Ingen på forberedelsesskolen Barton Academy kan lide professor Paul Hunham. Han har ingen familie og ingen andre steder at tage hen i julen 1970, så han bliver på skolen for at holde øje med de elever, som ikke har mulighed for rejse hjem. Der går dog ikke mange dage før, der kun er en elev tilbage. Den utilpassede Angus, som godt nok er en dygtig elev, men hvis dårlige opførsel ofte er tæt på at få ham bortvist. Sammen med skolens køkkenchef Mary, hvis søn kort forinden er blevet dræbt i Vietnam, tilbringer den umage trio en meget begivenhedsrig jul sammen i New England imens sneen vælter ned.
På en fjerntliggende internatskole i den franske provins udspilles et dødeligt passionsdrama. En bedraget hustru og en mishandlet elskerinde har mere til fælles end den samme mand - de frygter og hader den sadistiske despot lige meget. Sammen planlægger de to kvinder det perfekte mord med et vandtæt alibi, men da gerningen er blevet udført, går noget helt forfærdeligt galt.
I 1950'ernes Sverige bliver den 16-årige Erik smidt ud af skolen efter at have været i slagsmål. For at beskytte Erik fra hans voldelige stedfar får hans mor ham optaget på overklassekostskolen Stjärnsberg. Men Stjärnsberg er ikke mindre præget af vold end Erik's barndomshjem. Tværtimod. Med ledelsens velsignelse styrer de ældste elever skolen med hård hånd, og ydmygelser og brutal afstraffelse hører til dagens orden.
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
"Du er ikke alene" foregår på en efterskole for drenge. Den skildrer dels elevernes oprør mod den autoritære forstander, dels et kærlighedsforhold mellem en af drengene og forstanderens søn. Så opstår spørgsmålet: er drengene bare regulært venner, eller krydser de grænsen til så kontroversielt et begreb som kærlighed?
When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
Stein Oscar Magel Paus-Andersen (ST.O.M.P.A.) starts at Langåsen boarding school in Stakavik, where he meets his new friends Bodø, Bergen, Nøtterø and Sørlandet. They find themselves tangled up in troubles with a spider, a fire drill and a swimming contest leading to detention.
Langåsen boarding school has its 50th year anniversary, and the students are to make a celebration show in the auditorium. Trouble is brewing when a school inspector is to visit the school at the same time.
When his mother is widowed, Ole is sent to boarding school. There he soon discovers that other boys have their problems too.
A delightful, heart-warming romp through the lives of boys growing up at The Doon School, the ‘Eton’ of India; arguably India’s most famous boarding school whose alumni comprises of some highly distinguished, prominent achievers in Indian public life. Howly (to howl is to cry) is a lonely boy who comes of age while negotiating the rough and smooth of growing up in such a school, in the journey of friendship, loyalty, betrayal and the discovery of self-worth.
Stompa has turned seventeen and has acquired interests other than innocent mischief. He falls in love with the mysterious Nel Shaiba from a traveling circus that has settled in town.
In an all-boys boarding school in the 1950s, Agosto stands in the field, painfully taking part in a game of lunch-time cricket. He is detached from his surroundings unlike his friend Hector, who seems to revel in the attention of his classmates.