Only People Who Grew Up In the 2000s Can Name These Teen Movies
- by Amber Winter
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If you grew up in the 2000s then you probably watched some of the most epic teen movies of all time. The movies that you waited all week to watch on Disney Channel, or the ones you’d watch on DVD over and over again. Most teen movies consist of a “coming of age” tale where the teen protagonist is working to overcome something in their life, and there is usually a romance subplot tangled in it somehow. Take High School Musical for example: Troy Bolton is trying desperately to prove to his father that he is more than just a basketball guy, all the while he is falling in love with new student Gabriella. Similar cases can be said for other teen films like She’s The Man, Geek Charming and 10 Things I Hate About You. Another very common trait of most movies geared towards teens is how realistic the problems are in the movies. For example, dealing with an identity crisis, wanting to be independent, or the desire to stand up for what’s right despite the difficult obstacles. Bella Swan is probably the only teenage who isn’t worrying about these things because she’s focused on running away from rogue vampires.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young high school student who has been home schooled for her entire life. However, after moving back from Africa, she is transferred to a new school where she quickly learns is divided among social cliques. Although she makes friends with two students who are “unconventional” and don’t fit anywhere, she also manages to befriend the popular girls. She and her two friends decide to ruin the popular girl’s lives as payback for how awful they are to everyone else.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young high school student who has become the new cheer leading captain. The previous captain was mean and ruthless, but left the legacy of being the bed squad in their area. After recruiting a new member who, although wasn’t good at cheering was an excellent gymnast reveals that all of their routines are stolen. Feeling guilty, the squad captain decides it would be best to start from scratch despite how far into the season they were.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a high school girl who is a little on the dorky side, where she and her best friend are very much on the outs at school. However, after her grandmother visits her she learns that not only is her grandmother a queen of a small country, but Mia is next in line to rule. She keeps this a secret initially, even from her best friend who is jealous of Mia’s sudden makeover transformation. Throughout the film she in conflicted about her role as being the next queen, but ultimately accepts.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a mother and daughter who initially don’t have the best relationship. Like most teenage girls, she is a little rebellious, mostly because her mother is remarrying and her daughter disapproves. One night while out to dinner, one of the waitresses of the restaurant gives them a body switching spell. The next morning, they are horrified to learn that they have switched. To make matters worse, their busy schedules prohibit them from returning to the restaurant right away, causing them to live each other’s lives.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about four best friends who have spent their whole lives together. However, for the first time they’ll be spending the summer apart. During their last days together, they go shopping only to discover a pair of jeans that fits them all perfectly, and they declare them to be magical. They make plans to share the pants throughout the summer, sending them off to one of the other three and share their experiences while wearing the jeans.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young teenage girl who moves in with her father after her mother and new husband make plans to travel for work. She and her father have a strained relationship, mostly because they hadn’t seen each other often. On her first day of school, she makes friends with a group of students who are genuinely nice. They tell her of the strange family of adoptive children who are all in relationships with each other. The single one becomes infatuated with the new student, where she learns of a dark secret about him and his family.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a collection of high school students who all met in detention. After their supervision leaves to have a discussion with the principal, the group all begin to mess around with the instruments in the room and have a spontaneous jam session. The supervision returns and encourages them to start a band to perform in an upcoming competition. They use their band as a voice for the rest of the students who are being looked over by the principal who only cares about the jocks and the new gymnasium.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young high school girl who is treated horribly by her step mother and step sisters. She is constantly emailing and IMing a mysterious boy who says he wants go to Princeton despite his father wanting him to pursue football. The arrange to meet at their high school masquerade dance, where she discovers the boy she has been messaging is none other than the most popular guy in school. She doesn’t reveal her identity, but he is determined to find her.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young girl who longs to be beautiful and developed – not the child she still is. After a horrible party where she is made a fool by the popular girls, she wishes to be older so she can be sophisticated and attractive. To both her surprise and horror her wishes come true, and she wakes up two decades later. The only issue is she doesn’t remember any of the years that have gone by, and she learns that she and her best friend lost touch after high school.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie features a young teenage girl who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. Obviously not ready for a child, she works through many of the different options available to her and decide to have a closed adoption. She finds a suitable family who is thrilled by her decision to choose them. However, throughout the pregnancy it becomes evident that the husband is not ready to be a father, and has developed feelings for the teenage girl. He and his wife split, but the teenager tells the mother that the baby is still hers if she wants.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young girl whose world gets turned upside down after her mother remarries. Not to just any man, but to a Commandant of a military school where she is forced to attend. Unfortunately military school was the last thing she thought she would do, and she struggles to fit in to the lifestyle. Luckily she makes a friend who helps her work through the strict rules and obeying her commanding officers. After getting in trouble, her punishment is to work on the drill team as a cleaner.