Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "teenage-girl-as-protagonist"

51. Hanna (2019–2021)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama

In equal parts high-concept thriller and coming-of-age drama, HANNA follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl raised in the forest, as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

Stars: Esme Creed-Miles, Mireille Enos, Áine Rose Daly, Cherrelle Skeete

Votes: 42,405

52. American Honey (2016)

R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi

Votes: 46,575 | Gross: $0.66M

53. Raw (2016)

R | 99 min | Drama, Horror

A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

Director: Julia Ducournau | Stars: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas

Votes: 89,434 | Gross: $0.51M

54. The Wrath of Becky (2023)

R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

Two years after escaping a violent attack, a teenage girl must defend herself against a domestic terrorist cell.

Directors: Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote | Stars: Lulu Wilson, Seann William Scott, Denise Burse, Jill Larson

Votes: 12,218

55. Booksmart (2019)

R | 102 min | Comedy

On the eve of their high-school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.

Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis

Votes: 131,472 | Gross: $22.68M

56. XO, Kitty (2023– )

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A new love story unfolds when teen matchmaker Kitty reunites with her long-distance boyfriend at the same boarding school attended by her late mother.

Stars: Anna Cathcart, Minyeong Choi, Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee

Votes: 14,033

57. John Tucker Must Die (2006)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.

Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Ashanti, Arielle Kebbel, Sophia Bush

Votes: 88,262 | Gross: $41.01M

58. The Society (2019)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.

Stars: Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Votes: 36,951

59. Hanna (2011)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.

Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps

Votes: 207,063 | Gross: $40.26M

60. Valley Girl (1983)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen

Votes: 18,513 | Gross: $16.80M

61. Missing (I) (2023)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After her mother goes missing, a young woman tries to find her from home, using tools available to her online.

Directors: Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick | Stars: Tim Griffin, Ava Zaria Lee, Nia Long, Kimberly Cheng

Votes: 59,187

62. Teen Witch (1989)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?

Director: Dorian Walker | Stars: Robyn Lively, Dan Gauthier, Joshua John Miller, Caren Kaye

Votes: 10,521 | Gross: $0.03M

63. Hard Candy (2005)

R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller

Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.

Director: David Slade | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae

Votes: 168,290 | Gross: $1.01M

64. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A teenage girl's secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.

Director: Susan Johnson | Stars: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart

Votes: 124,315

65. One Of Us Is Lying (2021–2022)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A brain, an athlete, a princess, a criminal and a "basket case" walk into detention--but only the first four make it out alive.

Stars: Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Marianly Tejada, Cooper van Grootel

Votes: 14,843

66. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror

A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 90,591 | Gross: $44.79M

67. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.

Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui | Stars: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer

Votes: 49,578 | Gross: $16.62M

68. Ironheart (2025– )

Action, Adventure, Drama | Post-production

Genius teenage inventor Riri Williams creates the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.

Stars: Dominique Thorne, Anthony Ramos, Alden Ehrenreich, Manny Montana

69. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

R | 84 min | Horror

Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.

Director: Robert Hiltzik | Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet

Votes: 38,187 | Gross: $11.00M

70. Sleeping Beauty (1959)

G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

Directors: Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Votes: 161,208 | Gross: $51.60M

71. Ghost World (2001)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama

Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.

Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro

Votes: 126,997 | Gross: $6.22M

72. Warrior Nun (2020–2022)

TV-MA | 786 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

Stars: Alba Baptista, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Lorena Andrea, Tristán Ulloa

Votes: 55,573

73. Epic (2013)

PG | 102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a ragtag group of characters to save their world--and ours.

Director: Chris Wedge | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé, Colin Farrell

Votes: 110,023 | Gross: $107.52M

74. Christiane F. (1981)

R | 138 min | Biography, Drama

A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Lothar Chamski

Votes: 29,568

75. Switched at Birth (2011–2017)

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

Two teenage girls' lives are turned upside down when they find out they were switched at birth.

Stars: Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D.W. Moffett

Votes: 26,163

76. The Last House on the Left (1972)

R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln

Votes: 40,366 | Gross: $3.10M

77. Supergirl (1984)

PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow

Votes: 24,069 | Gross: $13.60M

78. Aquamarine (2006)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Two teenage girls discover a mermaid in their beach club's swimming pool.

Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum | Stars: Emma Roberts, JoJo, Sara Paxton, Jake McDorman

Votes: 45,261 | Gross: $18.60M

79. Wild Child (2008)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy

A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.

Director: Nick Moore | Stars: Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson, Lexi Ainsworth

Votes: 64,173 | Gross: $0.02M

80. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

In 1968, the night of Halloween brings mayhem in a small town when a group of friends discovers a notebook written by a mysterious girl that foretells terrifying events.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams

Votes: 85,461 | Gross: $68.95M

81. The Blackcoat's Daughter (I) (2015)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar

Votes: 26,155 | Gross: $0.02M

82. Veronica (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 105 min | Horror, Mystery

Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero

Votes: 47,735

83. Hairspray (1988)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry

Votes: 23,493 | Gross: $6.67M

84. Amphibia (2019–2022)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Ordinary Anne Boonchuy, 13, finds a music box that sends her to Amphibia, a world full of frogs, toads, and giant insects. With help from Sprig, she must adjust to life in Amphibia and discover the first true friendship in her life.

Stars: Brenda Song, Justin Felbinger, Bill Farmer, Amanda Leighton

Votes: 9,100

85. Badlands (1973)

PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri

Votes: 78,555

86. Winter's Bone (2010)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone

Votes: 150,733 | Gross: $6.53M

87. Lili (1953)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Votes: 3,957

88. Becky (II) (2020)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet

Votes: 24,821

89. Eighth Grade (2018)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan

Votes: 82,641 | Gross: $13.54M

90. House (1977)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba, Ai Matsubara

Votes: 33,871

91. I Am Not Okay with This (2020)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.

Stars: Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, Sofia Bryant, Kathleen Rose Perkins

Votes: 74,904

92. Lilya 4-Ever (2002)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama

Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.

Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova

Votes: 49,509 | Gross: $0.18M

93. Fish Tank (2009)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths

Votes: 65,115 | Gross: $0.37M

94. Fitting In (II) (2023)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama

A teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.

Director: Molly McGlynn | Stars: Maddie Ziegler, Emily Hampshire, Djouliet Amara, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

Votes: 475

95. An Easy Girl (2019)

TV-MA | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her.

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes

Votes: 6,253

96. Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

While babysitting the daughter of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a teenager and her friend unknowingly awaken an evil spirit trapped in a doll.

Director: Gary Dauberman | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman

Votes: 87,420 | Gross: $74.15M

97. Kim Possible (2002–2007)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A high school cheerleader and her clumsy best friend balance their duties as global crime-fighters with the typical challenges of adolescence.

Stars: Christy Carlson Romano, Will Friedle, Nancy Cartwright, Tahj Mowry

Votes: 32,365

98. The DUFF (2015)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF - Designated Ugly Fat Friend - by her prettier, more popular counterparts.

Director: Ari Sandel | Stars: Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, Allison Janney

Votes: 101,779 | Gross: $34.03M

99. Trust (I) (2010)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.

Director: David Schwimmer | Stars: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke

Votes: 44,086 | Gross: $0.12M

100. If I Stay (2014)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined. The choice is hers if she can go on.

Director: R.J. Cutler | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard

Votes: 128,400 | Gross: $50.47M