<p>Office Space is a classic. Two thumbs up to that movie. Even the young dudes find it cool. </p>
<p>No wine movies suggestion yet so I recommend Sideways which had an effect on my wine buying. I bypass the Merlot aisle and head over to the Pinot Noir area.</p>
<p>added: 12 Angry Men has a 2007 remake for those who don’t want to watch a 1959 movie. I liked the 2007 version. I have no idea if the original version is better.</p>
<p>One guy’s perspective on the ones mentioned, skipping the comedies:
The Godfather, I and II
Fight Club
A River Runs Through It
Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django, Reservoir Dogs
Se7en
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
300</p>
<p>I’ll add:
The King of Comedy &
Swimming with Sharks</p>
<p>The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Joe Dirt</p>
<p>Any movie by Cameron Crowe</p>
<p>The Last Picture Show. Iconic and so many great actors in their early days. Coming of age definitely.</p>
<p>Not yet mentioned: Ordinary People. Exceptionally well acted movie about the effect of the death of a son on a family. One of the few movies in which a therapist (Judd Hirsch) is given a strong and realistic role.</p>
<p>^^ I was going to mention Ordinary People. I saw it twice in the theater, and bawled both times. Mary Tyler Moore was a revelation as the brittle and well-tended wife, so far afield from her (excellent) sitcom characters. A very young and lovely Elizabeth McGovern makes an appearance.</p>
<p>How to tell if a movie, book or toy is sex specific.
Do you operate, ( view/read) it with your genitalia?
If no, then feel free to suggest it to whomever you wish.
If yes, then you shouldn’t be suggesting it to children.</p>
<p>For coming of age movies, I would add the Last Picture Show.
Two of Ds favorite movies growing up were Some Like it Hot & The Lady Vanishes.
Also Adventures in Babysitting.</p>
<p>Two of my favorite movies, The Stunt Man, & Master & Commander, both appeal to both sexes. Also Greystoke & Highlander.
(Ok, I had a thing for Christophe Lambert)
I would also suggest some films that star older iconic actors when they were younger/alive.
Like The Russians are coming/ The Russians are coming.
Alan Arkin, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Brian Keith, Eva Marie Saint…</p>
<p>John Sayles is one of my favorite directors.
His Return of the Secaucus Seven inspired the Big Chill.
Fans of Scandal, will get a kick out of Joe Morton playing an alien in Brother from Another Planet.</p>
<p>I think Some kind of Wonderful is much better than Pretty in Pink.</p>
<p>I saw somebody said Anna Karenina. If they mean tha latest movie, it is sooo bad and sooo not reflective of anything, including the book. I felt miserable after watching it. Not sure if it has anything to do with HS and college kids. In anything, it is greatly misleading and dimishing the talent of one of the greatest writers ever existed.
I am not sure if anybody has mentioned The Blind Side. But again, i have to admit it is more for girls, since it is more about mothers, nurturing than the life of a HS football player. One movie that teaches great great lessons is Moneyball. I did not read the book, so I cannot assess it in connection to the book. And I have no idea what they were talking about when discussing baseball. However, I can wathc this one and The Blind side over and over. Both have unbelievable lessons that extend way over any sporty issues. Both are about very stuborn people.</p>
<p>My entire family loved “The Blind Side”. But it’s a fairly recent movie so I am guessing that most teens/college students have seen it.</p>
<p>This isn’t about high school but it is about being a student. I saw it in high school and it influenced what I thought college would be all about. “The Paper Chase”.</p>
<p>Horror classics:</p>
<p>The Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
The Shining
Halloween</p>
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I hope the OP will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the question is “which iconic films should high school and college students see?” not “what are iconic films about high school and college?”</p>
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<p>“The Blind Side”. But it’s a fairly recent movie so I am guessing that most teens/college students have seen it.
-My D. watched it with me (it was probably viwing #20 in my case). She loved it. Of course, it was a boring one for my H. I imagine that neither my S. nor my GrandS. would be interested either.</p>
<p>A movie all young adults should see: The Power of One</p>
<p>Frankly, even for me the Molly Ringwald movies are getting outdated (and they have been my favorites for couple decades). I have watched them recently, just not the same as before. And not that many more recent ones to replace them. Rachel McAdams is getting to be one of my favorites though. But again, just like in Molly case, these are for girls. I cannot imagine my S watching The Notebook, no way, no how, it is not going to happen.</p>
<p>My D and I would never watch The Notebook either. Does that make us guys? My whole family watched Molly Ringwald and other John Hughes movies and somehow DH and S have not become emasculated 
The Breakfast Club is a movie EVERYONE should watch.</p>
<p>^I have watched The breakfast Club many times very recently, trying to bring the old impression back. It is outdated and definitely too mopy for me any more. Just bunch of spoiled brats creating imaginary pr0blems in thier heads. I did not feel like this before, not even close. Sorry, I am getting too old. I can still watch The Notebook though and the Dirty Dancing (both without my H)and some others that many would consider boring.</p>