No one knows those technicolor feelings of a first love (and a first heartbreak) like the teenagers in teen romance movies. It's a genre that never gets old because no matter your age, we can all remember and relate to those messy feelings of figuring yourself out and figuring out how to love someone else — if only for a while — at the same time.
Teenage romance movies, like high school movies writ large, may have earned a bad reputation for being silly. And sometimes, they are (to which we say: so what?). At their core, though, the best teen movies represent the variety of experiences that come from discovering yourself (and others) at this age. And thankfully, as Hollywood changes for the better, there's even more diversity to come from teen romance movies. Ideas around who's considered to be leading character-worthy or who gets to be a love interest are (finally) changing, and we feel secure enough to say there are both teen rom-coms and tissue-worthy romantic teen movies
