Best Teenager movies of 1980s

Actors : Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Rene Auberjonois, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Art Linson,

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Actors : Courtney Thorne-Smith, Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen,
Directors : David Seltzer,

A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.

Actors : David Hayman, Sarah Miles, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir,
Directors : John Boorman,

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

Actors : Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there.

Actors : Peter Friedman, Michael Biehn, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : Angel Ramirez Jr., Jimmy Hughes, Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson,

Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ...

Actors : Cynthia Rhodes, Steve Inwood, Finola Hughes, John Travolta,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Actors : Brandy Gold, Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.

Actors : John Wesley Shipp, Kenny Morrison, Jonathan Brandis, Clarissa Burt,
Directors : George Miller,

A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.

Actors : Keith David, Basil Wallace, Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.

Actors : Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Aleksey Kravchenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Actors : Kathryn Walker, Michael McKean, Mary Beth Hurt, Colleen Camp,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A seemingly normal young boy turns out to be a top secret military-created robot with superhuman abilities.

Actors : James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Michael Caine, Jon Lovitz,
Directors : James Orr,

Unhappy Larry Burrows sees what his life could've been like, had he made that winning home run as a teenager.

Actors : Divine, Edith Massey, Tab Hunter, David Samson,
Directors : John Waters,

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.

Actors : Perry King, Roddy McDowall, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.

Actors : Billy Jayne, Toni Hudson, Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner,
Directors : Lisa Gottlieb,

Terry Griffith has got it all -- looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend, and an article that's a shoo-in to win her a summer internship at the local newspaper... or so she thinks....

Actors : C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Arye Gross,
Directors : Steve Miner,

To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Jay Underwood, Lucy Deakins,
Directors : Nick Castle,

An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.

Actors : Stacey Glick, Casey Siemaszko, Annie Ryan, Richard Tyson,
Directors : Phil Joanou,

A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's end.

Actors : Iron Eyes Cody, John Vernon, Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo,
Directors : John R. Cherry III,

Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.