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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.

OP posts:
Lambsydaisy · 28/07/2026 18:47

All John Hughes films, such as Say Anything and Sixteen Candles.
I think Ferris Buellers day off is a must.

Cyclebabble · 28/07/2026 18:50

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

Likeiloveyou · 28/07/2026 18:53

Withnail and I is a family favourite here.

BigPurpleBookQueen · 28/07/2026 18:56

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Steel Magnolias
Dead Poets Society

ACR7 · 28/07/2026 18:57

My guilty pleasure film is The Mummy. The 90s Brendan Fraser one

Member984815 · 28/07/2026 19:00

My so called life
Dawsons creek
Felicity
Popular

DreamingOfGeneHunt · 28/07/2026 19:03

ACR7 · 28/07/2026 18:57

My guilty pleasure film is The Mummy. The 90s Brendan Fraser one

Oh don't feel guilty about that. It's a great film! It's got everything.

BlueBellsArePretty · 28/07/2026 19:09

The Wedding Singer

ThatHardyMember · 28/07/2026 19:12

Smallville
Dawson's Creek
Friends
Twilight
Back to the Future
Mamma Mia
Forrest Gump
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Anything by Richard Curtis
Quantum Leap
Three Men and a Baby/ Little Lady

ThisCraftyAquaHedgehog · 28/07/2026 19:12

She didn't like Top Gun?????
Really?
There is no hope for her.

This Life (themes might be a little old for her, but might not)
Friends (iconic)
A Few Good Men (But if she didn't like Top Gun...)
The English Patient (bit serious, depends what she is like)
Malcolm X (Long and serious, but I watched it at her age, but I was a bit 'save the world by myself' ambitious)

Imalittleelf · 28/07/2026 19:15

Mean girls
Romey and Michelle's high school reunion
Bring it on
Ferris bullers day off

Alltheusefulitems · 28/07/2026 19:17

The Hole
Napoleon dynamite
Lost boys

GinaandGin · 28/07/2026 19:19

Cruel intentions
Say anything (80s)
Pretty in pink (also 80s)
Jawbreaker
Saved (2004 film with mandy moore)

Svelty · 28/07/2026 19:22

Dd and I have recently enjoyed:

Forrest Gump
13 going on 30
Speed
Romy and Michelle’s high school reunion
Ferris Bueller
Legally Blonde
About a boy

thedogisfine · 28/07/2026 19:24

Haven’t read all replies so may be repeating sorry

friday
Thirteen
clueless
girl interrupted
mean girls
fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe
now and then
10 things I hate about you
I know what you did last summer

Girlwithavibe · 28/07/2026 19:24

My daughter hated dirty dancing my all.time fav!
She.loved lost boys thou dad's fav
Also stand by me is a.classic film I loved that !

NetZeroZealot · 28/07/2026 19:27

Jerry McGuire
Silence of the Lambs
Withnail & I

Goldpanther · 28/07/2026 19:28

ThatHardyMember · 28/07/2026 19:12

Smallville
Dawson's Creek
Friends
Twilight
Back to the Future
Mamma Mia
Forrest Gump
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Anything by Richard Curtis
Quantum Leap
Three Men and a Baby/ Little Lady

Robin hood prince of thieves!

And maybe Terminator 1 and Terminator 2 if she likes fallout?

Desolationrower · 28/07/2026 19:28

The Straight Story

ThistleTits · 28/07/2026 19:29

@Tapoopoo Edward Scissorhands

JesseDavisGonnaHangOnInThereNSoul · 28/07/2026 19:32

Human traffic ..a tale of a group of friends on a mad clubbing night.

GellerYeller · 28/07/2026 19:35

My DC have enjoyed:
Desperate Housewives
Grey’s Anatomy
Dasy Jones and the six(not 90s but it is a bit retro)
Bridget Jones
Any Richard Curtis film
Most of the Adam Sandler films
The Osbournes
Jerry McGuire
The Focker films
Will and Grace
How to lose a guy in x dates(sorry I forget… it’s Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey)
Coming to America
Trading Places

MannyTeddy · 28/07/2026 19:36

My daughter and I love these, not sure of decades:

Empire records
Clueless
Breakfast club
Gilmore girls
Lost boys
Never been kissed
16 candles
50 first dates
Ever after
ER
House
Romy and Michelle's high school reunion
Speed
Demolition man love this
Bring it on
Drop dead gorgeous
Death becomes her
Far and away
The net
Fly away home
The first wives club
The truth about cats and dogs
Air force one
Armageddon
Truman show
The wedding singer

namechange6766333545544 · 28/07/2026 19:39

Clueless
Romeo + Juliet
10 Things I Hate About You
Now And Then
Save The Last Dance
Scream
My So-Called Life (series)
True Romance (18)
Trainspotting

RoniPepper · 28/07/2026 19:42

Ferris Bueller's Day Off! (It's 1986 though)