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51. Air Bud (1997)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An unexpected player joins the school basketball team - a circus dog who escaped from a cruel master.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs
Votes: 19,595 | Gross: $24.63M
52. The Baby-Sitters Club (2020–2021)
TV-G | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Based on the book series of the same name focusing on a group of young girls who start their own babysitting service.
Stars: Sophie Grace, Momona Tamada, Shay Rudolph, Malia Baker
Votes: 4,897
53. Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (1992–1995)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After a teenage delinquent is killed while saving a child's life from an approaching car, the rulers of the underworld send him back to become an "Underworld Detective" investigating demons apparitions in the human world.
Stars: Nozomu Sasaki, Justin Cook, Christopher Sabat, Cynthia Cranz
Votes: 16,187
54. Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
PG | 107 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device. Ron's malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them on a journey to learn about true friendship.
Directors: Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Vine, Octavio E. Rodriguez | Stars: Jack Dylan Grazer, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Olivia Colman
Votes: 40,647
55. Even Stevens (2000–2003)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The Stevens family live in Sacramento, California, where the two younger children in the family, Ren and Louis, who have opposing personalities, often clash.
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Christy Carlson Romano, A.J. Trauth, Nick Spano
Votes: 15,356
56. Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size.
Director: Walt Becker | Stars: Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Izaac Wang, John Cleese
Votes: 17,205 | Gross: $48.95M
57. Olive Kitteridge (2014)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
A middle-school math teacher Olive and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years.
Stars: Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd, Ken Cheeseman
Votes: 26,237
58. Valentine (2001)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Director: Jamie Blanks | Stars: Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw
Votes: 30,329 | Gross: $20.38M
59. The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994–1998)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Alexandra "Alex" Mack develops powerful abilities after a chemical factory accident. She struggles to balance her ordinary life with extraordinary misadventures as a result.
Stars: Larisa Oleynik, Meredith Bishop, Darris Love, Michael Blakley
Votes: 5,640
60. Great Teacher Onizuka (1999–2000)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
About Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-gangster member and a virgin. He has one ambition that no one ever expected from him. His sole life purpose is to become the greatest high school teacher ever.
Stars: Steve Blum, Kirk Thornton, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Wataru Takagi
Votes: 11,452
61. The Dangers in My Heart (2023– )
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Fascinated by the macabre, Kyotaro fantasizes about acting on his twisted thoughts to the detriment of his classmates. His heart was dark until an encounter with Anna lit a spark within it in a classic tale of boy meets girl.
Stars: Shun Horie, Hina Yomiya, Megumi Han, Ayaka Asai
Votes: 2,436
62. Ghost Stories (2000–2001)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of school kids and a possessed cat fight ghosts in their neighborhood.
Stars: Takako Honda, Kurumi Mamiya, Tomoko Kawakami, Makoto Tsumura
Votes: 2,748
63. ParaNorman (2012)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi
Votes: 110,222 | Gross: $56.00M
64. The Clique (2008 Video)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
Director: Michael Lembeck | Stars: Elizabeth McLaughlin, Ellen Marlow, Sophie Anna Everhard, Samantha Boscarino
Votes: 6,208
65. Tiger Stripes (2023)
TV-14 | 95 min | Horror
An 11-year-old girl who is carefree until she starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.
Director: Amanda Nell Eu | Stars: Zafreen Zairizal, Deena Ezral, Piqa, Shaheizy Sam
Votes: 785
66. Harriet the Spy (1996)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when her friends find her secret notebook, the tables are turned on her. Can she win them back and still keep on going with the spy business?
Director: Bronwen Hughes | Stars: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Smith, Vanessa Chester
Votes: 11,105 | Gross: $26.54M
67. Over the Edge (1979)
PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano
Votes: 8,174
68. Matinee (1993)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
The teenage son of a navy sailor newly stationed in Key West gets some excitement with his friends when a small-time film producer comes to town to premiere a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz
Votes: 12,463 | Gross: $9.53M
69. Sex Ed (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school and finds his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't really equipped to teach them...he's not exactly experienced romantically.
