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Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/38257/
78
/673/
75
/704/
4.2
/52258/
97
/36/
93
/731/
88
/18/
cc age 12+

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
poster
85
8.3
/229565/
81
/2487/
79
/1286/
4.0
/94603/
93
/14/
96
/2312/
cc age 13+

Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
poster
84
7.9
/242941/
78
/9763/
76
/2364/
4.2
/1506353/
97
/366/
92
/536/
82
/61/
cc age 15+

The Holdovers (2023)
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
poster
fuboTV
84
8.0
/481640/
82
/15351/
76
/4949/
4.1
/993062/
93
/150/
94
/37194/
78
/20/
cc age 9+

The Princess Bride (1987)
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
poster
83
7.9
/30465/
74
/553/
74
/499/
4.0
/40286/
100
/43/
89
/602/
89
/15/
cc age 12+

Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.6
/40302/
78
/1722/
78
/964/
4.0
/140126/
98
/131/
88
/212/
85
/22/
cc age 16+

God's Own Country (2017)
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
poster
81
7.3
/215708/
72
/7495/
71
/3258/
3.8
/515304/
93
/440/
82
/313/
87
/57/
cc age 15+

Nomadland (2021)
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
poster
Fandor
81
7.4
/2628/
72
/148/
69
/64/
3.9
/3324/
97
/74/
85
/45/
89
/20/

The Overnighters (2014)
Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.
poster
Peacock Premium
80
7.7
/743931/
79
/43834/
78
/21808/
3.9
/2179283/
88
/259/
74
/1869818/
81
/38/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named.
poster
83
79
9.2
/45736/
83
/281/
79
/162/
4.0
/18161/

The Chaos Class (1975)
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. When a new and obviously strict headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/45071/
69
/973/
72
/862/
3.8
/110596/
92
/53/
84
/878/
81
/15/
cc age 14+

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
poster
Hulu
78
6.9
/15964/
72
/830/
69
/351/
3.4
/22351/
97
/148/
88
/87/
74
/35/
cc age 14+

The Duke (2021)
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
78
7.4
/12999/
73
/294/
69
/281/
4.0
/40085/
97
/32/
80
/140/
95
/6/

L'Argent (1983)
A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
78
7.5
/18472/
74
/339/
72
/271/
3.8
/13602/
95
/22/
90
/363/
75
/12/
cc age 15+

Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.6
/26654/
75
/693/
76
/590/
3.9
/125638/
82
/34/
87
/328/
75
/14/

Maurice (1987)
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/145160/
73
/2845/
72
/1857/
4.0
/121572/
79
/220/
78
/10454/
68
/36/
cc age 17+

Doubt (2008)
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
poster
Disney Plus
77
6.3
/9185/
64
/813/
64
/231/
3.0
/41431/
73
/30/
63
/69/

Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)
Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion on Halloween night.
poster
78
77
7.4
/26334/
72
/449/
70
/398/
3.8
/32017/
90
/49/
87
/887/

if.... (1968)
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
poster
77
7.7
/108460/
75
/1822/
74
/1392/
3.9
/79364/
83
/159/
92
/4665/
75
/37/
cc age 16+

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.1
/38319/
69
/837/
67
/466/
3.5
/12613/
90
/158/
75
/1566/
77
/32/
cc age 17+

The Messenger (2009)
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
poster
75
7.3
/47179/
73
/1034/
72
/716/
3.5
/14294/
70
/174/
76
/2216/
68
/39/
cc age 16+

North Country (2005)
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
poster
74
7.2
/9285/
69
/192/
67
/115/
3.4
/5582/
78
/32/
72
/216/
65
/7/
cc age 16+

The Paper Chase (1973)
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.9
/3833/
70
/67/
64
/50/
3.3
/1122/
86
/63/
79
/152/
62
/16/
cc age 15+

Skin (2009)
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
poster
fuboTV
73
7.0
/3081/
67
/92/
66
/53/
3.5
/647/
81
/37/
76
/114/
75
/12/

That Evening Sun (2009)
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.7
/44459/
74
/605/
73
/384/
3.8
/17584/
68
/37/
87
/542/
61
/15/

