What films would you consider teen classics of the 80s and 90s and want to share with your teen?

[DoubtfulCat]

Dd is 15. i’m 48. We like watching films together — both her choices and mine. Of my list, that I enjoyed as a teen, we have watched:
Dirty Dancing
10 things I hate about you
Robin Hood Prince of thieves
Batman returns (with Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer)
Clueless
Legally Blonde
The Breakfast Club
Beetlejuice
Heathers
Back to the future

I’m sure there are more… but what would you add to this list?

I don't think we've had Desperately Seeking Susan yet.

Worth watching for the brilliant outfits alone!

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I watched Three Men and A Baby and Three Men and a Little Girl with my child a few months ago. She was 12. It was just as good as years ago. And she really loved them too!

It’s behind you

Fame
Footloose
Flashdance
Pretty in Pink
All the brat pack films

Although not a teen film per se, Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile

Flight of the Navigator.

Lost Boys is probably my favourite film ever. I absolutely love it.

Also at 15, my DD's could have watched poltergeist. Edward Scissorhands, a few Johnny Depp films. Coming to America, Trading Places (quite a few Eddie Murphy films).

Just came on again to say Fame!!! How could I forget that - I was obsessed with it 🤦‍♀️

Also, The Shawshank Redemption is very good.

And all the other films by the same director (whose name escapes me now) eg Notting Hill, About a boy etc.

my teens love watching films with us but would die at the sex scenes in Four Weddings and Basic Instinct!

My 15yo loves Speed, the Bourne films, 10 Things I Hate About You, River Wild.

going back further - Tremors was brilliant fun and turned the kids into Kevin Bacon fans.

Dumb and Dumber
Pretty Woman
Big
Thelma and Louise
Edward Scissorhands
Fried Green Tomatoes
A League of their Own
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
Drop Dead Fred
Interview With a Vampire
Girl Interrupted

I once heard my kids howling with laughter so went in to see what they were watching and was amazed to find it was George and Mildred (the film not the series). They also loved Auf wiedershen Pet and Father Ted

Mine love Notting Hill, Love Actually and Bridget Jones- although it’s now an Instagram joke that Bridget isn’t fat, works in media, has a London flat plus Colin and Hugh- hardly the epic fail the 90s told us!
Anither vote for Edward Scissorhands.
We tried Trading Places and Coming to America but they didn’t hold up well under Gen Z ethics!
For Top Gun;Maverick fans, Ice Man’s wife is the elder daughter from Uncle Buck!

monster club
bad news bears
Club paradise
Good will hunting
One crazy summer
Say anything

The Goonies
Adventures in Babysitting (sometimes called A Night On The Town)
This Years Love
If Only (sometimes called The Man With The Rain In His Shoes)

Beetlejuice

Top Gun
ET
Pretty in Pink
Gregory’s Girl
Ghost
Stand By Me
When Harry Met Sally
Dead Poet’s Society

I've just remembered My Girl which made me cry so much at the time.
I have tried a few and she liked Beetlejuice but most of them she turns to me in horror when things happen and asks if that was "normal back then" - as pp said they haven't aged well and the lack of women in higher ranks of film studios is pretty obvious. I might try The Craft though as I seem to remember that being quite on the nose for it's time.

Oh we’ve watched loads:

Goonies
mighty ducks
Back to the future
Indiana jones
Sister act
honey I shrunk the kids
ET
Never ending story
labyrinth
turner and hooch
Big
K-9
karate kid
jurassic park

im sure there’s more but this is off the top of my head

Untamed Heart
Some Kind of Wonderful
Can't Buy Me Love
St Elmo's Fire
Pretty in Pink
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Breakfast Club
Teen Wolf
Youngblood
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Forest Gump
Fried Green Tomatoes
13 Going on 30
Big
The Lost Boys
Heathers
Mermaids
Reality Bites

What a walk down memory lane!

Baby boom
Tremors

Airheads
Encino man

I have found my film people!

I forgot we have seen Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (must watch Bogus Journey).
on list for half term is The Lost Boys and Pump Up The Volume.

we watched 4 weddings before my wedding 😂

we saw gremlins and ghostbusters. And also Monty Pythons Holy Grail.
she watches Jurassic park and all Marvel films anyway, plus Star Wars.

I haven’t seen some of these myself, like Romancing the Stone. But maybe top gun, with a hefty dose of irony and political/feminist commentary. (To be fair she is used to me 😂)

keep them coming 🙏

Watched Cars last night, and Toy Story 5 then 1 with 14 and 16 year old boys, we’re going through a retro thing. I feel Nemo might be on the cards later this weekend.

DS14 has been exploring male relationships. We’ve done high fidelity and grosse point blank as a double bill. Also done swingers and clerks in his own, but was good to talk about after and now have mutual terms of reference.

defo looking at beetle juice for Halloween

As you’ve watched Prince of Thieves, you now have to watch Men in Tights.