20 movies like Picnic at Hanging Rock, ordered by similarity : Paper Towns(2015), The Devil's Backbone(2001), Mom(2017), Words and Pictures(2013), The Life Before Her Eyes(2007), Jasper Jones(2017), The Waiting(2016), Maedchen in Uniform(1931), Strangerland(2015), The Human Comedy(1943), The Big Sleep(1946), Outback(1971) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1975
110 Minutes
Rachel Roberts Dominic Guard Helen Morse Jacki Weaver Vivean Gray Kirsty Child Anne Louise Lambert Tony Llewellyn-Jones
student young girl young boy headmistress teacher police officer eerie emotional australia boarding school field rock formation town school young love landmark disappearance loss mystery mystery
In turn-of-the-century Australia, three young schoolgirls wander away from a school picnic and become lost in the bush.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Drama
USA
2015
109 Minutes
Nat Wolff Cara Delevingne Halston Sage Austin Abrams Justice Smith Jaz Sinclair Cara Buono Griffin Freeman Josiah Cerio
young man young woman friend neighbor parent teacher brooding emotional intense hilarious town house street bedroom school classroom friendship disappearance search clues
After an all-night adventure, Quentin's lifelong crush, Margo, disappears, leaving behind clues that Quentin and his friends follow on the journey of a lifetime.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Mexico|Spain
2001
106 Minutes
Marisa Paredes Eduardo Noriega Federico Luppi Fernando Tielve Irene Visedo Iñigo Garcés José Manuel Lorenzo Francisco Maestre
boy professor headmistress caretaker eerie emotional spain boarding school spanish civil war orphanage boarding-school life ghosts fate discovery adventure mystery 1930s
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
India
2017
146 Minutes
Sridevi Sajal Ali Adnan Siddiqui Nawazuddin Siddiqui Akshaye Khanna Abhimanyu Singh Pitobash Sushant Singh
teacher stepdaughter stepmother gripping engaging intense india town city house school investigation murder mystery mystery love pursuit 2010s
After her daughter is sexually assaulted at a party, a furious mother sets out to destroy the lives of the four perpetrators who walked away free.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada|Australia
2013
111 Minutes
Clive Owen Juliette Binoche Amy Brenneman Bruce Davison Keegan Connor Tracy Adam DiMarco Valerie Tian Eva Allan Janet Kidder David Lewis Josh Ssettuba
woman man teacher art teacher english teacher student brooding charming emotional intense moving quirky witty uplifting prep school school america competition love courtship
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
90 Minutes
Uma Thurman Evan Rachel Wood Eva Amurri Brett Cullen Maggie Lacey John Magaro
student young girl best friend murder victim woman dead person charming powerful thrilling emotional melodramatic touching united states school small town high school shooting spree school shootings best friends murder
A woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Australia
2017
105 Minutes
Angourie Rice Hugo Weaving Toni Collette Levi Miller Matt Nable Myles Pollard Dan Wyllie Aaron L. McGrath
boy girl parent brooding somber suspenseful uneasy emotional small town murder friendship secret justice love racial tension growing up mystery 1960s
JASPER JONES is a coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Japan
2016
97 Minutes
James Caan Logan Miller Keir Gilchrist Laura Innes Edwin Hodge Anne Dudek Bailey Noble Lili Reinhart Mindy Sterling
high-school student friend neighbor old man police officer attorney creepy dark intense house bedroom yard street school courtroom prank surveillance haunting mystery danger
As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
Drama
1931
90 Minutes
Hertha Thiele Dorothea Wieck Emilia Unda
teenager teacher student headmistress melodramatic emotional boarding school germany family home classroom homosexuality forbidden love scandal school growing up love 1930s
A student (Hertha Thiele) falls in love with her teacher (Dorothea Wieck) at a strict Prussian girls school.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Ireland|Australia
2015
111 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Joseph Fiennes Hugo Weaving Lisa Flanagan Meyne Wyatt Maddison Brown Nicholas Hamilton Jim Russell Sean Keenan Martin Dingle-Wall
teen girl teen boy parent police officer community member mother tense striking somber raw frightening disturbing desert rural community outback australia small town town storm disappearance
