Best Teenager movies of 2000s

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

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 : 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 : Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, Brittany Snow, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : David M. Rosenthal,

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

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 : Anny Mariano, Judy Marte, Paola Mendoza, Dominic Colón,

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

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 : 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 : Rachel Harker, Elisabeth Shue, 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 : 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 : 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 : Georgia Groome, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 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 : 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 : Geoffrey Wigdor, Stephen Lang, Karen Allen, Nick Thurston,
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 : 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 : Fernando Ramallo, Jordi Vilches, Marieta Orozco, Esther Nubiola,
Directors : Cesc Gay,

A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.

Actors : Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku,
Directors : Ed Decter,

A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town's other high school.

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 : 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 : Mitch Morris, Michael Carbonaro, Jonathan Chase, Jonah Blechman,
Directors : Todd Stephens,

Four gay high school friends make a pact to lose their virginity before they go to college.

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

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