Revision as of 18:15, 28 December 2008

A list of teen films. Some of these films are targeted at adults as well as teenagers.

American Teen Films

Animated Teen Movies

• Doug's 1st Movie (1999)
• A Sitch in Time (2003)
• Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (2005)

Action/Adventure films

• WarGames (1983)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Toy Soldiers (1991)
• Demolition High (1996)
• Demolition University (1997)
• Masterminds (1997)
• Agent Cody Banks (2003)
• Biker Boyz (2003)
• Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
• Catch That Kid (2004)
• Doubting Thomas (2008)

The Fast & the Furious Quadrilogy

• The Fast and the furious (2001)
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• Fast and Furious (2009)

The Karate Kid Quadrilogy

• The Karate Kid (1984)
• The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
• The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
• The Next Karate Kid (1994)

Comedy

• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
• Private Lessons (1981)
• The Last American Virgin (1982)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Class (1983)
• High School U.S.A. (1983)
• Risky Business (1983)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Just One of the Guys (1985)
• Private Resort (1985)
• Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
• Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
• Summer School (1987)
• License to Drive (1988)
• Heathers (1989)
• Dream a Little Dream (1989)
• Shag (1989)
• She's Out of Control (1989)
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
• Encino Man (1992)
• Wayne's World (1992)
• Wayne's World 2 (1993)
• Billy Madison (1995)
• Clueless (1995)
• Dream a Little Dream 2 (1995)
• Bottle Rocket (1996)
• Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
• But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
• Election (1999)
• Jawbreaker (1999)
• Never Been Kissed (1999)
• Whatever It Takes (1999)
• Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
• Loser (2000)
• Road Trip (2000)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• Say It Isn't So (2001)
• Tomcats (2001)
• 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
• Drumline
• The New Guy (2002)
• Orange County (2002)
• Slap Her... She's French (2002)
• Old School (2003)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• 13 Going on 30 (2004)
• Eurotrip (2004)
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• The Girl Next Door (2004)
• New York Minute (2004)
• Saved! (2004)
• Sleepover (2004)
• Dirty Deeds (2005)
• Lovewrecked (2005)
• The Dukes Of Hazzard (2005)
• Accepted (2006)
• Grandma's Boy (2006)
• John Tucker Must Die (2006)
• She's the Man (2006)
• Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)
• Full of It (2007)
• Rocket Science (2007)
• Superbad (2007)
• Juno (2007)
• Sydney White (2007)
• Drillbit Taylor (2008)
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
• College (2008)
• One Part Sugar (2008)

The American Pie Series

• American Pie (1999)
• American Pie 2 (2001)
• American Wedding (2003)
• American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005)
• American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)
• American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007)

The House Party Quadrilogy

• House Party (1990)
• House Party 2 (1991)
• House Party 3 (1994)
• House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute (2001)

The National Lampoon Teen Movie Series

• National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
• National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994)
• National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995)
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
• National Lampoon's Barely Legal (2003)
• National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (2003)
• National Lampoon's Going the Distance (2004)
• National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 (2006)
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2007)

The Porky's Trilogy

• Porky's (1982)
• Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)
• Porky's Revenge (1985)

The Revenge of the Nerds Quadrilogy

• Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
• Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
• Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994)

Parodies

• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
• High School High (1996)
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• Date Movie (2006)
• The Comebacks (2007)
• Epic Movie (2007)
• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild
• Disaster Movie (2008)
• Meet the Spartans (2008)
• Superhero! (2008)

The Scary Movie film series

• Scary Movie (2000)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)
• Scary Movie 3 (2003)
• Scary Movie 4 (2006)
• Scary Movie 5 (2008)

Classic films

• Finishing School (1934)
• Girls' School (1938)
• Beach Party (1963)
• Muscle Beach Party (1964)
• Pajama Party (1964)
• Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
• How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
• The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)

Coming-of-age films

• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Cooley High (1975)
• The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
• Crossroads (1986)
• A Bronx Tale (1993)
• The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
• Kids (1995)
• Cheaters (2000)

Drama

• Boys' Reformatory (1939)
• The Wild One (1953)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Over the Edge (1979)
• Foxes (1980)
• All the Right Moves (1983)
• Bad Boys (1983)
• The Outsiders (1983)
• River's Edge (1986)
• 1969 (1988)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Rudy (1993)
• Foxfire (1996)
• All Over Me (1997)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Bully (2001)
• The Debut (2001)
• O (2001)
• 8 Mile (2002)
• Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
• Little Secrets (2002)
• Elephant (2003)
• How to Deal (2003)
• Thirteen (2003)
• American Yearbook (2004)
• Raise Your Voice (2004)
• 12 and Holding (2005)
• Buffalo Dreams (2005)
• The Chumscrubber (2005)
• ATL
• Brick (2006)
• Alpha Dog (2007)

