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

1. Easy A (2010)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Olive lies to her best friend about losing her virginity to one of the college boys, a girl overhears their conversation. Soon, her story spreads across the entire school like wildfire.

Director: Will Gluck | Stars: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Dan Byrd

Votes: 418,496 | Gross: $58.40M

2. Soul (2020)

PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.

Directors: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House

Votes: 380,678

3. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted, at a cost, when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer

Votes: 77,304 | Gross: $63.77M

4. Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)

R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.

Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald

Votes: 94,411

5. The Last Picture Show (1971)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson

Votes: 52,454 | Gross: $29.13M

6. The Ice Storm (1997)

R | 112 min | Drama

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle-class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny

Votes: 60,013 | Gross: $7.84M

7. Eighth Grade (2018)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan

Votes: 82,569 | Gross: $13.54M

8. Eagle Eye (2008)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.

Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis

Votes: 195,307 | Gross: $101.11M

9. The Half of It (I) (2020)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn't expect to become his friend - or fall for his crush.

Director: Alice Wu | Stars: Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, Wolfgang Novogratz

Votes: 43,334

10. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

R | 112 min | Drama

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Caerthan Banks, Tom McCamus

Votes: 36,764 | Gross: $3.25M

11. Trick or Treat (1986)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Music

A bullied teenage boy is devastated after the death of his heavy metal idol, Sammi Curr. But as Halloween night approaches, he discovers that he may be the only one who can stop Sammi from making a Satanic comeback from beyond the grave.

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Doug Savant

Votes: 7,884 | Gross: $6.80M

12. Wish Upon a Star (1996 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A younger sister wishes to switch places with her popular older sister and the two bickering siblings awaken to find the wish has come true.

Director: Blair Treu | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Danielle Harris, Donnie Jeffcoat, Scott Wilkinson

Votes: 8,436

13. Cutting Class (1989)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.

Director: Rospo Pallenberg | Stars: Donovan Leitch Jr., Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 5,922

14. Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)

TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, History

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton

Votes: 4,793

15. The Trouble with Angels (1966)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Family

Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Camilla Sparv

Votes: 5,788

16. Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl and the biggest loser in high school must unite to win over their crushes.

Director: Ian Samuels | Stars: Shannon Purser, Kristine Froseth, RJ Cyler, Noah Centineo

Votes: 41,187

17. Sound! Euphonium (2015– )

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Kumiko, a girl with absolutely no ambition, decides to change herself now that she has started her high school life and try to leave her hobby, playing euphonium in orchestra aside but she totally cannot forget it anyway.

Stars: Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ayaka Asai, Moe Toyota, Chika Anzai

Votes: 1,449

18. Hamlet 2 (2008)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Music

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, J.J. Soria

Votes: 17,362 | Gross: $4.88M

19. The Chaos Class (1975)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

Lazy, uneducated students share a very close bond. They live together in the dormitory, where they plan their latest pranks. When a new headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.

Director: Ertem Egilmez | Stars: Kemal Sunal, Münir Özkul, Halit Akçatepe, Tarik Akan

Votes: 43,014

20. My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.

Director: Jimmy Huston | Stars: Robert Sean Leonard, Evan Mirand, LeeAnne Locken, Cheryl Pollak

Votes: 4,242 | Gross: $0.17M

21. How to Seduce Your Teacher (1979)

93 min | Comedy

There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's niece. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy teacher mad and her best friend Irma... See full summary »

Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali, Fabrizio Moroni, Lorraine De Selle

Votes: 382

22. Swing Girls (2004)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up vitiating and replacing the schools brass band.

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Juri Ueno, Yûta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuika Motokariya

Votes: 4,686

23. Linda Linda Linda (2005)

TV-PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita | Stars: Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine

Votes: 4,498

24. Geography Club (2013)

PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy, Drama

At Goodkind High School, a group of students with varying sexual orientations form an after-school club as a discreet way to share their feelings and experiences.

