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The 2000s gave us some of the best teen movies of all time so it’s no wonder we want to watch films from this era over and over again.
From comedy hits like Mean Girls and Bring It On to dramas that pulled on our heartstrings like Bend It Like Beckham and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, 2000s teen movies had it all.
While today’s teen movies struggle to compare and don’t give us the same pangs of nostalgia for days gone by, many of our beloved 2000s hits are available to stream, rent or buy online so we’ve compiled some of the best teen movies of the aughts that are available on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video and more.
Below are the best 2000s teen movies and how to watch them!
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‘The Hot Chick’ (2002)
Image Credit: ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Rachel McAdams got warmed up to her role in Mean Girls through this lesser-known 2002 comedy in which she plays Jessica, the mean popular girl in school who accidentally swaps bodies with a local crook, Clive (Rob Schneider).
Jessica, while trapped in Clive’s body, returns to school determined to get her body back before prom. This also stars the hilarious Anna Faris.
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‘Jennifer’s Body’ (2009)
Image Credit: ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried star in one of the campiest, girly horror films of all time that only gets more iconic with time.
Cheerleader Jennifer (Fox) is kidnapped and killed by an indie band who struck a deal with the Devil to get the soul of a virgin to further their careers.
However, Jennifer was no virgin and she is resurrected to get her revenge.
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‘John Tucker Must Die’ (2006)
Image Credit: ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Nothing says 2000s teen movie like a revenge plot and Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel, Brittany Snow and Jesse Metcalfe might just star in the best one of the decade.
When three popular girls from different cliques discover their dating the same boy (Metcalfe), they enlist the help of new girl Kate (Snow) to date him and break his heart.
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‘Napoleon Dynamite’ (2004)
Image Credit: ©Fox Searchlight/Courtesy Everett Collection You either love or hate this 2000s teen cult favorite and there’s no inbetween.
Awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is already struggling to fit in when his strange uncle moves to take care of his ailing grandmother, making life infinitely worse.
Looking for anything to keep him occupied, Napoleon befriends a new kid in school, a Mexican teen who speaks very little English but wants to run for class president.
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‘Herbie: Fully Loaded’ (2005)
Image Credit: ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection Herbie: Fully Loaded is an underrated gem, and it needs to be talked about more with 2000s teen films! Lindsay Lohan’s character, Maggie Peyton, is the new owner of Herbie, the iconic Volkswagen bug, who has a mind of its own. And because of this, they band together to help Peyton become a NASCAR competitor.
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‘A Walk To Remember’ (2002)
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection When bad boy Landon (Shane West) is forced to star in a school play with a classmate he and his friends once mocked (Mandy Moore), a romance forms.
However, with Landon’s old popular friends and Jamie’s strict, reverend father threatening to come between them, their love is tested.
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’17 Again’ (2009)
Image Credit: ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection Matthew Perry and Zac Efron star as the older and younger versions of Mike O’Donnel, a high school basketball star who gives up his sporting aspirations to marry his pregnant girlfriend.
After his marriage fails and his kids turn against him, Mike (Perry) gets transformed into his younger self (Efron) and has the chance to relive his glory days.
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‘High School Musical’ (2006)
Image Credit: ©Disney Channel/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection High School Musical is about a popular athlete and the smart new girl falling for one another, and becoming the leads in the high school musical. However, this threatens East High’s social order; causing everyone to be a little big devious to get what they want.
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‘Love Don’t Cost a Thing’ (2003)
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection When popular girl Paris Morgan (Christina Milian) damages her mom’s car without her knowing, she needs a quick fix. At the auto shop, she encounters science nerd Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon) who agrees to fix the car if she dates him for two weeks.
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‘The Princess Diaries’ (2001)
Image Credit: ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection The 2001 film The Princess Diaries has plenty of high school dating drama, along with the iconic storyline of a teen girl finding out she’s the princess of a small European country known as Genovia.
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‘What a Girl Wants’ (2003)
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection When Bynes’ character turns 17, she decides to go to London to find her long-lost father, who is working to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In What a Girl Wants, she learns to fit in, and how to stand out on her own terms.
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‘Mean Girls’ (2004)
Image Credit: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Mean Girls is truly a classic teen movie that’s all about fitting in, mean girls, friendship, and love; all the while trying to stay on top like Cady (Lindsay Lohan) tries to throughout the film.
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‘Wild Child’ (2008)
Image Credit: ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Emma Roberts, the 2008 film Wild Child is about a rebellious Malibu teen who has to go to a strict English boarding school, and does everything she can to try to get kicked out.
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‘Save the Last Dance’ (2001)
Image Credit: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Save the Last Dance is about a couple who work to help Julia Stiles’ character train for a Juilliard School dance audition. There’s love, there’s loss, and a whole lot of dancing; all you could want in a 2000s movie.