Director: Isaac Feder | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Lorenza Izzo, Kevin Balmore, Retta
Votes: 5,691
70. Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019–2022)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
An anthology series that follows different chapters of the Midnight Society, a group of teenagers who gather at midnight to tell scary stories, such as the Carnival of Doom, Curse of the Shadows, and Ghost Island.
Stars: Bryce Gheisar, Malia Baker, Beatrice Kitsos, Arjun Athalye
Votes: 2,860
71. Blue Giant (2023)
120 min | Animation, Drama, Music
Dai Miyamoto, a student from Sendai, receives a saxophone as a gift from his brother, Masayuki. He starts practicing immediately.
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa | Stars: Yutaka Aoyama, Masayuki Katô, Sayaka Kinoshita, Hidenobu Kiuchi
Votes: 1,872
72. Digimon: Digital Monsters (1999–2007)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A group of young teens is unexpectedly sent to the mysterious Digital World and paired up with their own powerful, morphing monster called the Digimon. Together the entire group set out on an adventure to fight evil and save the world.
Stars: Steve Blum, Mona Marshall, Tifanie Christun, Derek Stephen Prince
Votes: 23,442
73. Welcome to Me (2014)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.
Director: Shira Piven | Stars: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Wes Bentley
Votes: 19,724 | Gross: $0.61M
74. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Saoirse Ronan, Tracey Ullman
Votes: 19,521
75. A Whisker Away (2020)
TV-PG | 104 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Miyo Sasaki is in love with her classmate Kento Hinode and tries repeatedly to get Kento's attention by transforming into a cat, but at some point, the boundary between herself and the cat becomes ambiguous.
Directors: Jun'ichi Satô, Tomotaka Shibayama | Stars: Mirai Shida, Natsuki Hanae, Minako Kotobuki, Kenshô Ono
Votes: 14,075
76. The War with Grandpa (2020)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.
Director: Tim Hill | Stars: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Oakes Fegley
Votes: 25,073
77. Prisoner's Daughter (2022)
R | 100 min | Drama
A father fights for the love of his daughter and grandson, after serving twelve years in prison.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Brian Cox, Steven Littles, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Convery
Votes: 2,503
78. Vox Lux (2018)
R | 114 min | Drama, Music
An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.
Director: Brady Corbet | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Stacy Martin, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 19,608 | Gross: $0.73M
79. Andi Mack (2017–2019)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A contemporary coming-of-age story about a girl who's trying to determine where she fits in. When her free-spirited older sister returns with a revelation that changes everything, it sends Andi on an uncharted course of self-discovery.
Stars: Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Joshua Rush, Sofia Wylie, Asher Angel
Votes: 2,580
80. Maboroshi (2023)
TV-14 | 111 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Following an explosion at a factory that mysteriously freezes a town in time, two students encounter a mysterious feral child, spurring an impulse of love fueled by the frustration of their daily lives that begins to upend their world.
Directors: Mari Okada, Seimei Kidokoro | Stars: Junya Enoki, Reina Ueda, Misaki Kuno, Zeke Alton
Votes: 1,647
81. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family
After his new principal Dwight destroys his sketchbook, Rafe Khatchadorian and his best friend Leo decide to metaphorically destroy Dwight's book by breaking every rule in the school's Code of Conduct.
Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Alexa Nisenson, Andy Daly
Votes: 10,021 | Gross: $19.99M
82. The ABCs of Death (2012)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Horror
A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
Directors: Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani, Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Xavier Gens, Jorge Michel Grau, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Yûdai Yamaguchi | Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Iván González, Kyra Zagorsky, Lucy Clements
Votes: 20,454 | Gross: $0.02M
83. I Woke Up a Vampire (2023– )
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
On her 13th birthday, Carmie discovers that she's actually half human, half vampire and that mythical powers make middle school way more complicated.
