Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
Behind the scenes at a Chennai teachers training college.
A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
Roddy Berwick, pecora nera di una famiglia benestante, viene espulso dalla scuola pubblica per esserci autoaccusato di un furto, il cui vero responsabile è invece un amico. Da quel momento, la sua vita va in pezzi in seguito a una serie di destabilizzanti disavventure, tra cui il matrimonio con un'attrice infedele che lo spoglierà di quel poco che gli è rimasto per scappare con un altro uomo.
In un collegio repressivo con rigide regole di comportamento, quattro ragazzi decidono di ribellarsi contro il direttore in un giorno di festa.
Poor high school students Toivo Päiviö and Unto Uramo solve their housing problems by enrolling in Sofia Andersson's boarding school. Toivo falls in love with Mrs. Andersson's deceased husband's niece, Aune, and begins to compete for her attention with opera singer Reino "Toreadoor" Kiljunen.
Una bambina di nome Star vive con il guardiano del faro che l'ha salvata quando i suoi genitori sono annegati. Un ufficiale che sorveglia le assenze decide di mandarla in collegio, ma la bambina viene salvata da alcuni parenti.
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Il padre del giovane Nicholas Nickleby muore lasciando la famiglia in stato di indigenza. Senza nessuno che provveda loro i Nickleby finiscono nelle mani dell'usuraio e zio, Ralph Nickleby che trova al piccolo Nicholas un lavoro in una brutta scuola dello Yorkshire.
State schools in the London borough.
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style.
The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.