The best films about college and university: review, features and reviews

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The words of the classic “We all learned little by little, something and somehow” will probably never lose their relevance. Filmmakers often choose temples of science as the setting for their masterpieces. This publication features films about school, university and college.

Masterpieces of the domestic film industry

Soviet cinema was famous for its beautiful films about teachers, schools and institutions. The most sincere and touching stories developed at the school board and in student audiences. Remember "Let's Live Until Monday", "Adventures of Electronics", "Big Break". No less successful, according to reviews, is the drama of the famous George Danelia "Autumn Marathon". The protagonist, a teacher at Leningrad University, tries to be good to everyone, but turns into an unfortunate loser. The image was embodied on the screen by the brilliant Oleg Basilashvili.

The Soviet film "You never dreamed of …", becoming the best film of 1981 according to a survey of the Soviet Screen magazine, was even shown in the USA undercalled Love & Lies. This picture contains a lot of references to the Shakespearean tragedy, in the center of the story is the school love drama of Katya and Roma, in which their parents, exhausted by everyday life, rage no less than the Montagues and the Capulets. The work of Ilya Fraz, like Adam Shankman's American melodrama A Walk to Love, no doubt refers to films about university, college and love. Both projects have extremely positive feedback and reviews.

About juvenile delinquency

The fact that child and juvenile delinquency can overwhelm society so much that educational institutions will turn into closed institutions, filmmakers have been talking for a long time. Their films about college and university are based on the authors' fantasies and real stories. The Class of 1984, like the back-to-back episode of Back to the Future 2, can be considered flowers. Berries are the "Class" of 1999 and the "Class" of 2007.

Director Mark L. Lester in his work fantasized what could happen when the confrontation between teacher and student goes beyond reason.

Estonian tape "Class" is far from fantasy. Director Ilmar Raag presented to the public a story about the friendship of two teenagers who are forced to resist the hooligan majority, violence and bullying. Unable to be guided by common sense, children take up arms. As a result, not only their offenders suffer, but also innocent students. The burning theme did not leave the viewer indifferent, the rating of the project, taking into account reviews - IMDb: 8.00.

In Russianthe film "Teacher" by Alexei A. Petrukhin does not have a drop of romance, but an out of the ordinary event is described. The film is based on a real incident. A pistol brought by one of the students passes from hand to hand. A cocked trigger reveals true feelings, relationships within the student team and with the teacher. The relevance of the topic was appreciated by critics, but the film has polar reviews.

Unfortunately, such films about college, university do not protect children from tragedies, murders are repeated with frightening frequency.

Thrillers & Horrors

American films about university and college are often produced in the genre of thriller or even horror. For example, Flatliners by Joel Schumacher or Carrie by Brian De Palma.

Joel Schumacher is an excellent director who manages to hook the viewer in each of his works not only visually, but also ideologically. In Flatliners, the key characters are medical students conducting dangerous experiments on each other within university laboratories. Based on viewer feedback, the story is compelling and beautiful, and the cast is stunningly stellar.

"Carrie" is terrifying not only with mystical background, but also with a demonstration of teenage cruelty, herd feeling. Classmates took up arms against the main character, and the teachers chose not to notice the persecution of the teenager. Therefore, according to the majority of respondents, the students deserved every flash of fire and every drop of blood that the desperategirl who stopped hiding paranormal abilities. Reviewers often recall in their reviews of "Carrie" the film "Scarecrow", which broke a lot of patterns of Soviet cinema. The picture is far from in the best light showed both the students - the pioneers, and the teachers. For the early 80s, such a project is unprecedented honesty and courage.

Don't go to school kids…

Youth films about college (high school) sometimes seriously make you think about the need to continue education.

In Wes Craven's iconic "Scream", the Woodsboro school may have remained unknown to the general public. But one day there was a terrible tragedy. The student and her friend were killed by an unknown person in a mask, and the maniac turns the massacre into a game. The adventures of Sidney Prescott later developed into a franchise that formed a new direction in cinema. Everything is wonderful in it, but after watching teenagers, the question haunts, what if their class also has its own maniac, or even two?

Robert Rodriguez's "Faculty" has Harrington College a great place. Here, Terminator Robert Patrick leads physical education, nurse Salma Hayek monitors he alth, and Famke Janssen teaches biology. The students are doing well too. But the idyll is broken by the attack of alien slugs that take over the bodies and minds of their victims. The battle with the aliens, according to reviewers in the reviews, will be glorious.

Not without zombies

Closed schools are often positioned as the solution to all education problems. But the creative tandem of directors D. Milotta and K. Mernionhave a different opinion on this matter. In their brainchild "Koutis", several students suddenly turn into zombies who try to devour their classmates and teachers.

By the way, the heroes of the "New Era Z" directed by Colm McCarthy are trying to educate and train zombies, it turned out to be a curious sight. The film, according to critics in reviews, turned out to be a non-standard zombie story that catches, intrigues, addictive and terrifies in equal proportions.

In movies and TV

Despite a wide range of filmmakers' research, the best films about students, college and university are mostly made in the comedy genre. Just remember the tetralogy "The King of Parties", the notorious epic of the Weitz brothers "American Pie", the tapes "Mean Girls", "Very Bad Teacher", "Easy A", "Dudes", etc.

Among the list of comedy projects is the picture "We were accepted!" stands out for its non-standard approach to demonstrating an educational institution. In Steve Pink's work, the desperate protagonist decides to open his own without going to any college. He recruited a team of like-minded people, "teaching" staff and opened a college in an empty building of a psychiatric hospital. The project of the Tom Shadyac team is notable for its interesting cast, among which are young future stars of the first magnitude.

Universities also suffer from television. For example, the unprecedentedly successful sitcom The Big Bang Theory, in which young university scientists are at the center of the story. The series has a lot of accolades, as it is not only geeky, butand romantic.

Asian projects

Southeast Asian college and university films mostly raise serious issues caused by a rigid and authoritarian education system.

Series of South Korean films "Whisper of the Walls" opens with an episode about the events that took place in a school for girls, whose student committed suicide. The matured friend of the deceased returns to the educational institution already as a teacher. At this time, several students die at once in an educational institution. This project has an ambiguous effect on fragile minds.

In Japan's Battle Royale, Kinji Fukasaku takes the viewer to a future where education is only available to the elite. Dissatisfied and dissenting whole classes are sent to the entertainment show "Royal Battle", in which they act as victims and killers.

In Tae-gyun Kim's Volcanic Strike, Korean college teachers have to confront rebellious students with bulky biceps and low IQs. The school will eventually leave no stone unturned.

High School from Takashi Miike's The Crows Origins is one of the harshest in the list of college and university movies. In it, gangs have acquired such a scale that neither teachers nor guards can resist them. The picture demonstrates the confrontation between two high school students who claim leadership. Colorful picks of schoolchildren and picturesque fights look spectacular, but only from the screen. God forbid to get in the way of such gangs.

Theme swatches

In addition to those mentioned, college and university films include the following films:

• comedy for fans of Miley Cyrus "Undercover Agent";
• melodrama about friendship and determination "Sidney White";
• sports comedy She's the Man;
• Pitch Perfect musical trilogy;
• colorful "vanilla caramel" story "Boys love it";
• Family Adventure "Daddy's Girl";
• drama thriller "Rebel Club";
• good movie with happy ending "Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith College";
• beautiful love story "Boys and Girls";
• film without flaws "School Ties".