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about two best friends who are saddened to learn that one of them is moving away. After a terrible rain storm, they are down by the pool when they discover a mermaid has washed up on land. They decide to help the mermaid find true love in order to escape the wedding her father had planned – in return they get a wish. Of course they decide their wish will be used so they can stay together.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about an adult who feels like he never fulfilled any of his life dreams after he abandoned his basketball career when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. The worst part is that his wife and children want nothing to do with him. After returning to his high school to reminisce about his old life, he is mysteriously turned back into his teenager self, where he is offered a “do over.” Believing that basketball was his one true calling, he attempts to reinvent his old life.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a geeky high school girl who has a bad habit of embarrassing herself. After two transfer students arrive at her school, she completely falls in love with the younger brother. Unfortunately for her, he begins dating her arch nemesis. The worst part of it all is that her best friend dates his older brother so she has to constantly see him. Determined to make him jealous, she hangs out with his best friend which only backfires on her.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about two high school students who are obsessed with a teen dancing show. When word spreads that the show will be attending their school, everyone is excited. Even more so when one of the dancers take a leave of absence and auditions are held. When one of the girls decides to try out, she is turned down because of her weight. Obviously upset, she makes friends with some other dancers who teach her a few new moves and ends up being brought on the show as a result.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a teenage boy who finds himself getting falsely arrested for a pair of shoes that were stolen. Instead of being sentenced to jail, he finds himself being sent to a detention camp where he is forced to dig in the desert all day long searching for something of value. The other juveniles are unkind to him at first, however he earns his place when he gets into a fight with another inmate. Eventually finding a treasure box, he learns that it belongs to a late relative of his, making him and his family rich.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a princess who is next in line to be queen. After graduating from college, she is finally ready to take her place on the throne. However, she discovers that’s not going to happen if she doesn’t find a husband in the next month. Furious about the idea of an arranged marriage, she decides to go through with it so that the sneaky Lord Nicholas will not steal the throne. After picking a husband, she slowly realizes her heart belongs to another.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about two students who come from very different social groups. The boy is a nerdy film student who wants to make his debut with the upcoming film festival, although hasn’t found the right muse. The girl is a popular student who desires nothing more than to be blossom queen. They work together in order to get what they both want: he is going to do a documentary on the popular student, and she will gain publicity because of her “movie.”
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a female soccer player who is devastated to learn that her team has been cut from lack of players. After the boy’s team refuses to let them tryout, she decides to enroll as her “brother” at a different school while he has away playing music to prove she is just as good as the rest of the team. Her roommate is the captain of the soccer team, and he agrees to help her (in disguise) get first string in exchange for helping him land a date with his crush.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a ladies man who dates multiple girls from different social groups at school at the same time. His secret is revealed during a volleyball practice, where three of his girlfriends realize they are dating the same guy. A fourth girl, who is a new student at the school tells them they should be taking their anger out on him, not each other. It is there that they decide to get their revenge on him, and send the new girl to pretend to like him in order to break his heart.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young girl who gets cursed with an obedience spell from a fairy. Throughout her childhood and into her teenage years she is forced to do everything anyone tells her to do – including to stand still. After her father remarries, her step sisters find out about her strange habit to do anything anybody says. Determined to get the fairy to lift her spell, she stumbles upon the prince, and eventually they fall in love after facing many ups and downs together.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a teenage girl who has dreamed about going to a prestigious music camp her entire life. Her mother manages to get hired as the caterer at the camp and is granted permission to allow her daughter attend. When she arrives, she is overwhelmed by the musical talent, but also how expensive everything is. She decides to lie about her parents because she is embarrassed to have only been able to afford the camp from her mother’s job.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about four female best friends who share the same dream of becoming superstars. They form a girl group, and although they are a little rough in the beginning, they audition for their school talent show and spark the interest in a record label. After their initial meeting with the record label, the stardom begins to go to one of the girls’ heads, where she begins to take credit and express that she is the leader, making the rest of the group feel horrible about themselves.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about two high school students who become friends after a spontaneous karaoke night on New Year’s Eve. The girl is quiet, and extremely intelligent, and joins the school decathlon team. The boy is a popular basketball player who is told to focus only on his games and practices. However, both have a passion for singing and decide to audition together, and are surprised to learn they got in. They plan around their schedules, although both of their other teams can sense that their minds are preoccupied on something else.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young wealthy school girl who is notorious for finding out the latest gossip and sharing it in her school newspaper. Although mostly innocent, her latest hit turns for the worst when a teacher from her school goes mysteriously missing after one of her articles is published. Fearing something might be seriously wrong, she puts her detective work to the test as she and her friends decide to uncover what really happened to their teacher.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a cynical high school student who has a bad attitude towards almost everyone. Her teachers, peers, and family are constantly pointing out her negativity, but she doesn’t seem to care. Her younger sister however is distraught because their father won’t allow her to date boys unless her older sister is too. The popular boy in school, who is after the younger sister, decides to pay off one of the scariest guys in school to date the older sister so he can have his way with the younger one.