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, serious, touching, sentimental, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with teen social issues, teenager, teenage life, youth, teenage girl, family relations, coming of age, lifetime, high school and parents and children plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
teen social issues
TOP 10 movies tagged as teen social issues: Thirteen (2003), American Girl (2002), America (2009), Accused at 17 (2009), Expecting Mary (2010), Freshman Father (2010), The Pregnancy Pact (2010), Trust (2010), Lying to Be Perfect (2010), The Boy She Met Online (2010).
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List of teen social issues movies
91K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A pregnant teenager is determined to leave her trailer park home with the hope of living a happy family life.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, twisted, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnant teenager, parents and children, family problems, family gatherings, teenage life, human nature, coming of age, single parent, youth, dark humor, siblings relations ...
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692
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, psychological, serious, sincere
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
adoption, youth, human spirit, teenage life, custody, family problems, life is a bitch, society, hopes, family in crisis, sexual abuse, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, law enforcement, disorder, police investigation, friendship, prank, youth, dishonesty, friends, crime gone awry, murder, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, ...
Plot:
christmas, teen social issues, dancing, trailer park
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When high school sweethearts John (Seeley) and Kathy (Irvin) find out Kathy is pregnant, they decide to get married and move to Cambridge so John can fulfill his scholarship to Harvard. But faced with the harsh reality of their situation, Kathy ...
Style:
melancholic, touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage mother, teenage pregnancy, father son relationship, family relations, workaholic, honest, parents and children, single parent, starting over, college student, husband wife relationship, bittersweet ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of teenagers at Gloucester (Mass.) High School who agreed to get pregnant at the same time.
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, sentimental
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, high school, journalism, society, social relations, teenage life, teenager, mother daughter relationship, motherhood, investigation, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, massachusetts
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43K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, teenager, investigation, father daughter relationship, bullying, child abuse, rape and revenge, internet, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
By day, Nola Devlin (Poppy Montgomery) is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her coworkers. When the sun sets, though, and she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous and ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
physical appearance, cinderella story, friendship, looking for love, life turned upside down, disorder, couples, love and romance, hidden identity, workplace, lie, female friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When teenager Cami Winters falls in love, she falls hard. Her single mother, Tori, has no idea that Cami has fallen in love with a boy named 'Jake' she met on a social networking website. Although Cami believes Jake's a 23 year-old ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dangerous attraction, dishonesty, teenage love, deception, murder, online dating, convict, maniac, suspense, age-gap relationship, teen social issues, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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145K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different ...
Style:
touching, sweet, sentimental, emotional, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love, best friends in love, couples, friends in love, best friend, love affair, love and romance, youth, teenage pregnancy, true love, single mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, england, boston, canada, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, first love, youth, adolescence, mental illness, suicide, teenage life, depression, shyness ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When the number one junior player in the country is injured, she begins to discover the teenage life she never got to live... and find the love she never thought she'd have.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
tennis, prom, coming of age, lifestyle, teenage life, fall in love, teenager, self discovery, teenage love, fish out of water, popularity, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, russia
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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, humorous, feel good, witty, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, mental illness, group sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The estranged daughter of a small town minister is forced to return to the strict, religious home of her youth where she must confront the troubled relationships that caused her to leave four years before
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, serious
Plot:
clergy, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, society, religions or cults, small town, homecoming, family problems, teen social issues, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love story, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virgin, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new jersey, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Inspired by events that took place in Massachusetts, Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut focuses on a group of bored teenage girls who all make an irrevocable pact. When Camille (Louise Grinberg) accidentally becomes pregnant, she ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, clever, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
innocence lost, youth, teenage life, solidarity, rebellion, rebelliousness, coming of age, best friends, adolescence vs adulthood, small town, outcast, group of friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
high school, righting the wronged, teenage life, high school life, social relations, family relations, family problems, private vs public, death in the family, siblings relations, parents and children, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, sad, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
bullying, high school, suicide attempt, betrayal, bully, teenage life, teen angst, rumor, popularity, socially awkward, social misfits, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
High school senior Casey finds herself seduced into the fast lifestyle of a call girl ring run by a campus police officer and must pull herself out before she loses all self-control. made for TV
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
youth, self control, corrupt officer, parents and children, chance, lifestyle, social relations, high school life, teenage life, teenager, popularity, dirty cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage life, high school, youth, parents and children, dishonesty, family relations, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teenage girl, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
Style:
romantic, sexy, touching, sexual, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, youth, love and romance, teenage life, marooned, high school student, true love, tropical island, fall in love, desert island, lost at sea, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
caribbean
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, heist, race against time, track down, confined, on the run, parents and children, friendship, abduction, suspense, woman with a gun, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A seductive teen becomes vindictive when her boyfriend tries to end the relationship.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, dark, realistic
Plot:
teenager, obsession, mental illness, dangerous attraction, teenage life, manipulation, psychopath, single parent, youth, false accusation, parents and children, divorced parents ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
adoption, journalist, convent, catholic church, self discovery, journalism, religious intolerance, catholic, faith, nun, golden years, illegitimate son ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1952, 2000s, year 1955 ...
Place:
ireland, england, washington d.c., usa, oxford university
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When 17 year old Angela fell for Chad, he promised to love her forever. When she got pregnant with his child, he promised to take care of them both. When she realized he was deceptive and abusive, he promised to change. When she wanted to leave, he ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stalker, teenage pregnancy, age difference, kidnapping, obsession, teenage life, family problems, stalking, youth, pregnancy, family in danger, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, tense, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, found footage, bullying, high school life, kids in trouble, teenage life, suicide, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, filmmaker, humiliation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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477
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.
Style:
touching, tense, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, young love, teenage boy, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, baby, family relations, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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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, touching, sincere, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, friendship, teachers and students, dedicated educator, society, teenage girl, intergenerational friendship, teenager, teacher, young parents, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa
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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, entertaining
Plot:
pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenager, unplanned pregnancy, unfaithful, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic triangle, relationships, love triangle, love story, romantic friendship ...
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