Dramedy

• The Graduate (1967)
• Carnal Knowledge (1971)
• American Grafitti (1973)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• My Bodyguard (1980)
• Little Darlings (1980)
• The Last American Virgin (1982)
• Lucas (1986)
• Heathers (1989)
• Pump Up the Volume (1990)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Angus (1995)
• The Cure (1995)
• Empire Records (1995)
• Now and Then (1995)
• Detroit Rock City (1999)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• All I Want (2002)
• Crossroads (2002)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• All You've Got (2006)
• Cougar Club (2007)
• Beautiful Loser (2008)

Documentaries

• High School (1968)
• American Teen (2008)

Comic Book films/Superhero Movies

(Movies based on graphic novels or comic books not necessarily involving Superheroes)

• Ghost World (2001)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• Hulk (2003)
• Fantastic Four (2005)
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
• Iron Man (2008)

The Batman film series

• Batman (1989)
• Batman Returns (1992)
• Batman Forever (1995)
• Batman and Robin (1997)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Batman: The Dark Knight (2008)

The Spider-Man Trilogy

• Spider-Man (2002)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
• TMNT (2007)

Gang/Urban Teen films

• The Wanderers (1979)
• The Warriors (1979)
• Streetwise (1985)
• School Daze (1988)
• Stand and Deliver (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
• Boyz n the Hood (1991)
• Juice (1992)
• South Central (1992)
• Where the Day Takes You (1992)
• Menace II Society (1993)
• Above the Rim (1994)
• Fresh (1994)
• Dangerous Minds (1995)
• Higher Learning (1995)
• One Eight Seven (1997)
• Baby Boy (2001)
• Kidulthood (2003)
• Freedom Writers (2007)
• Adulthood (2008)

Horror and Supernatural

Horror

• Christine (1983)
• Cutting Class (1989)
• It (1990)
• The People Under the Stairs (1991)
• Brainscan (1994)
• Disturbing Behavior (1998)
• Joy Ride (2001)
• House of Wax (2005)
• Valentine (2001)
• Wrong Turn (2003)
• Cabin Fever (2002)
• Long Time Dead (2002)
• The Wisher (2002)
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
• The Grudge (2003)
• The Grudge 2 (2006)
• When a stranger calls (2006)

Supernatural

• Carrie (1976)
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
• Carrie (2002)
• The Ring (2002)
• The Ring Two (2005)

The Jeepers Creepers Trilogy

• Jeepers Creepers (2001)
• Jeepers Creepers II (2003)
• Jeepers Creepers III (2009)

Teen Vampire Films

• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
• Blood and Chocolate (2007)
• Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)
• Twilight (2008)

The Blade Trilogy

• Blade (1998)
• Blade II (2002)
• Blade: Trinity (2004)

Teen Werewolf Films

• Teen Wolf (1985)
• Teen Wolf Too (1987)
• Cursed (2005)

The Ginger Snaps Trilogy

• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
• Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

Teen Witch Films

• Teen Witch (1989)
• The Witches (1990)
• Hocus Pocus (1993)
• The Craft (1996)
• Little Witches (1996)
• I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (2000)
• The Covenant (2006)

The Halloweentown Quadrilogy

• Halloweentown (1998)
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
• Halloweentown High (2004)
• Return to Halloweentown (2006)

Teen Zombie Films

• Zombie High (1987)
• Dance of the Dead (2008)

The Living Dead series

• Children of the Living Dead (2001)
• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• Diary of the Dead (2008)

The Resident Evil Trilogy

• Resident Evil (2002)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

The Final Destination Quadrilogy

• Final Destination (2000)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• Final Destination 4 (2009)

Teen Slasher Films

• Bloody Murder (2000)
• Cherry Falls (2000)
• Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
• Cry Wolf (2005)
• Dr. Chopper (2005)
• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
• Black Christmas (2006)

The Childs Play Series

• Child's Play
• Child's Play 2
• Child's Play 3
• Bride of Chucky (1998)
• Seed of Chucky (1998)

The Friday the 13th Series

• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
• Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
• Jason X (2002)
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
• Friday the 13th (2009)

The Halloween Series

• Halloween (1978)
• Halloween II (1981)
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
• Halloween 5 (1989)
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
• Halloween (2007)

The Sleepaway Camp Series

• Sleepaway Camp (1983)
• Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
• Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
• Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (2002) (the film was scheduled to come out, but the company went bankrupt, so versions of the film sold as part of a set are mainly random clips)
• Return to Sleepaway Camp (scheduled 2008)
• Sleepaway Camp Reunion (scheduled 2010)

The Hostel Trilogy

• Hostel (2005)
• Hostel: Part II (2007)
• Hostel: Part III (200?)

