Teen drama movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant teen drama movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out teen, realistic, touching, serious, captivating and sexy films and TV shows about / with teenager, coming of age, high school, teenage girl, young adult, high school student, teenage life, youth, friendship and boyfriend girlfriend relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Serbia and other countries.
teen drama movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as teen drama: Euphoria (2019), The End of the F***ing World (2017), Gossip Girl (2007), Clip (2012), Skins (2011), After (2019), Pretty Little Liars (2010), Impulse (2018), Sex Education (2019), 13 Reasons Why (2017).

List of teen drama movies

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 8.2
 290K
Euphoria (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, depressing, sexy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, teenager, coming of age, drug addict, high school, mental illness, lgbt, youth, sex, sexuality, school, teenage life ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, brooklyn new york city, italy, california, singapore ...
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The End of the F***ing World (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, captivating, dark comedy, road movie ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, underage, murder, psycho, road trip, teenage love, relationships, dark humor, love, psychopath, enemies to lovers, tragic love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: united kingdom
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 7.5
 213K
Gossip Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, soap opera, teen, talky ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, popularity, gossip and rumors, teenager, youth, high school life, teenage love, adolescence, friends, lifestyle, coming of age, love triangle ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 5.6
 8K
Clip (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jasna, a beautiful teenager, leads a crude life in post-war Serbia. She goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying until she finds love and tenderness in a harsh environment.
Style: realistic, sexy, sexual, controversial, rough ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: explicit sex, masturbation, innocence lost, sexual relations, teenage sex, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, destructive relationship, strong sexual content, partying, youth, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: serbia, europe, eastern europe
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 3.8
 6K
Skins (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.
Style: sexy, sexual, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage sexuality, teenage sex, troubled teen, teen drug use, love and romance, teenager, high school, friendship, youth, teenage life, social relations, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, baltimore
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 5.3
 75K
After (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
Style: romantic, sexy, emotional, light, saga ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot: love, teen romance, college, opposites attract, teenage love, fall in love, youth, teenager, high school hunk, sexual relations, teenage boy, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, teen, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: high school, high school life, lesbian, blackmail, threat, gossip and rumors, haunted by the past, teenage life, murder, mysterious character, friendship, friends ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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 7.4
 11K
Impulse (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Follow 16-year-old Henrietta, aka Henry, who discovers she has the ability to teleport. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school’s Golden Boy, who tries to rape her.
Style: sexy, sexual, suspense, lyrical, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: danger, teenage life, supernatural, friendship, youth, family relations, criminal, superpower, sex, investigation, sexual assault, high school ...
Place: usa, thailand
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 8.2
 393K
Sex Education (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style: sex comedy, sexy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, coming of age, teenage sexuality, lgbt teen, youth, classmate, sex education, teenage life, couples, love triangle ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england
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 7.4
 337K
13 Reasons Why (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.
Style: emotional, psychological, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: suicide, high school, depression, bullying, guilt, loss of friend, human relationship, troubled teen, loss, classmate classmate relationship, suicidal, lgbtq ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.4
 60K
Before I Fall (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Style: bad ending, suspense, teen, sweet, meditative ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: time loop, teenager, friendship, dying repeatedly, female protagonist, bullying, strong female character, public humiliation, mean girl, stereotypes, redemption, death ...
Time: year 2017
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 8.5
 42K
Skam (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season.
Style: emotional, dramatic, realistic, sweet, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, high school student, friendship, teenage sexuality, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, gay relationship, teenager, high school, friendship between girls, gay teenager ...
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
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Finding Carter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.
Style: touching, emotional, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: missing child, family reunited, parents and children, life turned upside down, teenage life, introspection, family secret, self discovery, starting over, uncover truth, dysfunctional family, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 103K
The O.C. (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled youth from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as ...
Style: touching, soap opera, witty, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: couples, coming of age, sexual activity, youth, teenage life, love and romance, high school life, college, teenage love, troubled teen, friends, rich and poor ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, hawaii, los angeles
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 6.8
 8K
2:37 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, brother sister incest, incest, rape, youth, teenage life, suicide, homosexual, high school life, teenage love, incest rape, social relations ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a ...
Style: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, love triangle, first love, teenager, in love, first kiss, pretty girl, teenage girl, adolescence, love affair, love story, love and romance ...
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Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style: touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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 7.0
 91K
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, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
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 7.0
 1K
Eagles (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story: Eagles revolves around a few teenagers living in the Swedish ice hockey town Oskarshamn while experiencing friendship, love, and rivalry on the ice.
Style: sincere, touching, romantic, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage daughter, hockey player, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, athlete's life, family relations, sport team, sports fan, sport competition, adolescence, sporting event, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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 6.7
 131K
If I Stay (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock ...
Style: touching, emotional, teen, tear jerker, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love, hospital, teenager, teenage girl, teenage love, love and romance, teenage life, family drama, youth, death in the family, out of body experience, high school ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century, labor day
Place: oregon, usa, san francisco, indianapolis indiana, portland oregon
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 6.4
 165K
Riverdale (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, biting, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, investigation, friendship, youth, small town, amateur detective, murder investigation, friends, danger, mysterious death, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: chicago
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Blood & Water (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Africa
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.
Style: serious, captivating, suspense, confusing, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: private school, school, private investigation, high school, secret, family secret, uncover truth, investigation, sister sister relationship, secret revealed, family problems, crime solving ...
Place: south africa
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 6.8
 107K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
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: tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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 5.2
 18K
Fallen (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep ...
Style: gothic, touching, exciting, captivating, rom com ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: fallen angel, teenager, reform school, love, fall in love, love and romance, couples, lucifer, angel, guardian angel, teenage life, reincarnation ...
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The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Amy and her friends at Grant High learn to define themselves while they navigate the perilous waters of contemporary adolescence. Between their love triangles, secrets, drama, accusations, gossip, confusion, and scandalous rumors, there's never ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, teen, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, teenager, high school, cheerleader, teenage life, teenage mother, step siblings, pregnant teenager, high school student, high school hunk, parents and children, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 8.2
 100K
Skins (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style: sexy, captivating, cynical, sexual, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, underage drinking, drug, friends, friendship, high school life, crush, looking for sex, party ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, canada
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After We Collided (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tessa finds herself struggling with her complicated relationship with Hardin; she faces a dilemma that could change their lives forever.
Style: sexy, romantic, erotic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend conflict, love, teenager, opposites attract, true love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage crush, love and romance, student, youth, forgiveness, relationships ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
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 7.5
 133K
Love, Simon (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbt teen, homosexuality, high school, homosexual, teenager, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay interest, gay teenager, gay relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 2000s
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 7.8
 93K
One Tree Hill (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the fictional small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, this teen-driven drama tells the story of two half brothers, who share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, teen, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: couples, high school life, high school, friendship, girlfriend, couple relations, teenage life, teenage love, youth, renewed love, friends, family relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi (Maria Valverde) is a girl from upper-middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, romantic, sexy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, love, opposites attract, young love, forbidden love, friendship, young lovers, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, youth, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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