Films to watch if you love Dark Academia 📚🕰️🕯️ 

1. The riot club 2. Kill your darlings 3. Like Minds 4. The skulls 5. The Oxford murders 6. The dreamers 7. Brideshead revisited 8. Cruel intentions 9. School ties 10. Dorian Gray 11. Dead poets society 12. Harry Potter

Thank you for this list ❤ Also, i think, Tolkien (2019) deserves to be in this list 🙈

Highly recommend 2 DA/ fantasy books - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, and Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. Also, Babel by RF Kuang and The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

A Beautiful Mind and A Theory of Everything are really good DA movies, even though they might not check all the boxes for what might constitute a DA film.

The Talented Mr Ripley is another good one.

Cracks (2009) and The Moth Diaries (2011) and The Hole (2001) come to mind as some of my favorite DA movies.

Also, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) or the remake (2018) (not as good in my opinion as the original) are favorites, too.

Great list ❤Thank you! I feel like we have similar taste I definitely recommend Penny Dreadful 😉

I also love A Discovery of Witches. The story of a powerful book. Early episodes are filmed at Oxford. 4:50

Woah! Old universities have a mystique of their own. Thanks for sharing!

I would add two movies to the list: The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything

Thanks for sharing. Look forward to watching several of these I haven't seen. Enjoy watching your videos.

I’m so excited to watch the ones I haven’t seen. I remember going to the theater for The Skulls. Haha it was so good!

me having watched the video before, putting it on for background noise, hears "reminds me of charles & camilla": wtf do the king & queen consort have to do with DA? took a second lol

I started getting into DA with movies and I am glad to see few I haven't seen yet which are definitely now on my to watch list

Yes to Ben Barnes 👍

Love this list, thank you, a few are new to me. Maurice, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Social Network. Good Will Hunting. For me even Sherlock Holmes is a little DA😊

Les Choristes would fit these criteria as well and is just beautiful.

10:15 yessss Ben Barnes 😍😍😍 one of my fav actorrr!! Btw, love that list! I'm taking notes!!😊

Oh yes, I am definitely in love with Ben Barnes. Shadow and Bone is fantastic!

"Zombi Child" (half DA, half Voodoo), is a french movie that I recommend ! 🙂

Scent of a Woman is also DA. A commoner attending a fancy prep school being setup for stuff he didn't do, while also learning about life from an, albeit, reluctant mentor.

thank you for this!

I'm sure you've heard of the real life Bullingdon Club that the film The Riot Club is based on, except that apparently the film was in no way extreme enough

I'm going to recommend Madame X based on the 1908 French play 'La Femme X'. It's a black and white high society murder mystery. Not set in a school but the old film vibe is definitely DA.

Great list, I haven’t seen some of these. I recommend The Covenant 2006

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. and absolutely.... Goodbye Mr Chipps. 🙏

Ben barnes kill me in tht Dorian gray😭❤️❤️

Just saw Surprised By Oxford. It was fantastic.

The WOODS (2006) set in mid century New England..a girls boarding school, or any of the St. Trinian’s films of the 50’s or the modern ones done in 2007…although they’re more “cheeky hellion posh schoolgirls running amok” dark comedies.

I think a new recent film to add to this list is Saltburn (on Prime). Have you seen it? I watched it and kill your darlings on Friday after getting in a DA mood

That it can be set in France answers an important question I have. As with Goth Rock, there seems to be this unspoken thing it can only be set in the UK. But almost everything Ive enjoyed has tended to be either in France ( think Hannibal Rising ) or in a French colony ( Algeria, or even the US in an AU. )

I just watched like minds and I actually love that movie even if the plot is a bit convoluted

Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' I feel meets your requirements. I also feel the movie 'The Ninth Gate', is a DA film.

2006 the covenant… it is supernatural but has rich kids (friend group), posh school, secrets and death. Not to be confused with 2023 the covenant which is a war film.

My List (not all include everything from your list, still has the flavor, imho) Practical Magic Ninth Gate Rosemary's Baby (both versions) Crimson Peak Night of Dark Shadows Heavenly Creatures House of Dark Shadows The Changeling (George C Scott) Marie Antoinette Labyrinth Gothic Legend Half Light The Covenant Legacy (70's movie) Nightworld Satan's School for Girls (70's) Something Wicked This Way Comes Suspiria (both versions) The Craft (both versions) The Initiation of Sarah (70's) The Haunting of Sarah Hardy Ghost Rider Woman In Black The Watcher In The Woods (both versions) Eyes Wide Shut Ares Melancholia Mother! Midaommar Wicker Man (both versions) The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Both a novel and a movie would you agree with Bret Easton Ellis's Rules of Attraction for DA

Recommend: The Paper Chase, Lindsay Anderson's "IF", The Stranger (Orson Welles), and Goodbye Mr. Chips, Compulsion (1959), The Children's Hour.

the imitation game is also very dark academia there are mathematicians who are basically geniuses trying to build a computer to help defeat the axis during ww2. it's soo good and the setting is amazing and it's based on the true story of alan turing

Yay!!!!

The Emperor's Club is definitely DA.

Another good one: Young Sherlock Holmes

I am going to recommend: Mona Lisa Smile: Little Women (the latest one); the tv series Nancy Drew; The Saint (with Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue set in Oxford and Moscow!). Thanks again! Really love your channel!

I recommend Mona Lisa Smile

10:32 this is the number one dark academia Movie , the best 💯🤎🍁🪔📚📜

why does NOBODY ever mention "The Talented Mr Ripley" in these Dark Academia films?

Have you considered the three films and TV series 'The Librarians'? A good one, trippy and clever...

The talented mr Ripley is also DA in my opinion, it isn't in a school setting but it is obsessive and there are a lot of secrets.

I would recommend Another Country.

⚠️Trigger warning for DPS ⚠️ there is a suicide of a prominent character. Loved the movie but it was triggering and I had to recover from it for a good while.

Link to your shirt and vest, please?

It's crazy how none of the movies mentioned are on my country's netflix;-;

i don't know that I'd call it dark academia but, killing mr griffin

I thought you said these da movies wouldn’t be all about murder lol the first 5 movies deal with death ☠️.

Me who hasn't read a book in years:

I dont get how is The Dreamers a dark academic movie

Matilda??😟🤔

Do you know you look a hint like Keira Knightley