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1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones
Votes: 386,887 | Gross: $70.14M
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Family
With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 633,938 | Gross: $292.00M
3. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,858 | Gross: $33.80M
4. The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama
A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends.
Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: Helen Slater, Christian Slater, Keith Gordon, Richard Bradford
Votes: 11,677 | Gross: $3.10M
5. Excision (2012)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.
Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, Traci Lords
Votes: 24,631
6. Pump Up the Volume (1990)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.
Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano
Votes: 31,188 | Gross: $11.54M
7. Men, Women & Children (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communications, their self-images, and their love lives.
Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner
Votes: 33,749 | Gross: $0.46M
8. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 11,477
9. Scum (1979)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell
Votes: 13,099
10. I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman
Votes: 5,624
11. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,427
12. The Dirties (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama
Two best friends are filming a comedy about getting revenge on the bullies at their high school. One of them isn't joking.
Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Padraig Singal, Ross Hill
Votes: 7,964
13. South of Nowhere (2005–2008)
22 min | Drama, Romance
A family moves from Ohio to Los Angeles, where they realize they are unprepared for the city's fast pace and the overcrowded public school that the three teenagers will attend.
Stars: Gabrielle Christian, Mandy Musgrave, Matt Cohen, Maeve Quinlan
Votes: 5,196
14. According to Greta (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A suicidal and rebellious teenager is sent to live with her grandparents for the summer, where life takes an unexpected turn.
Director: Nancy Bardawil | Stars: Hilary Duff, Evan Ross, Michael Murphy, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 10,362
15. Psychobitch (2019)
109 min | Drama
Generation Achievement meets impossible love. Frida is different; Marius, on the other hand, is the most popular boy in class. When they must work together at school, a turbulent and challenging relationship commences.
Director: Martin Lund | Stars: Jonas Tidemann, Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, Saara Sipila-Kristoffersen, Bethina Nærby
Votes: 1,234
16. The Little Thief (1988)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace, Simon de La Brosse, Clotilde de Bayser
Votes: 2,325 | Gross: $1.06M
17. Metal Skin (1994)
TV-MA | 115 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A teenager's involvement with a young Don Juan, his girlfriend and a Satan-worshipping shoplifter leads to tragedy.
Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Aden Young, Tara Morice, Nadine Garner, Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 550
18. Augusta, Gone (2006 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
A troubled teenager's mother tries everything she can think of to control her bad behavior, even if it means sending her away to a hokey but strict nature camp.
Director: Tim Matheson | Stars: Sharon Lawrence, Mika Boorem, Tamara Hope, Currie Graham
Votes: 1,130
19. American Hardcore (2006)
R | 100 min | Documentary, History, Music
The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986
Director: Paul Rachman | Stars: Greg Ginn, Ian MacKaye, James Drescher, Lucky Lehrer
Votes: 3,603 | Gross: $0.28M
20. Dandelion (2004)
R | 94 min | Drama, Romance
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Milgard | Stars: Vincent Kartheiser, Taryn Manning, Arliss Howard, Mare Winningham
Votes: 2,025
21. Los héroes del mal (2015)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three teenagers, brought together by bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them escalates to killing, and desires to kill again. Anyone can become his next victim. The other two face the question: should they resort to violence to stop ... See full summary »
Director: Zoe Berriatúa | Stars: Emilio Palacios, Jorge Clemente, Beatriz Medina, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 1,117
22. 75 (2017)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith
Votes: 60
23. Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Mandy, a modern teenage "Lolita" with a wild sense of adventure and a burning desire to taste life, buys a ticket out of her one-horse town of Paint Rock, Texas, hitting the road to love, life and self-discovery.
Director: Lucas Platt | Stars: Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Bud Cort
Votes: 263
24. The Age of Reason (2014)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Oz and Freddy make friends and enemies during their last weekend in suburbia.
Directors: Jordan Harris, Andrew Schrader | Stars: Myles Tufts, Blake Sheldon, Megan Devine, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 82
25. Teenland (2014)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Depressed Sally, 17, is locked up at Teenland. A pink, prison-like institution for teens who are so fucked emotionally that they have developed supernatural powers. Everything changes when ... See full summary »
Director: Marie Grahtø Sørensen | Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Sonja Richter
Votes: 93
26. Goddo supiido yuu! Burakku emparaa (1976)
90 min | Documentary
The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. The movie follows a member of the "Black Emperors" gang and his interaction with his parents after he gets in trouble with the police.
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Votes: 366
27. Can't Be Stopped (2022)
102 min | Documentary
Hollywood's own "Can't Be Stopped" crew is one of the most influential and recognizable graffiti crews to emerge out of the U.S. is Since its inception in the early 1980's, the initials ... See full summary »
Director: Cody Smith | Stars: 2Mex, Marc 7, Alchemist, Brandon '2Tone' Anderson
Votes: 55
28. In Our Lives (1981–1994)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
The goings on of the kids at Regional High School. Long running, award winning, popular comical-dramatic television series about the kids at Regional High School. The everyday lives of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Aaron Michael Lacey, Alex Webb, Joe Jolles, Joey Sorge
Votes: 21
29. Peacock (2015)
27 min | Short, Biography, Comedy
A twisted gay romance set in the 19th Century picturesque Bohemia telling a tabooed true story of birth of one of the nation's most influential writers, starring Julius Feldmeier (Tore ... See full summary »
Director: Ondrej Hudecek | Stars: Julius Feldmeier, Cyril Dobrý, Marie Poulová, Tomas Pivoda
Votes: 130