Absolution

Absolution 1978

6.36

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.

1978

This Special Friendship

This Special Friendship 1964

8.00

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

1964

Tolkien

Tolkien 2019

6.97

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.

2019

Diabolique

Diabolique 1996

5.52

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

1996

Crows Zero II

Crows Zero II 2009

7.20

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.

2009

Once Upon a Time in High School

Once Upon a Time in High School 2004

7.30

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

2004

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939

7.31

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

1939

Zero for Conduct

Zero for Conduct 1933

6.88

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

1933

The History Boys

The History Boys 2006

6.64

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.

2006

Hot for Teacher

Hot for Teacher 2006

5.60

Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the students go crazy, and the male teachers too! They should be preparing for the annual school festival, but they're all occupied with other matters.

2006

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1969

6.70

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.

1969

Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy 1956

6.90

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.

1956

Brother's Keeper

Brother's Keeper 2021

7.30

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.

2021

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone 1978

7.40

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.

1978

Yentl

Yentl 1983

6.60

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

1983

Wide Awake

Wide Awake 1998

5.45

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.

1998

Saint Ralph

Saint Ralph 2005

6.70

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.

2005

Shout

Shout 1991

5.70

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

1991

Heaven Help Us

Heaven Help Us 1985

6.40

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.

1985

Boys Grammar

Boys Grammar 2005

5.90

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

2005

The Principal

The Principal 2015

6.50

When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west, his radical approach brings him into conflict and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. But just when he seems to be making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on school grounds.

2015

Light on Me

Light on Me 2021

7.50

A high school loner who has difficulty making new friends joins the school's student council to meet new people — but discovers that making friends may be harder than it seems.

2021

Marginal Prince: Gekkeiju no Ouji-tachi

Marginal Prince: Gekkeiju no Ouji-tachi 2006

6.70

The main character, Yuuta, is supposed to be the viewer's younger brother who goes off to study abroad on a small island in the Atlantic that can not be found on any map. The school he enters is called St. Alphonse Academy. The boys who study here are all "marginal princes" which appears to mean Princes of remote, frontier or border regions.

2006

Princess Princess D

Princess Princess D 2006

7.20

An all-boys school with a tradition of Princesses, boys chosen to dress up as girls to create tension between the students. Yutaka Mikoto, Shihoudani Yuujirou and Kouno Tooru are this year's chosen Princess team. Unsatisfied with the efforts of the current Princesses, Hanazono Otoya creates his own team of Dark Princesses to rival for the students' attention.

2006

To Serve Them All My Days

To Serve Them All My Days 1980

7.70

After barely surviving the trenches of World War I, an embittered young soldier takes a teaching post at Bamfylde, an elite boarding school in the uplands of West Devon. It is an unlikely job for a Welsh miner's son without a degree, but David Powlett-Jones (John Duttine) proves to be a rare schoolmaster, as passionate about learning as he is about teaching. Through two tumultuous decades, Powlett-Jones inspires his students with his courage and idealism, qualities that help prepare him to send another generation of young men off to fight yet another war.

1980