The 20 Best Young Love Movies
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1. Little Lips (1978)
77 min | Drama
A writer returns home from World War I. He has developed a very bad case of post traumatic stress disorder. He contemplates suicide, but becomes interested in the 12 year old niece of the innkeeper at the place where he is recuperating.
Director: Mimmo Cattarinich | Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Katya Berger, Ugo Bologna, Michele Soavi
Votes: 923
When a World War I veteran returns from the war, he spends a summer on a farm where he falls in love with a 12 year old girl. Today, that is beyond taboo, but that kind of thing was not uncommon in those times.
2. Bilitis (1977)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 2,446
Famed French Photographer David Hamilton. Pretty teen girls in a ballet school. nuff said.
3. First Desires (1983)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Monica Broeke, Patrick Bauchau, Inge Maria Granzow, Anja Schüte
Votes: 1,151
David Hamilton again. Teen girls. A romance within.
4. Laura (1979)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Sculptor Paul is reunited with a former great love after a long time, but is much more impressed by his 15-year-old daughter, Laura, who looks like her mother when Paul was in love with her.
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell, Maureen Kerwin
Votes: 1,346
A 13 year old girl becomes the eyes of a sculptor in this David Hamilton movie.
5. Tender Cousins (1980)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
With Adolf Hitler threatening Europe, against the backdrop of the deceptively peaceful summer of 1939, 14-year-old Julien experiences the intoxicating effects of first love, smitten with his beautiful 16-year-old cousin Julia.
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas, Évelyne Dandry
Votes: 2,168
A 15 year old boy is the only male left on a farm in the midst of World War I. Because he is the only male, all the women, and girls, crave his attention. What to do ?
6. Nana (1983)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A beautiful and willful prostitute puts her appearance and body to use to become the toast of the town.
Director: Dan Wolman | Stars: Katya Berger, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Yehuda Efroni, Mandy Rice-Davies
Votes: 715
A 16 year old girl is the star girl of a brothel (set before World War I). She pleases customers of different ages, and sexes.
7. Felicity (1978)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Teenager Felicity studies at a remote Roman Catholic Church boarding school and seeks indulgence in popular erotic novels Story of O, Emmanuelle and in a lesbian love affair with her friend Jenny.
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Glory Annen, Chris Milne, Joni Flynn, Jody Hanson
Votes: 1,361
17 year old schoolgirl Felicity visits her aunt (and her new Uncle) in Hong Kong. It doesn't take long for Felicity to find out about sex in a wide open erotic city.
8. Kissing My Sister (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Florian Heiden, Alexandra Schalaudek, August Zirner, Christian Wunderlich
Votes: 287
A teenage brother and sister only get to spend summers together because of divorce. When sis comes for the summer, there is a growing attraction between the siblings. When they finally succumb, the film maker treats it in a a very tasteful way.
9. The Stolen Children (1992)
114 min | Crime, Drama
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel
Votes: 2,874 | Gross: $0.93M
The 12 year old actress who played the lead role in this flick won the Euro Oscar in her debut, and never made another movie. She plays an 11 year old prostitute being pimped by her mother. When the mother is arrested, the children (girl + her younger brother) must go to an orphanage. During the trip, the siblings bond with their Police escort and become a family. A very touching movie.
10. Beau-père (1981)
13+ | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 3,713
A 13 year old girl is caught in a quandry after her mother dies. She loves her step father, but has no feelings for her emotionally distant father.
11. La petite sirène (1980)
105 min | Drama
A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Andrieux | Stars: Philippe Léotard, Laura Alexis, Evelyne Dress, Marie Dubois
Votes: 169
A 14 year old girl falls in love with a mechanic and proceeds to turn his entire life upside down.
12. Emanuelle, Queen of Sados (1980)
X | 91 min | Crime, Drama
A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.
Director: Ilias Mylonakos | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas
Votes: 776
Livia Russo plays the 13 year old daughter of Emmanuelle. She falls in love, and like Emmanuelle-there's a lot of clothing optional scenes.
13. Pretty Baby (1978)
R | 110 min | Drama
A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye
Votes: 12,842 | Gross: $5.79M
A 12 year old girl, living in a New Orleans bordello, circa 1900, is ushered into the life of prostitution in this very controversial film.
