Best High School Movies
The best high school movies ever made, ranked by audience score. Your Name. takes it at 8.5, and the 20 films below prove how much range the premise has — A Silent Voice: The Movie, Dou kyu sei – Classmates and A Brighter Summer Day pull it in completely different directions.
20 titles · average score 7.9 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
Your Name. (2016)
★ 8.5 · 12,866 ratingsHigh schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen…
- 2
A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
★ 8.4 · 4,623 ratingsShouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave…
- 3
Dou kyu sei – Classmates (2016)
★ 8.3 · 459 ratingsRihito Sajo, an honor student with a perfect score on the entrance exam and Hikaru Kusakabe, in a band and popular among girls, would have never crossed paths. Until one day they started talking at the practice for…
- 4
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
★ 8.2 · 399 ratingsA boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
- 5
Given (2020)
★ 8.2 · 424 ratingsHaruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
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How this list is ranked
Nothing on this page is hand-picked to hit a word count. We pull films matching this list's criteria from TMDB, require a real audience behind each score, and rank by that score — 20 titles averaging 7.9. The page rebuilds daily, so new releases appear here as soon as enough people have rated them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best high school movie?
Your Name. (2016) at 8.5, ahead of A Silent Voice: The Movie and Dou kyu sei – Classmates. All 20 films on this page average 7.9.
How do you find high school movies?
Through TMDB's keyword tagging, which is maintained by its community and goes far deeper than genre labels — it catches films that share a premise even when they belong to completely different genres.
Is this list updated?
Yes — it rebuilds every day from TMDB, so newly released movies appear as soon as enough people have rated them. You do not need an account to browse it, and there is no paywall on anything at MovieAI.