Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Films

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  1. 1.
    The Breakfast Club

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

  3. 3.
    Dazed and Confused
    by Richard Linklater

  4. 4.
    Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Nicholas Ray

  5. 5.
    Heathers
    by Michael Lehmann

  6. 7.
    Clueless
    by Amy Heckerling

  7. 9.
    Election

  8. 10.
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller...Bueller... Edition)
    by John Hughes

  9. 11.
    Say Anything
    by Cameron Crowe

  10. 12.
    Mean Girls (Widescreen Edition)
    by Mark Waters

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

  12. 14.
    Donnie Darko (Widescreen Edition)

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

  14. 16.
    Lucas

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

  16. 18.
    Rock 'N' Roll High School
    by Allan Arkush

  17. 19.
    The Last Picture Show
    by Peter Bogdanovich

  18. 20.
    Dead Poets Society
    by Peter Weir

  19. 21.
    Grease (Widescreen Edition)
    by Randal Kleiser

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

  21. 23.
    Cooley High

  22. 24.
    Rushmore

  23. 25.
    Hoosiers
    by David Anspaugh

  24. 26.
    Pretty in Pink

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

  26. 28.
    Back to the Future
    by Robert Zemeckis

  27. 29.
    Gregory's Girl

  28. 30.
    Bring It On (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Peyton Reed

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

  30. 32.
    Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)
    by Wes Craven

  31. 33.

  32. 34.
    Get Real
    by Simon Shore

  33. 35.
    Brick

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

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

  36. 38.
    Bye Bye Birdie
    by George Sidney

  37. 39.
    The Virgin Suicides

  38. 40.
    Risky Business

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

  40. 42.
    Fame

  41. 43.
    Stand and Deliver

  42. 44.
    Can't Hardly Wait
    by Deborah Kaplan

  43. 45.
    My Bodyguard
    by Tony Bill

  44. 46.
    Flirting
    by John Duigan

  45. 47.
    Napoleon Dynamite
    by Jared Hess

  46. 48.
    Just One of the Guys

  47. 49.
    Sixteen Candles
    by John Hughes

  48. 50.
    Splendor in the Grass

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Created by Jess on Sep 13, 2006.
 

Comments

argh — 5 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.




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