1980s high school films

1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1985 film directed by John Hughes

1983 film directed by John Carpenter

1983 film by Paul Brickman

Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Dean Pitchford. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn a ban on dancing enforced by the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow).

1982 film directed by Amy Heckerling

1980 film by Alan Parker

1984 film by John Hughes

1986 film by David Anspaugh

Heathers is a 1989 American teen satirical black comedy crime film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. The plot revolves around four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of Jason "J.D." Dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

1983 film directed by Michael Chapman

'''''Porky's''''' is a 1981 sex comedy film written and directed by Bob Clark about the escapades of teenagers in 1954 at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida. The film stars Kim Cattrall, Scott Colomby, Kaki Hunter, Nancy Parsons, Alex Karras, and Susan Clark.

1985 film directed by Rod Daniel

1986 film by Howard Deutch

1982 US musical film directed by Patricia Birch

1980 film directed by Paul Lynch

1986 film by David Seltzer

1987 film directed by Steve Rash

1986 film directed by Michael Ritchie

1981 film by J. Lee Thompson

1987 film by Howard Deutch

1985 film by Savage Steve Holland

1989 film by John G. Avildsen

1982 film directed by Mark L. Lester

1989 film by Rospo Pallenberg

1980 film by Claude Zidi

1985 film by Jonathan R. Betuel

1983 film by Bob Clark

1985 film by Harold Becker

1989 film by Jean-Claude Brisseau

1988 film by Bud S. Smith

1986 film by Katsuhiko Nishijima

1981 film directed by Bill Forsyth

1984 film by Arthur Hiller

1985 film directed by Lisa Gottlieb

1987 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner

1987 film directed by Christopher Cain

Zapped! is a 1982 American teen sex comedy film directed by Robert J. Rosenthal and co-written with Bruce Rubin. The film stars Scott Baio as high school student Barney Springboro who acquires telekinetic powers.

1986 film by Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, Richard W. Haines

1980 film by Tony Bill

1987 film by Phil Joanou

1987 Canadian film by Bruce Pittman

1988 film by John G. Avildsen

1984 film by Danny Steinmann

1986 film by Peter Litten

1982 film by Tim Hunter

1989 film by Dorian Walker

1982 film by Claude Zidi

1984 film directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill

1981 film by Herb Freed

Screwballs is a 1983 Canadian teen sex comedy film directed by Rafal Zielinski and released by New World Pictures. It was one of several films inspired by the success of ''Porky's''.

1983 film by Mikhail Kozakov

1989 film directed by Daniel M. Peterson

1989 film by Stephen Sommers

1982 film by Michael Miller

1981 film by Mickey Rose, Michael Ritchie

1981 film by Larry Cohen

1987 Belgian film by Dominique Deruddere