List of teen films


Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the lives of teenagers and young adults, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, and alienation and other topics / issues in the personal and professional lives of teenagers and young adults. Some of these films are targeted at adults as well as teenagers. Teen films have been a trope of the cinema industry that grew in popularity in the 1950s. At this time, the film industry saw a greater market for teens with more disposable income and therefore more money to spend on leisure activities, largely going to films. Because of the boom in teen viewers, drive-in movie theaters were also very popular. However, teen films have been produced since the dawn of the 20th century. Recently, online streaming services such as Netflix have created a resurgence in the "tween" and teenage-oriented film.

Subgenres

Teen fantasy and science fiction

Franchises

Stand-Alone

The 5th Wave Aquamarine Bridge to Terabithia Casper Casper Meets Wendy Chronicle Clockstoppers Donnie Darko Don't Look Under the Bed Edward Scissorhands Ender's Game Ever After Ella Enchanted The Faculty Freaky Friday Girl vs. Monster The Giver Goosebumps Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Hackers Herbie: Fully Loaded Hocus Pocus Hocus Pocus 2 The Host Love, Rosie Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Mamaboy The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones My Science Project Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Pleasantville Power Rangers Project Almanac Race to Witch Mountain Ready Player One Ron's Gone Wrong Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Small Soldiers Soul Snatcher Susie Q Stepsister from Planet Weird Tammy and the T-Rex Teen Witch Teen Wolf Teen Wolf Too Tomorrowland The Sorcerer's Apprentice The Ultimate Christmas Present Thunderbirds Voyagers WarGames WarGames: The Dead Code Weird Science Wish Upon a Star Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century Zenon: The Zequel

Teen animated films

Bebe's Kids Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Titan A.E. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 9 Epic Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe Ron's Gone Wrong

Teen horror and horror-comedy

Franchises

Stand-Alone

American Vampire All Cheerleaders Die All the Boys Love Mandy Lane April Fools April Fool's Day April Fool's Day Babysitter Massacre Bad Reputation The Beast Within Bedeviled Black as Night The Blob The Blob Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet Bloody Murder Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp Bodom Bring It On: Cheer or Die Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Burning The Cabin in the Woods The Covenant The Craft The Craft: Legacy The Crush Evil Toons Campfire Tales Camp Slaughter Cannibal Campout Cherry Falls Cheerleader Massacre Christine Cry Wolf Dance of the Dead Deadgirl Deadly Friend Deathgasm Death Note Disturbing Behavior Disturbia Dr. Chopper Embrace of the Vampire Fear The Final Girls Forget Me Not Freaky Friend Request Flowers in the Attic The Girl Next Door Gossip Graduation Day The Gallows The Glass House Happy Birthday to Me Happy Death Day Happy Death Day 2U Haunting on Fraternity Row The Haunting of Sorority Row Hell's Highway Hell Night Horror The Hollow The Hook of Woodland Heights The House on Sorority Row House of Wax The Howling: Reborn Idle Hands I Was a Teenage Frankenstein I Was a Teenage Werewolf Initiation The Invisible It It Follows Jeepers Creepers Jeepers Creepers 2 Jennifer's Body Lovers Lane (1999 film) The Haunting of Molly Hartley The Last House on the Left The Last House on the Left Link The Loved Ones Ma Maniacal Memorial Day Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? Mr. Jingles Mirror, Mirror The Mutilator My Best Friend's Exorcism My Soul to Take My Sucky Teen Romance The New Mutants The Night Brings Charlie Nobody Gets Out Alive The Open House Ouija The Doll Master Psycho Beach Party The Prowler The Roommate Remember the Daze Queen of the Damned Run Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse Scream for Help See No Evil See No Evil 2 Shrunken Heads The Skulls Sledgehammer Slender Man The Sleeper There's Someone Inside Your House Sorority House Massacre Sorority Row Student Bodies Swimfan Teaching Mrs. Tingle Teen Wolf: The Movie Terror Toons Terror Train ThanksKilling The Town That Dreaded Sundown The Town That Dreaded Sundown Trailer Park of Terror Treehouse Trick or Treat Trick 'r Treat Truth or Dare Unfriended Unfriended: Dark Web Vamp Vampire Academy We Summon the Darkness
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Teen musicals

