Best Teenager movies of 2000s

Actors : James Frain, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Natalie Portman,
Directors : Matt Williams,

A pregnant 17-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.

Actors : Cicely Tyson, Jeff Daniels, AnnaSophia Robb, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Actors : Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney, Danny Dyer, Shawn Hatosy,
Directors : Peter Sheridan,

Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden.

Actors : Darsheel Safary, Tanay Chheda, Sachet Engineer, Aamir Khan,

An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.

Actors : Cesar Ramos, Kevin Kline, Kathleen Gati, Paulina Gaitan,
Directors : Marco Kreuzpaintner,

Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, to save her. Trapped and terrified ...

Actors : Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi, Vincent Lindon,
Directors : Philippe Lioret,

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches ...

Actors : Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Georgia Groome, Karen Taylor, Alan Davies,
Directors : Gurinder Chadha,

The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.

Actors : Brian Dennehy, Dustin Ingram, Jee Young Han, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Keith Bearden,

When an awkward teen meets his favorite porn star, whose career peaked in the '80s, an unexpected friendship follows as the young man gets a glimpse inside Monica Velour's current life as a single mom struggling to make ends meet.

Actors : Elisabeth Shue, Rachel Harker, Melissa Leo, Thomas Haden Church,
Directors : Jake Goldberger,

Don McKay, a high school janitor who leaves his hometown after a tragedy, returns 25 years later to rekindle a romance with his old flame, who is dying, but this homecoming brings McKay more than he bargained for.

Actors : Elle Fanning, Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman,
Directors : Daniel Barnz,

Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher.

Actors : Stephen Lang, Karen Allen, Nick Thurston, Geoffrey Wigdor,
Directors : John Gray,

Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Frank Wood, Jake Hoffman, Jayne Houdyshell,
Directors : Peter Riegert,

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist...

Actors : Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Paul Sedaris,
Directors : Paul Dinello,

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a forty-six-year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.

Actors : Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González, Jesus Castanos,

As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Val Kilmer, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

Actors : Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Max Paradise, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Cam Archer,

A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his newfound sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.

Actors : Christophe Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Joseph Duo, Dagbeth Tweh,
Directors : Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an African country.

Actors : Nikolay Spiridonov, Nikolay Reutov, Yuriy Itskov, Mariya Kuznetsova,
Directors : Andrey Kravchuk,

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

Actors : Aidan Gould, Tilda Swinton, Kate del Castillo, Saul Rubinek,
Directors : Erick Zonca,

A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.

Actors : Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Paula Jai Parker,
Directors : Cheryl Dunye,

A trio of young men (Griffin, Anderson, and Imperioli) are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.