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These 9 movies will catapult you back to your teenage years

There are a few films that remain legendary.

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These 9 movies will catapult you back to your teenage years

There are a few films that remain legendary. Not because they are artistically particularly valuable or because they tell a particularly emotional story. But because they are simply incredibly entertaining. Numerous teen films have achieved cult status in this way.

We dug nine pearls of the genre out of our DVD and VHS cabinets and tell you where you can stream them these days! But before that, a little bit about you:

High fiction isn't what you expect from a high school romantic comedy, but 10 Things I Hate About You, starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, is adapted from the Shakespearean drama The Taming of the Shrew. While Shakespeare had his comedy set in the Italian city of Padua, the American "Padua High" is the location of the film, which tells an almost classic high school story.

While Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is one of the most popular girls at her school, her older sister Katarina (Julia Stiles), known as Kat for short, is considered a real nerd and inconspicuous bookworm. This is a problem for Bianca, who would like to go on a date, but her father won't let her unless older Kat is also dating boys. So Bianca's suitor, Joey (Andrew Keegan), decides to set Kat up with the rebellious and handsome Patrick (Heath Ledger). He is supposed to persuade her to go on a date – for a fee. You can probably imagine how that turns out. Or read about it in Shakespeare.

Particularly iconic: the scene in which Patrick professes his love with the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" through the high school public address system Kat.

Because it's so beautiful, we'll continue with the next literary adaptation in a new guise: This time director and screenwriter Amy Heckerling dedicates herself to Jane Austen's "Emma". Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and her friend Dionne (Stacey Dash) are considered the queens of their high school in Los Angeles' posh Beverly Hills.

They are real fashionistas, popular and always know the latest gossip. But they want more: In order to use their popularity for a good cause, they devote themselves to a special "project" - the wallflower Tai (Brittany Murphy). She, too, is to become popular and be paired with the popular student Elton (Jeremy Sisto). But everything spirals out of control when Tai, thanks to her commitment, mutates into the new debtor.

The apple pie scene will never be forgotten by anyone who saw it. For those who haven't seen it yet: The sexually inexperienced student Jim (Jason Biggs) abuses a hot apple pie in the parents' kitchen as a masturbation aid - his father (Eugene Levy) catches him and reacts with iconic understanding.

The popular film series "American Pie" revolves around four friends Jim, Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Oz (Chris Klein) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) who vow in the first part to lose their virginity until prom. There are nine films in the series so far.

The classic from the eighties is considered a declaration of love to the city of Chicago. The basic story is probably familiar to everyone: Ferris (Matthew Broderick) doesn't feel like taking classes and pretends to be sick - and plays truant in the classic way. He convinces his friends Cameron (Alan Ruck) and Sloane (Mia Sara) to drive him to Chicago in a Ferrari and have a blast there.

However, the principal (Jeffrey Jones) of Ferris' school suspects that the illness is only fake and sets out to find him. He wants to expel the well-known truant shortly before he graduates from school and therefore needs proof of the blues.

"Dreams are my reality, the only kind of real fantasy" - the French cult film made Richard Sanderson's ballad "Reality" world famous. The story is just as sweet as the song: 13-year-old Vicky (Sophie Marceau) has just moved to Paris and falls in love with Mathieu (Alexandre Sterling). At a party, which is called La Boum in French, she hopes for her first kiss.

The real heroine of the film, however, is Vicky's great-grandmother, Poupette (Denise Gray), who helps the teenager pursue their romance. A sequel followed in 1982 with "La Boum 2 - The party continues".

The original English title is "Dazed and Confused" and is derived from the song of the same name by the band Led Zeppelin. The film takes us back to the wild '70s and is one of Matthew McConaughey's first heydays, playing David Wooderson.

The film revolves around the last day of high school on May 28, 1976. The seniors want to give the newcomers an unforgettable welcome ritual. The traditional initiation rite is for the male students to have their elders spank them with cricket bats, while the females are gathered in the parking lot by the older students and smeared with mustard, ketchup, flour and raw eggs. Sounds crazy, but it's quite entertaining.

Another classic storyline with the new girl at school playing a central role. This time she embodies Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron at a high school in Evanston, Illinois. Previously, the protagonist lived in Africa and received only private lessons there at home. That changes abruptly - and suddenly she is confronted with coming-of-age problems related to clique formation, proms and the like.

In an interview about the film, actress and screenwriter Tina Fey reportedly said that adults will find the film funny, but high school-age girls will think they're watching a reality show. There's some truth to that.

Lindsay Lohan again, this time swapping bodies with her mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) at the age of 15. The cause: Two fortune cookies that mother and daughter are served and eat in a Chinese restaurant. The result: Both gain unexpected insights into the world of the other.

The film is a remake of the 1976 film adaptation of the novel "A Very Crazy Friday".

This film impresses with its excellent soundtrack. Just a small selection: "Every You Every Me" by Placebo, "Coffee and TV" by Blur, "Secretly" by Skunk Anansie, "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve or "Lovefool" by the Cardigans. If you don't have any affinity for indie rock afterwards, you can't be helped anymore.

But the story of the film, which is based on the novel "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos, also captivates its viewers: Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) is considered a seducer at his New York high school. There seem to be only two girls he can't seduce: staunch virgin Annette (Reese Witherspoon) and his stepsister Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar). He makes a bet with her: If he manages to sleep with Annette, then he can also have sex with Kathryn. The whole thing ends far more dramatically than one could imagine.

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