Check out these Top 10 Most Underrated 80s Teen Movies! Have you seen them all?
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Number 10: Running on Empty (1988): Drama/Romance
An American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Naomi Foner and starring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton. A family sets fire to a weapons lab and since then is constantly chased by the government authorities.

Number 9:
Scenes from the Goldmine (1987): Drama
A young songwriter/musician joins a rock group but pays the price for success when she becomes involved with the band's leader and he tries to steal her music. This movie is a chronicle of budding romance in an aspiring rock'n'roll band, set in the corrupting world of the music business.

Number 8: The Boy Who Could Fly (1986): Fantasy/Teen
An American fantasy drama film written and directed by Nick Castle and produced by Lorimar Productions for 20th Century Fox. The film stars Lucy Deakins as 14-year-old Milly Michaelson, Jay Underwood as Eric Gibb, a boy with autism, Bonnie Bedelia as Milly's mother, Fred Savage as Milly's little brother, Colleen Dewhurst as a teacher, Fred Gwynne as Eric's uncle, Janet MacLachlan, and Mindy Cohn. After the suicide of her terminally ill father, Milly becomes friends with Eric, who lost both of his parents to a plane crash. Together, Eric and Milly find ways to cope with the loss and the pain as they escape to faraway places.

Number 7: My Bodyguard (1980): Comedy/Family
Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) is a sensitive, well-to-do teen who becomes the target of bully Melvin Moody (Matt Dillon) after he starts attending a new school. Tired of being picked on, Clifford recruits brooding tough kid Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) to be his bodyguard. While this initially works, and Clifford and Linderman form an unlikely friendship, soon circumstances strain their bond.

Number 6: Teen Witch (1989): Fantasy/Romance
High-school nerd Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) learns from psychic Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein) that she's possessed with magical abilities that will begin working on her 16th birthday. When the prophecy proves true, the teenager uses her new powers to get what she's always desired: popularity. After getting back at some bullies, the young witch casts a spell over hunky jock Brad Powell (Dan Gauthier). But Louise soon learns that getting what you want isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Number 5: Just One of the Guys (1985): Comedy/Romance
American teen comedy film directed by Lisa Gottlieb and co-written by Dennis Feldman and Jeff Franklin. When Terry Griffith (Joyce Hyser) loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy (Billy Jacoby), helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick (Clayton Rohner), who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.

The film ranked number 48 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Best High School Movies".

Number 4: Some Kind of Wonderful (1987): Romance/Drama
American romantic drama film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Ereica Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson. Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz), an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson) with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson). However, his advances draw the ire of Amanda's snobby ex-boyfriend, Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer), who makes plans to get even. Matters are further complicated when Watts realizes she likes Keith as more than just a friend and tries to convince him to stop pursuing Amanda.

Number 3: For Keeps (1988): Drama/Romance
An ambitious high-schooler and her boyfriend are headed for good colleges. But when she gets pregnant the teen couple have a hard time trying to fit the baby into their career plans. Starring Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff.

Number 2: Little Darlings (1980): Drama/Teen
Streetwise Angel (Kristy McNichol) comes from a poor neighborhood, while naïve Ferris (Tatum O'Neal) has never wanted for anything. Both girls are on the brink of womanhood and, due to some intense peer pressure, they agree to compete to see who can lose her virginity first. But their impressions of sex and love are challenged as they race toward adulthood.

Number 1: The New Kids (1985): Thriller/Horror
A brother (Shannon Presby) and sister (Lori Loughlin) move to Florida and fight local hoodlums led by a twisted drug dealer (James Spader).

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