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1. Enola Holmes (2020)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's teen sister) discovers her mother is missing, she endeavours to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy.

Director: Harry Bradbeer | Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 219,886

2. Level 16 (2018)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.

Director: Danishka Esterhazy | Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge

Votes: 16,257

3. Lust for a Vampire (1971)

R | 91 min | Horror

In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.

Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh, Yutte Stensgaard

Votes: 3,567

4. Pretty Smart (1987)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two private girls' school cliques, one rebellious, the other pristine-join forces to expose their corrupt headmaster who videotapes the girls in their rooms with a hidden surveillance camera and sells drugs on the side.

Director: Dimitri Logothetis | Stars: Tricia Leigh Fisher, Lisa Lörient, Dennis Cole, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 658

5. Illegal (1932)

Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama

A woman uses her windfall to open an illegal after-hours night club for her daughters' education, but her husband intervenes, causing conflicts and complicating matters.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Isobel Elsom, Ivor Barnard, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Margot Grahame

Votes: 187

6. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore

Votes: 6,302

7. The Whoopee Boys (1986)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sneak into the wealthy high society of Palm Beach to get the money needed for their cause.

Director: John Byrum | Stars: Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott, Carole Shelley

Votes: 945 | Gross: $0.44M

8. Band of Angels (1957)

Passed | 125 min | Drama

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Votes: 2,629

9. A Month by the Lake (1995)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At a Lake Como resort, Miss Bentley, an attractive older guest, meets a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt, the mischievous Miss Bentley goes to outrageous lengths to reel in her catch.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli

Votes: 2,622 | Gross: $2.20M

10. Good News (1947)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Golden Globe winner June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken

Votes: 2,822

11. Girls School Screamers (1985)

R | 86 min | Horror

Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.

Director: John P. Finnegan | Stars: Mollie O'Mara, Sharon Christopher, Mari Butler, Beth O'Malley

Votes: 787

12. Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.

Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners

Votes: 609

13. The Young Visiters (2003 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Nine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a lord's country estate.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Lyndsey Marshal, Bill Nighy

Votes: 568

14. Black Beauty (1946)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A young English girl is raising a horse named Black Beauty into a prize-winner. The motherless girl is thrown into a panic after Beauty disappears.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Mona Freeman, Richard Denning, Evelyn Ankers, Charles Evans

Votes: 298

15. The Princess Academy (1987)

R | 90 min | Comedy

Lowbrow humor is the feature in this 'Porky's for girls'. The students of an elite international private school that teaches rich young women how to behave like proper ladies rebel against their strict, snobbish and brutish head teacher.

Director: Bruce A. Block | Stars: Eva Gabor, Lu Leonard, Richard Paul, Carole Davis

Votes: 208 | Gross: $0.21M

16. Buccaneer's Girl (1950)

Approved | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A New Orleans entertainer falls for a pirate who has another identity.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 689

17. Ma'am May We Go Out? (1985)

Comedy

Soriano brothers Dennis, Chipipoy/Chip, and Jeff are bums who do odd jobs to earn a living, including driving a jeepney. Their lives take a different turn after meeting Atty. Aga Agaton, ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Relon Makiling | Stars: Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, Joey De Leon, J.C. Bonnin

Votes: 18

18. Finishing School (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Drama

The trials and tribulations in a private, snobbish girls school.

Directors: George Nicholls Jr., Wanda Tuchock | Stars: Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 600

19. Girls' Dormitory (1936)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance

When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier

Votes: 385

20. Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990 TV Movie)

46 min | Documentary, Biography

The tragic life and career of two-time Oscar winner Viviemn Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.

Director: Gene Feldman | Stars: Jessica Lange, Vivien Leigh, Gertrude Hartley, Garson Kanin

Votes: 216

21. Rowdy Ann (1919)

21 min | Short, Comedy, Western

Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Fay Tincher, Eddie Barry, Katherine Lewis, Harry Depp

Votes: 164

22. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Philip Dorn, Phil Brown

Votes: 470

23. Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Day of Saint Valentine (1969)

4 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

An unfinished black-and-white 1960s short film version of Joan Lindsay's novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock".

Director: Anthony S. Ingram | Stars: Robina Norton, Claire Strang, Lindy Strickland

Votes: 17

24. Bad Education: Making 'School for Sex' (2023)

7 min | Documentary, Short

1968's School for Sex was one of Britain's most successful sexploitation movies, but its director, Pete Walker, reveals his struggle to make it.

