Harry Potter és un orfe que viu amb els seus desagradables oncles, els Dursley, i el seu repel·lent cosí Dudley. S'acosta el seu onzè aniversari i té poques esperances de rebre algun regal, ja que mai ningú es recorda d'ell. No obstant això, pocs dies abans del seu aniversari, una sèrie de misterioses cartes dirigides a ell i escrites amb una estrident tinta verda trenquen la monotonia de la seva vida: Harry és un mag i els seus pares també ho eren.
En Harry Potter és seleccionat gairebé sense desitjar-ho per a participar en una competició perillosa de bruixots de vàries escoles.
Quan Shrek es va casar amb Fiona, l'últim que es va imaginar és que podria convertir-se en el següent rei. Però quan el seu sogre, el rei Harold, estira la pota de sobte, és exactament el que li espera. I si Shrek (amb la valuosa ajuda d'Ase i del Gat amb Botes) no troba un rei adequat per al regne de Gaire Gaire Llunyà, haurà de resignar-se a estar realment enfastijat la resta dels seus dies. Per si això fos poc, a la princesa Fiona se li acosta una altra petita sorpresa... Atrapat entre les tasques de governar un regne i la seva imminent paternitat, Shrek inicia una recerca per trobar l'únic hereu possible del seu tron.
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father ships her off to boarding school in England. There, Poppy meets her match in a stern headmistress and a class full of girls who will not tolerate her selfishness.
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
El 1948 Clément Mathieu, professor de música aturat, accepta un lloc com a professor vigilant en un internat de reeducació de menors. El sistema repressiu aplicat pel director commociona Mathieu. Ensenyant música i cant coral a aquests nens tan difícils, Mathieu transformarà les seves vides quotidianes.
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.
El detectiu Carl Mørck i el seu soci Assad, del Departament Q de la Policia de Copenhaguen, especialitzada en casos especials, investiguen el brutal assassinat de dues joves bessones en una casa d'estiu. La pel·lícula relata l'obertura del cas, que va ser tancat amb la confessió d'un personatge marginal del poble, malgrat que la policia sospitava d'un grup d'estudiants de classe alta.
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute".
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school... only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.