So yeah over the past few weeks I really began to like movies from the 80s and early 90s in which the plot focused on the youth culture. I think I have seen all the "standard" movies from that era, but am looking for more!

Seen so far:

Liked:

(Back to the Future)
Breakfast Club
Dead Poets Society
Footloose
Grease
Hackers
Kids
Pump Up the Volume
Saturday Night Fever
Taps

Didn't Like:

Fame
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
St. Elmo's Fire
The Virgin Suicides
Wargame (although not really fitting the theme)

Theclutch

United States119 Posts

April 18 2011 18:33 GMT

ferris bueller's day off perhaps? A pretty famous one that your list seems to be missing!

green.at

Austria1459 Posts

April 18 2011 18:38 GMT

almost famous

The KY

United Kingdom6252 Posts

April 18 2011 18:47 GMT

Breakfast Club is fucking SICK. And yeah watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it's like an opium dream.

Masterjareth

United States26 Posts

April 18 2011 18:49 GMT

Dazed and confused

VTArlock

United States1763 Posts

April 18 2011 18:50 GMT

Back to the future and Hackers were my favorites, I still want a delorean.

Aim Here

Scotland672 Posts

April 18 2011 18:58 GMT

Well Grease and Saturday Night Fever were from the late 1970s, but I'll let that slide.

'Heathers' is conspicuously absent from that list.

MiniRoman

Canada3953 Posts

April 18 2011 19:03 GMT

Election was pretty good. It's got Reese Witherspoon though could be from early 2000's.

Dazed and Confused - win.

TryThis

Canada1522 Posts

April 18 2011 19:06 GMT

sixteen candles!

Dance.

United States389 Posts

April 18 2011 19:11 GMT

#10

driving miss daisy

Beirut

United States673 Posts

April 18 2011 19:42 GMT

#11

Donnie Darko!

Oldgrain

Finland165 Posts

April 18 2011 20:58 GMT

#12

All the John Hughes movies (Sixteen candles, breakfast club, weird science etc.)

Mickey

United States2606 Posts

April 18 2011 22:41 GMT

#13

How did you not like Fast Times at Ridgemont High? I love that movie.

Have you seen Heathers?
edit: I also heavily recommend "Just one of the guys" and "Teen Witch".

Amnesia

United States3818 Posts

April 18 2011 22:46 GMT

#14

Kids <3 best movie ever

QuanticHawk

United States32160 Posts

April 18 2011 23:29 GMT

#15

if youth is anything college and under, you should bend your rules by two years and watch animal house.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

April 18 2011 23:50 GMT

#16

Rushmore

Robooto

United States11 Posts

April 18 2011 23:54 GMT

#17

Better off Dead!

vek

Australia936 Posts

April 19 2011 00:52 GMT

#18

On April 19 2011 03:33 Theclutch wrote:
ferris bueller's day off perhaps? A pretty famous one that your list seems to be missing!

I'll second Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it's still pretty funny even today.

And how could you not like Wargames? That movie was (unintentionally) comedy genius.

redoxx

United States333 Posts

April 19 2011 01:28 GMT

#19

Animal house is one I would suggest. If you wanted to go back to the 50s, Rebel Without a Cause is a classic.