Youth Cinema Studies
U.S. Teen Films 1990-1999
1990
Back to the Future 3
Book of Love
Buried Alive
Class of 1999
Coupe de Ville
Courage Mountain
Cry-Baby
A Cry in the Wild
Daredreamer
Dead Girls
Diving In
Edward Scissorhands
The Forbidden Dance
Getting Lucky
Harley
House Party
The Invisible Maniac
Kid
Lambada
Lisa
Lord of the Flies
Mermaids
Mirror Mirror
Monday Morning
The Natural History of Parking Lots
Pump Up the Volume
Riding the Edge
Rockula
Slumber Party Massacre III
Soultaker
Stella
Streets
The Suckling
There’s Nothing Out There
Think Big
The Unbelievable Truth
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
The Willies
Witchcraft II: The Temptress
Zapped Again
1991
Across the Tracks
All I Want For Christmas
An American Summer
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
Billy Bathgate
Boyz N the Hood
Child’s Play 3
Class Act
Class of Nuke ‘Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown
Convicts
Cool as Ice
Critters 3
December
Dogfight
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
Dutch
Family Prayers
Fast Getaway
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
The Haunting of Morella
Heaven is a Playground
If Looks Could Kill
Infinity
Lunatic
The Man in the Moon
My Own Private Idaho
No Secrets
The People Under the Stairs
Popcorn
Prayer of the Rollerboys
Rambling Rose
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever
Shout
Straight Out of Brooklyn
Toy Soldiers
Trust
Up Against the Wall
Virgin High
White Fang
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1992
Adventures in Dinosaur City
Alan & Naomi
Big Girls Don’t Cry... They Get Even
Body Waves
Brutal Fury
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
Children of the Night
Crisscross
Crossing the Bridge
Dark Horse
Dr. Giggles
Encino Man
Gas, Food Lodging
Gate 2
Gladiator
Journey to Spirit Island
Judgement
Juice
Ladybugs
Meatballs 4
Newsies
Pet Sematary 2
Poison Ivy
Scent of a Woman
School Ties
Second Glance
Sleepwalkers
Terminal Bliss
This is My Life
3 Ninjas
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Wayne’s World
Where the Day Takes You
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Zebrahead
1993
Airborne
An Ambush of Ghosts
American Heart
Arcade
Body Snatchers
A Bronx Tale
Calendar Girl
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute
Coneheads
The Crush
The Day My Parents Ran Away
Dazed and Confused
Double 0 Kid
A Far Off Place
Free Willy
Guncrazy
Hocus Pocus
A Home of Our Own
Jack the Bear
Jason Goes to Hell: The to Hell: The Final Friday
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Just One of the Girls
King of the Hill
The Liar’s Club
Lost in Yonkers
Made in America
The Man Without a Face
Matinee
Menace II Society
My Boyfriend’s Back
Only the Strong
Pocket Ninjas
Remote
Rescue Me
Return of the Living Dead 3
Rich in Love
The Sandlot
The Seventh Coin
Showdown
Sidekicks
Sister Act 2
The Skateboard Kid
Surf Ninjas
Swing Kids
Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde
Teenage Exorcist
That Night
This Boy’s Life
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
Ticks
Trauma
Unbecoming Age
Warlock: The Armageddon
Watchers 3
Wayne’s World 2
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II
1994
Above the Rim
Brainscan
Camp Nowhere
Class of Nuke ‘Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid
A Dangerous Place
Double Dragon
Ernest Goes to School
Foreign Student
Fresh
Fun
Heaven Sent
Holy Matrimony
Imaginary Crimes
The Inkwell
Lassie
Little Big League
Little Women
Magic Kid II
Milk Money
Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
Mod Fuck Explosion
My Father the Hero
My Girl 2
Natural Born Killers
The Next Karate Kid
Night of the Demons 2
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
A Pig’s Tale
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Richie Rich
Safe Passage
Shrunken Heads
The Skateboard Kid 2
Spanking the Monkey
Spitfire
The St. Tammany Miracle
The Stoned Age
Tammy and the T-Rex
There Goes My Baby
3 Ninjas Kick Back
To Die, To Sleep
Totally Fucked Up
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
Windrunner
1995
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
Angus
Animal Room
Art for Teachers of Children
The Babysitter
The Baby-Sitter’s Club
The Basketball Diaries
Billy Madison
Bleeding Hearts
Born to be Wild
A Boy Called Hate
The Brady Bunch Movie
The Break
Breaking Free
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
Casper
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Clockers
Clueless
Dangerous Minds
Dead Beat
Demolition High
Don’t Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Evolver
The Fantasticks
Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Freeway
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Hackers
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
Kids
The Love Lesson
Mad Love
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Mommy
Monster Mash: The Movie
My Teacher's Wife
New Jersey Drive
Now and Then
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Parallel Sons
Poison Ivy 2: Lily
Powder
The Power Within
Raging Angels
Sacred Hearts
Senior Trip
S.F.W.
