Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "teen-violence"

1. American History X (1998)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama

Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.

Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien

Votes: 1,186,724 | Gross: $6.72M

2. Scream (1996)

R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich

Votes: 388,652 | Gross: $103.05M

3. Scream (I) (2022)

R | 114 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera

Votes: 159,029 | Gross: $81.64M

4. The Family (I) (2013)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

The Manzoni family, a notorious Mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the Witness Protection Program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo

Votes: 123,083 | Gross: $36.92M

5. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,678 | Gross: $2.22M

6. Rebelde (2004–2006)

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Six teenagers with different lives and personalities attend a prominent private school with only one thing in common: their vocation and passion for music.

Stars: Dulce María, Rodrigo Nehme, Alfonso Herrera, Christopher Von Uckermann

Votes: 6,185

7. Bowling for Columbine (2002)

R | 120 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Salvador Allende

Votes: 148,766 | Gross: $21.58M

8. Them (2006)

R | 77 min | Horror, Thriller

Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.

Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Stars: Olivia Bonamy, Michaël Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman

Votes: 32,087

9. O (2001)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

An update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with a young cast, set in an upper class prep school, & centered around basketball player Odin.

Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, Martin Sheen, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 21,925 | Gross: $16.02M

10. Breathe (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Charlie is an average French suburban teenager, but when she becomes fast friends with Sarah, the rebellious new girl at school, she discovers there's nothing average about how she feels.

Director: Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré, Claire Keim

Votes: 7,848 | Gross: $0.04M

11. Pixote (1980)

TV-MA | 128 min | Crime, Drama

The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.

Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino

Votes: 9,240

12. Prime Suspect 3 (1993)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Karen Tomlin, David Thewlis

Votes: 4,007

13. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A reporter, notorious for working on pseudo-documentaries, must uncover the legend of the three guardian monsters who must rise to defend Japan from the vengeful spirits within Godzilla.

Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Chiharu Niiyama, Ryûdô Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi, Shirô Sano

Votes: 6,998

14. Massacre at Central High (1976)

R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A high-school transfer student pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies resorts to murder to reclaim the school from oppression, and later turns against the students wanting to fill the vacuum of their oppressors.

Director: Rene Daalder | Stars: Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine, Kimberly Beck

Votes: 2,727

15. Deuces Wild (2002)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama

Bobby, a member of The Deuces, and the sister of the rival Vipers member fall in love, promoting a street war between the two factions.

Director: Scott Kalvert | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus

Votes: 7,842 | Gross: $6.04M

16. After Lucia (2012)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.

Director: Michel Franco | Stars: Tessa Ia, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek

Votes: 7,003

17. The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Director: Moisés Kaufman | Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant, Laura Linney

Votes: 6,958

18. Drowning Ghost (2004)

100 min | Horror, Thriller

Three students murdered at century-old boarding school. Killer drowned himself; body never found. On 100th anniversary of killings, student researching incident vanishes, along with others, as dark presence haunts school.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Rebecka Hemse, Jesper Salén, Jenny Ulving, Peter Eggers

Votes: 2,159

19. The Boys Club (1996)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.

Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa

Votes: 1,345

20. The Wounds (1998)

103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.

Director: Srdjan Dragojevic | Stars: Dusan Pekic, Milan Maric, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Branka Katic

Votes: 11,731

21. Grbavica (2006)

90 min | Drama

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic

Votes: 6,889 | Gross: $0.04M

22. 7 Virgins (2005)

86 min | Crime, Drama

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in South of Spain. Tano.

Director: Alberto Rodríguez | Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Iride Fontana, Javier Berger, Jesús Carroza

Votes: 2,374

23. U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Thriller

A teenage boy's descent into the dangerous world of the Internet and the harrowing consequences of his actions. A true story.

Director: Andrew Douglas | Stars: Jamie Blackley, Anthony Warren, Jack Lowden, Toby Regbo

Votes: 3,216

24. Street Warriors (1977)

103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A gang of fifteen-year-old living in the suburbs of Barcelona have specialized in car theft. With that cars they are engaged in giving the "pull", storming shops to sell goods and attack ... See full summary »

Director: José Antonio de la Loma | Stars: Víctor Petit, Frank Braña, Xabier Elorriaga, Marta Flores

Votes: 625

25. Clase 406 (2002–2003)

45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A math teacher has the difficult task to make their 10th grade students, to fall in LOVE with maths and with education as a hole.

Stars: Sherlyn, Dulce María, Christian Chávez, Francisco Rubio

Votes: 616

26. A Better Place (1997)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.

Director: Vincent Pereira | Stars: Eion Bailey, Robert DiPatri, Joseph Cassese, Carmen Llywelyn

Votes: 1,055

27. Central Park (2017)

87 min | Horror, Thriller

A group of teenagers hanging out after dark in Central Park are hunted down by a masked man.

Director: Justin Reinsilber | Stars: Justin Reinsilber, Grace Van Patten, Justiin Davis, Deema Aitken

Votes: 668

28. Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Crime

A group of children living on the street leave their gang, prompting retribution from the gang's leader. After one of the children dies, the rest try to come up with the resources to give their friend a proper burial.

Director: Nabil Ayouch | Stars: Mounïm Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra

Votes: 2,939

29. The Lawless Land (1988)

R | 81 min | Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Jsu Garcia, Leon, Xander Berkeley, Amanda Peterson

Votes: 145

30. Deadball (2011)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Horror, Sport

Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, ... See full summary »

Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Mari Hoshino, Miho Ninagawa, Takamasa Suga

Votes: 613

31. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

32. Hold Me Tight (2010)

80 min | Drama

What should be just another school day for teenagers Sara, Mikkel, Louise and Hassan turns out forever scarred. One-by-one seemingly minor events snowball things completely out of control, and leaves everyone involved marked for life.

