30 Best New Teen Movies of 2023


10 Beautiful Disaster

Beautiful Disaster

College students, Abby and Travis, fall in love after being friends for a while. He doesn’t believe in relationships, just one night stands. Until he meets Abby. This book soon to be movie is about two people with troubled pasts learning to trust one another and change the way they look at things.

Director: Roger Kumble
Writers: Roger Kumble, Jamie McGuire
Starring: Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner, Austin North
Box office: $6 850 000

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9 See You on Venus

See You on Venus

Mia and Kyle are two misfit American teens who travel to Spain in search of Mia’s birth mother. As the pair road trip through the picturesque cities of Andalusia and fall in love, they discover that the most important question isn’t who gave you life but what you decide to do with it.

Director: Joaquín Llamas
Writer: Victoria Vinuesa
Starring: Virginia Gardner, Alex Aiono, Rob Estes
Box office: $170 000

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8 Wildflower

Wildflower

Based on a true story, WILDFLOWER is a coming of age film that follows Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with two intellectually disabled parents and an extended family who can’t quite agree on the best way to help.

Director: Matt Smukler
Writers: Jana Savage, Matt Smukler
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Kiernan Shipka, Jean Smart

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7 Flora and Son

Flora and Son

A single mom at war with her son is trying to find a hobby for him. One day, she rescues a guitar from a dumpster.

Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
Starring: Eve Hewson, Jack Reynor, Orén Kinlan
Box office: $129 000

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6 Barbie

Barbie

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Director: Greta Gerwig
Writers: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera
Budget: $100 000 000
Box office: $1 441 827 000

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5 True Spirit

True Spirit

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.

Director: Sarah Spillane
Writers: Sarah Spillane, Rebecca Banner, Cathy Randall
Starring: Alyla Browne, Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis

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4 Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight

Today should be one of the worst days of twenty-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. Having missed her flight, she’s stuck at JFK airport and late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley’s never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s sitting in her row. A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?

Director: Vanessa Caswill
Writers: Katie Lovejoy, Jennifer E. Smith
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Ben Hardy, Rob Delaney

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3 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The story of Coriolanus Snow, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem. He is young, very determined and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, Coriolanus sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen to be a mentor for the 10th Hunger Games only to have his elation dashed when he is assigned to mentor a girl tribute named Lucy Gray Baird from the impoverished District 12.

Director: Francis Lawrence
Writers: Michael Lesslie, Michael Arndt, Suzanne Collins
Starring: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage
Budget: $100 000 000
Box office: $326 063 000

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2 Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

For over fifty years, Judy Blume’s classic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life’s biggest questions. In Lionsgate’s big-screen adaptation, 11-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia, who isn’t happy they moved away and likes to remind them every chance she gets.

Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Writers: Kelly Fremon Craig, Judy Blume
Starring: Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
Budget: $30 000 000
Box office: $21 464 000

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1 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Writers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham
Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Budget: $150 000 000
Box office: $690 516 000

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