BACK TO SCHOOL: HIGH SCHOOL EDITION
10 films about high school students directed by women.
Breathe dir. Mélanie Laurent (2014)
Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there’s nothing average about how she feels.
Clueless dir. Amy Heckerling (1995)
After successfully playing match-maker with her teachers a privileged young teen decides to give a pitiful transfer student a makeover with less successful results.
An Education dir. Lone Scherfig (2009)
A bright high school student throws her scholarly ambitions away when she is pursued by a much older man.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High dir. Amy Heckerling (1983)
A group of Southern California high school students experiment with sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.
Palo Alto dir. Gia Coppola (2013)
A group of affluent disaffected teens growing up in the wealthy city of Palo Alto muddle their way through relationships.
Pariah dir. Dee Rees (2011)
Alike (Adepero Oduye), a 17-year-old African-American teenager, hides that she is a lesbian from her parents even as she falls in love for the first time.Â
Mosquita y Mari dir. Aurora Guerrero (2012)
Yolanda, the sheltered daughter of Mexican immigrants, becomes spellbound by her new neighbour.
Strike! dir. Sarah Kernochan (1998)
In 1963 students at an elite preparatory school plot to sabotage the proposed plan for the school to go coed.
The Virgin Suicides dir. Sofia Coppola (1999)
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.
Yelling to the Sky dir. Victoria Mahoney (2011)
Sweetness O’Hara, a young biracial teen, decides to fight back against her abusive father and the bullies at school by dealing drugs in order to gain money and power.
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