25 Best Teen Movies on Netflix 2022

This coming-of-age dramedy revolves around Ellie Chu, a shy, straight-A student who agrees to help a popular jock write a love letter to his crush—with whom Ellie is also secretly in love. Cue all the drama.

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In this truly wild movie starring Ashleigh Murray, two sisters make a plan to (you guessed it) rob trains after their mother is taken to jail, leaving them responsible to handle her many bills and bail money on their own.

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Based on the novel Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick, this drama stars revolves around Amber, an ambitious high schooler with a big secret: she and her mom have been living on a bus ever since her mom’s boyfriend kicked them out of the house.

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Based on the bestselling book by Julie Murphy, this flick follows an outspoken, curvy, Dolly Parton-obsessed teenager named Willowdean who decides to take control of her life by entering a beauty pageant…which happens to be run by her pageant-queen mother.

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This adorable rom-com follows Alex Truelove, a popular high schooler who is banking on losing his virginity to his GF, but things get a lil more complicated when Alex realizes he has a crush on a cute guy from another school.

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This dramedy (which is based on Jennifer Mathieu’s novel of the same name) tells the story of a shy 16-year-who decides to challenge the status quo at her high school by anonymously publishing a zine, which ends up making major waves.

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This hiiighly underrated biopic tells the true story of teen rap battle champion Roxanne Shanté, following her journey from growing up in the Queensbridge projects in the ’80s to becoming a hip-hop legend.

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In this unexpected comedy-horror flick, three teens from the Bronx attempt to protect their rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from a band of vampires, and as you can probably guess, it’s wildly entertaining.

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Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, and Jordan Fisher star in this comedy about a high school senior who dreams of getting into Duke University, the college her late father attended. The only problem: She lied on her application about being on a competitive dance team…and she can’t dance.

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This star-studded, Ryan Murphy-directed musical adaptation follows four burnt-out Broadway has-beens who decide to team up to improve their reputations and support a worthy cause: a small-town prom in Indiana that got canceled because a girl wanted to bring her GF as her date.

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In this time travel flick, two teenage science geeks, C.J. and Sebastian, work together to create a time machine that will allow them to save C.J.’s brother, who was wrongfully killed by a police officer.

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Based on Jennifer Niven’s novel of the same name, this drama romance stars Elle Fanning and Justice Smith as two small-town teenagers, Violet and Finch, who are brought together by fate after Finch talks Violet off the ledge of a bridge before she takes her life. We’ll warn you: Keep tissues handy for this one.

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This sports drama follows a 14-year-old Black basketball prodigy after he’s recruited to play for an elite NCAA prep school, where he finds himself introduced to the seedy world of amateur athletics.

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Lucy Hale, Kathryn Prescott, Alexandra Shipp, and Awkwafina play four best friends who experience heartbreak, loss, deception, and a whole lot of weed during their last few weeks of high school in this unexpectedly funny movie.

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Based on the bestselling novel by Jenny Han, this rom-com tells the story of quiet high schooler Lara Jean who discovers that her secret stash of love letters somehow got mailed to each of her five crushes. And ofc, if you like this one, then you’ve gotta watch the next two movies in the trilogy.

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Millie Bobby Brown stars in this one as the titular Enola Holmes, Sherlock’s teenage sister who sets off to London after she discovers that their mother is missing, which leads her on a unexpectedly wild chase.

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In this v fun comedy, a newly single teen named April meets a new BFF, Cara, the summer before college…but what makes their friendship awkward is the fact that Cara happens to be dating April’s ex.

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Saoirse Ronan stars in this unbearably relatable flick as angsty, artsy teen Lady Bird, who experiences her first love and butts heads with her hardworking mom all while trying to survive her senior year of high school.

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In this Irish dramedy, a teen who couldn’t care less about sports gets sent to a rugby-obsessed boarding school. What’s worse, he also gets stuck sharing a room with the school’s top athlete, Conor…but what seems to be an unlikely pairing turns into WAAAAY more.

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Based on the Broadway musical (and the original flick from the ’80s), Hairspray follows Tracy Turnblad, a curvy teen with overbearing parents who has dreams of appearing on a local TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore.

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Based on the bestselling novel, Five Feet Apart follows two teens with cystic fibrosis who find themselves falling for each other. The problem: It’s unsafe for them to be within five feet of each other, let alone touch, kiss, or have a shared life together.

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Hailee Steinfeld stars in this teen comedy as Nadine, a cynical high school junior who finds her life turned upside down when her BFF starts dating her brother, leaving her feeling totally friendless and adrift.

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In this tearjerker of a movie, a London teen does everything she can to avoid social services and provide for herself and her little brother after they’re unexpectedly abandoned by their single mother.

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Starring Natalia Dyer, this dark comedy is set in 2000, following a sexually-inexperienced junior at a Catholic high school who begins to explore her sexual urges after having an…enlightening convo in an AOL chat room.

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Hilary Duff stars in this modern take of the classic fairytale, which follows the story of wallflower teen who’s desperate to escape her wicked stepmother and win the heart of the most popular guy in school. Is it a good movie? Of course not. But it’s still a GD classic.

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