Pick Or Pass On These Teen Movies And We'll Guess Your Clique!

Considering how much most of us did not enjoy high school, there sure are a lot of movies out there about the teen years. Maybe it’s because there’s so much uncertainty in a teenager’s life that makes creating conflict easy, since there’s always a prom or a basketball game to worry about. Teenage years sure are messy, but that’s exactly why they’re so entertaining to watch on the big screen.

There isn’t just one kind of teen movie, though, like there isn’t only one type of teen. Everyone’s got their “thing” that they’re into and a specific group of friends that is more or less into those things as well. There are athletes, honor roll students, band geeks, art kids, anime kids, skaters, the list goes on. Everyone is unique in their own way, but typically people hang out with other people who are also into the same things as them.

Each teen movie caters to a specific high school story, and not all of them are the same--high school and vampires go together for some reason, after all. Go through this list of teen movies throughout the ages, pick the best watchlist, and see which high school clique fits best with these movie choices.

Question 1

Easy A

Olive was just a regular high school girl who liked to spend her weekends listening to “Pockets Full of Sunshine” all weekend instead of hanging out with her best friend’s parents. What was supposed to be just a white lie about her fake date with a college guy blew up way out of proportion and the whole school knew about it. Now Olive has a reputation as a loose woman, but she learns to embrace it. She starts wearing more revealing clothing with an A sewn on it, like in the book “The Scarlet Letter.” Things eventually get out of hand, though, like they always do and she tries to let everyone know what the actual truth is, even if nobody believes her at first.

Question 2

10 Things I Hate About You

Loosely based on the Shakespeare play “The Taming of the Shrew” this movie follows the story of the two Stratford sisters, Bianca and Kat. Bianca’s the popular one, but her father won’t allow her to date until after high school, or if Kat dates someone first. Kat is pretty brash and shrewish so it looks like nobody would want to date her, which makes things hopeless for her sister. Joey, who wants to date Bianca, hires the “bad boy,” Patrick, to date Kat so that her sister can be allowed to date him. It’s hard for Patrick to get Kat to open up and accept him, but she eventually does. It may have just been a job for Patrick at the start, but he eventually falls in love with Kat as well.

Question 3

Mean Girls

After being homeschooled in Africa her whole life, Cady was about to experience public high school for the first time--and things were going to get crazy. On her first day she made two friends, Janice and Damian, who took her under their wing to help her do high school right. They tell her about the Plastics, the super popular girls that everyone loves to hate. As a new kid, Cady infiltrates the Plastics to try and bring their supreme ruler, Regina George, down a few pegs. In the process, Cady becomes the very thing she was trying to destroy.

Question 4

Bring It On

It’s senior year and Torrence is ready to lead the Toros cheer squad into their sixth national title. When the new girl, Missy, arrives, she finds out that the old team captain had been going to other schools’ practices and stealing their routines and that their current routine is identical to the Clovers. The squad still wants to use the stolen routine, and are inevitably humiliated at regionals. They hire a choreographer to make them a new routine, but it’s also not original. The Toros have to create their own routine from scratch if they were going to win nationals honestly.

Question 5

Heathers

Veronica is hanging out with the popular girls, all named Heather, even though she hates them--and for good reason, they’re all pretty awful. Heather Chandler, the leader of the Heathers, is the worst of them all, and Veronica would like nothing more than to get rid of her. She meets a boy at school, Jason Dean, who is all kinds of mysterious. He helps her with her plot of revenge on Heather, but he takes it too far and Heather passes away after their prank. After every prank that goes wrong, things just escalate more and more and Veronica has to try and stop her crazy boyfriend before it’s too late.

Question 6

Clueless

Cher Horowitz has everything: a loving dad, the best friend you could ask for, and a highly advanced computer program that coordinates all of her outfits. There’s a new girl in school, Tai, and Cher determines it’s up to her to take Tai under her wing and make her super popular, which turns out backfiring. She also has to deal with her ex-stepbrother, Josh, who picks on her all the time and calls her superficial. She’s having a hard time finding love, but in the end she realizes that she actually really likes Josh.

Question 7

The Princess Diaries

Mia is a fairly dorky high school girl who has bad hair and not a lot of charm. One day, she is visited by her grandmother, who reveals herself to be the Queen of Genovia, a small European country. She now has to take the throne of the country, or it will be without a ruler. Mia reluctantly agrees and starts to take princess lessons to learn what it takes to be considered royalty. During all of this, her friendship with Lilly starts to slip, and she starts to gain popularity at school for being a princess. Being royalty is hard work.

