Gap year

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows gap year

poster Death PhD

Death PhD

A group of ambitious Ph.D. students faces an impossible choice: endure their grueling 7-year degree program or graduate immediately by spending just one terrifying night in a notoriously haunted house. As…

poster Eyes of Youth

Eyes of Youth

A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the …

poster Runt

Runt

Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.

poster Reunion

Reunion

A bittersweet and heartfelt story about going back. In the twenty-four hours before their 20th high school reunion, five friends, a younger brother and a mysterious photojournalist are reunited by determi…

poster The Gyurkovics Boys

The Gyurkovics Boys

81mn - Drama, Comedy

Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation examination. When graduation day has come Géza refuses to set up but tak…

poster Snowballing

Snowballing

96mn - Action, Comedy

A group of high school students on a ski vacation discover their resort's corrupt owner has been overcharging guests for years with the local sheriff's help. With only seven days to expose the scam, the t…

poster The Weekend

The Weekend

A hilarious and spontaneous ensemble film shot in real time about eight former summer campers who take over a rental cottage in upstate New York for one last crazy weekend.

poster Fate of Graduates

Fate of Graduates

The film tells the tragic story of two recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society for th…

poster Life After Pi

Life After Pi

30mn - Documentary

“Life After Pi” is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on “Life of Pi”– just two weeks after de…

poster Spring

Spring

7mn - Fantasy, Animation, Adventure

The story of a shepherd girl and her dog who face ancient spirits in order to continue the cycle of life.

poster Hoax

Hoax

80mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

Don't get carried away 🛸 Four YouTubers enter Dorset's New Forest to camp overnight in order to study alien phenomena.

poster Paper Year

Paper Year

89mn - Drama, Romance

Young newlyweds encounter a series of challenges during the first year of their marriage.

poster The Soul of Youth

The Soul of Youth

Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he finds a friend in newsboy Mike. Mike teaches him how to s…

poster Last of the Grads

Last of the Grads

113mn - Horror, Thriller

Graduating seniors celebrate their final night together at a school lock-in, but their party turns into a nightmare when the legendary Coast to Coast Killer traps them inside for a deadly game of survival.

poster Sequoia

Sequoia

86mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

poster High School U.S.A.

High School U.S.A.

96mn - Short, Romance, Comedy

Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.

poster Seeing the World

Seeing the World

In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, Lon…

poster Games of Youth

Games of Youth

1mn - Documentary

Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a law…

poster The Land Beyond the Sunset

The Land Beyond the Sunset

12mn - Fantasy, Drama

A poor young boy goes on a field trip and dreams of escaping to a land beyond the sunset.

poster The Party's Just Beginning

The Party's Just Beginning

91mn - Drama, Comedy

In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. S…

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