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A SELECTION OF HIGH SCHOOL MOVIES
Every teenager stereotype - the stoners, popular girls, freaks and geeks... Fashion statements to observe in each.
List of the high school movies I like for one reason or another.
* Please note the description are all from wikipedia
THE POPULAR GIRLS
HEATHERS 1988 ‧ Comedy/Teen
Veronica (Winona Ryder) is part of the most popular clique at her high school, but she disapproves of the other girls' cruel behavior. When Veronica and her new boyfriend, J.D. (Christian Slater), confront clique leader Heather Chandler (Kim Walker) and accidentally poison her, they make it appear a suicide. Soon Veronica realizes that J.D. is intentionally killing students he does not like. She races to stop J.D. while also clashing with the clique's new leader, Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty).
CLUELESS 1995 ‧ Comedy/Romance
Cher is a rich high-school student who is learning to cope with adolescence and its problems. She also helps a new student gain popularity and in the process discovers her own feelings.
JAW BREAKERS 1999 ‧ Comedy/Teen
The plan to kidnap Liz, one of the most popular girls of Reagan High School, goes horribly wrong when her three friends, Courtney, Marcie and Julie, accidentally choke her to death with a jawbreaker.
CRUEL INTENTIONS
1999 ‧ Romance/Drama
Kathryn makes a bet with her stepbrother Sebastian to sleep with the headmaster's daughter named Annette. However, in an unexpected turn of events, Sebastian really falls in love with Annette.
MEAN GIRLS
2004 ‧ Comedy/Teen
Cady joins a new public school and befriends Janis and Damian. They warn her to avoid the Plastics, a group led by Regina, but things get worse when she falls in love with Aaron, Regina's ex-lover.
GREASE
1978 ‧ Musical/Romance
While vacationing in Australia, Danny and Sandy indulge in a passionate love affair with each other. They part ways believing they will not see each other again but fate has other plans.
THE REBELS / DELIQUIENTS
DAZED AND CONFUSED
1993 ‧ Comedy/Indie film
In 1976 Texas, a bunch of teenagers celebrate the last day of high school by hazing freshmen, partying at a local pool, indulging in drugs and following it up with a keg party.
THIRTEEN 2003 ‧ Drama
Thirteen-year-old Tracy gets involved in drugs, thefts and other forms of social misbehaviour after she meets Evie. Her mother attempts to intervene and stop her lifestyle by separating the two.
CRY BABY 1990 ‧ Musical/Comedy
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
THE DOOM GENERATION
1995 ‧ Drama/Indie film
Teens Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Red tends to create combustible situations -- for example, a trip to a convenience store leads to a clerk getting decapitated. Afterward, the trio voyages through small-town America, where Amy is accosted by various men claiming to be her lovers, and she and Jordan find themselves drawn to Xavier. But can any amount of sex lift the sense of doom hanging over them?
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF 1986 ‧ Comedy/Teen
Ferris Bueller, a high school student, fakes sickness to stay at home and spends the rest of the day with his best friend and girlfriend. Meanwhile, his dean is trying to spy on him.
ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL 1979 ‧ Musical/Comedy
A teenager (P.J. Soles) and her friends get even with their principal to music by the Ramones.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
1955 ‧ Drama/Romance
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark (James Dean) is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato (Sal Mineo), and falls for local girl Judy (Natalie Wood). However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz (Corey Allen). When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
THE FREAKS/ THE OUTSIDERS
GHOST WORLD
2001 ‧ Comedy/Drama
The story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school, take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad Renfro), the girls' friendship is forever changed.
LADYBIRD
2017 ‧ Drama/Indie
Christine Lady Bird McPherson, a teenage girl faces a lot of ups and downs in her relationships during her senior year in high school.Christine Lady Bird McPherson, a teenage girl faces a lot of ups and downs in her relationships during her senior year in high school.
SIXTEEN CANDLES
1984 ‧ Comedy/Romance
Samantha faces a lot of embarrassment on her sixteenth birthday when her parents conveniently ignore her and the answers she wrote for a private quiz lands up in the wrong hands.
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
2004 ‧ Comedy/Indie film
Napoleon, a socially awkward teenager, gets caught up in his dysfunctional family's misadventures while trying to help a friend win the class presidency.
ELECTION
1999 ‧ Comedy
Tracy runs unopposed for her high school election. However, the school's civics teacher has different plans, so he tells the varsity's popular football player to run for president and chaos follows.
MIX
KIDS
1995 ‧ Drama/Indie
Amoral teen Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) has made it his goal to sleep with as many virgin girls as possible -- but he doesn't tell them that he's HIV positive. While on the hunt for his latest conquest, Telly and his best friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), smoke pot and steal from shops around New York. Meanwhile, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny), one of Telly's early victims, makes it her mission to save other girls from him. But before she has a chance to confront him at a party, everything goes horribly wrong.
BREAKFAST CLUB
1985 ‧ Drama/Teen
Five high school students, all with different mindsets, face detainment in their school library on a Saturday morning. As time passes by, their egos fade and they become close buddies.
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
1999 ‧ Romance/Comedy
A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.
AMERICAN PIE
1999 ‧ Comedy/Romance
In a bid to end their misfortune with women, four friends, Jim, Oz, Finch and Kevin, try every trick in the book to ensure that they lose their virginity before prom night.
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMOND HIGH
1982 ‧ Comedy/Romance
Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a pretty, but inexperienced, teen interested in dating. Given advice by her uninhibited friend, Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates), Stacy gets trapped in a love triangle with nice guy Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and his more assured buddy Mike Damone (Robert Romanus). Meanwhile, Stacy's classmate Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), who lives for surfing and being stoned, faces off against Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), a strict teacher who has no time for the slacker's antics.
CANT HARDLY WAIT
1998 ‧ Comedy/Romance
A complete graduating class, consisting of beautiful girls, geeks and promising footballers, assemble at a rich classmate's residence for a party. Interesting developments follow at the get-together.
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