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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- 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.