Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Youth: 284 Films to Buy & Rent
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
- Dir. Alan Metter
Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Lee Montgomery…
- An early lead–role for Sarah Jessica Parker (SEX AND THE CITY) as a teenager frustrated from entering a dance–contest by her conservative…
- Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1985)
- Feat. Leigh McCloskey
- Typical 80's teen sex comedy largely inspired by fast food jobs and the Hamburger University program of the McDonald's Corporation.
- Legend of Billie Jean, The (1985)
- Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Helen Slater, Christian Slater, Keith Gordon…
- Under–rated 80's youth drama about a young woman and her pals who become media–hyped "legends" after an incident involving a gun and…
- Mischief (1985)
- Dir. Mel Damski
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash…
- Nostalgic teen comedy set in 50's Ohio, where an introverted teen attempts to win the love of the school heart throb, while his extroverted friend…
- Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, The (1985)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Lulu …
- Engaging TV adaptation of Sue Townsend's much–loved book about the pains of adolescence chronicled by a teenage diarist as he struggles to come…
- Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too (1985-1986)
- Dir. Rod Daniel, Christopher Leitch
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Jason Bateman
- In TEEN WOLF, Fox plays a high–school student who discovers he has lycanthropic tendencies. The sequel TEEN WOLF TOO continues the story in…
- Flamingo Kid, The (1984)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Matt Dillon
- Amiable teen vehicle for Matt Dillon set at a 1950s holiday resort.
- John Hughes Box Set (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science) (1984-1986)
- Three classic 80s teen–flicks from the mastermind of writer/director John Hughes.
- Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards
- Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…
- Sixteen Candles (1984)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling…
- Molly Ringwald became a star in this first of John Hughes' hip and eminently enjoyable movies about adolescence in the 1980s.