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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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Tomikka · 28/07/2026 17:16

Iocanepowder · 28/07/2026 10:48

The Ring scares the shit out of me! Especially when I had a tv in my bedroom as a teenager.

I was once on a residential stress course, one afternoon we were tasked with “doing something different” and to report back the next day

Two of us opted for the cinema, and didn’t know what was on.

The next day was described the experience of watching the ring in a fairly empty cinema

Desolationrower · 28/07/2026 16:54

Twin Peaks and Interview with the Vampire from the Nineties.
Gregory’s Girl from the Eighties.

SoftandQuiet · 28/07/2026 16:31

Point Break.
Bloody hell, don't watch American Pie with her- cringe!!

QuintadosMalvados · 28/07/2026 16:26

OriginalSkang · 28/07/2026 10:27

Wayne's World

Not.

Duvetdayneeded · 28/07/2026 16:19

Pretty woman!
sleeping with the enemy

parthyphibday · 28/07/2026 15:33

Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion

JustOneMoreMargarita · 28/07/2026 14:52

My DD16 liked

Titanic
Mean Girls
Clueless
Legally Blonde
Heathers
Scream / Scream 2 / Final Destination (those might be 2000s to be fair)

Bubblefun70 · 28/07/2026 14:50

Romy and Michelle's high school reunion
Aliens (greatest film ever made imho but is 80s)
Muriel's wedding
The Piano

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 28/07/2026 14:50

Dangerous Minds.

EvelynBeatrice · 28/07/2026 14:43

My kids loved and still do ‘my cousin Vinnie’. One also loved The blues brothers.

musicandmen · 28/07/2026 14:29

So I have son’s but we’ve been doing 80/90’s stuff with them. So far they have enjoyed

back to the future
teenwolf
platoon
we are currently watching the hunger games (they are younger than yours)
cool runnings
waynes world
predator
coming to America

if I had girls - my boys are at the no that’s for girls stage 🙄🙄

clueless
romeo & Juliet
titanic
10 things I hate about you
ghost

my son also likes
big bang theory
and he’s watched a bit of friends

Citadelica · 28/07/2026 14:22

Romeo + Juliet - very much a timeless classic
Donnie Darko
Apollo 13
Clueless

Gingerkins · 28/07/2026 14:19

Aliens because Ripley is an amazing role model for young women.
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset which are both charming!
Pride because it’s a good bit of social history.
It’d be interesting to hear what your daughter makes of the Breakfast Club though as some of it hasn’t aged well!

Apologies, I know these aren’t all 90s films (if any of them are!).

Urgentbiscuitrequired · 28/07/2026 14:07

What's eating Gilbert grape
Heartbreak High

Motuihe · 28/07/2026 13:52

My Private Idaho
Point Break

EvelynBeatrice · 28/07/2026 13:02

Weird Science.

EvelynBeatrice · 28/07/2026 13:02

Dead Poets Society. TAPS. Space Camp. Steel Magnolias.

Iamuhtredsonofuhtred · 28/07/2026 12:26

Empire records!

InveterateWineDrinker · 28/07/2026 12:20

TV Series: Picket Fences
Movie: The Shawshank Redemption

ETA Philadelphia as a movie suggestion.

SussexLass87 · 28/07/2026 12:17

Father of the bride (1&2!)
While you were sleeping
Uncle buck
Virgin suicides
Little women
Forrest gump
Sister Act
Mrs Doubtfire
10 Things I hate about you
A league of their own

Sounds like a great way to bond!

DanaScullysLegoHair · 28/07/2026 11:53

Demolition Man was daft.

Netty909 · 28/07/2026 11:52

My daughter who’s 15 likes
The Sure Thing
Napoleon Dynamite
Eagle vs Shark
Flight of the Conchords
though these are all either side of the 90s.

Sorrelbird · 28/07/2026 11:38

So far with my Dd (17) I’ve watched (not all 90s):
Thelma and Louise
Chicago
Black Swan
Lost Boys
Twin Peaks

faw2009 · 28/07/2026 11:19

Danny Boyle:
Shallow Grave
Trainspotting
The Beach

Heather's
Gattaca
Dangerous Liaisons (with a young Keanu!)
Mask
Reality Bites
(Some of these might be 80s rather than 90s!)

TV: This Life, Ultraviolet (channel 4)

DanaScullysLegoHair · 28/07/2026 11:01

My So Called Life
Dangerous Minds
Friday
Menace II Society
White Men Can't Jump
Terminator 2
Speed
Point Break
Boyz N the Hood
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (hilarious piss-take of some of the above films)

I'm sure there are more...