Question 8

Freaky Friday

Things are not going well for Anna at the moment. Her mom, Tess, is getting married to another guy after three years of being a widow, her brother is invasive and annoying, her mom hates her band, she is tormented by her ex-best friend, and she has a teacher that constantly fails her. It’s common for mothers and daughters to not get along during the teenage years, but their relationship is very strained. On a fateful night at a Chinese restaurant, they’re given a fortune cookie that makes them switch bodies. They now have to navigate life as each other and try not to ruin everything, while also trying to understand each other better.

Question 9

17 Again

In 1989, Mike gave up his basketball scholarship to support his then girlfriend, Scarlet, who was pregnant. They were in love, but it didn’t last forever because now at 37 years old, Scarlet wants to divorce Mike, his kids hate him, and he is stuck crashing at his friend’s house. In a bout of sadness, Mike revisits the high school where everything started to fall apart. After meeting a mysterious janitor, he turns seventeen again, and enrolls in the school to try and make his old dreams a new reality. Of course, now he has to deal with his kids as peers, while also trying to not be the weird kid who is obsessed with his friend’s mom, who is actually his wife.

Question 10

Dazed and Confused

The year is 1976 and it’s the last day of school before the summer. The newly appointed seniors partake in their traditional hazing of the incoming freshmen. The movie follows several different people and their adventures of that night. They do the things that high school kids always do in movies--kiss and drive around. There’s word that there’s a field party that night, so all of the local kids meet up there and partake in even more crazy shenanigans.

Question 11

Can't Hardly Wait

Preston has had a huge crush on Amanda, the most popular girl in school, for years ever since he noticed that they eat the same toaster pastry for breakfast. He plans to confess his love to her at the big graduation party that night, revealing that it was him who sent Amanda a very heartfelt letter. She had just been broken up with by her boyfriend, so when Preston confesses she rejects him, without putting the pieces together that the guy from the letter is also him. The next day, Preston is at the train station to leave for Boston, and Amanda follows him. They still write letters every day.

Question 12

Twilight

“Twilight” was probably the most popular series in 2008 and every teen girl’s dream before we realized that this kind of relationship may not be the most ideal out there. The story follows Bella Swan, who moved to the town of Forks, Washington to live with her dad. At school, she meets the mysterious but wildly attractive Edward Cullen. She figures out that he’s a vampire, but still decides to date him anyways, which puts her in a lot of danger.

Question 13

Superbad

Seth and Evan are best friends and also not very popular at school. They’re about to head off to different colleges, being separated for the first time ever. In their home economics class, Seth is paired up with Jules, the girl he’s been crushing on for a long time. She invites him to a party at her house that night, and since his friend Fogell was getting a fake ID, he promised to supply the alcohol as a way to impress her. Pretty much everything goes wrong and the three friends have to get out of some hilarious situations to get to the party, where they all end up making total fools of themselves.

Question 14

The Fault in Our Stars

This movie follows Hazel, a teenage girl with terminal thyroid cancer. In attempts to feel better, she is encouraged to join a cancer patient support group, where she meets Augustus. The two become fast friends and start to share their favorite books to each other. The one Hazel recommends ends mid sentence, so they try to contact the author to ask him why he did that. He won’t talk to anyone over email, so they try to go to Amsterdam to meet the author himself. While there, Augustus confesses his love for Hazel and also tells her that his days are numbered. After the trip, he passes and Hazel is left with all of the beautiful memories they have with each other.

Question 15

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller is quite a charming kid and a known troublemaker. He decides one day to skip school by calling in sick, but instead of staying home he gets his two friends out of school and they spend the day in downtown Chicago. All the while, his sister and the Dean are suspicious that he’s just playing hooky. The crew have a blast while in the city, hitting up all the major spots and even joining a parade. Ferris makes it home just before his parents get back, which means that the day was a success.

Question 16

Back to the Future

The life of Marty McFly is not all that great, his band sucks and his parents are losers. While hanging out with his older mad scientist friend, Doc, he shows Marty a time machine made out of a DeLorean. It runs on plutonium that he stole and is set to 1955. A group of terrorists come and attack Doc for the plutonium, and Marty manages to escape using the car. By getting up to 88 miles per hour, the time machine activates and he’s sent back to 1955. Once he’s there, he saves his younger dad from getting hit by a car, which would prevent him and Marty’s mom from ever meeting. He has to come up with a way to get them back together or Marty won’t exist in the future.

Question 17

She's All That

After getting dumped by his girlfriend, Zack’s best friend, Dean, tries to cheer him up by betting that he couldn’t make the least popular girl in school prom queen. Zack takes him up on the challenge and starts to court Laney Boggs, a quiet art student with few friends. She’s resistant to his advances at first, suspicious that it might be a prank or something, but then ends up opening up to him. When she finds out it was all because of a bet, she gets really upset, but Zack comes after her saying that his current feelings are real.

