Prom Night, the ultimate rite of passage from high school to adulthood. Prom night is arguably the most important event in a high school student’s life, second only to graduation. Every one can’t be Prom King or Prom Queen, but they can snag the best date possible, ride in that expensive limo, wear some outrageously expensive prom dress or tux, and dance their hearts out. What happens after the dance is the most open secret of our times. Take a look at our Best Prom Movies list and tell us which on of these is your favorite or favorites.
We love teen movies, and many of them feature Prom as the ultimate culmination of school life, that one super event that decides your fate and brands you for life. Whether you ditch prom altogether, have ‘weird Ashley’ for a prom date, or get stood up on prom night, you will remember it forever. And so will the rest of your class.
Best Prom Movies
As the countdown for Prom 2017 begins, we bring you some of the best prom movies of all time. Have a pen handy so you can take notes on what to do and what to avoid at all costs.
Footloose (1984)
What? No Prom and no dancing? When new-in-ton, Ren meets rebellious Ariel troubles by her abusive boyfriend and a strict father, Ren decides to junk the city council’s No-Dancing ban and hold a seenior prom in Bomont, Oklahoma. Can moral policing really be the answer and how far will they go, once given a free hand to impose bans.
Never Been Kissed (1999)
High school memories have the power to torment you for ever and even set the course for your entire life. Josie remembers the horrible treatment from Billy on the Prom night. But as her job hangs on to the last threads, Josie decides to go undercover to a prom and falls in love again. Will Sam repeat the past, or will it mark a new beginning for Josie?
American Pie (1999)
American Pie is an adult comedy centered around the ‘big event’. At Kevin’s prompting, four friends, Oz, Finch, Jim, and Kevin make a pact to lose their virginities before their high school graduation after a dorky classmate, Chuck Sherman, claims to have done it.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Peer pressure can be crushing at any time in the life and the pull to be a part of a crowd can make you do things that you never really wanted to. 10 Things I Hate About You tells the story of High schoolers and the various manipulations and games as Joey schemes to take Bianca to Prom and to bed.
21 Jump Street (2012)
In 2005, scholarly student Morton Schmidt and popular underachieving jock Greg Jenko\miss their school prom. Seven years later, the duo meets again at the Police Academy and become friends and partners on bicycle patrol. Now assigned to catch a drug dealer, the two go nder cover to school and get another chance to attend prom.
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Attractive Priscilla, a popular cheerleader, separates from her talented football star but slacker boyfriend, Jake Wyler. Jake soon discovers that Priscilla is now dating timid and weird Les just to spite him. To avenge this insult, Kake’s friend Austin suggests turning Janey Briggs, a uniquely rebellious girl, into the prom queen. This one is no doubt one of the best prom movies to watch this month.
Carrie (2013)
Tired of all goody-goody movies? Here’s one from Stephen King to make Prom more interesting. Being mean may be a part of making your mark at school, but you never know what someone might be hiding. A shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother uses her telekinetic powers with devastating effect after being a victim of a cruel prank at her senior prom. What do you think? Does this revenge-drama makes it to your best prom movies list?
Prom Night (2008)
A high school girl named Donna Keppel is traumatized after witnessing her former teacher, Richard Fenton, brutally murder her entire family after he had become dangerously obsessed with her.
Three years later, as Donna gets ready for her senior prom, Fenton escapes from custody, follows her to the hotel hosting the prom, and kills anybody who gets in the way of his reunion with Donna.
Prom (2011)
It’s time for the annual prom. Nova Prescott is on the prom committee with her friends Mei, Ali, Brandon and Rolo. They made all of the decorations and are finally prepared. But none of them are sure of their partners or if they will be asked to prom. The movie follows Nova, Jessie, and Brandon’s run-up to the prom as new problems engulf them every day.
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Pretty in Pink is a romantic comedy film about love and social cliques in American high schools in the 1980s. High school senior Andie Walsh lives modestly with her underemployed working class father, Jack. Andie’s best friend, Phil “Duckie” Dale, is in love with her, but is afraid to tell her how he truly feels. Harrassed in school by the affluent kids, Andies is not too keen to go to the prom. But when Blane, one of the affluent kids, asks her out for a date, things begin to change. Is Blane serious? Or is this another prank being payed out before the prom.
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