Best Teenager movies of 1980s

Actors : Ellen Barkin, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight,
Directors : Eugene Corr,

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

Actors : Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt, Peter Frechette,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar,...

Actors : Noufou Ouédraogo, Adama Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Fatimata Sanga,
Directors : Idrissa Ouedraogo,

A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When ...

Actors : Tamari Tsitsishvili, Dudukhana Tserodze, Veriko Anjaparidze, Dodo Abashidze,

A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.

Actors : Talia Balsam, Michael Constantine, Beverly D'Angelo, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Phil Alden Robinson,

Based upon the true story of "Sonny" Wisecarver. In 1944, Sonny made headlines nationwide due to his affairs with 2 older adult women. (ie. He was so irresistible, that he was a danger to ...

Actors : Janet Agren, Luca Venantini, Bud Spencer, Julian Voloshin,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Updating of the old "Aladdin" Arabian Nights tale, as a teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.

Actors : Jon Mikl Thor, Manuska Rigaud, Adam West, Tia Carrere,
Directors : Jack Bravman,

After a young man is killed by a gang of rampant teenagers, he is resurrected by a voodoo priestess so he can avenge his death.

Actors : Philippe Taccini, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Galabru, Maria Pacôme,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero ...

Actors : Richard Hell, Susan Berman, Nada Despotovich, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.

Actors : Brendan Hughes, Scott Jacoby, Alex Rocco, Lori Lethin,
Directors : Bill Froehlich,

A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about ...

Actors : Tracy Pollan, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Gedrick, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

This gritty drama follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate. The first film commissioned by the Sundance Film ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Patrick Piccininni, Howard Hesseman,
Directors : Alan Myerson,

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.

Actors : John Stockwell, Carey Lowell, Bradford Bancroft, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight High School discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and ...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marc van Uchelen, John Kraaykamp, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...

Actors : Pepe Serna, Gary Swanson, Season Hubley, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A Los Angeles businesswoman, known only by her street name of Princess, turns to prostitution to support herself and her young daughter when she's forced by Detective Tom Walsh and his vice...

Actors : Fred Ward, Bonnie Bedelia, Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Ron Nyswaner,

There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his ...

Actors : Rory Calhoun, Dick Shawn, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Elizabeth Perkins, Jeff Daniels, Don Johnson,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high ...

Actors : Theresa Saldana, Lori Loughlin, Keanu Reeves, Trinidad Silva,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

Winston Connelly wakes up in the middle of the night in an alley with no idea of how he got there. Nor does he know where in Los Angeles he is or why he is wearing a beat-up tuxedo. Through...

Actors : Willem Nijholt, Herman van Veen, Danny de Munk, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one ...