Best Teenager movies of 1970s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, John Travolta,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Actors : Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : George Lucas,

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Actors : Ryan O'Neal, John Hillerman, Madeline Kahn, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Actors : Quinn Cummings, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Benedict, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Lauter, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Carmen Mathews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich, Buck Henry,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Actors : Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Mark Hamill, William Bryant,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.

Actors : Micheál MacLiammóir, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.