Best Teen Comedy Movies on MGM+

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 83% 1h 43m

Directed by John Hughes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe fourth-wall breaks and parade sequence exemplify the genre's anarchic energy and protagonist's infectious rule-breaking charisma.

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

Irma la Douce (1963)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 27m

Directed by Billy Wilder

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMistaken identity comedy hijinks, though this is a screwball farce for adults, not a teen film.

When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.

Beautiful Girls (1996)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 52m

Directed by Ted Demme

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEnsemble male anxiety about adulthood captures the post-college malaise that resonates with older teens.

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.

Something Wild (1986)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 54m

Directed by Jonathan Demme

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDark romantic comedy subversion—initial meet-cute charm inverts into genuine menace, defying genre expectations.

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

Mermaids (1990)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 50m

Directed by Richard Benjamin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTeenage religious rebellion and small-town transplant stress anchor family comedy through Charlotte's eye-rolling perspective.

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.

The World of Henry Orient (1964)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 46m

Directed by George Roy Hill

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFemale friendship and obsessive fandom drive the plot; teens weaponize information and social manipulation brilliantly.

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.

Secret Admirer (1985)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 33% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 38m

Directed by David Greenwalt

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnonymous note chaos weaponizes teen communication anxiety, creating hilarious domino-effect social implosion.

An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it.

The Bellboy (1960)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 12m

Directed by Jerry Lewis

✦ MovieMuse AI takePhysical comedy without dialogue; pure slapstick pantomime transcends age demographics through universal physical humor.

Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.

Mystic Pizza (1988)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 44m

Directed by Donald Petrie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWorking-class female coming-of-age grounded in quotidian pizza-parlor realism rather than high-school stereotypes.

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

Orange County (2002)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 47% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 22m

Directed by Jake Kasdan

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.

Some Girls (1988)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 43% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 34m

Directed by Michael Hoffman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeChristmas-break romantic miscommunication: girlfriend's family becomes obstacle, inverting standard teen romance setup.

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

Clifford (1994)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 20% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 29m

Directed by Paul Flaherty

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThis stars an adult and child; not a teen comedy despite juvenile protagonist.

When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.

Fatal Beauty (1987)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 18% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 44m

Directed by Tom Holland

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFemale detective comedy; adult-oriented crime film with undercover shenanigans, not genuinely teen-focused.

Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug, called "Fatal Beauty." With the help of her partner and a former bodyguard for a local cartel, Rita will do whatever it takes to find out who's dealing Fatal Beauty and stop them.

Gas Pump Girls (1979)

IMDb 4.8 Letterboxd 2.6 1h 26m

Directed by Joel Bender

✦ MovieMuse AI takeService-station exploitation comedy; male-gaze objectification rather than authentic teen comedy sensibility.

June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.

Johnny Be Good (1988)

IMDb 4.6 Letterboxd 2.3 1h 31m

Directed by Bud S. Smith

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAthletic recruitment satire exposes teen commodity status through dark humor and systemic critique.

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

Unhuman (2022)

IMDb 4.5 🍅 50% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 27m

Directed by Marcus Dunstan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHorror-survival hybrid; teen slasher elements overwhelm comedic potential—this isn't comedy-first.

After their school bus crashes, a group of high school students is thrown into a terrifying fight for survival as they try to take down a group of unhuman savages… before they kill each other first.

Teen Wolf Too (1987)

IMDb 3.5 🍅 8% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 35m

Directed by Christopher Leitch

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCollege werewolf sports comedy riffs on transformation anxiety as metaphor for athletic inadequacy.

Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf. As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost?