Best Teenager movies of 2000s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Eddie Griffin, Michael Imperioli, Paula Jai Parker, Anthony Anderson,
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.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Juan David Restrepo, Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Manuel Busquets,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin ...

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 : Biana Tamimi, Richard Romanus, Patrick Elyas, Gérard Rudolf,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A young girl befriends a wild black stallion.