Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "school-friend"

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Greg Heffley is a 12 year old who is fresh out of elementary and transitions to middle school, where he has to learn the consequences and responsibility to survive the year.

Director: Thor Freudenthal | Stars: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn

Votes: 58,490 | Gross: $64.00M

2. Tolkien (2019)

PG-13 | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Tolkien's novels were inspired by his mom's storytelling, falling in love with another orphan, Edith, forming a brotherhood with 3 other misfits at school, the trench war of WWI and later telling stories to his own kids.

Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 46,880 | Gross: $4.54M

3. An Education (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams

Votes: 138,272 | Gross: $12.57M

4. Grease Live! (2016 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 140 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

After enjoying a summer romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High. There Sandy must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies in attempt to win Danny's heart again.

Directors: Thomas Kail, Alex Rudzinski | Stars: Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens, Keke Palmer

Votes: 9,959

5. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

TV-PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.

Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi

Votes: 71,111

6. Toradora! (2008–2009)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Toradora tells the tale of Ryuji (dragon) and Taiga (tiger) helping each other confess to their crushes.

Stars: Rie Kugimiya, Junji Majima, Yui Horie, Hirofumi Nojima

Votes: 19,014

7. Lace (1984)

240 min | Drama

A young actress, thought to be easy and without morals, gathers three former schoolmates to find out who her mother is.

Stars: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates

Votes: 1,532

8. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Approved | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.

Directors: Henry King, Otto Lang | Stars: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom

Votes: 5,393

9. Young Americans (2000)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama

Portrays life at Rawley Summer Academy, an elite school in Connecticut where boys with a bright Ivy League future spend the summer industriously in classes and rowing training on the lake.

Stars: Mark Famiglietti, Kate Bosworth, Rodney Scott, Kate Moennig

Votes: 1,648

10. Klem (2017–2024)

45 min | Crime, Drama

A man who works for the tax authorities ends up becoming friends with a dangerous criminal after their daughters become best friends and he accidentally saves his life.

Stars: Barry Atsma, Jacob Derwig, Georgina Verbaan, Yenthe Bos

Votes: 1,600

11. Rocks (2019)

TV-MA | 93 min | Drama

A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.

Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D'angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson

Votes: 5,573

12. Dear Christmas (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Natalie has a hit podcast based on love, but she isn't so expert at finding it herself until Chris Massey enters her life and shakes things up. Not to mention his name.

Director: Emily Moss Wilson | Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Ed Begley Jr., Faith Prince, Nicky Whelan

Votes: 1,500

13. Simon and the Witch (1987–1988)

15 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The story focuses on the magical adventures of a little boy Simon who befriends a very mischievous witch.

Stars: Elizabeth Spriggs, Hugh Pollard, David Crane, Joan Sims

Votes: 195

14. My Left Nut (2020)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Teenager Mick discovers a swelling on his testicle. He can't tell his Dad about it - he died 7 years ago. His Mum has a million other things on her plate. He can't tell his mates. What can he do about it?

Stars: Nathan Quinn-O'Rawe, Oliver Anthony, Levi O'Sullivan, Jessica Reynolds

Votes: 638

15. Antoine and Colette (1962)

32 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Jean-François Adam

Votes: 6,396

16. The Killer Downstairs (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Thriller

A woman finds herself in a fight for her life when the man she rents her basement suite to becomes obsessed with her and begins killing people in her life.

Director: Tony Dean Smith | Stars: Cindy Busby, Marcus Rosner, Donna Benedicto, Emy Aneke

Votes: 543

17. Jonny Briggs (1985–1987)

20 min | Family

Jonny Briggs centers on the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero (played by Richard Holian), his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members.

Stars: Richard Holian, Jane Lowe, Sue Devaney, Tommy Robinson

Votes: 206

18. Shredderman Rules (2007 TV Movie)

TV-Y7 | 96 min | Comedy, Family

Nolan Byrd is a scrawny and shy 9th grader who, like all the other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby. Nolan, who has a particular knack with technology, decides to catch Bubba in action.

Director: Savage Steve Holland | Stars: Devon Werkheiser, Tim Meadows, Daniel Roebuck, Andrew Lewis Caldwell

Votes: 1,337

19. Female (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown

Votes: 1,922

20. Sherina's Adventure (2000)

TV-G | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Adventure of a little girl who just moved to a new town and meet a new friends.

Director: Riri Riza | Stars: Sherina Munaf, Derby Romero, Didi Petet, Ucy Nurul

Votes: 1,030

21. The Reunion (I) (2012)

TV-PG | 103 min | Comedy

Lloyd (Enchong Dee) and his friends will find Ara (Cristine Reyes), his ex-girlfriend in high school who is the cause of his misfortunes in life.

