Flat Girls

Two teen girls grapple with the realities of love, friendship and burgeoning adulthood when one of them has to leave the home where they both grew up.

The World Is Mine

2015

Romanian

6.1

43%

Nicolae Constantin Tanase Director

Oana Rusu as

Mircea Rusu as Chelu

Hritcu Florin as Florin

Ana Vatamanu as Olimpia

Larisa is 16 and lives in a city by the sea. It's a small city, where gossip and news spread fast. It's a city where your image and influence, "manelele", money and power are all that matters. And Larisa… wants it all. And even if she doesn't have it, she fights for it. Larisa believes in herself. She knows that she deserves better. She is convinced that it's worth doing everything it takes to fulfill her dreams. And for her courage and recklessness - we love her.

So This Is Christmas

2013

English

4.1

♡ 13

Richard Foster Director

Eric Roberts as Bill

Titus Makin Jr. as Jason

Vivica A. Fox as Sharon

Joseph Anderson as Student Buying Jacket

Eighteen-year old Ashley's life is headed in the wrong direction. She's been hanging out with a bad crowd and seeking an escape from the drama at home. Everything begins to change when a handyman working on the family's house encourages her to volunteer for a Christmas play with underprivileged children. Ashley finds purpose by helping people in need and uses that to help heal her troubled family. Together, they discover the impact one person can make through the gift of giving.

Slums of Beverly Hills

1998

English

6.7

♡ 29

82%

semi autobiographical

teenage girl

Tamara Jenkins Director

David Krumholtz as Ben

Mena Suvari as Rachel

Marisa Tomei as Rita

Natasha Lyonne as Vivian

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Smooth Talk

1985

English

6.5

♡ 7

94%

Joyce Chopra Director

Treat Williams as Arnold Friend

Laura Dern as Connie

William Ragsdale as Jeff

Elizabeth Berridge as June

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

Talea

2013

German

5.7

♡ 7

Action

Drama

foster family

mother daughter relationship

teenage girl

woman director

Katharina Mückstein Director

Nina Proll as Eva

Lili Epply as Melanie

Andreas Patton as Peter

Philipp Hochmair as Stefan

Fourteen-year-old Jasmin longs to be near her biological mother, Eva. Following her mother’s release from prison, an excursion into the country together becomes a first test for the fledgling mother-daughter relationship. They smoke, dance and stroll together – the mood is promising. But time and again, it is revealed that their needs and expectations are light years apart. For the moment, neither Eva nor Jasmin seem up to the task of fulfilling each other’s need for identity and support. (Talea is Italian for scion, a detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.)

Daddy Issues

2018

English

4.4

♡ 20

83%

Amara Cash Director

Monte Markham as Gordon Craw

Verona Blue as Katrina

Madison Lawlor as Maya Mitchell

Andrew Pifko as Simon Craw

Maya, a 19 year old queer pixie, gets romantically involved with her sexually fluid insta-crush and unknowingly inserts herself into a twisted love triangle.

Pets

1973

English

5.6

♡ 12

40%

Raphael Nussbaum Director

Joan Blackman as Geraldine Mills

George Wells as Hoodlum

K.T. Stevens as Mrs. Daubrey

Ed Bishop as Vincent Stackman

Naive, but brash and sultry teenage runaway Bonnie finds herself lost and adrift in America. The lovely young lass runs afoul of a colorful array of evil oddballs who all treat her like an object.

Love & Pop

1998

Japanese

7.4

♡ 17

82%

experimental surrealism

japan

japanese film

teenage girl

Hideaki Anno Director

Ikkei Watanabe as Kobayashi

Tôru Tezuka as Uehara

Akira Ishida as Voice

Megumi Hayashibara as Voice

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.

Teen Spirit

2018

English

6.1

♡ 45

73%

Max Minghella Director

Rebecca Hall as Jules

Sofia Abbasi as Press / Hotel Guest

Elle Fanning as Violet

Zlatko Buric as Vlad

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.

Hala

2019

English

6.3

♡ 20

86%

Minhal Baig Director

Birgundi Baker as Hannah

Jack Kilmer as Jesse Ross

Ahmed Lucan as Mahmoud

Anna Chlumsky as Shannon Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.

Hounds of Love

2016

English

6.5

♡ 25

88%

psychological thriller

Ben Young Director

Emma Booth as Evelyn White

Fletcher Humphrys as Gary

Harrison Gilbertson as Jason

Liam Graham as Pete

When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

A Little Romance

1979

English

7.4

♡ 13

72%

George Roy Hill Director

Thelonious Bernard as Daniel

David Dukes as George de Marco

Sally Kellerman as Kay King

Diane Lane as Lauren

Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.

Dreams I Never Had

2017

English

5.5

♡ 5

Action

based on a true story

Iyad Hajjaj Director

Adam Pepper as Border Patrol Agent #1

Adam Huss as Jose

Malcolm McDowell as Judge Messner

Robin Givens as Prosecuting Attorney Hernandez

A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately inspires them to break free.

Scheme Birds

2019

English

7.2

♡ 5

90%

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the steel industry. Unfortunately for her, her hedonistic way of understanding the world does not fit in with the philosophy of the rest of the villagers, so trouble soon follows.

Excision

2012

English

6.1

♡ 40

85%

Richard Bates Jr. Director

Natalie Dreyfuss as Abigail

Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Cooper

Ray Wise as Principal Campbell

John Waters as William

An outcast teenager, Pauline, practices surgical skills and harbors increasingly violent psychosexual fantasies.

Good Girls Get High

2018

English

5.7

♡ 7

100%

high school graduation

Laura Terruso Director

Jared Wernick as Ben

Booboo Stewart as Jeremy

Jenica Bergere as Linda

Abby Quinn as Sam

Two overachieving “good girls” decide to experience all they’ve missed out on in one crazy, unforgettable night prior to their high school graduation.

April's Daughter

2017

Spanish

6.5

♡ 7

60%

50%

Action

Drama

mother daughter relationship

pregnancy

puerto vallarta

teenage girl

Michel Franco Director

Emma Suárez as Abril / mother

Tony Dalton as Álvaro

Ivan Cortes as Jorge

Ana Valeria Becerril as Valeria

Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to her daughters, but we soon understand why Valeria had wanted her to stay away.

Teenage Hitchhikers

1974

English

5.3

♡ 12

35%

Claude Goddard Director

Victor Paul as Bomber

Bill La Mond as Chauffeur

Presley Caton as Gillian

Margaret Whitton as Sola Alcoa

Three girls go on the road and run into trouble with the people who give them rides.

Cerise

2015

French

5.5

♡ 3

Jérôme Enrico Director

Jonathan Zaccaï as Fred

Mykola Mateshko as Mikita

Olivia Côte as Pascale

Emilia Radeva as Tania

Cerise is fourteen years old but she looks twenty. Cerise grew up on the outskirts, but now she's exiled to Ukraine. Cerise wears excessive amounts of makeup, but she still has a little girl's dreams. Cerise doesn't know her father, even though she's going to have to live with him. Cerise has only ever thought about herself and now she finds herself in the middle of a revolution.

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The World Is Mine

So This Is Christmas

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Talea

Daddy Issues

Pets

Love & Pop

Teen Spirit

Hala

Hounds of Love

A Little Romance

Dreams I Never Had

Scheme Birds

Excision

Good Girls Get High

April's Daughter

Teenage Hitchhikers

Cerise