The best 2022 teen movies are both relatable and sentimental. If you loved Tall Girl (2019) get ready to hit play on the sequel Tall Girl 2 as Jodi takes on the lead role in the school play. Sex Appeal addresses a lot of the confusion that comes with “doing it” and The Fallout revolves around the ideas of loss and stress after an unimaginable tragedy.

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30 Hollywood Stargirl

The film follows Stargirl’s journey out of Mica, Arizona and into a bigger world of music, dreams and possibilities. When her mother Ana is hired as the costume designer on a movie, they relocate to L.A., where Stargirl quickly becomes involved with an eclectic assortment of characters. They include aspiring filmmaking brothers Evan and Terrell; Mr. Mitchell, one of Stargirl’s neighbors; and Roxanne Martel, a musician Stargirl admires and encounters on her journey.

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29 Sex Appeal

Avery Hansen-White holds herself back from doing things she’s not excellent at. So when her long-distance boyfriend seems to want to take their relationship to the next level at the upcoming STEM conference (“nerd prom”), she resolves to master her sexuality. Avery starts studying the mechanics of love and realizes that relationships involve less science and more heart.

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28 Love & Gelato

The film follows Lina, a 17 year old American who travels to Rome to stay with two family friends before starting college, according to her deceased mother’s wishes. While there, she meets and develops feelings for two boys, Lorenzo and Alessandro. Lina reads her mother’s diary of visiting Italy at the same age and searches for her Italian father, whom she has not met.

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27 My Best Friend’s Exorcism

The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act… different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

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26 Royalteen

Royalteen is a love story about living with your mistakes, conquering your fears and breaking the internet. When prince Karl Johan, Kalle amongst friends, and newcomer Lena start to develop warm feelings for each other, Lena is charmed but also skeptic, for many reasons. Party prince Kalle is a regular figure in the tabloids and the gossip blogs one of them was run anonymously by Lena herself, until she was exposed. Lena is painfully aware that dating the future king might put them both in an impossible situation and she has not told Kalle or anyone else about her even bigger secret, which is also the reason why she moved from her hometown.

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25 Tall Girl 2

Jodi Kreyman deals with her newfound popularity. Her miscommunications, however, start causing rifts with those around her and now she really needs to “stand tall.”

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24 Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between

After making a pact to break up before college, Clare and Aidan spend their last evening as a couple on one final epic date. As they retrace the steps of their relationship, from their first hello and kiss to their first argument, they edge towards a turning point in search for answers – should they stay together or say goodbye forever?

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23 The Sky Is Everywhere

Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby, starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love.

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22 Better Nate Than Ever

Thirteen-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams. There’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. But when his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to prove everyone wrong. A chance encounter with Nate’s long-lost Aunt Heidi turns his journey upside-down, and together they must learn that life’s greatest adventures are only as big as your dreams.

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21 Moonshot

A romantic comedy set in space. In ‘Moonshot’, it’s 2049, Mars is habitable and has been colonized by the best of humanity. In this context, a rich university student and a penniless barista decide to work together to get on a ship to the red planet, so they can reunite with those they love. However, along the way, things start to change and something arises between them. The science fiction space element is a backdrop that has been used countless times, so the outcome is extremely predictable. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t enjoyable: with a modest budget, the production is very well done, and both protagonists deliver charming performances.

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