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90s film recommendation for 16yr old

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Tapoopoo · 28/07/2026 08:55

Over the last few weeks DD16 and I have watched a film or a series together a few times a night.

I'm not a big TV person (we wouldn't have one at all if it was up to me) but this has been lovely. She normally just hisses at me or asks for money so I'm enjoying this before normal behaviour resumes. 🤣

What films/series would you recommend?
She is quite eclectic and I dont care but some 90s films would be good to relive my youth.

She likes:
Fallout series
Schitts Creek
Heartbreakers
Pitch Perfect
Fallout Guy
Sliding Doors (this was left field but she really loved it!)

She didn't like
Warm Bodies
Shakespeare In Love
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing

I'm trying to get her to watch The Last of Us and Stranger Things but she's refusing on principle because we wouldn't let her watch them when they first came out.

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EvelynBeatrice · Yesterday 23:15

lilkitten · Yesterday 12:13

The second one came out a few years ago, it's on Disney+. My daughter prefers it to the original, but it didn't hit right for me. A third one coming soon I believe.

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I was confused. The film I was thinking of was actually ‘Practical Magic’ with Sandra Bullock and other amazing cast and there is a sequel out very soon.

Piratesue · Yesterday 22:20

Buffy or one tree hill

hhheeyyyy · Yesterday 22:18

American Beauty, 10 things I hate about you, anything Adam Sandler?

AJWalker2016 · Yesterday 20:46

randomchap · 28/07/2026 09:17

Galaxy quest

Ghost
Corrina Corrina
Sister Act
Water World

Charmed
X-Files
Buffy

lilkitten · Yesterday 12:13

EvelynBeatrice · 02/08/2026 06:40

Hocus Pocus? And there’s a sequel coming soon decades after the original

The second one came out a few years ago, it's on Disney+. My daughter prefers it to the original, but it didn't hit right for me. A third one coming soon I believe.

Tomikka · 05/08/2026 18:20

DH001 · 03/08/2026 19:15

Would "Debbie Does Dallas" be suitable?

No. As it is from 1978 it is therefore over a decade out of scope for 90s era films

Loveinbloom · 03/08/2026 19:55

My 16 year old niece watched the series Supernatural on my recommendation. She is now besotted with Jensen Ackles, and she is on her second re watch of the entire series, all 15 seasons of it! Though personally, I thought after season 5, it wasn't as good.

Flannelfeet · 03/08/2026 19:54

Series..vampire diaries, so good my 11y loves it. Recent film we watched was letters to juliet ohhhhhh I was crying 😢 she loved that too.

ThePoliteLion · 03/08/2026 19:45

Before Sunrise

DH001 · 03/08/2026 19:15

Would "Debbie Does Dallas" be suitable?

Butfirstcoffee123 · 02/08/2026 22:55

Freaky Friday!! Such a good film which I have re-watched lately with teens, before watching Freakier Friday.

catin8oot5 · 02/08/2026 18:53

Erin Brochavich

HamBap · 02/08/2026 18:43

Waynes World
Anything Winona Ryder did in the 90s
Muriels Wedding
The fifth element
Stigmata
Train spotting, peak 90s! The VHS tapes, the night club.

BluesBird19764 · 02/08/2026 18:41

Charmed, Twin Peaks, Heathers, Lost Boys, Pump up the Volume.

EvelynBeatrice · 02/08/2026 06:40

Hocus Pocus? And there’s a sequel coming soon decades after the original

MrsS424 · 02/08/2026 01:33

As a teen I was obsessed with Dawsons creek and Roswell

ASleepyhead · 02/08/2026 00:58

Some of these have already been said but...

  • Clueless
  • 10 Things I Hate About You
  • Election
  • Blast from the Past
  • You've Got Mail
  • Addams Family Values
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Scream
  • The Craft
  • The Faculty (The Thing but with teens, and then you can watch The Thing afterwards!)
  • The Sixth Sense

And these aren't 90's but are very charming:

  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Amelie
WorldCupWanda · 01/08/2026 23:39

She's all that!

Papainspain · 01/08/2026 23:37

Dogma... what a brilliant movie.... so hard to get a copy of now (I think it pissed off too many religious folk... and they have power). I have watched this with my 13yr old and he absolutely got it. I loved it 1st time round

bunbun0 · 01/08/2026 20:48

My girl

Downthedrainwithme · 01/08/2026 20:31

Sure some of these will have been said before..

10 things I hate about you
Princess Mononoke
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Wuthering height (1992 version)

Goldie132010 · 01/08/2026 20:16

You’ve got Mail

RubyPowderPuff · 01/08/2026 19:58

Has anyone mentioned Twin Peaks?
I remember not being allowed to watch it back in the day, but my 2y older sister was....

BassBug · 01/08/2026 19:51

Tapoopoo · 28/07/2026 08:55

Over the last few weeks DD16 and I have watched a film or a series together a few times a night.

I'm not a big TV person (we wouldn't have one at all if it was up to me) but this has been lovely. She normally just hisses at me or asks for money so I'm enjoying this before normal behaviour resumes. 🤣

What films/series would you recommend?
She is quite eclectic and I dont care but some 90s films would be good to relive my youth.

She likes:
Fallout series
Schitts Creek
Heartbreakers
Pitch Perfect
Fallout Guy
Sliding Doors (this was left field but she really loved it!)

She didn't like
Warm Bodies
Shakespeare In Love
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing

I'm trying to get her to watch The Last of Us and Stranger Things but she's refusing on principle because we wouldn't let her watch them when they first came out.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Watched it with both my teens and they loved it.

goldtrainers · 01/08/2026 19:08

Cyclebabble · 28/07/2026 18:50

Trainspotting
Love actually
Four weddings and a funeral
The full monty
Ally Mcbeal

i would say all these except ally mcbeal only because i’ve never seen it.
i would add the commitments - cracker of a film