Young Adult Movies

Will O'Connell, the city's most powerful mafia boss, dies saving an overweight, bullied teenager, Cayden, only to awaken in the boy's body. Forced back into high school, Will quickly clashes with campus bully Dane. After enduring a brutal public beating, he shocks everyone by knocking Dane down with a single punch. With help from his trusted confidant Vinny, Will secretly regains control of the O'Connell family while posing as his own illegitimate son. Using mafia resources, he transforms Cayden's body, returns to school in spectacular fashion, humiliates Dane, defeats a vindictive teacher with his academic brilliance, and survives an assassination attempt.

Mia is a 19-year-old college freshman who's beautiful but broke. Her father tells her to sell herself. Her mother offers her a job at a bar. With tuition overdue and no way out, she accepts an offer from her African professor, Kofi: $5,000 a month for companionship. But Kofi has other plans. He injects her with drugs, ties her up, and films everything. He doesn't stop there. He uses the videos to blackmail her into delivering packages—drugs, money, things she doesn't want to know about. Just when she thinks she's alone, Nina, the quiet girl in her dorm, steps in. Nina saves her from Kofi in a dark parking lot. She holds Mia through withdrawal. She becomes the only person Mia trusts. Until Mia finds messages on Nina's phone. Messages that prove Nina wasn't just helping her. She was positioning herself. She was waiting for Mia to fall so she could be the one to catch her—and own her.

Orphan Eileen saved Hatton Academy's headmaster and was adopted, growing up with three Alpha childhood sweethearts. Chloe framed her with forged notes; the three men refused to believe her, torturing her with hockey pucks, dragging her behind a horse, and hanging her from a flagpole. Her heart died, and she chose Bruno, a fallen Alpha. When the truth came out, the three regretted deeply and gave up their Alpha blood to save her—but she never looked back, bonding with Bruno and marrying him.

Max is a college junior with zero dating experience and eight rejected confessions to his name. One drunken night, he wished he could be a beautiful girl. He woke up as one. Now his roommate Toby is red-faced in the feminine hygiene aisle buying the wrong product, his buddy Elliot is timing his bathroom breaks with a stopwatch, and his dream girl Ivy — who never gave him the time of day — is linking arms with him and wiping rice off his face. Turns out she always noticed him. She just couldn't say yes when he confessed in front of the entire cafeteria. Every. Single. Time. Life as "Maxie" is a crash course in high heels, period cramps, and the terrifyingly efficient girls' gossip network — until Kai, Elliot's cold-eyed half-brother, moves in and starts noticing that this pretty new girl fights like a jiu-jitsu black belt and bites her lip in the exact same spot as a boy who's been "missing" for weeks.

In Dear Brother Your Regret Came Too Late, Stephanie Sims has spent all 16 years of her life carrying her family’s blame. Her mother, whom her father loved dearly, died while giving birth to her. From that day forward, Stephanie’s father neglects her and holds her responsible for the loss.

The only person who shows Stephanie any warmth is her brother, Alexander “Alex” Sims. Whenever their father ignores her, Alex pats her on the back and reassures her that she is loved. Everything changes when their cousin, Abigail Dawn, moves into the family home. Before long, even Alex begins siding with their father. Together, they spoil Abigail, whom they call Abby, while treating Stephanie as though she no longer belongs. At their cruelest, they even wish Stephanie had died instead of her mother.

Their wish comes true in the worst possible way when Stephanie is diagnosed with cancer. On their father’s birthday, Alex even catches a glimpse of her diagnosis report. Still, he doesn’t understand what Stephanie has been facing until after she dies. His regret comes too late. The accusations he throws at Stephanie’s friends—and his own mistreatment of her—soon begin to turn against him.

Characters

Stephanie Sims

Stephanie Sims is the suffering main female character and Alexander’s real sister. Her family labels her as her mother’s murderer simply because her mother died giving birth to her. Even after she becomes seriously ill, Stephanie is left to struggle alone.

Alexander “Alex” Sims

Alexander “Alex” Sims is the main male character and Stephanie’s brother. He once comforts Stephanie when their father neglects her, but his attitude changes after Abby moves into their home. By siding with Abby and misunderstanding his sister, Alex sets himself up for a lifetime of regret.

Abigail “Abby” Dawn

Abigail “Abby” Dawn is the manipulative and jealous main villain. Although she fails three classes, she finds a way into the Ivy League by exploiting Alex. Her arrival also drives a deeper wedge between Stephanie and her family.

Rowan

Rowan is the punk-looking girl who gives Stephanie her tattoo. She is also Stephanie’s best friend and biggest supporter when her own family turns against her.

In a mysterious center, six passionate students and their parents gather to receive methylphenidate, a clinically approved drug known as the ""study shot."" which enhances blood flow to the brain to improve learning effectiveness. While the children, who have received the study shot, are locked in and studying, the parents practice administering injections inside. As the test results are announced, a tense atmosphere develops among the students, resulting in an incident that Kyung-min stabs Ye-jun in the neck with a pen. Meanwhile, subtle infidelities and conflicts begin to ignite among the parents.

An incredibly bright, but socially awkward teenage girl decides to take her virginity into her own hands.

The U.S. nuclear medical professor Charlie Clare quits his career for family, but is abandoned as his wife and daughter favor his love rival Isaac. After suffering his family’s ignorance, he decides to leave for the Unicorn Project, which he designed for healing his daughter’s neuro-skel birthmark as his life work. But unaware that Charlie’s burning his life for them, his wife and daughter deepen the rift with Charlie upon reunion and eventually destroy everything Charlie left for them with their own hands before realizing their errors, only to find it too late.

Teen series Flunk explores contemporary coming-of-age issues, as a group of queer students navigate the intricacies of high school relationships.

Little Alodia had a tough start. At just five years old, she was stuck living with her mean aunt Rhea who only cared about boys. Life was lonely until she met Jade, the fiery widow everyone in Loess Village talked about. A funny thing happened after Jade took Alodia in. Suddenly, Jade's struggling herb business took off. Bills got paid. Good things just kept happening. Turns out the quiet little girl was what folks called a "luck magnet" - where she went, fortune followed. Of course, nasty aunt Rhea came sniffing around when she heard. The village chief, Larry Greene, heard the rumors, trying to take Alodia back. But Jade wasn't having it. With help from folks like Osmond and the neighbors, they showed Rhea for the cruel woman she was. In the end, Jade got to keep her lucky little girl, proving sometimes the family you choose is better than the one you're born into.