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young boy who has been struggling through life. His home life is not doing the best in terms of finances, and at school he is the victim of bullying. However, things start to seem to lighten up when he is introduced to his new next door neighbor at school. Feeling like he has no one else, the two spend more time together, and create their own little world after finding an abandoned tree house in the woods.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a troublesome boy who breaks into the theatre school with his two best friends but is caught by security. He is forced to do community service at the school, where he stumbles upon a dance rehearsal of a senior student. After her partner is injured she is desperate to find a replacement, and he volunteers his services for he too knows how to dance. Her director accepts and the two work closely together, but he is left feeling used after her old partner returns and he is cut out of the dance.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a teenage girl who has a passion for singing. However, after her brother is killed on the way home from them attending a concert, she loses interest in it completely. Her mother encourages her to enter a program that her father disapproves of, and helps lie to him so that she can attend. During her time there, she struggles to open up fully because she continues to have flashbacks of her brother’s death anytime the stage lights come on.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a skating protégé who is discovered by a famous Russian coach. Unfortunately her parents cannot afford to send her to the school. Her coach manages to persuade the school’s hockey team to give her a scholarship, where she is forced to divide her time between the team and the training. Her team makes it clear they frown upon figure skaters, so she is forced to keep her true reason for attending the school a secret.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a teenage singer who is extremely famous. However, one girl in particular doesn’t see what all of the fuss is about. After getting hit with a door, she is surprised to learn that it was from this pop star. After bringing her to the hospital to make sure she’s alright, he spends the night in her garage to avoid the paparazzi. The next day, they meet again at the beach and spend the day together, only for him to say it would be wise to pretend it never happened.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a high school girl who has transferred to a new school. Her parents are medieval literature enthusiast, and she discovers that she might just be living out the reincarnated legend of Arthur. The more she studies about the legend, the more she begins to see that her classmates are perfect examples of the people from the story, including King Arthur, Mordred, Lancelot, and even Merlin. To their surprise, the person that they thought was king Arthur turned out to be just another knight.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a teenage boxer who fights to compete for the “golden gloves” which his father one back in his day. However, he begins to realize that his passion might lie with something else – double dutch. His next door neighbor has a team and after seeing them compete, he is intrigued by it to say the very least. He eventually joins their team after one of the members quit, but refuses to tell his father in fear of what he might say.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a high school student who enrolls into a secret CIA program following his training camp. He goes into an undercover mission to find out information about a scientist because he is the only one that will go unrecognized. He transfers to the scientist’s daughter’s school where he is meant to get to know her. Unfortunately, as he learns about the dark secrets of her father, he is at the same time falling in love with her.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young woman who is attending her first year at college. She is quirky to say the very least, but is excited because it is the school her late mother attended. Unfortunately she has a different experience with the sorority and is kicked out for not fitting in. She then moves into a house filled with dorks just like her, and they plan to overthrown the sorority queen as she attempts to destroy their house to build another Greek building for themselves.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a very large family, where the overbearing father feels like all his children are growing up and leaving. He decides to rent the family cottage for one last time so they may all be together. Unfortunately his attempts for family bonding are shot down as their neighboring rival family outshine him time and time again. Both families are pitted against each other at the Labor Day event, however after his eldest child goes into labor they put aside their differences to get her to the delivery room.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about two very wealthy sisters who are undeniably spoiled. Their father built their reputation through his cosmetics company, but after a scandal with one of their products explodes on social media the two girls go into hiding. To make matters worse, their mansion is set on fire and their finances are cut off – leaving them broke and without a home. Furthermore, they begin to realize the people in their lives were only there for their money, and they are only left with each other.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a failed rock star who impersonates his roommate in order to get the money he needs for his share of the rent. He decides to create a band of his own who will perform with him at the Battle of the Bands after his former band kicks him out. Using the time during school to help them practice, they stop doing actual homework and only focus on music. However in doing this, some of his students overcome their own personal battles along the way.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about three siblings who become orphans after a mysterious fire in their home killed their parents. They are forced to live with their closest relative, who treats them very poorly, and is only interested in the family fortune. After an accident almost resulting in their death, they are brought to another relative, however their first is determined to get his hands on their money. After numerous relatives are killed in mysterious ways, the oldest sibling is almost married off but her brother steps in and burns the certificate before it is official.
Can you name this teen movie?
This teen movie is about a young princess who is about to be crowned queen when a neighboring country invades her land in an attempt to kidnap her and her entire family. However, she luckily escapes after a secret organization designed to protection royal families takes her away to a place where she can be hidden. Living with her protector, she is instructed to pretend to be a regular teenage girl, however her royal upbringing proves to make it a difficult task.