Director: Gary Entin | Stars: Cameron Deane Stewart, Justin Deeley, Meaghan Martin, Wesley Eure

Votes: 6,262

25. Orange (2015)

139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.

Director: Kôjirô Hashimoto | Stars: Tao Tsuchiya, Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Ryûsei, Hirona Yamazaki

Votes: 1,974

26. Lower Learning (2008)

R | 97 min | Comedy

Failing test scores, drunk teachers, and an extortionist principal; it's up to Vice-Principal Tom to expose the principal's corruption and turn the school around before the school board shuts them down.

Director: Mark Lafferty | Stars: Jason Biggs, Eva Longoria, Rob Corddry, Monica Potter

Votes: 2,891 | Gross: $0.00M

27. Lovely But Deadly (1981)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.

Director: David Sheldon | Stars: Lucinda Dooling, John Randolph, Mel Novak, Marie Windsor

Votes: 404

28. My Love Story!! (2015)

105 min | Comedy, Romance

A pretty young girl and a sweet but plain-looking boy fall in love. Will their relationship prevail?

Director: Hayato Kawai | Stars: Ryohei Suzuki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Mei Nagano, Sawa Suzuki

Votes: 785

29. Love Sick: The Series (2014–2015)

Romance

Phun needs his sister's help to date a girl, so he pretends classmate Noh is his boyfriend. But after acting like a couple, feelings between the two boys grow.

Stars: Chonlathorn Kongyingyong, Nawat Phumphothingam, Anupart Luangsodsai, Charnmanoon Pannin

Votes: 363

30. Tim Timmerman: Hope of America (2017)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An irresponsible Utah student body president faces impeachment as he attempts to sweet-talk his way into Yale.

Director: Cameron Sawyer | Stars: Andrew Lewis Caldwell, Stephanie Drapeau, Casey Elliott, Monica Moore Smith

Votes: 339 | Gross: $0.10M

31. ReLIFE (2017)

120 min | Drama, Romance

A young man, failing at life, is offered a new start as a 10 years younger high-school student.

Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Taishi Nakagawa, Yûna Taira, Mahiro Takasugi, Elaiza Ikeda

Votes: 1,142

32. The New Kid (2015)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy

Benoit, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organizes a big party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever?

Director: Rudi Rosenberg | Stars: Réphaël Ghrenassia, Joshua Raccah, Géraldine Martineau, Guillaume Cloud-Roussel

Votes: 1,641

33. The Chaos Class Is Waking Up (1976)

94 min | Adventure, Comedy

A kind and hardworking student joins to Hababam Sinifi (The Chaos Class) but they don't accept him as one of them and he becomes the target of all class' pranks.

Director: Ertem Egilmez | Stars: Kemal Sunal, Münir Özkul, Halit Akçatepe, Adile Nasit

Votes: 20,883

34. River's End (2005)

Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Corbin plays a fictional Menard County sheriff who uses country savvy and cowboy logic to straighten out his angry teen-aged grandson, Clay, a high school senior who can't seem to stay out of trouble.

Director: William Katt | Stars: Barry Corbin, Sam Huntington, Caroline Goodall, Charles Robinson

Votes: 322

35. Bring on the Melody (2017)

Drama, Music, Mystery

Haruta and Chika were childhood friends until the former's family moved away. It is a new year at high school, freshmen are enrolling and the two meet again. Chika wants to be a member of ... See full summary »

Director: Masahide Ichii | Stars: Kanna Hashimoto, Shori Sato, Takuma Hiraoka, Moka Kamishiraishi

Votes: 150

36. The Word (2014)

97 min | Drama, Thriller

Lila is a schoolgirl in love whose boyfriend Janek has betrayed her with another girl. Seeking revenge, Lila puts in motion a chain of events that cannot be stopped which leads to terrifying consequences.