A family finds their dull life in a rural outback town rocked after their two teenage children disappear into the desert, sparking disturbing rumors of their past.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan James Craig Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marsha Hunt Fay Bainter Darryl Hickman Donna Reed Van Johnson
young boy young girl boss man woman brother heartwarming emotional amusing small town house high school track office europe world war ii home front young love family communication
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Martha Vickers John Ridgely Louis Jean Heydt Elisha Cook Jr. Regis Toomey Sonia Darrin Bob Steele Tommy Rafferty Dorothy Malone
philip marlowe father daughter bookseller casino owner dense thrilling intricate gripping los angeles mansion casino bookstore murder mystery love blackmail vice mystery love
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1971
99 Minutes
Gary Bond Donald Pleasence Chips Rafferty Sylvia Kay Jack Thompson Peter Whittle Al Thomas John Meillon John Armstrong Slim DeGrey Maggie Dence
schoolteacher sheriff doctor alcoholic frightful gritty school mining town bar australia gambling drinking holidays stranded wretched excess 1960s
A teacher from Western Australia en route to Sydney gets waylaid in a town that strips him of his money and dignity.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
1955
116 Minutes
Simone Signoret Vera Clouzot Paul Meurisse Charles Vanel Jean Brochard Noel Roquebert Thérèse Dorny Pierre Larquey Michel Serrault Yves Marie Maurin Georges Poujouly
teacher headmaster detective wife mistress suspenseful tense dark frightening france boarding school apartment murder adultery revenge deception revenge mystery 1950s
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2014
105 Minutes
Sheila Vand Arash Marandi Marshall Manesh Mozhan Marnò Dominic Rains Rome Shadanloo Reza Sixo Safai Milad Eghbali
girl townspeople dark eerie ghost town women chase vampires mystery
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2009
128 Minutes
Kim Hye-ja Won Bin Ku Jin Je-mun Yun Mi-Seon Jeon Byoung-Soon Kim
mother widow son suspect police detective defense attorney dark emotional gripping small town south korea shop family home mother/son relationship murder investigation incarceration framed vigilantism love
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
Adventure, Drama, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy
USA|UK|Belgium|Canada
2016
121 Minutes
Eva Green Asa Butterfield Samuel L. Jackson Judi Dench Rupert Everett Allison Janney Chris O'Dowd Terence Stamp Ella Purnell Finlay MacMillan Lauren McCrostie
young boy girl headmistress superhuman grandfather student fascinating creative cool house under the sea school yard attic office mysterious strangers super powers self-discovery acceptance danger
When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
Drama
USA
2016
117 Minutes
Jon Voight William Fichtner Lia Marie Johnson George Kosturos Kevin G. Schmidt Gabriel Basso Shannon Collis Courtney Hope Turner Nicholas Guilak
high-school student wrestler hero school principal team member coach emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring moving touching small town california high school gym school bus wrestling new school new town
In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
Mystery & Thriller
2004
115 Minutes
Zoé Auclair Bérangère Haubruge Lea Bridarolli Marion Cotillard Hélène de Fougerolles Olga Peytavi-Müller Alisson Lalieux Corinne Marchand
young girl student teacher headmistress friend bully offbeat striking emotional uneasy boarding school wilderness classroom coffin dance studio bedroom childhood friendship secret life lessons
A girl (Zoé Auclair) arrives at a mysterious boarding school that is isolated from the outside world.
Drama
USA
1955
107 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Robert Stack Kipp Hamilton Robert Douglas Peggy Knudsen Marshall Thompson Chuck Connors Biff Elliot Jerry Paris Mary Wickes
schoolteacher doctor police officer playwright banker convict melodramatic endearing small town school hospital school love respect memory illness growing up sacrifice 1950s
After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.
Mystery & Thriller
France|Italy
1970
93 Minutes
Stéphane Audran Jean Yanne Roger Rudel Antonio Passalia Mario Beccaria Pasquale Ferone William Gueralt
headmistress butcher teacher student police officer dark chilling wedding school countryside butcher shop household street serial murders suspicion romance small-town life mystery 1970s
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.