Franchises

Stand-Alone

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Coyote Ugly Cry-Baby Flashdance Freaky Friday Hannah Montana: The Movie Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Sing Street Spin Summer Forever The Prom Teen Spirit Downfalls High Dear Evan Hansen A Week Away Metal Lords

Teen comedy and teen drama

1910s

Hearts Adrift

1920s

The Flapper My Best Girl

1930s

Wild Boys of the Road Finishing School Reefer Madness A Family Affair You're Only Young Once Girls' School Judge Hardy's Children Out West with the Hardys Love Finds Andy Hardy Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever Boys' Reformatory The Hardys Ride High Judge Hardy and Son

1940s

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Strike Up the Band Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Life Begins for Andy Hardy Andy Hardy's Double Life The Courtship of Andy Hardy Miss Annie Rooney Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

1950s

Glen or Glenda The Wild One Blackboard Jungle Rebel Without a Cause The Girl Can't Help It Rock Around the Clock Rock, Rock, Rock Teenage Rebel April Love Attack of the Crab Monsters Don't Knock the Rock Jailhouse Rock Not of This Earth Sorority Girl Tammy and the Bachelor Teenage Doll A Bucket of Blood High School Confidential King Creole Blue Denim Gidget A Summer Place

1960s

Because They're Young The Virgin Spring Where the Boys Are The Explosive Generation Splendor in the Grass West Side Story Beach Party Bye Bye Birdie Bikini Beach A Hard Day's Night The Horror of Party Beach The Leather Boys Muscle Beach Party Pajama Party Ride the Wild Surf Surf Party Beach Blanket Bingo How to Stuff a Wild Bikini Wild on the Beach The Graduate The Love-Ins To Sir, with Love High School Romeo and Juliet Easy Rider Last Summer The Sterile Cuckoo

1970s

A Swedish Love Story Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Taste the Blood of Dracula Carnal Knowledge The Last Picture Show Summer of '42 To Find a Man Class of '44 American Graffiti The Harrad Experiment The Lords of Flatbush Our Time Cooley High *À nous les petites Anglaises Freaky Friday The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Saturday Night Fever Big Wednesday I Wanna Hold Your Hand Lemon Popsicle National Lampoon's Animal House Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse Summer of My German Soldier Thank God It's Friday A Little Romance Boulevard Nights Breaking Away Meatballs More American Graffiti Over the Edge Quadrophenia Rock 'n' Roll High School Roller Boogie Skatetown, U.S.A. The Wanderers

1980s

The Blue Lagoon La Boum Foxes The Hollywood Knights Little Darlings My Bodyguard Endless Love Private Lessons Gregory's Girl Class of 1984 Desperate Lives Fast Times at Ridgemont High Homework The Last American Virgin Porky's The Slumber Party Massacre Zapped! All The Right Moves Bad Boys Losin' It My Tutor The Outsiders Porky's II: The Next Day Private School Risky Business Rumble Fish Valley Girl Bad Manners Beat Street Firstborn The Flamingo Kid High Schools The Karate Kid Lovelines Red Dawn Revenge of the Nerds Sixteen Candles Where the Boys Are '84 The Wild Life Better Off Dead The Breakfast Club Girls Just Want to Have Fun The Goonies Heaven Help Us The Heavenly Kid Just One of the Guys The Legend of Billie Jean Mischief Porky's Revenge Real Genius St. Elmo's Fire Secret Admirer A Summer in a Sea Shell The Sure Thing Tomboy Tuff Turf Vision Quest Weird Science Young Sherlock Holmes The Boy Who Could Fly Ferris Bueller's Day Off Fire with Fire Hoosiers The Karate Kid Part II Labyrinth Lucas Peggy Sue Got Married Pretty in Pink River's Edge Stand by Me Welcome to 18 Wildcats The Allnighter Can't Buy Me Love Dirty Dancing Hiding Out Hunk Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Some Kind of Wonderful Summer School Three for the Road Three O'Clock High The Year My Voice Broke Wish You Were Here Aloha Summer Fresh Horses For Keeps Heathers The In Crowd Johnny Be Good License to Drive Satisfaction Dead Poets Society Homework How I Got Into College The Karate Kid Part III Lean on Me The Rachel Papers Say Anything... Shag She's Out of Control