Stars: Kaileen Angelic Chang, Niko Ceci, Zebastin Borjeau, Ana Araujo
Votes: 683
84. The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
Three courageous young Americans prevent a terrorist attack on a train bound for Paris.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone, Ray Corasani
Votes: 35,615 | Gross: $36.25M
85. Passing (I) (2021)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
"Passing" follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
Director: Rebecca Hall | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp
Votes: 16,581
86. The Mighty (1998)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Two young boys are social outcasts in their community due to their disabilities and broken home lives. When they are paired together, they form a bond over their shared circumstances.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 13,936 | Gross: $2.64M
87. The Thirteenth Year (1999 TV Movie)
TV-G | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
After he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday, Cody learns that his birthmother is a mermaid.
Director: Duwayne Dunham | Stars: Chez Starbuck, Justin Jon Ross, Courtnee Draper, Brent Briscoe
Votes: 6,126
88. Unfabulous (2004–2007)
TV-G | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Addie is a teenage middle school student. She has two BFFs and an annoying big brother.
Stars: Emma Roberts, Melise, Jordan Calloway, Brandon Kelly
Votes: 3,739
89. Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
PG | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Max Keeble, the victim of his 7th grade class, plots revenge when he learns that he's moving, but it backfires when he isn't after all.
Director: Tim Hill | Stars: Alex D. Linz, Larry Miller, Jamie Kennedy, Zena Grey
Votes: 8,725 | Gross: $17.29M
90. Phil of the Future (2004–2006)
TV-G | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A family from 2121 is stuck in 2004, trying desperately to fit in.
Stars: Raviv Ullman, Amy Bruckner, Craig Anton, Lise Simms
Votes: 8,012
91. Teasing Master Takagi-san (2024– )
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Takagi loves playing good-natured pranks on her classmate Nishikata. But try as he might, he can never prank her back - she's just too clever.
Stars: Rui Tsukishima, Soya Kurokawa
Votes: 172
92. Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987–1989)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Recently-widowed Miss Carrie Bliss (Hayley Mills) teaches at a middle school in Indianapolis, where she helps her students tackle life lessons.
Stars: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Hayley Mills, Dustin Diamond, Dennis Haskins
Votes: 2,127
93. As Told by Ginger (2000–2009)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Drama, Family
The TV cartoon follows a preteen girl named Ginger Foutley, along with two friends, as they try to fit in social life as well in school and try to avoid any embarrassments.
Stars: Melissa Disney, Jeannie Elias, Tress MacNeille, Aspen Vincent
Votes: 7,283
94. The Class (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 36,538 | Gross: $3.77M
95. Fillmore! (2002–2004)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Action, Animation, Comedy
Former delinquent now fights for the good guys at X Middle School.
Stars: Orlando Brown, Tara Strong, Don LaFontaine, Horatio Sanz
Votes: 3,040
96. Towelhead (2007)
R | 124 min | Drama
A young Lebanese-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Director: Alan Ball | Stars: Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Macdissi, Chris Messina
Votes: 12,064 | Gross: $0.37M
97. Milo Murphy's Law (2016–2019)
TV-Y7 | 12 min | Animation, Short, Action
An animated comedy adventure series that follows 13-year-old Milo Murphy, the fictional great-great-great-great grandson of the Murphy's Law namesake. Additionally, Dakota and Cavendish come from the future to prevent pistachio extinction.
Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Sabrina Carpenter, Mekai Curtis, Dan Povenmire
Votes: 3,515
98. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (2018–2021)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
A gaming otaku and a fujoshi reunite for the first time since middle school at work.
Stars: Arisa Date, Kento Itô, Miyuki Sawashiro, Tomokazu Sugita
Votes: 4,533
99. Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)
89 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A high school student's blissful days with his girlfriend are interrupted when his first crush returns in two forms.
Director: Sôichi Masui | Stars: Kaito Ishikawa, Asami Seto, Inori Minase, Nao Tôyama
Votes: 6,492
100. Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san (2018–2022)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
If you blush, you lose. Nishikata has been teased mercilessly by Takagi and always winds up blushing! But he vows to one day get back at her.
Stars: Rie Takahashi, Yûki Kaji, Konomi Kohara, Mao Ichimichi
Votes: 2,899