The Last Summer Trilogy

• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
• I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)

The Nightmare on Elm Street Series

• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
• A Nightmare On Elm Street 7: Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

The Prom Night Series

• Prom Night (1980)
• Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
• Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
• Prom Night IV: Deliver us from Evil (1992)
• Prom Night (2008)

The Saw Series

• Saw (2004)
• Saw II (2005)
• Saw III (2006)
• Saw IV (2007)
• Saw V (2008)

The Scream Trilogy

• Scream (1996)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Scream 3 (2000)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

The Urban Legend Trilogy

• Urban Legend (1998)
• Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
• Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)

John Hughes Teen films

• Sixteen Candles (1984)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Weird Science (1985)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

Musicals

• West Side Story (1961)
• Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
• Grease (1978)
• Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
• Fame (1980)
• Grease 2 (1982)
• Flashdance (1983)
• Breakin' (1984)
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
• Footloose (1984, 2009)
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• Hairspray (1988)
• Cry-Baby (1990)
• Save The Last Dance (2001)
• Center Stage (2002)
• Honey (2003)
• Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)
• Step Up (2006)
• Take the Lead (2006)
• Hairspray (2007)
• Stomp the Yard (2007)
• Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)
• Colma The Musical (2007)
• American Mall (2008)
• Camp Rock (2008)
• Another Cinderella Story (2008)

The Cheetah Girls Trilogy

• The Cheetah Girls (2003)
• The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
• The Cheetah Girls 3: One World (2008)

The High School Musical Trilogy

• High School Musical (2006)
• High School Musical 2 (2007)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

Romantic Teen Movies

• Splendor in the Grass (1961)
• Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
• The Blue Lagoon (1980)
• Paradise (1982)
• Valley Girl (1983)
• One Crazy Summer (1986)
• For Keeps (1988)
• Say Anything (1989)
• Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
• Mad Love (1995)
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
• Never Been Kissed (1999)
• She's All That (1999)
• Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
• Get Over It (2001)
• A Walk to Remember (2002)
• The Notebook (2004)
• Chasing Liberty (2004)
• The Girl Next Door (2004)
• A Cinderella Story (2004)
• First Daughter (2004)
• The Prince and Me (2004)
• The Prince and Me 2: The Royal Wedding (2006)
• Another Cinderella Story (2008)

The Cruel Intentions Trilogy

• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• Cruel Intentions 2 (2002)
• Cruel Intentions 3 (2004)

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

• Mannequin (1987)
• Big (1988)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Don't Look Under the Bed (1999)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• The Princess Diaries (2001)
• Freaky Friday (2003)
• The Princess Diaries 2 (2004)
• 13 Going On 30 (2004)
• Just My Luck (2006)
• The Invisible (2007)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
• The Golden Compass (2007)

The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

Body Swap films

• Freaky Friday (1976)
• Like Father Like Son (1987)
• 18 Again! (1988)
• Vice Versa (1988)
• The Hot Chick (2002)
• Freaky Friday (2003)
• It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)

Time Travel Movies

• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

The Back to the Future Trilogy

• Back to the Future (1985)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Sports Films

Basketball

• Hoosiers (1986)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• The Basketball Diaries (1995)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Coach Carter (2005)

Football

• All the Right Moves (1983)
• Remember the Titans (2000)
• Varsity Blues (2001)
• Friday Night Lights (2004)

Skateboarding/Skating

• Gleaming the Cube (1989)
• Brink! (1998)
• Grind (2003)
• Dogtown Z-Boys
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• Dish Dogz (2008)
• Paranoid Park (2008)

Surfing films

• Big Wednesday (1978)
• Blue Crush (2002)

Tennis

• Jocks (1987)

Others

• Rumble Fish (1983)
• Crash Course (1988)
• Dance 'til Dawn (1988)
• The Dream Machine (1990)
• My Own Private Idaho (1991)
• Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off (2003)
• Disturbia (2007)

Canadian Teen Films

• Meatballs (1987)
• Emporte-moi (1999)

British Teen Films

• The Blue Lagoon (1949)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• Gregory's Girl (1981)
• Buddy's Song (1991)
• Get Real (1998)
• The Hole (2001)
• Anita and Me (2002)
• Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
• Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
• St. Trinians (2008)
• Wild Child (2008)

The Harry Potter Series

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)

Australian Teen Films

• Puberty Blues (1981)
• Flirting (1991)
• Blackrock (1997)
• Deck Dogz (2005)
• 48 Shades (2006)
• Aquamarine (2006)
• The Caterpillar Wish (2006)
• Clubland (2007)

Other Countries

• The 400 Blows (1959) - France
• Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Czechoslovakia
• Amarcord (1973) - Italy
• Cría cuervos (1976) - Spain
• La Boum (1980) - France
• La Boum 2 (1982) - France
• Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Kids Return (1996) - Japan
• Show Me Love (1998) - Sweden
• Body Jumper (2001) - Thailand
• City of God (2002) - Brazil
• Bad Education (2004) - Spain
• Buenos Aires 100 Kilómetros (2004) - Argentina, France & Spain
• Cold Showers (2005) - France

See Also

• Teen film
• Teen drama - (List of teen dramas)
• Teen pop
• Teen magazine - (List of teen magazines)

• Teen films
• Teen comedy films
• Teen romance films
• Coming-of-age films
• Youth
• Lists of films by genre