1990s

The Book of Love Camp Cucamonga Cry-Baby Edward Scissorhands Getting Lucky House Party Home Alone Mermaids Metropolitan Zapped Again! Pump Up the Volume Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael The Addams Family Boyz n the Hood Dream Machine Dogfight House Party 2 The Man in the Moon My Girl Mystery Date Return to the Blue Lagoon Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Straight Out of Brooklyn Flirting Toy Soldiers Young Soul Rebels A River Runs Through It Class Act 3 Ninjas Encino Man Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. Newsies Poison Ivy School Ties Where the Day Takes You Zebrahead Airborne Anything for Love Addams Family Values Dazed and Confused Hocus Pocus Matinee Menace II Society My Boyfriend's Back Poetic Justice Rudy Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit The Crush This Boy's Life Totally F***ed Up What's Eating Gilbert Grape 3 Ninjas Kick Back Above the Rim Blank Check Camp Nowhere Heavenly Creatures Hoop Dreams House Party 3 My Girl 2 The Next Karate Kid S.F.W. The Stoned Age The Brady Bunch Movie Casper PCU Angus The Baby-Sitters Club Babe The Basketball Diaries Clueless Dangerous Minds The Doom Generation Empire Records Glory Daze Hackers Heavyweights The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love Kids Mallrats Man of the House My Teacher's Wife Now and Then Sixty Million Dollar Man Tom and Huck Welcome to the Dollhouse Beautiful Thing D3: The Mighty Ducks Demolition High Flipper Fly Away Home Foxfire Girls Town High School High House Arrest Night of the Twisters Romeo + Juliet SubUrbia Susie Q The Substitute A Very Brady Sequel All Over Me Boogie Nights Born Into Exile The Boys Club Excess Baggage Good Burger Going All the Way Hurricane Streets Inventing the Abbotts Masterminds Nowhere Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Trojan War Spice World Wild America A Cool, Dry Place Buffalo '66 54 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole Billboard Dad Brink! All I Wanna Do Can't Hardly Wait Dead Man on Campus Edge of Seventeen Ever After Get Real Girl Halloweentown I'll Be Home for Christmas My Date with the President's Daughter The Opposite of Sex Overnight Delivery The Parent Trap Pecker Pleasantville Rushmore SLC Punk! Starstruck Urban Legend Wild Things 10 Things I Hate About You American Beauty American Pie Anywhere But Here Body Shots Boys Don't Cry But I'm a Cheerleader Coming Soon Cruel Intentions Detroit Rock City Dick Don't Look Under the Bed Drive Me Crazy Drop Dead Gorgeous Election Genius Get Real Go Jawbreaker Light It Up Never Been Kissed October Sky Outside Providence Passport to Paris She's All That Smart House Superstar Tail Lights Fade Trippin' Varsity Blues The Virgin Suicides

