Romantic films about teenage life have been popular throughout film history. This genre remains in demand despite the release date of a particular film, and therefore we can safely highlight a whole list of films – the best films about teenagers that are really worth watching.
Divergent
The film takes place in a future Chicago where humanity has learned to avoid conflict and maintain strict order. It is enough at the age of 16 to determine what exactly you are inclined towards and, depending on your personal qualities, join such factions as Sincerity, Fearlessness, Friendliness, Abnegation or Erudition. Beforehand, each teenager undergoes special testing.
The system that has developed over many years is threatened by the girl Beatrice at the moment when, with the help of special tests, she is determined to be a divergent, and therefore she cannot belong to any of the factions. People like Beatrice are independent thinkers and discredit the principles of society by their mere presence in the world. Now her life is directly connected with the fight against the system, which intends to get rid of her at any cost.
What a girl wants
A romantic trip from New York to England is organized for 17-year-old Daphne for a reason – she plans to find her father, whom she did not know before. As a result, he turns out to be a famous politician from an aristocratic environment. It turns out that the girl will have to become a part of his life, in which, oddly enough, there are many difficulties, and Daphne for the first time learns about all the intricacies of etiquette, tries to make friends with her stepsister and not betray herself.
13 Going on 30
A teenage film about children who want with all their might to be adults, not even suspecting that after some time they will want the opposite. Thirteen-year-old Jenny gets her wish and wakes up one morning as a thirty-year-old woman. The only catch is that 17 years have passed as usual, but the adult Jenny still has the soul of a teenager, and therefore she constantly finds herself in funny situations, which greatly surprises those around her.
She’s the Man
A film that deserves to be classified as the best films for teenagers, it tells the story of seventeen-year-old Viola, who is as passionate about football as any boy. Everything changes when football training for girls is canceled and Viola is forced to impersonate a young man. Already in the form of a guy, she falls in love with her roommate, he, in turn, is in love with the student Olivia, and Olivia closes this triangle by falling in love with Viola, since she does not know that she is a girl. Everything is decided on the day of the last game, when the main character has to prove her worth on the football field.
Warm Bodies
The world seems to have turned upside down, infection with the plague has brought humanity to the brink of extinction, dead people walk the earth, whose main goal is to feed on living flesh, as a result of which there are catastrophically few living left, and they can no longer fully withstand the defense. Everything changes when one of the zombies saves the girl instead of devouring her. A strange friendship begins between them, which for both may result in unpleasant consequences.
Easy A
The main character of this film, a schoolgirl named Olive, is forced to endure ridicule because someone started a rumor that she studied at a school with Puritan morals and lost her virginity. As a result, the main character manages to turn her hearing into an advantage, as a result of which she becomes one of the most popular girls who can shake the usual school foundations.
A Cinderella story
A modern version of Cinderella, embodied in many romantic films for teenagers. The main character here is graduate Sam. Her goal is to go to Princeton University, but for now she is forced to live with her stepmother Fiona and her evil stepsisters. Everything is changing, it is enough for the newly-minted Cinderella to meet a modern prince on the Internet – in the realities of our lives, the fan turns out to be the defender of the school’s football team. As a result, Sam manages to escape before midnight, forgetting not the shoe, but his mobile phone. She constantly thwarts all of Austin’s attempts to find out who his princess really is, fearing his refusal.
Footloose
The film is about a young rebel named Ren McCormack, who, in the company of his constant friend and lover, decides to change the order that Reverend Father Moore had previously established. As a result, pious citizens really manage to shake off the old days to the fullest.
Mean Girls
Cady Haron has lived in Africa with her zoologist parents all her adult life, and therefore is accustomed to living by the law of the jungle. She has to completely reconsider her worldview when she gets into a regular school, where she falls in love with the guy of the most “out-of-touch” girl.
High School Musical
In the thick of things are two high school students. He represents the basketball team, and she is an excellent student and is the president of the local scientific club for schoolchildren. They are united by their desire to become participants in the musical, they do it secretly from everyone – it is this decision that ultimately turns everything upside down.
Clueless
Poor, low-paid teachers feel unimportant compared to rich students – children of successful parents. The main character is one of those, but the sweet, kind teacher managed to win her over, despite her age and unsightly appearance. In order to make his life happier, she did everything possible to start a romance between him and a teacher from the same school. Fake love letters and compliments are used, and in the end the deception is still revealed, but it is no longer clear whether it is possible to do good to the people around you in this way.