Director: Frasco Mortiz | Stars: Enchong Dee, Xian Lim, Enrique Gil, Kean Cipriano

Votes: 111

22. Jôô (2005)

Drama

Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.

Stars: Hiromi Kitagawa, Noboru Kaneko, Nana Ogawa, Sora Aoi

Votes: 14

23. A Golden Christmas (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A woman visits her parents for Christmas. Hearing that they've "sold" the house, she wants to buy it. At 9 she had a BFF in the woods nearby named Han Solo. She and the buyer are single, divorced and have a child each. Is he her Han?

Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Andrea Roth, Nicholas Brendon, Elisa Donovan, Bruce Davison

Votes: 1,385

24. Necessary Parties (1988 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 96 min | Family, Drama

14-year-old Chris Mills throws a wrench in his parents' plans to divorce by hiring Archie Corelli, an auto-mechanic by day and a lawyer by night, to sue his parents and ultimately disrupt their plans to end their marriage.

Director: Gwen Arner | Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Taylor Fry, Julie Hagerty, Geoff Pierson

Votes: 111

25. Glasgow Girls (2014 TV Movie)

Drama

In 2005 15-year old Agnesa Murselaj and her mother, both Kosovan Roma refugees, are seized in a dawn raid and remanded whilst waiting deportation. Six of Agnesa's fellow pupils - both ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Welsh | Stars: Letitia Wright, Olivia Popica, Kirstie Steele, Aruhan Galieva

Votes: 100

26. Cancel Christmas (2010 TV Movie)

TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Santa Claus discovers that children have become too greedy and must prove otherwise before his favorite holiday is canceled. His mission is to teach two incorrigible children the importance of charity.

Director: John Bradshaw | Stars: Judd Nelson, Justin Landry, Natalie Brown, John Fleming

Votes: 635

27. Les disparus de St. Agil (1938)

98 min | Drama, Mystery

Strange things happen at night at the Saint-Argil secondary school. Baume, Sorgues and Macroy, three of the school's pupils, discover a suspicious man on the premises. Shortly after this unsettling event, pupils begin to go missing.

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond

Votes: 958

28. Croma Kid (2023)

92 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Emi must deal with the disappearance of his parents into another dimension after a magic trick spirals out of control.

Director: Pablo Chea | Stars: CJ Báez, Nashla Bogaert, Yasser Michelén, David Maler

Votes: 32

29. Sex Rules (1989)

22 min | Drama, Short

Jo and Nik are best friends until they start having to contend with boys and sex.

Director: Pip Karmel | Stars: Kirsty McGregor, Angelica Klages, Brendan Duhigg, Liz Ward

30. Absolute Justice (2019– )

Family

A thirty-three-year old woman lives her life by a personal code of righteousness. Her life experience has shaped her morality and sense of justice. After becoming pregnant and a housewife ... See full summary »

Stars: Sayaka Yamaguchi, Rie Mimura, Yuki Sakurai, Minami Tanaka

Votes: 5

31. Freshly Squeezed (2012)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

A designer with her own store must come to terms with being pregnant.

Director: Christine Hartmann | Stars: Diana Amft, Tom Wlaschiha, Alexander Beyer, Jule Ronstedt

Votes: 321

32. Venus Versus Virus (2007)

24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Pricked by a special broach, Sumire finds herself able to see evil spirits (viruses). Lucia exterminates viruses and mistakenly shoots Sumire with an antiviral bullet, which transforms her ... See full summary »

Stars: John Swasey, Blake Shepard, Carli Mosier, Joanne Bonasso

Votes: 94

33. Verdes Anos (1984)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

Three days in the life of some school friends, and the discovery of how much time it takes to pass from adolescence to maturity.

Directors: Giba Assis Brasil, Carlos Gerbase | Stars: Werner Schünemann, Luciene Adami, Marcos Breda, Márcia do Canto

Votes: 59

34. The Glasgow Girls' Stories (2015 TV Movie)

29 min | Documentary

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Director: Emma Bond | Stars: Dougie Vipond, Amal Azzudin, Colin Barr, Cora Bissett

35. The Pencil Case (2004)

4 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

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Director: Claudia Molina | Stars: Emily Anne Graham, Victoria Wirth

36. Those Naughty Angels (1974)

93 min | Drama, Family, Music

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Director: Neil Hetherington | Stars: Peter J. Elliott, Winnie Ayliffe, The Drakensberg Boys Choir, Roy Erbstoesser

37. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: Well Schooled in Murder (2002)

TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When an old school friend contacts Lynley about a missing schoolboy, the inspector soon has to launch a murder inquiry.

Director: Robert Young | Stars: John Sessions, Lisa Stevenson, Curtis Woodruff, Paul Herzberg

Votes: 576

38. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Tödliche Freundschaft (1986)

59 min | Crime, Drama

There is a holdup in the HypoBank agency: a robber with balaclava manages to steal 14.000 DM; but suddenly the agency director, Mr. Rossmann ,walks towards the robber and says him that they... See full summary »

Director: Günter Gräwert | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 23

39. Cheers (1982–1993)
Episode: The Belles of St. Clete's (1985)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Carla believes that one of her customers is her old evil Catholic school principal, and she wants to get revenge on her. Meanwhile, Cliff claims to be receiving love letters from a woman he met on his Florida vacation.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman

Votes: 570

40. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (1989–1994)
Episode: The Beast of Bolsover (1990)

24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A rival gang arrives in Worksop, led by the Australian Beast of Bolsover and his nephew the Nuisance of Nuneaton. They refuse to leave unless they are paid twenty five gold pieces or ... See full summary »

Director: David Bell | Stars: Kate Lonergan, Adam Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis

Votes: 21

41. Maigret (1992–1993)
Episode: Maigret's Boyhood Friend (1993)

TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Leon Florentin, an old school acquaintance of Maigret, asks the detective for help when his mistress is found shot to death.

Director: John Strickland | Stars: Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway, James Larkin

Votes: 109

42. Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
Episode: Benni und die Detektive (2003)

43 min | Crime

In the middle of the night Benni escapes through the window to meet his school friends Louisa and Henrik to go the discotheque: they go with their bicycles through a shortcut and suddenly they see a figure digging a hole.

Director: Christoph Eichhorn | Stars: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Marco Girnth, Gabriel Merz, Melanie Marschke

43. Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
Episode: Das Geheimnis der Braut (2003)

44 min | Crime

Ina Zimmermann has met in a shop Wolf Künast, a school friend and Wolf presented his future spouse Maria to Ina and has also invited Ina to their wedding. Wolf and Ina have a drink together.

Director: Michel Bielawa | Stars: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Marco Girnth, Gabriel Merz, Melanie Marschke

Votes: 9

44. Who's the Boss? (1984–1992)
Episode: When Worlds Collide (1986)

Not Rated | 24 min | Comedy, Romance

Tony and Angela worry when it turns out his poker night and a visit from her sophisticated friend Emily fall at the same time. To their surprise, Emily and his low-class poker buddy Eddie fall in love with each other.

Director: Asaad Kelada | Stars: Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro

Votes: 96

45. Coming Up (2003–2013)
Episode: Victoria (2003)

Drama

A chance encounter with an old schoolmate in London is far from an emotional reunion for Raff. Although they were far from friends at school, the encounter forces Raff and his girlfriend ... See full summary »

Director: Rupert Jones | Stars: Huss Garbiya, Ashley Jensen, Dominic McHale

46. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Jakob (2007)

Crime, Drama

12 year old Jakob is coming back home from school, but disappears, to be later on found dead. Leo Kress thinks the case is connected to another homicide that happened on the boy's school route.

Director: Hartmut Griesmayr | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Markus Böttcher, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

Votes: 16

47. Inga Lindström (2004– )
Episode: Liebe verjährt nicht (2020)

89 min | Drama, Romance

Marem who lives in Stockholm ,will soon open a surfing school in France with her friend Joel.In box Joel sees an invitation for the silver wedding anniversary of her parents Anna and ... See full summary »

Director: Oliver Dieckmann | Stars: Lena Meckel, Tommy Schlesser, Carl Achleitner, Patrick Joswig

Votes: 35

48. Inga Lindström (2004– )
Episode: Rasmus und Johanna (2008)

Drama, Romance

Rasmus Johannsen returns to Lindesberg to spend some days with his father Per Johannsen. Johanna Palmquist returns home to help her mother Ellen to manage her small hotel.

Director: Gunter Krää | Stars: Jochen Schropp, Julie Engelbrecht, Sabine Postel, Jürgen Heinrich

Votes: 37

49. Inga Lindström (2004– )
Episode: Das gestohlene Herz (2020)

Drama, Romance

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Director: Stefanie Sycholt | Stars: Maya Haddad, Max Koch, Dominik Weber, Justine Hirschfeld

Votes: 26

50. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Ich muss dich opfern (2009)

Crime, Drama

Anja Holzer has gone to the apartment of her school friend Kerstin Brennecke, they were looking at a television program : her husband Sebastian Holzer was interviewed about management: in ... See full summary »

Director: Vadim Glowna | Stars: Walter Kreye, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 16