Teen social issues movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant teen social issues movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, teen, touching, serious, feel good and semi serious films and TV shows about / with teen social issues, teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, teenage life, youth, high school, family relations, teen angst and female protagonist plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as teen social issues: Expecting Mary (2010), Heathers: The Musical (2022), She's Too Young (2004), Odd Girl Out (2005), Like Me (2018), Teenage Mother (1967), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), The Breakfast Club (1985).

List of teen social issues movies

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 5.6
 387
Expecting Mary (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it's only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a downtrodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, satirical
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, teen social issues, trailer park, lifestyle change, self discovery, introspection, social issues, female protagonist, satire, social problems, changing lives, xmas ...
Place: new mexico
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Heathers: The Musical (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.
Style: semi serious, psychological, satirical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teen social issues, teenage rebellion, teenage life, adolescence, high school life, school, lifestyle, schoolgirl, coping, humour, ambition, problem ...
Time: 80s
Place: west end london, ohio
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She's Too Young (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, sexually transmitted disease, teenage sexuality, teenage life, parents and children, high school life, society, lifestyle, suburban life, kids in trouble, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
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 6.5
 4K
Odd Girl Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school, teenage love, school, high school life, family relations, lifestyle, buddies, friendship, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.0
 126
Like Me (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: What is exclusion really like? A look, a comment, the lack of likes, a birthday party to which you weren't invited, a clique that didn't include you: bullying is often invisible. Far too many kids and teens experience it every day. When ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: high school, teen social issues, life is a bitch, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, social network, social issues, relationship problems, relationships, teenage girl, social problems, problem, female protagonist ...
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 4.8
 162
Teenage Mother (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, weird
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, teen social issues, con men, sex education, childbirth, teen angst, cannabis, faked pregnancy, pregnancy, exploitation, teenager, teacher ...
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style: romantic, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, stranded, coming of age, love and romance, shipwreck, survival, young love, beautiful scenery, teenage love, youth, fall in love, desert island ...
Time: victorian era, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1980, 1890s ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, inspirational, factual ...
Plot: country music, music, biopic, female protagonist, musician's life, poverty, singer, rags to riches, musician, mining, music business, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1950s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: kentucky, usa, washington state, nashville tennessee, appalachia
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: chicago
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Wish You Were Here (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out ...
Style: grindhouse, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: sex with teenager, coming of age, pregnancy, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, working class, sex, father daughter conflict, post war, teenage girl, age difference, psychopath ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: england, europe, brighton
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 5.9
 5K
For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, homecoming, misfit, teenage girl, fame, teenager, puppy love, celebrity, worship, teenage rebellion, family relations, small town life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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 7.0
 30K
Juice (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ ...
Style: hood, cult classic, tense, social, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, hip hop, coming of age, gang, friendship, african american gangster, ghetto, african american, teenager, black, urban, gangster ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style: feel good, talky, teen, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, weed, party, bullying, drug, summer ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: texas, seattle, midwest, austin texas, usa
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This Boy's Life (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, touching, epic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, small town, single parent, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, biopic, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, abusive stepfather, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa
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When a Stranger Calls Back (1993)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julia is babysitting two young kids while a doctor and his wife are out. During the evening, a stranger knocks on the door asking Julia if she can call the auto club so he can get a tow. The phone line is dead though. This is all part of the act as ...
Style: spooky, dark, psychological, scary, realistic ...
Plot: babysitter, stalker, home invasion, danger, psychopath, stranger, urban legend, telephone call, pandemic, teen social issues, trap, maniac ...
Time: 90s
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 7.0
 84K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
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 5.3
 7K
Mad Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental ...
Style: romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, high school, love, bipolar disorder, on the road, mental institution, manic depression, obsessive love, coming of age, teenage love, hitchhiking, psychology ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: seattle, latin america, usa, mexico
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 6.8
 32K
Now and Then (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place: usa, indiana
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 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
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Stephanie Daley (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot: sex education, murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, american football, cheerleader, high school student, babies and infants, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
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 7.0
 2K
My Suicide (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, hopes, teenage love, media, coming of age, obsession, filmmaking, teenage life, high school life, introspection, misfit, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Read It and Weep (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young girl turns into an A-List celebrity over night when her private journal is accidently published and becomes a best-seller.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, teen
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage girl, teenage love, diary, youth, popularity, teenage life, power relations, adolescence vs adulthood, rising to stardom, family life, alter ego ...
Time: 21st century
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Augusta, Gone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this ...
Style: suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, rise and fall, single parent, hopes, alcohol abuse, uncontrollable, intrigue, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, san francisco
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 5.9
 26K
Georgia Rule (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style: teen, melancholic, stylized, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, small town, dysfunctional family, family problems, teenager, parents and children, rebellious daughter, confession, justice, generation gap, family relations, uncontrollable ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa, san francisco, salt lake city utah
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Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ceremony, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
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 5.4
 13K
Cyber Bully (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot: bullying, suicide attempt, high school, betrayal, teen angst, teenage life, rumor, popularity, bully, socially awkward, social misfits, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.8
 3K
Unexpected (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, friendship, teachers and students, dedicated educator, society, teenage girl, intergenerational friendship, professor, teacher, teenager, women of color ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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 5.8
 1K
Double Daddy (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teen's life turns upside down when her boyfriend impregnates both her and a new student at school.
Style: romantic, captivating
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnant teenager, teenager, unplanned pregnancy, unfaithful, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic triangle, love story, romantic friendship, teenage love, relationship problems ...
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