# Top 50 High School Movies of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911 "2006-09-08T14:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911/41 "2006-09-10T05:14:42Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] If the **High School** the list is referring to is the Frederick Wiseman documentary [/QUOTE] It is. (Source: _Entertainment Weekly_ #897, 9/15/06) ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911/42 "2006-09-10T15:06:57Z")
I wonder what thier defintion of “high school movie” is? I would think at least part of the movie should have scenes in a high school- some, like “American Graffiti” & “Boyz in da Hood” have no scenes in a high school at all- “Hood” might have a brief one. Perhaps they should have titled the list “Best Teen movies”? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911/43 "2006-09-10T16:33:59Z")
You’re forgetting the high school dance in _American Graffiti_. The [top picture](http://www.geocities.com/alcus2/graffiti.html) here is from that scene. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911/44 "2006-09-10T16:51:34Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Wierd Science? Varsity Blues? Mallrats? [/QUOTE] They were in college in Mallrats I thought. Only the sex researcher girl was in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911/45 "2006-09-10T17:49:57Z")
Ugh. _The Breakfast Club_ is #1? It would never have made it onto any list I made. If you’re going to give 4 of the 5 characters fantasy-perfect saccharine happy endings, at least don’t make things worse than they already were for the fifth. The message is “Anyone can find happiness, unless you happen to be a nerd, in which case you should just be happy to be doing other people’s homework for them”. I have other complaints as well… I can see calling Hogwarts a high school, but _Goblet of Fire_ was the worst of the Harry Potter movies thus far. If _Prisoner of Azkaban_ doesn’t count as high school (it would correspond to American 8th grade), then don’t put Harry Potter on the list at all. And there were a lot of movies I’d never heard of… Of course, some of them might well be good, but it does at least seem to say something about how much impact they had. But all in all, I’d be much happier if _Breakfast Club_ were much lower or off the list. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911/46 "2006-09-10T18:00:43Z")
It’s no surprise that foreign films again are given short shrift, with two rather egregious ommissions: **If…** (w/Malcolm McDowell, anticipating _Elephant_ by over 30 years) and Lukas Moodysson’s exquisite **Show Me Love** (which certainly rivals _Get Real_ in the gay-HS-romance department). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-50-high-school-movies-of-all-time/371911.md?page=2)