Highest-Rated Movies about 'Troubled Teen'

Stand by Me (1986), Short Term 12 (2013), Donnie Darko (2001), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ordinary People (1980), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), Pump Up the Volume (1990), The United States of Leland (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Troubled Teen movies.

#16. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

Storyline: The dysfunctional twenty-three-year-old Sarah takes her six-year-old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and low lifestyle and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: child abuse, child molester, based on true story, stripper, mother son relationship, autobiographical, child molestation ...

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#17. The Frozen Ground (2013)

Storyline: Alaska Trooper Jack Holcombe believes Robert Hansen is a serial killer who abducts young girls, tortures and sexually assaults them, then kills them. But Holcombe doesn't have enough evidence to get a search warrant for Hansen's premises. Holcombe knows that one victim, Cyndy Paulsen, somehow survived, so he decides to seek her help, but he finds that she's now a junkie with trust issues. Holcombe has to earn her trust; meanwhile, Hansen is still hunting and killing girls.

Plot Keywords: based on true story, serial killer, strip club, homicide detective, alaska, pole dancer, speech impediment ...

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#18. Small Soldiers (1998)

Storyline: Fifteen-year-old Alan Abernathy, the son of a toy store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite versus The Gorgonites. But three months ago, a toy company believes it is onto something when it employs the latest government military technology in a series of action figures, enabling them to talk. They underestimate the power of the special micro chips they've employed, however, as the two opposing sides of the toy line start thinking for themselves and engaging in real combat! The Commando Elite vow to wipe out the Gorgonites in a suburban neighborhood. Alan, his neighbor Christy Fimple, (on whom he has a massive crush) with the help of the kind Gorgonites, must protect his home and family from the Commandos.

Plot Keywords: parody, tied up, actor shares first name with character, product placement, wilhelm scream, watching tv, wolf whistle ...

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#19. Return to Never Land (2002)

Storyline: The classic tale of 'Peter Pan' continues in Disney's sequel 'Return to Never Land'. In 1940 on a world besieged by World War II, Wendy, now grown up, has two children, one of them is her daughter, Jane. She wears her trench coat during the air raid, and later that night, Wendy tries to give her own children hope by telling them of her magical experiences with Peter Pan in Never Land. However, Jane, Wendy's daughter, sees it all as make believe and refuses to believe in the tales. That is, until the villainous Captain Hook mistakes her for Wendy and abducts her to Never Land in an attempt to lure and capture Peter Pan. Peter Pan's quest to return Jane safely home is jeopardized until she can begin to believe in the magic of imagination.

Plot Keywords: little boy, based on novel, treasure, sequel, magic, friendship, fantasy world ...

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#20. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

Storyline: Following up the previous Nightmare film, the dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills all three of the surviving Elm Street kids. However, Alice (who has the ability to draw others into her dreams) wills her special ability to her friend Alice before her demise. Afterwords, Alice soon realizes that Freddy is taking advantage of that unknown power she now wields to pull a new group of teenage children into his foul domain.

Plot Keywords: sleeping, theatre marquee, tough guy, stabbed in the stomach, supernatural power, underwater, rain ...

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#21. Lost & Found (2016)

Storyline: After making one mistake too many, troubled youth, Andy Walton, finds himself with his back to the wall. Sent to live with Uncle Trent, a reclusive relative whom he has never met, Andy has to spend his summer vacation along with his young brother, Mark, at a weather-beaten cabin located in the heart of a remote island. But there, the boys become intrigued by the mystery surrounding the unaccountable disappearance of their eccentric and supposedly wealthy grandfather, who, unfortunately, has taken with him the secret to immense riches. Now, as the amateur investigators delve deeper and deeper into the past of their family and the island, they follow a faint trail of clues that could lead to a treasure: the grand prize others have already set their sights on getting their hands on it first. Can Andy and Mark unravel the secret of the lost fortune?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: missing person, necklace, pocket watch, pickup truck, falling into a hole, held at gunpoint, dream girl ...

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#22. The Glimmer Man (1996)

Storyline: Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell.

Plot Keywords: coffee, intelligence agent, internal affairs, italian restaurant, jumping through a window, los angeles california, mansion ...

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#23. The Adderall Diaries (2015)

Storyline: As a writer stymied by past success, writers block, substance abuse, relationship problems and a serious set of father issues, Elliott's cracked-out chronicle of a bizarre murder trial amounts to less than the sum of its parts. Not long into the 2007 trial of programmer Hans Reiser, accused of murdering his wife, the defendant's friend Sean Sturgeon obliquely confessed to several murders (though not the murder of Reiser's wife). Elliott, caught up in the film-ready twist and his tenuous connection to Sturgeon (they share a BDSM social circle), makes a record of the proceedings. The result is a scattered, self-indulgent romp through the mind of a depressive narcissist obsessed with his insecurities and childhood traumas.—Publisher's Weekly

Plot Keywords: new york city, library, boxer shorts, videotape, vhs, video message, self harm ...

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#24. Bless the Child (2000)

Storyline: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York City hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, F.B.I. Agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special". She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one ...

Plot Keywords: evil man, cgi, scene of the crime, female protagonist, single parent, easter, subway station ...

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#25. Down a Dark Hall (2018)

Storyline: After the death of her father when she was a child, Kit Gordy has grown up as a troubled teen for disgust of her mother Ginny and her stepfather Dave Dabrowski. Called to the principal's office of her high school and accused of a failed attempt to burn it, Kit is expelled from the high school, but Dr. Heather Sinclair, member of the staff of the Blackwood Boarding School, appears to offer her a place in the next school year. Ginny enlists Kit against her will in a try to correct her daughter, and Kit travels Blackwood, an old, isolated and dark mansion in the middle of a forest outside the city. There she meets her companions: nice Izzy, shy Ashley, reluctant Sierra and borderline Veronica, so troubled teens as her own. In the dinner presentation, Kit and the other girls meet Madame Duret, Blackwood's headmistress, and the rest of the staff: Pr. Farley (maths), Jules Duret (music), Heather Sinclair (arts) and Mrs. Olonsky, Madame Duret's rude right-hand to keep the peace in Blackwood. Locked in a place without internet, cell phones and all trace of modern technology, Kit watches as all change in a weird way: Izzy develops an extreme obsession for mathematics, Sierra for painting, Ashley for writing and herself for piano, meanwhile that Veronica keeps out from this obsession. Trapped between her love interest for Jules, Madame Duret's son, and strange memory losses, Kit asks help Veronica to discover the reason of their different changes. Investigating the ruined and forbidden wing of Blackwood at the same time that the works of Izzy, Ashley, Sierra and the own Kit, this last one and Veronica realize not only that all them have one secret in common, but the previous students suffered a horrible fate caused by the Blackwood's supernatural forces, that it will be too their own unless they find a way to avoid it.—Chockys

Plot Keywords: troubled teen, girl fight, talent, teacher student relationship, piano playing, schoolgirl, private school ...

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