"Captain, my captain!" When charismatic Engish professor John Keating arrives at a traditional school, his unconventional teaching methods breathe new life into the curriculum. With his wit and wisdom Keating inspires his students to pursue individual passions and make their lives extraordinary. Uplifting and brilliant

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Gus Van Sant's take on the shooting at Columbine High School is a masterpiece. Using a cast of unprofessional actors, he has created a unique and highly affecting film, rich in atmosphere and style. The non-linear narrative follows the experiences of the key characters, giving a different perspective of events in the short time frame (most of the events shown in the film take place in about an hour). While the tension in the film obviously comes from the impending violence, the film's strongest find out more...

Butchy rebel Paulie and golden girl Tory's relationship is intense and it's all their own...until Mouse comes to their boarding school and is put in their once-private room. The couple become Mouse's closest friends but the depth of their relationship confuses her although she remains fiercely loyal to them as others around them start talking. When things start to break down, Paulie loses the plot, following her heart into serious drama, while Tory begins to deny everything and flaunts her expl find out more...

Cady's been raised in the African wilderness until her zoologist parents relocate to America. Seemingly ill prepared for the harsh world of high school, Cady is nonetheless befriended by the school's queen bitches, a terrifying sub-species of 'the teenager'. Will Cady buckle under the peer pressure, or will she adapt her understanding of the wild to retain her sweet natured demeanour, while at the same time achieving dominance over her relentlessly cruel and self obsessed adoptive pack? Mean Gir find out more...

Great teen comedy as über-bitch Kimberly coerces two other girls into a sex harrassment case against an English teacher she wants revenge on. There's great dialogue, snappy lines and some wonderful characters in this not sexually inexplicit Heathers, Election, Mean Girls type flick. Very dark and very twisted. find out more...

A quirky, clever and charming movie from rookie director Anderson, who flies in the face of convention by making the hero of this high school-based comedy a slightly geeky academic who's anything but the all-American kid. Max Fischer is a brilliant but mixed-up scholarship kid at the Rushmore Academy, with a frenzied timetable and an uncanny knack of baffling both students and teachers alike. He attracts the attention of Blume (the superb Bill Murray), a rich, bored, middle-aged parent, apparen find out more...

Another slice of dark and twisted genius from the director of "Happiness" consisting of two tales; find out more...

Jeri Blank is a 47-year-old crack whore fresh from the joint and ready to return to her childhood home. Sound like a silly premise? It certainly is in the hands of comic geniuses Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. In order to resurrect her comatose father, Jeri is instructed to go back to high school... and excel. So the ridiculous Jeri and her underutilized libido hit the halls, looking for fresh meat and navigating the hell that is Flatpoint High School, a place not short of racial and sexual innue find out more...

A spiteful child's lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman's celebrated play. Karen (Hepburn) and Martha (MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander and accuses her teachers of having a lesbian relationship. Soon the scandalous gossip engulfs the school's community, with repercussions that are heart-wrenchingly tragic. find out more...

Superb adaptation of Graham Swift's novel about growing up in the poverty stricken, primitive, rural Fenland. Irons is peerless as the ageing and troubled history teacher, disillusioned as his students with dry facts and figures, taking them on a field trip though his personal history re-exploring his marriage to his childhood love and the often tragic experiences that befell them. Brilliant and moving. find out more...