All the Movies I'm Showing My Gen Z Sister
Raise your hand if you have a Gen Z sister who’s desperate for some movie education. (*Abi raises own hand*) You guys, I take my role as Sophie’s older sister very seriously, and when I realized just how many amazing movies this 18-year-old hasn’t seen yet, I wasn’t mad, I was just very, very disappointed. In both of us. Now I’m taking matters into my own hands and introducing her to the greats – a new movie every time she comes home from college! We’ll use this list – let us know if we’re missing one of your favorites and we’ll add it.
UPDATE: We've added all your suggestions to a printable list for you HERE.
- Ever After
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Jane Eyre
- Romeo and Juliet (1996 version)
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Rebecca
- Little Women (1994 version)
- Anna and the King
- Stepmom
- Jerry Maguire
- A Walk To Remember
- Good Will Hunting
- My Girl
- Titanic
- Forrest Gump
- Dirty Dancing
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Man in the Moon
- Sense and Sensibility
- About Time
- The Notebook
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Hope Floats
- Never Been Kissed
- (500) Days of Summer
- The Proposal
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Fever Pitch
- Father of the Bride
- Pretty Woman
- While You Were Sleeping
- 13 Going on 30
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- The Wedding Planner
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- The Wedding Singer
- Groundhog Day
- Sabrina
- It Could Happen to You
- She’s All that
- IQ
- The Mirror Has Two Faces
- Clueless
- Crazy, Stupid, Love
- Sweet Home Alabama
- 50 First Dates
- Sleepless in Seattle
- When Harry Met Sally
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- You’ve Got Mail
- Pretty in Pink
- So I Married an Axe Murderer
- Sixteen Candles
- What’s Up, Doc?
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Notting Hill
- Runaway Bride
- Dan in Real Life
- The Man who Knew Too Little
- Drop Dead Fred
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- What About Bob?
- Legally Blonde
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Catch Me If You Can
- Gangs of New York
- The Prestige
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ben-Hur
- 21
- Stand by Me
- 12 Angry Men
- The Green Mile
- Dead Poets Society
- The Breakfast Club
- Now and Then
- Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Steel Magnolias
- Ghost
- Beaches
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Schindler's List
- Braveheart
- Life is Beautiful
- Inglorious Basterds
- Last of the Mohicans
- Saving Private Ryan
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Die Hard
- The Dark Knight
- Baby Driver
- Count of Monte Cristo
- Ip Man
- Indiana Jones
- Top Gun
- A Knight's Tale
- Fight Club
- Shutter Island
- Parasite
- Sixth Sense
- John Wick
- No Country for Old Men
- V for Vendetta
- Gone Girl
- The Fugitive
- Double Jeopardy
- Misery
- The Usual Suspects
- Jaws
- The Others
- Seven
- Hide and Seek
- The Matrix
- Inception
- Interstellar
- Gattaca
- Terminator
- Predator
- Aliens
- Back to the Future
- The Thing
- Alien
- The Parent Trap
- A League of Their Own
- The Goonies
- Princess Bride
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Cool Runnings
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Spirited Away
- Funny Face
- Moulin Rouge
- Footloose
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
- West Side Story
- My Fair Lady
- The Sound of Music
- The Music Man
- Grease
Comments
Bre —
Romantic Drama: Time Traveller’s Wife (NOT the series that sucks), Always, Bicentennial Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Step Up, Forever Young, Australia
Comedy: Oscar, Shanghai Noon
Dark Comedy: Death Becomes Her
Drama: Radio, Holes, Ocean’s Eleven (comedy/drama?)
Western: Conagher, The Quick and the Dead
War: The Last Samurai
Action/Adventure: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hero, Tomb Raider
SciFi/ Action: John Carter, In Time, Impostor, Phenomenon
Fantasy: Underworld
Family: Ferngully, Swiss Family Robinson, Lizzie McGuire Movie, A Cinderella Story, Prince of Egypt, Hook
Musical: Fiddler on the Roof, Rigoletto
Janna —
My favorite movie as a teen was “That Thing You Do!”
Jamie Feil —
Eat, Pray, Love
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken
Top Gun 1&2
Titanic
Pollyanna
My Father The Hero
Gray Man
Fear
Cruel Intentions
Girl, Interrupted
Varsity Blues
Silence of the Lambs
Ghost
Pretty Woman
The Craft
Hook
American Beauty
The Secretary
As Good As It Gets
The Man in The Moon
Wildflower (Reese Witherspoon)
Mermaids
Mr Holland’s Opus
Practical Magic
The Other Sister
Meet Joe Black
Benny & Joon
My Best Friends Wedding
Little Women
Grace —
Abi- Reality Bites!! Perfect 90’s movie.
Chris —
Sweet Hime Alabama
Ferris Bulher’s Day Off
An Officer and A Gentleman
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
What a Girl Wants
Legally Blonde 1 & 2
Where the Heart Is
The Green Mile
Staci —
Only You-Marisa Tomei and RDJ
Drive Me Crazy- Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier
Down with Love- Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor
Some like it hot- Marilyn Monroe and Tom Curtis
Foul Play-Chevy chase and Goldie Hawk
And if you do a series do Ally Mcbeal!
Natalie Elder —
Musicals:
South Pacific
Brigadoon
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Oklahoma!
Thriller:
What Lies Beneath
Wait Until Dark
The Skeleton Key
Romance/Drama:
North & South
Anne of Green Gables & Avonlea (Sullivan production)
Emma (Gweneth paltrow)
Austenland
Just Friends
Waitress
Lisa Dengg —
Three Amigos, Raising Arizona,
Lady Hawk, Princess Bride, Deceived, Dead Again, Strange Brew, Maverick, Wayne’s World, The Man From Snowy River