Evil (2003)
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.
poster
72
6.7
/5749/
70
/335/
64
/179/
3.6
/30919/
86
/107/
69
/38/
73
/30/
cc age 16+

Novitiate (2017)
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
6.8
/14427/
67
/544/
68
/332/
3.4
/19835/
90
/20/
69
/267/

Tales from the Crypt (1972)
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.
poster
73
72
7.4
/19313/
73
/433/
70
/352/
3.9
/27180/
67
/39/
84
/209/
65
/18/

Before the Fall (2004)
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.1
/27180/
68
/1056/
61
/470/
3.5
/26447/
91
/133/
61
/621/
79
/32/
cc age 17+

Dear White People (2014)
A campus culture war between Blacks and whites at a predominantly white Ivy League college comes to a head when the staff of a satirical magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
72
7.6
/272674/
74
/4096/
74
/3310/
3.6
/133906/
63
/201/
79
/10215/
58
/38/
cc age 17+

The Reader (2008)
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
71
7.4
/13598/
72
/275/
69
/222/
3.7
/4147/
71
/38/
86
/489/
68
/11/

The Secret Life of Words (2005)
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
poster
71
7.5
/1050/
56
/6/
57
/20/
3.5
/414/
60
/5/
85
/7/

A Brief Vacation (1973)
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
71
7.5
/8946/
74
/153/
70
/235/
3.8
/11069/
94
/17/
82
/88/

La Bête Humaine (1938)
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
71
7.2
/9948/
69
/215/
69
/257/
3.7
/17023/
94
/17/
79
/122/

Zero for Conduct (1933)
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
7.0
/258501/
70
/9533/
69
/2787/
3.4
/2907634/
72
/302/
79
/112/
61
/53/
cc age 16+

Saltburn (2023)
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
poster
79
70
8.7
/22222/
79
/197/
77
/122/
3.7
/9674/

The Chaos Class Is Waking Up (1976)
A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
7.1
/19041/
70
/572/
69
/330/
4.0
/85783/
59
/111/
59
/2089/
76
/17/

Safe (1995)
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.7
/104030/
68
/4474/
69
/2711/
3.7
/520267/
65
/336/
72
/465/
64
/56/
cc age 17+

Suspiria (2018)
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
poster
Hulu
68
6.9
/45217/
69
/844/
65
/594/
3.4
/13984/
78
/46/
71
/797/
55
/14/

Tigerland (2000)
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
poster
Hoopla
68
6.7
/3266/
70
/68/
61
/57/
3.3
/975/
64
/11/
73
/38/

Come See the Paradise (1990)
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
poster
Kanopy
68
6.9
/4065/
72
/188/
71
/482/
3.5
/6347/
81
/37/
76
/5/
59
/19/

Standing Tall (2015)
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
poster
Kanopy
68
7.1
/36865/
67
/1676/
66
/1732/
3.5
/30653/
82
/78/
69
/100/
70
/17/

The Brand New Testament (2015)
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
poster
67
6.8
/35474/
66
/823/
67
/1221/
3.2
/27090/
61
/140/
63
/700/
65
/36/
cc age 13+

Oliver Twist (2005)
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
poster
Hoopla
67
7.0
/7490/
70
/171/
64
/110/
3.3
/1582/
64
/116/
78
/297/
55
/30/

Evelyn (2002)
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
poster
Kanopy
67
6.6
/16012/
64
/383/
61
/232/
3.4
/52518/
56
/36/
75
/661/
75
/18/

Kicking and Screaming (1995)
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.4
/53253/
66
/3251/
62
/1625/
3.3
/87944/
80
/234/
59
/476/
63
/45/
cc age 16+

Unsane (2018)
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
poster
66
6.8
/23316/
68
/593/
67
/524/
3.0
/35308/
51
/59/
78
/830/
53
/21/

Lost and Delirious (2001)
After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.
poster
Kanopy
75
65
7.3
/2834/
71
/115/
69
/76/
3.6
/5217/
80
/15/
88
/54/
cc age 14+

Indian Horse (2018)
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.


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