College films are a special breed of storytelling; they capture the rollercoaster of emotions that your late teens and early 20s bring. Whether that's the awkward firsts, the wild nights, the dreams that feel just within reach, or the crushing moments of reality check, these films are moving and defining essentially because they perfectly depict stumbling through self-discovery, raging against the machine, or just attempting to figure out what happens after such an important chapter closes.