What’s Your Favorite Senior Year Movie?

by | Mar 18, 2025 | Parenting, Teens

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What's Your Favorite Senior Year Movie?

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What is your favorite senior year movie?

All movies in each category are put in ABC order. There were more movies in each category that we chose not to include for various reasons. We love all the movies on this list!

#1 Favorite Senior Year Movie: Graduation

These movies all include stories about the end of high school.

American Graffiti -PG

Can’t Hardly Wait -PG13

Cooley High -PG

Dazed and Confused -R

Ghost World -R

Grease -PG

High School Musical 3: Senior Year -G

Ladybird -R

The Last Picture Show -R

Our Very Own NR

Say Anything -PG13

She’s All That -PG13

The Spectacular Now -R

#2 Favorite Senior Year Movie: Senior Year

These were specifically set during the senior year of high school.

The Breakfast Club

Fame

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Perfect Pitch 2

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#3 Favorite Senior Year Movie: Making a choice about your future

This was a more difficult category to choose for. Many in other categories had an element of this, but these were teens who were talented or had chosen a path.

Dead Poet’s Society

Finding Forrester

October Sky

#4 Favorite Senior Year Movie: Coming of age

These are not necessarily just about senior year, but they include some fun high school vignettes that are fun to watch!

Easy A

The Breakfast Club

Clueless

Honor Society

Mean Girls

Mystic Pizza

The Outsiders

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Pretty in Pink

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Sixteen Candles

Some Kind of Wonderful

A Walk To Remember

#5 Favorite Senior Year Movie: Prom

We have a whole post of prom movies here. Prom is a fun event to look forward to.

My favorite prom movie is She’s All That. How is Freddie Prinze, Jr. 49 years old???

Laura’s favorite prom movie is Mean Girls because she and her kids love to quote all the lines! “Laura’s not a regular mom. She’s a cool mom!” 😎

#6 Favorite Senior Year Movie: College Life

This one was a tough category because I wanted the choices to be fairly clean, or at least not totally filthy and inappropriate. There are lots more choices, but these choices are fun and sort of a slice of life to look forward to.

Pitch Perfect

Reality Bites

Sydney White

With Honors

#6 Favorite Senior Year Movie: Final Thoughts

Senior year is such a wonderful time for your teen. It is bittersweet for us as parents. These movies are a great way to connect with your teen and share some of your own memories!

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