Director: Anna Kazejak | Stars: Eliza Rycembel, Mateusz Wieclawek, Magdalena Poplawska, Dawid Ogrodnik

Votes: 513 | Gross: $0.00M

37. Thunder Soul (2010)

PG | 83 min | Documentary, Music

Alumni from Houston's storied Kashmere High School Stage Band return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for their beloved band leader who turned the struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.

Director: Mark Landsman | Stars: Craig Baldwin, Craig Green, Conrad O. Johnson Sr., Bruce Middleton

Votes: 534 | Gross: $0.14M

38. Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)

Unrated | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A documentary about Spandau Ballet, who were one of the biggest pop groups of the 1980s and a defining act of the New Romantic scene.

Director: George Hencken | Stars: Tony Hadley, John Keeble, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp

Votes: 615

39. Sleep Furiously (2008)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

A poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

Director: Gideon Koppel

Votes: 384

40. Yell for the Blue Sky (2016)

126 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Aozora Yell centers on Tsubasa, a girl who saw an inspirational brass band performance at the finals of the Japanese high school baseball championships one summer. Tsubasa vows to join the ... See full summary »

Director: Takahiro Miki | Stars: Tao Tsuchiya, Ryoma Takeuchi, Shôno Hayama, Arata Horii

Votes: 230

41. Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (1933)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Music

A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.

Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Andy Clyde, Ethel Sykes, Bud Jamison, Shirley Temple

Votes: 294

42. Clerow Wilson and the Miracle of P.S. 14 (1972 TV Movie)

30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Clerow Wilson and his friends attempt to put on a play to raise money for their band uniforms.

Director: Corny Cole | Stars: Flip Wilson, Larry Oliver, Kenney Bell, Richard Wyatt Jr.

Votes: 16

43. Besser als Schule (2004)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

Shy and inexperienced, Steven falls in love with classmate Dana

Director: Simon X. Rost | Stars: Eric Benz, Gabriel Andrade, Melanie Wichterich, Thorsten Feller

Votes: 146

44. Shimajima kaisha (2016)

99 min | Drama

Umi is a young girl with excellent hearing, so even small out-of-sync sounds give her headaches. Yuko is a violinist from Tokyo who visits the island for a concert. Umi and Yuko meet and a bond forms.

Director: Kaze Shindô | Stars: Sakura Andô, Aoi Itô, Minoru Kinjô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Votes: 16

45. Out in the Heartland (2005)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short

Out in the Heartland explores how Kentucky's recent constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage affects three families and their communities. As momentum pushes the issue from the ... See full summary »

Director: Gretchen Hildebran | Stars: Joan Callahan, David Claussen, Jennifer Claussen, Abby Drane

46. Kiddie Koncert (1948)

7 min | Animation, Short, Family

Wally Walrus is the conductor at a local schoolhouse who conducts the entire school band to the tune of "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna". Among the gags set to music: A skunk is forced ... See full summary »

Director: Dick Lundy | Stars: Harry Lang, Jack Mather, Grace Stafford

Votes: 40

47. The Banned Teacher (2019 Podcast Series)

Talk-Show

It is a new investigation, in a different city. He says it was consensual sex. She says it was rape. He was her music teacher. She was a teen. And it wasn't just once, with one girl. He had... See full summary »

Star: Julie Ireton

48. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Head (2004)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A urophile, cyber-Peeping Tom catches a child abuse case on video.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 900

49. Ready or Not (1993–1997)
Episode: Double Talk (1993)

TV-PG | Drama, Family

During an overnight band trip, Amanda accidentally walks in on Chrissy and Justin in a closet. When they don't return until the morning, rumors start going around.

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Laura Bertram, Lani Billard, Amy Smith, Jesse Nilsson

Votes: 9

50. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996–2003)
Episode: The Band Episode (1998)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Some bottled talent drinks make Sabrina's band (Harvey and Valerie) very hot, but also ruins their friendships.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert

Votes: 323