With a focus on the last two decades, this list of high school movies includes the top ten great movies with a predominantly high school oriented theme. In order to be considered among the best high school movies, the film has to star high school students, target a largely teenage or high school oriented audience, and generally center around characters that are in high school, with a significant portion of the film taking place in the high school environment.
Here are the top ten great high school films that pass the test:
10. Superbad – Time wise, a close follow up to Napoleon Dynamite, this somewhat crude high school comedy helped launch Jonah Hill’s career as an leading actor. Adventureland Director Greg Mottola also directed this movie.
9. Swimfan – A suspense thriller high school movie, Swim Fan is a story about an obsessed girl, Madison (Erika Christensen), who falls for the school’s top swimmer (Jesse Bradford). When he wants to break things off to stay with his girlfriend, Madison is none too happy.
8. Bring It On – This high school film celebrates the best of clicky, overly happy, and highly competitive teenage girls who love to cheer. Two competing high school cheer squads work to become cheer champs.
7. John Tucker Must Die – Starring “the guy from Desperate Housewives” (Jesse Metcalfe), John Tucker Must Die is a romantic high school comedy about the popular jock who is humbled by the new girl (Brittany Snow). Ashanti, Sophia Bush, and Arielle Kebbell add to this formidable cast.
6. Can’t Buy Me Love – One of the best 80s movies, this romantic high school comedy is perhaps best known for starring a young Patrick Dempsey. For many, it is an iconic 80s film about the popular girl and the geeky guy getting together.
5. The New Guy – With a various heavy high school theme, The New Guy starred DJ Qualls and Eliza Dushku. The movie was about an unpopular guy (Qualls) who reinvents himself after moving to a new school. His new attitude transcends his modest frame, which rallies his school to its first football win in a long time and captures the heart of a popular girl (Dushku). There are plenty of laughs.
4. Juno – Ellen Page proved her worth in this 2007 high school movie about a teenage girl who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy. She goes back and forth between whether to have the kid, and whether to give it up for adoption to a young couple (Justin Bateman and Jennifer Garner). Very humorous and quirky comedy with an excellent message!
3. Mean Girls – The ultimate high school film, this movie is about a new girl (Lindsay Lohan) who changes her persona to impress the popular girls in school and to win over the handsome jock. While poking fun at common click behaviors, the movie closes with a nice message.
2. Election – One of Reece Witherspoon’s early movies, Election remains one of the most classic high school movies even after 10 years (1999). An overly ambitious high school student (Witherspoon) gets under the skin of one of the school’s most popular teachers (Matthew Broderick) when she campaigns for student body president.
1. Napoleon Dynamite - This 2004 film not only landed an iconic high school movie it created an entire cultural revolution, completion with fashion and apparel (”Vote For Pedro” shirts).
SUPER #1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Because this 1986 high school comedy has such an elite status among movies with high school students and themes, it has to stand alone above the rest of the top 10 list of high school movies. Matthew Broderick never has never had a better role and movie than his performance in this very funny film about a high school student who takes a remarkably ambitious day off from school.
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