Director: Kaspar Munk | Stars: Julie Brochorst Andersen, Frederik Christian Johansen, Sofia Cukic, Hicham Najid

Votes: 581

33. The Forest (2018)

97 min | Drama

Sixteen-year old Danila lives with oppressive mother Galina and brutal father Pasha in a small village lost in the middle of a boundless forest. Cut off from society he has a problem ... See full summary »

Director: Roman Zhigalov | Stars: Oleg Shibayev, Natalya Rychkova, Oleg Feoktistov, Mariya Avramkova

Votes: 244

34. 15: The Movie (2003)

TV-MA | 96 min | Drama, Comedy

Fast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is story of five Singaporian teenagers who, abandoned by system.

Director: Royston Tan | Stars: Melvin Chen, Erick Chun, Melvin Lee, Vynn Soh

Votes: 826

35. I Not Stupid Too (2006)

PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A comedy about the difficult relationships parents have with their children today. Set in Singapore's fast-paced society, eight year old Jerry sees how he and his older brother Tom, and his... See full summary »

Director: Jack Neo | Stars: Shawn Lee, Ashley Leong, Joshua Ang, Yiliang Huang

Votes: 661

36. Tracks (II) (2005)

R | 92 min | Drama, Crime

The true story of a suburban teenager whose one mistake leads to a life changing punishment. Peter Madigan, a 15-year-old from the suburbs commits a senseless act, causing a commuter train to derail killing the engineer.

Director: Peter Wade | Stars: Chris Gunn, Ice-T, John Heard, Barbara Christie

Votes: 324

37. Ai to makoto (2012)

133 min | Action, Comedy, Musical

Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around ... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Takumi Saitô, Ito Ono

Votes: 806

38. The Directive (2019)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Nicholas Winand, Hashim Gari

Votes: 1,315

39. O Beautiful (2002)

29 min | Short, Drama

Being gay bashed and left in a corn field in rural America takes an unusual turn when one of the bashers returns with remorse and a secret.

Director: Alan Brown | Stars: Jay Gillespie, David Clayton Rogers

Votes: 657

40. The Killing Boys (2009)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two brothers in their late teens go from looking for work to invading suburban homes to murder in a twenty-four hour period.

Director: Eugene Garcia | Stars: Gian Carlo Biferali, Soula Drakakis, Stanley Kunicki, George Papadakis

Votes: 9

41. Turk's Head (2010)

87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Several lives are changed after a teenager from a rough suburb throws a Molotov cocktail on a car, sending the doctor who was in it in a coma.

Director: Pascal Elbé | Stars: Roschdy Zem, Pascal Elbé, Ronit Elkabetz, Samir Makhlouf

Votes: 481

42. Rosszfiúk (2000)

100 min | Drama

About the rise of a oligarch surrounded by his criminal contacts.

Director: Tamás Sas | Stars: Viktor Bodó, Zoltán Rajkai, András Stohl, Zoltán Reketye

Votes: 248

43. Liberty Lane (2009)

18 min | Short, Action, Drama

A friendship between three adolescent boys is tested when one boy deceives his friends into vandalism and violence.

Director: Timo Becker | Stars: Tristan Price, Malik Kirkwood, Dalton O'Dell, Tyler Chase

Votes: 17

44. Experimentum crucis (1995)

TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Crime

A harrowing look at a boys' prison in Kazakhstan. Excerpts of this video were aired on a "60 Minutes" segment in 1997.

Directors: Taras Popov, Vladimir Tyulkin

Votes: 47

45. A Packing Suburbia (1999)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama

After an ugly divorce, James Maxwell and his mother are forced to move into a poor suburban neighborhood on Long Island. When the local gang murders his friend Celeste, James takes a handgun to exact his vengeance.

Director: Stephen Szklarski | Stars: Thomas Brandise, Mariana Carreno, Robert B. Alexander, Aesha Waks

Votes: 169

46. Fallout (2007)

23 min | Short, Drama

This film explores the growing problem of dating violence among teens and its affect not only on the victims, but also their friends and families, using a mix of narrative accounts and candid interviews with real-life teens.

Director: Jennifer Goyette | Stars: Mariah Buzolin, Zachary Chitwood, Brandon Christopher, Frances Manzo

Votes: 11

47. Journey to a Hate Free Millennium (1999)

Documentary, Crime

An exploration of hate crimes in America, featuring insightful looks at the Columbine shootings, the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr., and the Matthew Shepard murder.

Directors: Martin Bedogne, Brent Scarpo | Stars: Roma Downey, John Dye, Elton John, Kathy Najimy

Votes: 72

48. A Premature Reaction (2023)

Short, Drama

This is a coming of age short film about abusive power dynamics. This film tells the story of 16 year old Kim meeting Matt, a man in his mid 20's at the mall. After this encounter, she ... See full summary »

Director: Rachel Qualls | Stars: Jessica Aquino, Luisa Benavides, Maxwell Davis, Jade Garcia

49. The Dark Chronicles (2011)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Six troubled young adults come face-to-face with their worst nightmares when their traumatic pasts come back to haunt them.

Director: Jake McDowell | Stars: MacKenzie Boyd-Garrison, Todd Christensen, Alanna McConnell, Ryan Racine

Votes: 63

50. Flashmob (2008)

55 min | Drama, Thriller

Max is dead. Who's to blame? A dark tale of suicide, revenge and...Bluetooth.

Directors: Ash Mahmood, Naeem Mahmood | Stars: Zephryn Taitte, Joanne Gale, Liam McDonnell, Roy Weise