14. Paradise (1982)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Romance
After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the appetite of the Jackal.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates, Tuvia Tavi, Richard Curnock
Votes: 2,925 | Gross: $5.59M
A pair of teenagers, alone on a deserted island, fall in love.
15. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus
Votes: 115,842 | Gross: $27.09M
This is the ultimate high school movie, which will never be remade or copied very well, because it deals with all aspects of teen's lives, including sexuality. This movie has no less than a dozen up and coming stars, who went on to great careers.
16. Blame It on Rio (1984)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Best friends and their daughters vacation in Rio de Janeiro only for one to fall for the other's daughter.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Michael Caine, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, Joseph Bologna
Votes: 11,795 | Gross: $18.64M
While on vacation, a 16 year old girl falls madly in love with her father's business partner.
17. Private Lessons (1981)
R | 87 min | Comedy
An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.
Directors: Alan Myerson, James Fargo | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, Patrick Piccininni
Votes: 4,269 | Gross: $26.28M
A 15 year old boy, left in his spacious mansion with a chaffeur and very attractive maid, falls into a lesson of love and blackmail.
18. The Blue Lagoon (1980)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels
Votes: 76,614 | Gross: $58.85M
Marooned on an island, a pair of children learn to fend for themselves. They grow, have a child, then come the rescuers. But do they want to be rescued ?
19. Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become suntanned teenagers in love.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Brian Krause, Milla Jovovich, Lisa Pelikan, Courtney Barilla
Votes: 21,543 | Gross: $2.81M
Picking up about 15 years later, the teenage son of Blue Lagoon couple finds himself marooned with a very beautiful teen girl.
20. The Memory of a Killer (2003)
R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Vincke and Verstuyft are the best detectives of the Antwerp police department. They are confronted with the murder on a leading executive and put all their effort to catch the murderer.
Director: Erik Van Looy | Stars: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Jan Decleir, Laurien Van den Broeck
Votes: 10,634 | Gross: $0.33M
An aging hitman, recently diagnosed with alzheimers, stumbles on a conspiracy of government ministers forcing children into prostitution. The first five minutes of this classic, based on a true story, will make your flesh crawl. Then, we're off on an adventure that Hollywood can't match.
21. Friends (1971)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A rich English boy meets an orphaned French girl and as they become friends, create a world that is far away from the adult world we live in.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis, Toby Robins
Votes: 1,132
When her new stepfather begins hitting on her, a very pretty teen girl runs away with a teen boy. They begin to build a life, but will their love be enough ?
22. Rich Kids (1979)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper-West-Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents' lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Trini Alvarado, Jeremy Levy, Kathryn Walker, John Lithgow
Votes: 677 | Gross: $0.50M
In 1979 New York City, a pair of 12 year old kids are neglected by their very narcisstic parents. The kids fall in love, which shocks their parents.
23. A Summer in Saint Tropez (1983)
59 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In an isolated country house close to the shore near Saint-Tropez, seven young women share a bedroom. Over two days, they wake, shower, breakfast, play dress up, bathe in the sea, picnic, ... See full summary »
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Joan, Catherine, Esther, Monica Broeke
Votes: 555
David Hamilton movie. Seven young French females share house in France.
24. When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
R | 136 min | Drama
A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Moreno De Bartoli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic
Votes: 10,110 | Gross: $0.02M
in 1985 Yugoslavia, an 11 year old boy is left to his own devices when his parents get caught up in life. The boy learns life and love lessons.
25. Moondance (1994)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
30ish Patrick and teenage Dominic are two brothers living alone in a remote farmhouse in the Southwest of Ireland, while their mother is away traveling. When their aunt comes visiting, with... See full summary »
Director: Dagmar Hirtz | Stars: Rúaidhrí Conroy, Ian Shaw, Julia Brendler, Marianne Faithfull
Votes: 290
A pair of boys (aged twelve and sixteen) are abandoned by their mother in a rural setting. One day, the twelve year old finds a beautiful teen girl. After he brings her home, sibling rivalry sets in.
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