Best Teen Drama Movies & TV Shows

Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Stars: Caleb McLaughlin Charlie Heaton David Harbour Finn Wolfhard Gaten Matarazzo Joe Keery Millie Bobby Brown Natalia Dyer Sadie Sink Winona Ryder

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85

Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town.

Stars: Benjamin Plessala Braxton Quinney Brett Gipson Brooklyn Davey Norstedt Elisha Williams Jeremy Jordan Jolie Hoang-Rappaport Luca Diaz Odessa A'zion

Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the status quo of the affluent, privileged community of Newport Beach, California.

Stars: Adam Brody Autumn Reeser Ben McKenzie Kelly Rowan Melinda Clarke Peter Gallagher Rachel Bilson Willa Holland

Pretty Little Liars

Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.

Stars: Andrea Parker Ashley Benson Ian Harding Janel Parrish Lucy Hale Sasha Pieterse Shay Mitchell Troian Bellisario Tyler Blackburn

Gossip Girl

An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.

Stars: Blake Lively Chace Crawford Ed Westwick Kaylee DeFer Kelly Rutherford Leighton Meester Matthew Settle Penn Badgley

One Tree Hill

In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.

Stars: Austin Nichols Bethany Joy Lenz Jackson Brundage James Lafferty Lee Norris Lisa Goldstein Kirsch Robert Buckley Shantel VanSanten Sophia Bush Stephen Colletti

The Order

Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.

Stars: Jake Manley Sarah Grey

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

Stars: Christopher Briney Gavin Casalegno Isabella Briggs Jackie Chung Kristen Connolly Lola Tung Rain Spencer Sean Kaufman