Question 18

Warm Bodies

It’s been years since the zombie apocalypse has started and R has spent most of his zombie life wandering aimlessly through an abandoned airport. When Jill comes on a mission to get supplies, R becomes infatuated with her. After eating her boyfriend’s brains, he falls even more in love. To save Jill from other predatory zombies, he helps hide her and the two start to bond. The more time they spend together, it seems as though R gains a little more life back into his undead body. Maybe all they need to stop the zombie apocalypse is to show the zombies some love.

Question 19

The Breakfast Club

Five high school students from different cliques all are stuck in Saturday detention and have to spend all day in the library together. None of the kids know much about each other, since they never really had a reason to up to this point. With just a little bit of time, all five kids got to know each other and they realize that they really aren’t so different and nobody’s life is all that perfect, no matter how nice it seems on the outside.

Question 20

Napoleon Dynamite

This is one of the strangest teen movies out there, and is also one of the touchstone movies that defines the early 2000’s era. It centers around the life of a sixteen year-old boy named Napoleon who is extremely socially awkward. To cope with his weird life, he takes to drawing strange creatures. He makes two friends, Deb, a shy girl, and Pedro, a new student from Mexico. Pedro wants to be class president, and Napoleon tries to help him out the best he can, which means that there’s a really good dance number at the end of the movie.

Question 21

High School Musical

“High School Musical” may be over ten years old now, but it still holds up as a great movie and a very enjoyable viewing experience. On New Year’s Eve, Troy sings karaoke with Gabriella, who turns out to be the new girl at school. She tries to convince him to audition for the school musical, but he’s reluctant because he is a basketball player and there’s absolutely no way that someone could do both.

Question 22

Juno

Teenager Juno ends up getting pregnant by her best friend, Paulie. At first, she was planning on terminating it but then decided to keep the baby and put it up for adoption. She finds a nice couple who were looking for a child themselves. As time goes on, though, the couple’s marriage gets strained and Juno also gets hurt. In the end, though, she finds love with Paulie and the baby has a new, loving home.

Question 23

Scream

“Scream” may be a horror movie, but it’s also totally a high school drama. There’s someone going around town calling young women and tormenting them, all while wearing a basic Halloween costume. School is closed because of these events and Billy and Stu, who end up being the culprits, throw a party at their house where they talk about classic horror movies and critique how predictable they are.

Question 24

To All The Boys I ever Loved Before

Lara Jean has been in love with five boys, but they never knew that about her. She would secretly write them love letters, which she stowed away for safekeeping. Somehow, the letters were mailed out to the respective guys. To try to hide her embarrassment, she starts a fake relationship with Peter Kravinsky, the most popular guy in school, and one of the letter recipients.

Question 25

The Hunger Games

It’s America in the future, and things have turned really bad. The country is now split up into thirteen districts, and every year a boy and a girl from each district are chosen to fight in a last-man-standing fight. When Katniss’s younger sister was chosen, Katniss stood up and volunteered herself to save her sister’s life. From then on, it was all about trying to survive through the trials--while also disrupting the status quo in a permanent way.

Question 26

Wet Hot American Summer

It’s the last day of summer camp, which means it’s the last time anyone is going to see each other until next year. Even though these campers have spent all this time together, there are some loose ends that they want to fix before they go home. This movie follows all of these stories while also being absurd enough to have a talking can of vegetables.

Question 27

Grease

On summer break, Danny and Sandy have a sweet summer romance, but it was time to go back to school and they might possibly never see each other again. As luck would have it, Sandy’s family decided not to move back to Australia so the two would be in school together. At first, Sandy is a sweet, innocent girl hanging out with the Pink Ladies while Danny is a delinquent. The two fall in love again at school, Sandy changes her outfit to black, and there’s a whole lot of singing.

Question 28

The Edge of Seventeen

Things are not going great for Nadine, and she just wants to end it all. Her dad passed away, her best friend is now dating her super popular brother, and she doesn’t have a great relationship with her mom. It seems like she’s a nobody, but learns to realize that the grass isn’t always greener on her brother’s side, and that there are people who love and care about her.

Question 29

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Charlie has been battling depression, and is also quite a loner. He ends up meeting two step-siblings, Sam and Patrick, who take him under their wing and start inviting him to hang out with them and their friends. This helps his mental health immensely. He finally found people who will love him for who he is, and will support him even during his worst moments.

Question 30

Bend It Like Beckham

Jess comes from a conservative Punjabi Sikh family, and while she has a passion for playing soccer, is forbidden to by her parents. She still plays with her friends in the park sometimes, and on one of those days she is noticed by another soccer player, Jules, who convinces her to try out for her team. Jess now has to make the choice between following her passion or trying not to disappoint her parents.

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