She’s All That
There is always a popular boy at school who is adored by all the teachers and girls. This is exactly what Zach Siler is – the head of the class, the captain of the football team and an unconditional excellent student. Naturally, he will be the king of the Prom, but he clearly had no luck with the queen. Just six weeks before the event, she leaves Zack and now his main goal is to “blind” for himself a new queen from the most unsightly girl in the class – not a film, but a romance about teenagers in its purest form.
The Princess Diaries
Fifteen-year-old Mia, living in San Francisco, leads an average teenage life, and only after her father dies does she learn that he was the prince of a European country and now she is the sole heir to the throne. Grandmother Queen reports this, arriving in California in order to find out whether the heiress will accept the throne. Etiquette and manners are only part of what awaits a real princess. It turns out that the girl must decide whether she can go to Europe to rule the country, or whether it is better to remain in her old life with her mother in San Francisco.
Pitch Perfect
In this comedy, the plot begins simultaneously with the recruitment of the Barden University musical group. One of the girls, Bekah Mitchell, makes a bet with her father and joins the very group that previously failed in international competitions and assembles a team without much enthusiasm. Jesse, who goes to the men’s team, does the same, and it is not surprising that a struggle begins between the two teams in the university competition. The only catch is that Jesse and Beca become very close friends.
17 Again
Quite often people want to start life over. One of these is the father of two children, Mike O’Donnell, who has a unique chance to return to his native school. As a result, he is the main star of the basketball team, all the girls dream of him, but at the same time, he remains a classmate of his own children and becomes a great friend to them.
Romeo+Juliet
An original movie about teenagers, whose roots go back to the great Shakespeare. Modern Verona is a huge metropolis, the Montagues and Capulets are no longer the same, today they are two mafia clans that have changed swords to pistols. However, only Romeo and Juliet, who are madly in love with each other, remain teenagers.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The main character in this film is Charlie, an introverted teenager who recently lost loved ones – his best friend and his beloved aunt, and is therefore depressed. Everything changes when one day he witnesses a conversation between classmates about a guy who knows how to listen and understand. Charlie finds out his address and begins writing letters without giving his address and changing names.
Inadequate people
Thirty-year-old Vitalya sets off from Serpukhov to moscow, hoping to find himself here. However, he is too far from a state of harmony due to the fact that he gets involved with Christina – who is not entirely lucky in her own life and is constantly trying to make him a tough guy. At the same time, the newly-minted boss is trying to get Vitalik into bed, which is why he is daily convinced that the people around him are inadequate.
Grease
A young couple falls in love, then breaks up, then gets back together. This film is about America in the fifties – the time of long open-top cars and greased hairstyles. Young people in an atmosphere of optimism and prosperity can only sing, dance and fall in love.
10 Things I Hate About You
Bianca can go on a date if her sister Kat agrees to meet the guy – this is a condition set by the girls’ strict father. The problem is that Kat can’t stand men and is a real bluestocking. Therefore, Bianca has no choice but to look for someone as boring as herself.
The Fault in Our Stars
The main character of the film, Hazel, is sick with cancer, and even at the moment when the disease subsides for a while, she does not feel joy from it. The only thing that supports her is a special group in which she met Augustus Waters – precisely with them go on a journey that can prove to them that at any stage of life one can find its meaning.
A Walk to Remember
Another story about the real idol of his school named Landon Carter, who, naturally, does not notice the plain-looking girl who thinks only about her studies. Carter’s next stupid prank leads to unpleasant consequences – he is forced to study with lagging students and take part in a school play. A modest excellent student comes to his aid.
The Breakfast Club
Going to school on a day off to write an essay is a real punishment, and this is what befell five schoolchildren. In the process of writing an opus about who they imagine themselves to be, young people are faced with their own problems, which turn out to be very difficult to solve.
Dirty dancing
A girl from a wealthy family goes to a resort hotel with her parents on vacation, where she meets professional dancer Joni. As a result, it takes very little time for the latter, experienced in matters of life, to make the shy woman his dance and love partner.
The Notebook
The plot revolves around a love story that an elderly man read in the old notebook of a woman from a nursing home. It talks about the relationships between young people from different social classes, whom their parents tried to separate, and then the Second World War. With the advent of peace, everything changed, Ellie got married, and Noah retired to an old house, but fate brought them together again.
Titanic
The legendary film is about young lovers – Jack and Rose, who set off on their first and last voyage on an unsinkable ship. As a result, the luxury liner collides with an iceberg, and love turns into a fight with death in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.