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?

soz haven't read all but

Edward Scissorhands
Reality Bites
Before Sunrise

ooh Mystic Pizza is a great shout.

Highlander
Steel Magnolias
Last of the mohicans
Bill and teds excellent adventure.

What is wrong with you??? Why wouldn't they? Didn't you watch films with your parents?

We watched films with our teens all the time - and went to the cinema with them. Still do, now they're in their early 20s.

They all loved The Princess Bride, Groundhog Day, Ferris Bueller, the John Candy films, Home Alone, The Sure Thing, Grosse Point Blank, Ghostbusters, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, the Spielberg blockbusters, The Sting and some old classics like Singin' In The Rain and Some Like It Hot.

A lot of the other rom coms, and Brat Pack movies have sexual politics that are definitely Not OK. Sixteen Candles offering up a drunk comatose girl to others, Weird Science making basically a sexbot, Bender ending up with Claire even though he sexually harasses her by sticking his face up her skirt etc - that kind of thing. The teens were very unhappy about that sort of thing, and rightly so.

You can’t imagine a teenager watching a movie with their parents? Really? It’s a perfectly normal thing to do.

Hard rain (Christian Slater)
Lost Boys
🥰

Drop dead gorgeous

My DS enjoyed:

Cocktail
Mystic Pizza
Practical Magic
Young Guns
Weird Science

As well as lots mentioned by pp.

Lost boys

My 18YO DD always watches stuff with us (when she's not out or working so about once a week 😂) She also comes to the cinema with us.

Heathers is one of her favourite films. She also enjoyed The Craft. She wasn't impressed with Trainspotting - thought it was boring.

We tend to watch mainly TV series though - currently rewatching Supernatural.

I remember going to the cinema to watch Jagged edge when it came out, i’m 57 so it was in the 80’s.
I said about watching it with our DS's when they were teenagers, don't think they were impressed-too grim?
loved Romancing the stone, Jewel of the Nile, The Big Easy
Desperately trying to remember more films but having a brain fog moment….

National Lampoon especially Christmas Vacation. However not Animal House until an older teen.

As a teen I loved - as did my kids after me - Flight of the. Navigator, War Games and Space Camp.

I tend to let them share films they like with me rather than the other way round. They stumble across the older stuff anyway and are more likely to like it without my influence. Also a lot of films don't age that well.

Trying to think of ones that haven’t been said yet.

The Beach
Dumb and Dumber
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Me Myself and Irene
Muriels Wedding
Romy and Michelle’s High school Reunion
Hocus Pocus
The Wedding Singer
Little Nicky

Flight of the Navigator.
Batteries Not Included
Cocoon
Sister Act.

It has to be "Gregory's Girl". Funny, painful, not remotely sophisticated. Lovely.

Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Lost Boys
Friday
Footloose

Stand By Me
Running on Empty
Dead Poets Society

Beaches
pretty woman
top gun
10 things I hate about you
never been kissed
sweet home alabama
ghost
sister act
American pie movies
The green mile
armageddon
Steel magnolias
Edward scissorhands

Withnail & I - debauched but wonderful & totally à la mode cos it’s got Richard E Grant in it…

Billy Elliott
full Monty

don't tell mom the babysitter's dead
arachnaphobia
home alone
working girl
the goonies

DS (recently turned 16) loves watching TV and films with me. Oldies that he’s enjoyed are:

The Fugitive
Dead Poets Society
Shawshank Redemption
Top Gun
Gladiator
Titanic
The Truman Show
Crocodile Dundee
Romancing the Stone

We also recently watched The Shining with him which he enjoyed - not to everyone’s taste though!

I watched Ghostbusters with him a couple of years ago and it REALLY hadn’t aged well.

Our two favouries are Adventures in Babysitting and The Dream Team. From when they were small, and we still watch them now (at 18 and 20)!

Terminator 1&2 plus 3 if its a very rainy day.

Gremlins

Dirty Dancing

Robin Hood, Prince of thieves

Never ending story

Indiana Jones (if they aren't sensitive kids!)

Independence Day

Billy Elliot

Trainspotting (older teens obvs)

The Fugitive
A Time to Kill
A few Good Men
In the Name of the Father
Con Air
Seven
The Rock
Waynes World
Shawshank
Top Gun
The Crying Game
The Accused
Hot Rod
The Cannonball Run
Witness
Casino
Goodfellows
Ghostbusters
Romancing the Stone
Jaws (1970s but MY favourite film of all time )
The Usual Suspects