Best Teenager movies of 1980s

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Jay Underwood, Lucy Deakins,
Directors : Nick Castle,

An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.

Actors : Debra De Liso, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Michelle Michaels,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

A high school student's slumber party turns terrifying as an escaped mental patient with a drill decides to crash the party.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., David Suchet, Jason Gedrick, Larry B. Scott,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Heroic young pilot Doug Masters launches a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force veteran, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.

Actors : Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.

Actors : Lothar Chamski, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Natja Brunckhorst,
Directors : Uli Edel,

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story...

Actors : Linda Fiorentino, Ronny Cox, Michael Schoeffling, Matthew Modine,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.

Actors : Martin Hewitt, Brooke Shields, Don Murray, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.

Actors : Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson,

When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, J.T. Walsh, Emily Longstreth,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Victoria Tennant, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Jeffrey Bloom,

Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Actors : Robert Mandan, Felice Schachter, Willie Aames, Scott Baio,
Directors : Robert J. Rosenthal,

A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.

Actors : Michael Wright, Louis Gossett Jr., James Belushi, Rae Dawn Chong,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.

Actors : Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Tony Ganios,
Directors : James Komack,

As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game because he's betting on the opposing team.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Katherine Helmond, Alex Rocco,
Directors : Frank LaLoggia,

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a small town during the 1960's, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

Actors : Diane Franklin, Lawrence Monoson, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.

Actors : Sheila Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Cooper, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Philip Ridley,

In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

Actors : Joshua John Miller, Robyn Lively, Caren Kaye, Dan Gauthier,
Directors : Dorian Walker,

High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?

Actors : Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Gene Wilder,

Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric ...