Best Teenager movies of 2008

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto,

A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Actors : Robert Pattinson, Sarah Clarke, Billy Burke, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Catherine Hardwicke,

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

Actors : Amy Adams, Alan Arkin, Emily Blunt, Jason Spevack,
Directors : Christine Jeffs,

In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.

Actors : David Thewlis, Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Mark Herman,

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Doug Liman,

A teenager with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.

Actors : Clark Duke, Amanda Crew, Josh Zuckerman, James Marsden,
Directors : Sean Anders,

A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.

Actors : Christian McKay, Zoe Kazan, Claire Danes, Zac Efron,
Directors : Richard Linklater,

In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrera,
Directors : Sanaa Hamri,

Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.

Actors : Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning,
Directors : Gina Prince-Bythewood,

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with ...

Actors : Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Michael Carman, Gerard Butler,

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

Actors : Owen Wilson, Josh Peck, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost,
Directors : Steven Brill,

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Joseph Julian Soria,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Actors : Djimon Hounsou, Sean Faris, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard,
Directors : Jeff Wadlow,

A frustrated and conflicted teenager arrives at a new high school to discover an underground fight club and meet a classmate who begins to coerce him into fighting.

Actors : Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower, Yorick van Wageningen, Raymond Thiry,
Directors : Martin Koolhoven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.

Actors : José María Yazpik, Robin Tunney, John Corbett, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Guillermo Arriaga,

A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.

Actors : Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.

Actors : Sienna Guillory, Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett,
Directors : Iain Softley,

A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.

Actors : Poonam Sinha, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Hrithik Roshan,
Directors : Ashutosh Gowariker,

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Luke Ford,
Directors : Elissa Down,

All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?

Actors : Kenneth Welsh, Louca Tassone, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.