Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Films

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  1. 1.
    The Breakfast Club

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  2. 2.
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    by Amy Heckerling

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  3. 3.
    Dazed and Confused
    by Richard Linklater

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  4. 5.
    Heathers
    by Michael Lehmann

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  5. 6.
    American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  6. 7.
    Clueless

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  7. 8.
    Boyz N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
    by John Singleton

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  8. 9.
    Election
    by Alexander Payne

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  9. 11.
    Say Anything

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  10. 12.
    Mean Girls (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Mark Waters (VIII)

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  11. 13.
    High School (1968 Documentary)
    by Frederick Wiseman

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  12. 14.
    Donnie Darko
    by Richard Kelly (II)

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  13. 15.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

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  14. 16.
    Lucas (1986)
    by David Seltzer

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  15. 17.
    Peggy Sue Got Married
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  16. 18.
    Rock 'N' Roll High School
    by Joe Dante

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  17. 19.
    The Last Picture Show

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  18. 20.
    Dead Poets Society
    by Peter Weir

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  19. 21.
    Grease (Widescreen Edition)

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  20. 22.
    American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Chris Weitz

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  21. 23.
    Cooley High
    by Michael Schultz

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  22. 24.
    Rushmore
    by Wes Anderson

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  23. 25.
    Hoosiers
    by David Anspaugh

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  24. 26.
    Pretty in Pink

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  25. 27.
    To Sir, With Love
    by James Clavell

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  26. 28.
    Back to the Future
    by Robert Zemeckis

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  27. 29.
    Gregory's Girl
    by Bill Forsyth

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  28. 30.
    Bring It On

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  29. 31.
    The Karate Kid
    by John G. Avildsen

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  32. 34.
    Get Real
    by Simon Shore

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  33. 35.
    Brick

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  34. 36.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter 4)
    by Mike Newell

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  35. 37.
    Friday Night Lights (Widescreen Edition)
    by Peter Berg

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  36. 38.
    Bye Bye Birdie
    by George Sidney (II)

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  37. 39.
    The Virgin Suicides

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  38. 40.
    Risky Business
    by Paul Brickman

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  39. 41.
    Can't Buy Me Love
    by Steve Rash

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  40. 42.
    Fame
    by Alan Parker

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  41. 43.
    Stand and Deliver
    by Ramón Menéndez

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  42. 44.
    Can't Hardly Wait
    by Harry Elfont

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  43. 45.
    My Bodyguard
    by Tony Bill

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  44. 46.
    Flirting
    by John Duigan

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  45. 47.
    Napoleon Dynamite
    by Jared Hess

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  46. 48.
    Just One of the Guys
    by Lisa Gottlieb

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  47. 49.
    Sixteen Candles
    by John Hughes

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  48. 50.
    Splendor in the Grass
    by Elia Kazan

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Created by Jess on Sep 13, 2006.
 

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Jess
Melbourne

argh — 2 years ago

Didn’t realize someone had already compiled this list on here. The search function on this site seems to be really lacking..?

So here’s another version of the same list, I guess.