Director: Simon Sheridan | Stars: Pete Walker, Derek Aylward, Robert Dorning, Françoise Pascal

25. And She Learned About Dames (1934)

9 min | Musical, Short

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934". Martha ... See full summary »

Stars: Lyle Talbot, Martha Merrill, Busby Berkeley, Joan Blondell

Votes: 164

26. Dizzy Dames (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Lillian Bennett runs a theatrical boarding house in New York City. She doesn't want her débutante daughter Helen Bennett, reared in finishing schools away from New York, to know of her own ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney

Votes: 62

27. Mayblossom (1917)

Drama, Romance

In the blossom time in spring, in the sunny southland, Anabel Lee returned home from the young ladies' finishing academy. Warner Richmond, the favorite of society and beloved by all the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward José | Stars: Pearl White, Hal Forde, Fuller Mellish

28. Young April (1926)

70 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama

Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Rudolph Schildkraut, Bessie Love, Bryant Washburn

Votes: 55

29. AmaZulu: The Children of Heaven (2006)

92 min | Documentary

Life in a South African Township is seen through the eyes of seven pupils as they come together under the parental eye of Mr Mtshali, headmaster of Velabahleke High School Velabahleke (Come... See full summary »

Directors: Hannan Majid, Richard York

Votes: 11

30. Men, Women, and Money (1919)

50 min | Drama

A young country girl comes to the big city and gets involved with unscrupulous people and ends up broke and stranded. However, a friendly millionaire just happens to come along..

Director: George Melford | Stars: Ethel Clayton, James Neill, Jane Wolfe, Lew Cody

31. Somewhat Secret (1939)

Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when ... See full summary »

Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: Mary Howard, Benny Rubin, Tom Collins, Mary Bovard

Votes: 121

32. The Unfortunate Sex (1920)

60 min | Drama

Given away by her wealthy father, James Harrington, as an infant because she was born a female, Peggy has been raised by a kindly underworld crook. One day, while selling papers at the news... See full summary »

Director: Elsier La Maie | Stars: Frances Edmonde, George Larkin, Harry von Meter, Katharine Lewis

33. Jazz Babies (1928)

4 min | Short

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34. Ann's Finish (1918)

Drama

Wild young Ann Anderson keeps getting expelled from boarding schools because of her passion for pulling pranks. She is finally enrolled at Madame D'Arcy's Finishing School. One night she is... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Margarita Fischer, Jack Mower, Adelaide Elliot, David Howard

35. Marked Cards (1918)

50 min | Drama

Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs. J. De Barth ... See full summary »

Director: Henri D'Elba | Stars: Margery Wilson, Wallace MacDonald, Jack Curtis, Ray Godfrey

Votes: 12

36. The Unwelcome Mother (1916)

50 min | Drama

Ellinor, who was unofficially adopted as an orphan by 'Old Peter,' who maintained a lighthouse on a virtually deserted beach, has grown up wild and nearly silent. As she blossoms into full ... See full summary »

Director: James Vincent | Stars: Valda Valkyrien, Violet De Biccari, Walter Law, Frank Evans

37. The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode: The Springers (1961)

TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

In order to smash a gang who specialize in jail breaking, Steed plays a prisoner with plenty of money and a desperate need be sprung from prison.

Director: Don Leaver | Stars: Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee, Ian Ainsley, Margo Andrew

Votes: 33

38. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Elly Starts to School (1963)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Mrs. Drysdale recommends Elly for a high-brow finishing school in hopes that humiliating her will drive the Clampetts away; but instead Miss Hathaway convinces the girls at the school that ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 137

39. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Third Girl (2008)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a seemingly neurotic young heiress tells Ariadne Oliver and Poirot that she thinks she may have killed someone, her ex-nanny is found with her wrists slashed.

Director: Dan Reed | Stars: David Suchet, David Yelland, Jemima Rooper, Zoë Wanamaker

Votes: 2,075

40. United States of Tara (2009–2011)
Episode: ...youwillnotwin... (2011)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tara's personalities have returned after several months of quietude. She has no memory of what they're doing but Buck is definitely looking for her brother Brice. Tara decides to go back to... See full summary »

Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Toni Collette, John Corbett, Rosemarie DeWitt, Keir Gilchrist

Votes: 198

41. Big Brother (2000– )
Episode: Day 24 (2014)

Documentary, Game-Show, Reality-TV

Big Brother is the original and unparalleled social experiment. For the most part, the 19 Housemates are left to do as they please in a hyper-real environment largely unpenetrated by the ... See full summary »

Stars: Marcus Bentley, Mark Byron, Ashleigh Coyle, Matthew Davies

42. Vanity Fair (2018)
Episode: Miss Sharp in the Presence of the Enemy (2018)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama

After losing her teaching job, orphan Becky Sharp convinces kindly school-friend Amelia to take her in - and promptly sets about ensnaring Amelia's wealthy but oafish brother.

Director: James Strong | Stars: Michael Palin, Olivia Cooke, Suranne Jones, Claudia Jessie

Votes: 354

43. Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits (2018)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2018)

59 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV

The students attend the SOE "finishing school" where they will learn the skills needed to operate undercover inside enemy territory such as lock-picking and sending coded messages. They then face a mock interrogation.

Directors: Garfield Carrott, Jules Endersby, Joe Myerscough, Emma Frank, Laura Linton, Charlie Slade | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Samy Ali, Rohini Bajaj, Debbey Clitheroe

Votes: 35