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‘Freaky Friday’ (2003)
Image Credit: ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection After the 2025 sequel, we have to shoutout 2003’s Freaky Friday. We all know the story: a by-the-books mom, played by Jamie Lee Curtis and a rocker, rebellious daughter, played by Lindsay Lohan, switch bodies. And in Freaky Friday, there’s such a teenage dirtbag moment featuring Lohan’s band, making it a must for rocking music, laughs, and a whole lot of love.
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‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ (2004)
Image Credit: ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen follows a drama Queen whose world gets turned upside down when she moves to the suburbs, where she has to compete for the attention she craves. Lohan’s character Lola wants to be on Broadway, but already acts like her life is a stage 24/7.
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‘Read It and Weep’ (2006)
Image Credit: ©Disney Channel/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring sisters Kay Panabaker and Danielle Panabaker, Read It and Weep follows a girl named Jamie who creates an imaginative version of her life through journal form. It’s a typical high school life: a crush on the popular guy who’s girlfriend is the town mean girl, best friends, an annoyingly loud brother; you get the idea. However, it all goes upside down when her journal accidentally gets published, and made into a bestseller.
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‘Ice Princess’ (2005)
Image Credit: ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection Starring the late and great Michelle Trachtenberg, Ice Princess is about a girl named Casey who tries her hardest to become a champion figure skater; with some help from her closest peers and family along the way.
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‘Bend It Like Beckham’ (2002)
Image Credit: ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, Bend It Like Beckham is about two girls who chase careers in professional football (American soccer) despite what their parents want.
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‘Eurotrip’ (2004)
Image Credit: ©DreamWorks/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Jacob Pitts, Travis Wester, Scott Mechlowicz, and the late Michelle Trachtenberg, Eurotrip follows four high school graduates going to Europe to help Scotty find the love of his life, Mika. It’s such good, raunchy fun you’ll want to rewatch over and over again.
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‘Thirteen’ (2003)
Image Credit: ©Fox Searchlight/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed, Thirteen is an angsty, harsh look at teendom. It follows a girl named Tracy who begins dabbling in substance abuse, sex, and crime after befriending a troubled girl her age. Fun fact: Reed co-wrote it loosely based on her own life!
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‘Juno’ (2007)
Image Credit: ©Fox Searchlight/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Elliot Page and Michael Cera, Juno was the quirky slice-of-life dramedy that everyone was quoting back in 2007. After Juno finds out she’s unexpectedly pregnant, she decides to give the baby up for adoption, with some bumps along the way.
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‘Bring It On’ (2000)
Image Credit: ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Bring It On is the “it” cheerleading movie that started it all. In the 2000 film, we follow a champion high school cheerleading squad realizing their captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school, and now, they have to work together to create a routine all on their own.
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‘Not Another Teen Movie’ (2001)
Image Credit: ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Jaime Pressly, Chris Evans, and Chyler Leigh, Not Another Teen Movie is like it says: not another teen movie, it’s a spoofy amalgamation of all the teen movies prior. Think a purely teen comedy version of the first Scary Movie film.
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‘Love and Basketball’ (2000)
Image Credit: ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection Love and Basketball is a classic for a reason. It follows Monica and Quincy, who love and play basketball together from childhood to adulthood; sharing all those crazy life moments together.
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‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ (2005)
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, and Amber Tamblyn, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants follows four best friends who all go off and live their separate lives, but send each other a pair of magical pants that fit each of their different bodies perfectly.
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‘Superbad’ (2007)
Image Credit: ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection The 2007 teen comedy Superbad is a cult-classic for a reason: it’s hilarious, honest, and created so many iconic moments. It follows two co-dependent high school seniors who plan to set-up a booze-soaked party to get with girls they like. But in true 2000s fashion, it all goes awry very quickly.
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‘Get Over It’ (2001)
Image Credit: ©Dimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection Get Over It is a comedic look at how a guy is supposed to survive his first breakup, and how she’s already dating someone new! Despite having an A-list cast with stars like Kirsten Dunst, Mila Kunis, Ben Foster, and Martin Short, it’s a hidden gem in the teen movie world.
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‘Ghost World’ (2001)
Image Credit: ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch, the 2001 movie Ghost World is about teenage outsiders who respond to a man’s romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag. But like every teen film, it gets complicated. And not only is it a cult classic, but it also was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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‘New York Minute’ (2004)
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection The iconic Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen film, New York Minute, is about two sisters who find themselves on misadventures while on vacay in New York City. It’s beloved for a reason, y’all!
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‘Aquamarine’ (2006)
Image Credit: ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Jo Jo and Emma Roberts play teens who find out that mermaids do exist when Aquamarine (Sara Paxton) is washed ashore.
Determined to prove to her father that true love exists, the sassy mermaid enlists the help of the two teens to win a local lifeguard’s heart.
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‘Disturbia’ (2007)
Image Credit: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection While on house arrest, a bored high schooler (Shia LaBeouf) starts spying on his neighbour and becomes convinced that he lives next to a wanted serial killer.