Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Youth: 284 Films to Buy & Rent
- Summer School (1987)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas…
- Goofy 80's High School comedy starring Mark Harman as a gym teacher with big vacation plans who reluctantly agrees to teach a summer English class…
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Matthew Broderick
- Probably the teen comedy of the '80s, with Matthew Broderick as the crafty 17–year–old Ferris who skips school to takes his friends on a…
- Lucas (1986)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…
- Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
- Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton
- Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.
- Soul Man (1986)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross…
- A privileged white student disguises himself as a black man in order to win a Harvard Law School scholarship, in this disappointing "blackface"…
- Space Camp (1986)
- Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…
- Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
- Weird Science (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Bill Paxton…
- Two computer nerds generate their fantasy woman in the form of Kelly Le Brock. Innocuous teen fun.
- Better Off Dead (1985)
- Dir. Savage Steve Holland
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Wyss, Donald Ogden Stewart…
- Skewed version of the 80s teenage comedy which follows the plight of likeable John Cusack after he is dumped by his girlfriend. After many original…
- Breakfast Club, The (1985)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall…
- Five teenagers do detention together in this John Hughes classic.
- Catholic Boys (Heaven Help Us) (1985)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Mary Stuart Masterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland…
- Slight, but engaging comedy set around a group of Roman Catholic schoolboys and their misadventures with the opposite sex.