2000s

100 Girls Almost Famous

2010s

Alice in Wonderland 16 Wishes Talea The Boy Who Cried Werewolf Dirty Girl Easy A Flipped Frozen High School It's Kind of a Funny Story L'Animale The Last Song The Myth of the American Sleepover Triple Dog Starstruck Step Up 3D Altitude Submarine The Virginity Hit Wild Things: Foursome Abduction Attack the Block The Art of Getting By Soul Surfer Beastly Beneath the Darkness Chalet Girl Cyberbully I Am Number Four Geek Charming Like Crazy Mean Girls 2 Little Birds Born to Race Sucker Punch Pariah Prom American Reunion 21 Jump Street Blue Lagoon: The Awakening Call Girl Detention of the Dead Disconnect The First Time Frenemies Fun Size Ginger & Rosa Let it Shine LOL Mac & Devin Go to High School Now Is Good The Perks of Being a Wallflower Project X Radio Rebel Rags Snow White and the Huntsman Spring Breakers Step Up Revolution Student of the Year The Unspeakable Act We the Party Getaway The Frozen Ground Jinxed 21 and Over 23 Blast After the Dark As Cool As I Am Beautiful Creatures The Bling Ring G.B.F. Geography Club House Party: Tonight's the Night The Kings of Summer The Spectacular Now Struck by Lightning The To Do List Very Good Girls Warm Bodies The Way, Way Back Wetlands White Rabbit 22 Jump Street Affluenza Barely Lethal Behaving Badly Boyhood Cloud 9 Date and Switch Endless Love Step Up: All In The Fault in Our Stars How to Build a Better Boy If I Stay Neighbors Laggies Love, Rosie Dear White People Men, Women & Children Palo Alto School Dance Zapped Bad Hair Day Brotherly Love Closet Monster Cyberbully The Diary of a Teenage Girl Dope The Duff A Girl Like Her Invisible Sister Me & Earl & the Dying Girl Paper Towns Staten Island Summer Descendants Being Charlie The 5th Wave Adventures in Babysitting Be Somebody The Edge of Seventeen Everybody Wants Some!! The Fundamentals of Caring Handsome Devil Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising Nerve Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life Morris from America November Criminals The Outskirts Shovel Buddies Slash The Swap American Honey Max Steel Miss Stevens Moonlight The Land As You Are Good Kids Fallen Before I Fall Blame Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack Burning Sands Class Rank Coin Heist Deidra & Laney Rob a Train Descendants 2 Dirty Dancing Everything, Everything Fist Fight Hot Summer Nights Midnight Sun Modern Life Is Rubbish Power Rangers Sleight SPF-18 Super Dark Times The Outcasts The Space Between Us You Get Me F the Prom Lady Bird Call Me by Your Name Blockers Candy Jar When We First Met Dude Everyday First Match Love, Simon Eighth Grade Alex Strangelove The Hate U Give Mid90s Never Goin' Back To All the Boys I've Loved Before Reality High The Princess Switch The Kissing Booth Skate Kitchen Sierra Burgess Is a Loser Status Update Step Sisters After Back of the Net Beats Blue Story Five Feet Apart Hala Knives and Skin Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Selah and the Spades Saving Zoë The Perfect Date Summer Night The Last Summer Descendants 3 Booksmart Dora and the Lost City of Gold Waves Let It Snow Student of the Year 2 Tall Girl The Cat and the Moon

2020s

After We Collided American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules All the Bright Places To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You Banana Split Chemical Hearts Clouds CODA Coma Crush Stargirl Feel the Beat Life in a Year The Half of It The Kissing Booth 2 This Is the Year Premature Rocks Run Hide Fight Selah and the Spades Spontaneous The Way Back Unpregnant Words on Bathroom Walls Work It Yes, God, Yes A Week Away After We Fell Belfast Boogie Confessions of an Invisible Girl The Exchange The Fallout First Date He's All That The Kissing Booth 3 Licorice Pizza The Map of Tiny Perfect Things Moxie Plan B Ron's Gone Wrong Runt Time Is Up To All the Boys: Always and Forever The Ultimate Playlist of Noise After Ever Happy All Quiet on the Western Front Along for the Ride Darby and the Dead Do Revenge Hollywood Stargirl Honor Society Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between Jane Mr. Harrigan's Phone Metal Lords On the Come Up Senior Year Sex Appeal Supercool Tall Girl 2 The In Between The Sky Is Everywhere Three Months Through My Window After Everything Bottoms Egghead & Twinkie Missing No Hard Feelings Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Saltburn Shooting Stars Dìdi Don't Tell the Babysitter's Dead My Old Ass Rez Ball