6 Best Teen Romance Movies

A quintessential teen romance movie from the early 2000s is She’s the Man, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. In the film, Bynes plays Viola whose brother decides to ditch school for a couple of weeks. Viola then disguises herself as him and heads to his elite boarding school, quickly falling for the school’s star soccer player. But she’s not the only one with romantic troubles.

–IMDb score: 6.4

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Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before takes the idea of past loves and brings them back to the present. Lara Jean Covey wrote letters to all of her past loves, but they were always meant to be a secret. Until one day all of the letters are sent out, and her life is soon thrown into chaos as they confront her.

–IMDb score: 7.0

Though the actors may not look like teenagers, Grease is a musical that focuses on teens in love in the 1950s. Greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson spend a summer falling in love, not knowing that they will be attending the same high school in the fall. When they meet again, Danny isn’t the same as he was on the beach, so Danny and Sandy try to be like each other to fall back in love.

–IMDb score: 7.2

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Another classic teen romance movie is 10 Things I Hate About You, starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. Kat Stratford is a strong independent woman, attracting few boys and hurting her sister’s chances of having a boyfriend due to her father’s rules. Her sister devises a plan to get Kat a boyfriend, right around the same time handsome Patrick Verona arrives in town. Will Kat finally let her guard down, or will she stay as unbreakable as ever?

–IMDb score: 7.3

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Fans of LGBTQ+ love will surely enjoy our second selection Love, Simon. Simon is hiding from everyone that he’s gay, except for the mysterious Blue, to whom he sends intimate emails back and forth. When their emails get discovered, Simon must figure out who the boy is, all while trying to find himself too.

–IMDb score: 7.5

One of the most tear-jerking films on our list is The Fault in Our Stars, based on the novel by John Green. The story follows Hazel and Augustus, two teens who share wit, a disdain for the conventional, and an electric love. The catch? Hazel’s constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they first meet at a cancer support group.

–IMDb score: 7.7

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