Tales from the Hood
Tall Tale
Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000
To Die For
Tom and Huck
True Crime
Two Bits
Unstrung Heroes
White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild
1996
Alaska
All Over Me
American Buffalo
Before and After
Boys
Carried Away
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
The Craft
The Crucible
The Doom Generation
Father’s Day
Fear
First Kid
Flipper
Fly Away Home
Foxfire
Girls Town
High School High
House Arrest
Illtown
Johns
Little Witches
Manny and Lo
Marvin’s Room
Mirror Mirror III: The Voyeur
Mommy 2: Mommy’s Day
Mrs. Winterbourne
My Uncle: The Alien
The Offering
The Paper Brigade
Past Perfect
Phat Beach
Provocateur
Race the Sun
Reggie's Prayer
Ripe
Romeo + Juliet
Scream
Sleepers
Sometimes They Come Back... Again
Sticks and Stones
The Substitute
Sunchaser
Sunset Park
Telling Lies in America
That Thing You Do!
Tiger Heart
Timeless
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Tromeo and Juliet
Welcome to the Dollhouse
White Squall
1997
Address Unknown
Air Bud
Anarchy TV
A Better Place
Black Circle Boys
Campfire Tales
Cries of Silence
The Delta
Eight Days a Week
Eye of God
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
Good Burger
Gummo
Hurricane Streets
The Ice Storm
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Inventing the Abbotts
Jungle 2 Jungle
Kickboxing Academy
Levitation
Little Boy Blue
Lover Girl
Magenta
Masterminds
Niagara, Niagara
Night of the Demons 3
Nowhere
187
Poison Ivy III: The New Seduction
Scream 2
Six Ways to Sunday
Somebody is Waiting
Squeeze
Star Kid
Starship Troopers
That Darn Cat
Titanic
The Toilers and the Wayfarers
Trading Favors
Trojan War
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Warriors of Virtue
Wild America
1998
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Air Bud: Golden Receiver
American History X
Another Day in Paradise
Apt Pupil
Around the Fire
Bloodsuckers
Buffalo ‘66
Can’t Hardly Wait
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Disturbing Behavior
Eden
The Faculty
Girl
Halloween H2O
He Got Game
The Horse Whisperer
If I Die Before I Wake
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Little Men
Lolita
The Mighty
Nowhere To Go
The Opposite of Sex
Pamela's Prayer
Pecker
Pleasantville
Polish Wedding
P.U.N.K.S.
Richochet River
Ringmaster
Rushmore
17 & Under
Simon Birch
Slums of Beverly Hills
Small Soldiers
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
Strangeland
Superstar
Sweet Jane
Talisman
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
Tiger Street
True Friends
200 Cigarettes
Whatever
Wicked
Wilbur Falls
Wild Horses
Wild Things
Wrestling With Alligators
Yellow
1999
American Beauty
American Pie
American Virgin
Anywhere But Here
Bellyfruit
Blue Ridge Fall
Born Bad
Boys Don’t Cry
The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes
Brokedown Palace
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return
The Cider House Rules
Coming Soon
Coyotes
Crazy in Alabama
Cruel Intentions
Deal of a Lifetime
Desecration
Desert Blue
Detroit Rock City
Dick
Drive Me Crazy
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Edge of Seventeen
Election
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
Getting to Know You
Girl, Interrupted
Go
Idle Hands
Jawbreaker
Joe the King
The Joyriders
Just Looking
The Last Best Sunday
Liberty Heights
Light It Up
The Mod Squad
Never Been Kissed
October Sky
Outside Providence
Passport to Paris
The Prince and the Surfer
Pups
The Rage: Carrie 2
The Secret Life of Girls
She’s All That
Story of a Bad Boy
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
10 Things I Hate About You
Trash
Trippin’
Tumbleweeds
2 Little, 2 Late
Varsity Blues
Walking Across Egypt
Whiteboyz
The Wood
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