Set against the backdrop of an elite American East Coast prep school, protagonist Robert is an apathetic teenager who seems interested only in YouTube-esque videos of either babies, kittens, pornography or violent acts. When Robert takes part in the school's AV club he unexpectedly captures a traumatic event that will irreversibly alter the lives of everyone at his school. Far from ‘easy viewing', 'Afterschool' is an intense, intelligent and provocative account of one boy's conflicted and trou find out more...

A community worker sets the world to rights teaching prostitutes' children the art of photography in a red light area of Calcutta. As she befriends them she takes it on herself to 'rescue' them from their fate, their friends and their families by getting them enrolled in private education schools to help them change their destiny. Zana is such a powerful person that, as the follow up DVD extra 'Reconnecting with Born into Brothels' demonstrates, she succeeds. This is a superb film animated by th find out more...

It's 1964, St Nicholas in the Bronx; a vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius, the authoritarian Principal. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, an example being the arrival of the school's first black student, Donald Miller. When Sister James shares with the Principal her suspicion that Father Flynn's interest in Donald may not be entirely innocent, Sister Alo find out more...

School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish 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...

A fly-on-the-wall type drama, based around the real life experiences of a teacher observing incidents in a multi-ethnic Parisian class full of teenagers. We watch the pupils, the other teachers' summations of them, their projects and their learning (or lack thereof, as the case may be), meet their parents, and we are, as any teacher might be, continually wrong-footed by them. 'The Class' is an intelligent, polemic film that will undoubtedly provoke you into a re-assessment of your opinions on th find out more...

Four teenage boys who embody awkwardness, cowardess, stupidity and deplorableness try to cope with sixth form teachers, girls and bullies at their local comprehensive. They don't really like each other and they don't really like themselves - 'The Inbetweeners' is refreshing and hilarious in its painfully honest depiction of teenage boys. find out more...

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In an attempt to demonstrate what life is like under a dictatorship a high school teacher comes up with an experiment to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community, builds into a real movement: ‘The Wave'. As the students' boundaries are pushed things begin to spiral out of control and this newly found cult starts to take on a life of its own, with disturbing and tragic results. Based on a real-life find out more...

Two high-school nerds use a computer to create the perfect woman and not only is she steamy and sexually complicit, but she does the housework. A nice dream for males, which, despite its reactionary views on women, has become a minor cult item. From 1980s teen film master John Hughes. find out more...