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?

Beaches

Matrix is still important to share, and T2 (2032 might be more significant than we thought back then!), End of Days and the other one about that time that cloned animals (Sixth Day??). I know we want to watch and enjoy time with our kids, but these are also good for discussing things that are even more relevant now.

Mannequin.
Weekend at Bernie’s.

Loads of good ones mentioned, apologies if I have repeated any but films I used to love watching -

blind fury
over the top
tango & cash
Nat lampoon’s vacation & European vacation
blind date
grease 2
thelma & louise
death becomes her
housesitter
overboard
Splash
Curly Sue
Roadhouse
High spirits
haunted honeymoon
top secret
return to oz
brewsters millions
A night at the roxbury
witches of eastwick
Spacecamp
legal eagles
Dead again
Lethal weapon
robocop
the hand that rocks the cradle
Bram stokers dracula
see no evil, hear no evil
airplane
Vice versa
married to the mob
Bird on a wire
Peggy sue got married
Cry baby

Dracula might be a good shout too. She’s started to enjoy horror recently so maybe It as well 🤔

We have seen all the Friends episodes, fair play that was a quality series even on a rewatch. Some cringe but some very good moments as well.

An Officer and a Gentleman

I think Bridget Jones is a bad choice. All that "needing" a man and body issues is not suitable

No way..... glamourising selling your body. The saviour a rich man. No way would I let my daughter see that.

Big Business? I loved that

You are way too paranoid.

You must be taking the piss?

Ferris Buellers day off
The breakfast club
St Elmo's Fire
The Outsiders

Sexism was more overt in these films but at least a lot of the women looked more realistic without a ton of surgery & aesthetics. Sexism is still very prevalent today.

When mine were teens they wanted to watch The Exorcist as they knew it was the first horror film I’d seen (—snook into underage—).
I bought it on DVD and they watched it. The only comment was why was there so much bad language ? 🙄

Top Gun. Loved the music.

Not sure if anyone has answered this but it is big business with Bette Midler and Lily Tomlinson, it’s currently streaming on Disney plus. I absolutely love that film.
also some of my faves and ones I’ve shown to my kids are….

Mac and me,
flight of the navigator,
big,
don’t tell mum the babysitters dead,
adventures in babysitting,
Casper,
practical magic,
now and then,
junior,
Twins,
kindergarten cop,
turner and hooch,
flashdance,
pretty woman,
Jack,
short circuit 2
so many more.

Pretty in Pink
The Outsiders
ET

Thelma and Louise. My daughter, now 19 loved it. For an older teen obviously

Dirty Dancing
Top Gun
Lost Boys
Stand By Me
Dead Poets Society
Running on Empty
Bill and Ted
Wayne's World
Gleaming the Cube (It has Christian Slater in it..)
Heathers
Shawshank Redemption
Toy Soldiers (total tripe, but I loved it)
Just sneaking in in the late 90's The Matrix and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (although the latter may be an 18).

I'm sure I've forgotten loads.

The Year of Living Dangerously
The Crying Game
Witches of Eastwick
An odd one called Baghdad Cafe
Nikita
Cinema Paradiso
Diva

Our local theatre showed that on a big screen when my daughter was about 18. She absolutely loved it, both the story and the Thelma and Louise's style. It's an amazing film.

A Room With A View, The Age of Innocence and the Gwyneth Paltrow Emma are all worth a watch.

Dead Poet's Society, Fried Green Tomatoes

So far we've watched...
Karate Kid
Hunt for red October
Liar liar
Dumb and dumber
The mask
Mrs doubtfire
Hook
All the Indiana Jones stuff
The Mummy
George of the Jungle
White men can't jump
Cool running
The fugitive
The Goonies
Miracle on 34rh street
Scrooge
The Muppets
The Rookie (baseball film)
The mighty ducks
Short circuit
The Santa Claus

So so so many more. These are child hood and favourites as a teen

Oh and Romeo and Juliet....anything Leonardo DiCaprio