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.
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.
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. In fact already Erik frequently receives a ‘good’ thrashing at the hands of his sadistic stepfather – so he is packed off by his mother to boardingschool
Michel Delassalle és el director d'un sòrdid internat als afores de París, propietat de la seva dona Christina, insegura i de salut fràgil. Alhora Michel manté relacions amb una de les professores, la decidida Nicole. Totes dues, esposa i amant, comparteixen menyspreus i maltractes d'en Michel, que procedeix mesquinament fins i tot amb els alumnes. Tipes de patir el despotisme d'en Michel, de comú acord resolen desempallegar-se'n de qui les turmenta. Nicole idea un pla per assassinar-lo i Christina, encara que amb vacil·lacions, l'ajudarà. Un pont festiu serà l'ocasió perfecta...
Un ferotge al·legat contra el sistema educatiu britànic. És una obra realitzada oportunament per mostrar el malestar vigent d’aquells anys i que va coincidir amb els moviments estudiantils del maig del 68.
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.
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.
Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When his mother is widowed, Ole is sent to boarding school. There he soon discovers that other boys have their problems too.
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.