Best movies for teens: an interesting selection

Adolescence is full of emotional swings and daily problems that parents of teenagers often do not even realize. Films about teenagers will be interesting for all age groups. The plots take you back to the years of youth, where there is first love, friendship trials, school lessons, tasks and sorrows, and most importantly, the whole life is still ahead.

OBOZ.UA has collected the best films about teenagers, school, friendship and love. Stories about first feelings, fears, and hopes will not leave anyone indifferent.

The Edge of Seventeen

• Genre: drama, comedy.
• Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Woody Harrelson.
• Director: Kelly Fremon Craig.
• Rating: IMDb - 7.3.

Nadine is only 16, but she already considers herself an "old soul". No one understands her at all, so Nadine feels like her existence is a real torture.

Krista, Nadine's best friend, added fuel to the fire. She started dating her popular at school and unbearable at home older brother Darian. Her friend's betrayal becomes the last straw for the main character.

Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret

• Genre: comedy, drama.
• Cast: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates.
• Director: Kelly Fremon Craig.
• Rating: IMDb - 7.3.

This is a movie adaptation of the classic novel by Judy Blume. 11-year-old Margaret and her family move to the suburbs, where the girl begins a new, difficult life. It has everything - problems with boys, emotional swings, puberty, and even religious conflicts.

Lady Bird

• Genre: comedy, drama.

• Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, Timothy Chalamet.
• Director: Greta Gerwig.
• Rating: IMDb - 7.4.

17-year-old Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson dreams of running away from her parents and Catholic school and entering an art college. The main plot of the movie tells the story of Christine and her mother Marion. There are also other stages of growing up: losing her virginity, breaking up with her first boyfriend, searching for her true self, and waiting for adulthood. Christine is ready to challenge the world - she desperately does not want to be like everyone else.

All the Bright Places

• Genre: drama, melodrama.

• Cast: Elle Fanning, Justice Smith.
• Director: Brett Haley.
• Rating: IMDb - 6.6.

The emotional melodrama tells about the complex problems of young people, reveals stories about guilt, loneliness, depression and mental suffering, which often go unnoticed by others. Violet Markey recently lost her older sister in a tragic accident, and Theodore Finch has dark secrets of his own. They meet on the bridge where Violet has come to commit suicide.

Easy A

• Genre: comedy, drama.
• Cast: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley.
• Director: Will Gluck.
• Rating: IMDb - 7.0.

The film with Emma Stone is an adaptation of the classic novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the Puritan society accuses the main character of infidelity and forces her to wear a "scarlet letter of shame" on her chest. Olive, a modest honor student living in America in the 2010s, is also unfairly accused of promiscuity. But the girl decides to resist the general disdain.

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