Whether you’re ready or not, summer’s almost over, leaving just a few days before students head back to school and everyone else returns to their usual routines. Cafés are slowly emptying up as our mood is slowly shifting from carefree to focused, and as it does, we’re here to help you get back into spirit; or at least make the transition a little more fun. For that, we’ve curated a non-exhaustive list of films and series — all available on the digital streaming platform of your choice — to get you ready for the next few months of work, grind, and low(er) temperatures.
Freaky Friday (2003)
IMDB Synopsis: “An overworked mother and her daughter did not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other’s life for one freaky Friday.”
21 Jump Street (2012)
IMDB Synopsis: “A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.”
Jinn (2019)
IMDB Synopsis: “An Arabic-language coming-of-age series with elements of the supernatural.”
The Breakfast Club (1985)
IMDB Synopsis: “Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.”
Excuse My French (2014)
IMDB Synopsis: “A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he’s a Muslim.”
Grease (1978)
IMDB Synopsis: “Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?”
Alrawabi School For Girls (2021)
IMDB Synopsis: “The bullied outcasts at prestigious Al Rawabi School for Girls plot a series of risky takedowns to get back at their tormentors.”
Dead Poets Society (1989)
IMDB Synopsis: “Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys’ boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
IMDB Synopsis: “An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.”
School of Rock (2003)
IMDB Synopsis: “After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.”
17 Again (2009)
IMDB Synopsis: “Mike O’Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.”
