Recommend me some movies for kids ages 12 - 16

[{{909}}]

I have a high level English class at my school and 1 or 2 times a semester I give them a movie, usually spread over 2 2 hour classes with a quiz and a bit of discussion on a related theme before and after each half.

Trouble is, with the current class I have a few students who love my classes so much they have been my student almost 3 years, so those few in the class have already seen all my usual movies. Usually I can just reuse the same movies as few students stay for more than a couple of semesters, but these few have been in this same class forever.

So far I have shown them :
The Goonies.
Back to the Future.
Big
The Iron Giant
Willy Wonka and the Choc Factory (1970's version)
and probably a few I have forgotten.
With the exception of Big, these all went down very well, esp the goonies and bttf.

As you can probably tell I like to show them movies from way before their era and I try to use movies which have some sort of traditional values rather than the shit kids watch these days. Using older movies means its unlikely they will have already seen the movie too.

Does anyone have any suggestions of other movies? I have to be careful to avoid movies with ANY sort of nudity as the girls just curl up and die with anything slightly related, the scene in Big was painful to sit though. Bad language is ok to some extent.

[akimba]

If you going for the kiddies Brat Pack movies wheres Ferris Bulers day off.

Also
Karate Kid
Never-ending Story
Tron
ET
Ghostbusters
Stand By Me

[consoles]

A Clockwork Orange. show them a classic and give them a mind fuck lol

[WRATH OF BOD]

what age group?

stand by me
turner & hooch
st elmos fire
breakfast-club(fantastic movie)
K9
flight of the navigator(funny)
war games
beetle juice
gremlins
roger rabbit
ghost busters
adventures of baby sitting
lost boys
the secret of nimh
the dark crystal
bmx bandits
space camp
home alone
teenage mutant turtles
3 ninjas
cool runnings
babys day out
the mighty ducks
space jam
honey i shrunk the kids
George of the jungle

[MsDG]

In your position I would say these two movies are a must...

Dead Poets Society
Lost in Translation (although I think there is some hanky panky in this)

[jaygo]

What about

DARYL
or
Mac n Me


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[macmilm]

A Serbian Film ????

Failing that the Goonies or Flight of the Navigator !?!?!?!?!?

[DJ OD]

Time Bandits


DJ OD

[jaygo]

To kill a mockingbird

It's a wonderful life

The wizard of Oz


Annie

There the wife's suggestions.


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[macmilm]

Time Bandits


DJ OD

Yes ... Time Bandits !!!! Classic, Genius

[sirdave]

as above, stand by me! love that film or maybe donni darko that's a bit of a mind bender

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[akimba]

yeah Cool Runnings and Mighty Ducks great inspiring underdog movies ;-)

[Goldberg]

Any John Hughes movies, especially The Breakfast Club (as already mentioned). Home Alones might be a bit below them though.. But then again..

[macmilm]

Explorers, its the first film Ethan Hawke & River Phoenix were ever in......

Classic and funny

[Goldberg]

E.T it was the first BIG movie Drew Barrymore was in.. Not sure why it matters that it was the first movie people were in?

[macmilm]

E.T it was the first BIG movie Drew Barrymore was in.. Not sure why it matters that it was the first movie people were in?

and what an overrated shit boring film it is too !!!!!

[akimba]

mmmmm Drew in Poison Ivy ;-)

[evilsatan]

Indiana Jones?
Willow? Not seen it for so long I am not sure if it's appropriate
Robin Hood
Monty Python??
Jumanjii



Stand by me is brilliant but a bit depressing...

[tombott]

The Princess Bride

[{{909}}]

Can't believe I forgot Ferris, Explorers and Flight of the Navigator! WTF was I thinking! Thats me sorted till the end of 2015 then, Thanks!

Loads of other classics I havent seen for donkeys, or just never seen in the first place so I'm gonna dig those up and watch before I show em to the kids. Sometimes these movies from the 80s haven't aged so well. As mentioned above, ET seems like shite now, since theres nothing special about having movies about aliens anymore and when I watched Big, the last hour was fucking dire.

Thanks all