A million movies to get you in the school spirit
Obviously the school life portrayed in movies is nothing like the reality. Try more disorganisation, mounting stress and constantly messy hair. Nevertheless, we can attempt to forget the reality! I’ve put together this list of high school and college related movies to get you maybe just a little more motivated for school. I’ve put an asterisk (*) next to some of my favourites. Happy watching!
High school related movies:
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)*
17 Again (2009)
21 Jump Street (2012)*
A Cinderella Story (2004)
A Girl Like Her (2015)*
Accepted (2006)
American Beauty (1999)*
An Education (2009)*
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)*
Bad Hair Day (2015)
Beastly (2011)
Blame (2017)*
Bratz: The Movie (2007)
Bring It On (2000)
Bring It On Again (2004)
Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Carrie (2013)
Chronicle (2012)
Clueless (1995)*
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
Cyberbully (2011)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Dirty Deeds (2005)
Easy A (2010)*
Election (1999)
Endless Love (2014)*
Expelled (2014)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Flipped (2010)*
Freaky Friday (2003)
F*ck the Prom (2017)
G.B.F. (2013)
Geek Charming (2011)
Geography Club (2013)
Get a Clue (2002)
Girl in Progress (2012)
Grease (1978)*
Hairspray (2007)
Heathers (1988)
High School Musical (2006)
High School Musical 2 (2007)
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
Ice Princess (2005)
Into the Storm (2014)
It’s a Boy Girl Thing (2006)*
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
John Tucker Must Die (2006)*
Juno (2007)
Just One of the Guys (1985)
Keith (2008)
Lady Bird (2017)
LOL (2012)
Love, Simon (2018)
Mean Girls (2004)*
Mean Girls 2 (2011)
Mono (2016)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
New York Minute (2004)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
On My Block (2018)
Paper Towns (2015)
Picture This (2009)
Pink in Pink (1986)
Project X (2012)*
Prom (2011)
Raise Your Voice (2004)
Read It and Weep (2006)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Save the Last Dance (2001)
School of Rock (2003)
She’s All That (1999)
She’s The Man (2006)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Sleepover (2004)
St. Trinian’s (2007)
Step Up (2006)
Spiderman: Homecoming (2017)
Stranger Things (2016 - present)
Struck by Lightning (2012)
Submarine (2010)
Superbad (2007)*
The Bling Ring (2013)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Clique (2008)
The DUFF (2015)*
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
The First Time (2012)*
The Girl Next Door (2004)*
The History Boys (2006)
The Hot Chick (2002)
The Jerk Theory (2009)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
The Perfect Score (2004)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)*
The Spectacular Now (2013)
The To Do List (2013)*
The Virgin Suicides (1999)*
Trojan War (1997)
Twilight (2008)
Wild Child (2008)*
College/university related movies:
21 (2008)
21 and Over (2013)*
22 Jump Street (2014)*
After the Dark (2013)*
Accepted (2006)
Bad Neighbours (2014)*
College (2008)
Fired Up! (2009)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Legally Blonde (2001)*
Liberal Arts (2012)
Like Crazy (2011)
Monsters University (2013)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Pitch Perfect (2012)*
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
So Undercover (2012)
Sorority Wars (2009)
Sydney White (2007)
The House Bunny (2008)
The Social Network (2010)
High school and college/university related TV shows:
Awkward (2011 - 2016)
Bad Education (2012 - 2014)
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990 - 2000)
Community (2009 - 2015)
Daria (1997 - 2001)
Educating Essex (2011)
Educating Yorkshire (2013)
Faking It (2014 - 2016)
Freaks and Geeks (1999 - 2000)
Fresh Meat (2011 - 2016)
Friday Night Lights (2006 - 2011)
Gilmore Girls (2000 - 2007)
Glee (2009 - 2015)
Gossip Girl (2007 - 2012)
How to Get Away with Murder (2014 - present)
Ja’mie Private School Girl (2013)
Pretty Little Liars (2010 - present)
Puberty Blues (2012 - 2014)*
Riverdale (2017 - present)*
Saved by the Bell (1989 - 1992)
Scream Queens (2015 - present)
Skins (2007 - 2013)
Summer Heights High (2008)
Teen Wolf (2011 - present)
The Carrie Diaries (2013 - 2014)
The Inbetweeners (2008 - 2010)
The O.C. (2003 - 2007)
The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2011 - 2013)
The Vampire Diaries (2010 - 2017)
Waterloo Road (2006 - 2015)
I’ve not seen every single one of this list, so if it doesn’t really have much to do with education, that is why! Please feel free to add you own or message me so I can add more.
