by your crush. ...
Before they starred on 1950s-set Happy Days and spinoff Laverne and Shirley, Ron Howard andCindy Williams were Steve and Laurie in this 1973 film about the last night of summer before back-to-school in 1962 California. Former class president Steve is headed to college, but head cheerleader Laurie is still in high school. From a sock hop in the scho...
This 1993 “night in the life” film was no doubt inspired by American Graffiti. Set over the course of the last day of school in 1976 Texas, it also features high school teens riding around in cars and coming to terms with their futures—plus throwing a kegger in the woods and smoking a lot of pot. The large ensemble cast includes Jason London,Parker...
The first of many classic ’80s teen comedies from writer/director John Hughes, this 1984 movie features Molly Ringwald as a teen who feels like she’s invisible, even on her 16th birthday, and especially to her crush, Jake Ryan. In light of #MeToo and the takedown of rape culture, some scenes in this movie are totally dated by today’s standards of c...
The late, great Heath Ledger stars with Julia Stiles in this 1999 retelling of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Popular girl Bianca can’t date until her older sister—smart, angry feminist Kat (Stiles)—does, so ne’er-do-well Patrick (Ledger) takes a bribe to romance her. But, surprise, it doesn’t go so well, until the couple end up genuinely falli...
If you’re looking for a fun flick to watch with your kids, go for this 2006 Disney movie with then-teen heartthrob Zac Efron andVanessa Hudgens as a star-crossed couple from different high school cliques. She’s the new girl challenging the reigning drama queen—er, queen of the dramatic arts, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), and he’s the school basketball ...
In the sub-genre of “teen boy takes stupid bet that he can transform girl into prom queen,” this 1999 tale has popular guy Zack (Freddie Prinze Jr.) pretend-falling for, and then real-falling for, artsy geek Laney (Rachel Leigh Cook). A twist on the age-old Pygmalion story about a man who falls in love with his creation, this sweet movie costars fa...
1. The Last Picture Show (1971) R | 118 min | Drama, Romance. 8. Rate. 93 Metascore. In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson.
May 28, 2020 · Using Rotten Tomatoes, we have come up with a ranking of the 49 best high school movies ever. The top three are "Say Anything...," "Ladybird," and "The Last Picture Show."
Aug 28, 2015 · 50 best high school movies. Class is in session! See our honor roll of all-time great high school flicks like "Sixteen Candles," "Easy A," "Say Anything," "Mean Girls," and our No. 1 pick. By...
