22.04.22 ❤︎₊˚⋆ my favorite troubled teen girl movies & how they help me cope

lilya, or lilja, is abandoned by her mother who goes away to the united states while the teen girl stays somewhere in the former soviet union. she is forced by her aunt, who is just as neglective as her mom, to move to an old, run down apartment, and live a life of poverty with her best friend, volodya, who is also neglected by his parents. i won't go into a lot of details to not spoil the movie, but things go downhill even more from here.

just thinking about this movie makes me want to cry. after i finished watching it i really had to take like an hour to absorb everything and cry over it. it truly is so so heartbreaking. it's just tragedy after tragedy after tragedy, and things never get better for lilya. the ending is so fucking sad. on another note, i really love the cinematography of this movie, and there is this dreamcore vibe towards the end that i really love!!!! it's a really heavy movie but it's totally worth watching if this is something u can take. also the soundtrack is really good too!!! thank u to my bffie who is also a troubled girl movies enthusiast for recommending it to me

this movie is a true story of a german 13 year old girl in the 70s who is tired of her life and starts going to a nightclub with her school friend. there, she meets a boy, detlev, who she falls in love with. the aftermath of this relationship is a life of drug abuse, prostitution, and seeing young kids die to drugs.

this is a really heavy movie as well, and something about it just made me feel so immersed, so it made me cry a lot. i would say it has similar vibes to lilya 4-ever, although the story is not so similar. the scene of christiane going through a withdrawal is so fucking unsettling it made me feel sick. it truly is so heartbreaking that a person, and a child at that, had to go through all the things she went through. and i hate her relationship with detlev for obvious reasons. but i do feel bad for him because he is also just a kid living a life like that. once again, really amazing cinematography. there are so many memorable scenes in this movie to me, such as when she's hanging out with detlev and other teens on the rooftop of a building in the middle of the city, and the david bowie concert, which actually has david bowie's little cameo!

melinda is raped at a party by an older student when she is only 13, and the event changes her life completely. immersed in a depressive state after the occuring, she finds herself with no friends, or at least no true friends, living antisocially throughout her freshman year of high school. she decides to speak very little as a form of expressing her feelings, only significantly speaking when she talks to an art teacher who helps her begin her healing process.

first let me begin by saying kristen stewart is a great actress!!!! i enjoyed all the movies she's been in that i've seen, especially panic room and spencer. this movie is probably the most popular troubled teen girl movie after thirteen, and i really think it deserves it. i really could relate to the feeling of numbness melinda portrays throughout the movie, and i think it was very well expressed. there's almost this feeling of dissociation throughout the movie and the cinematography really helped with that as well. speaking of which, i love the cinematography of this movie. i love the color composition as well. it's just a very emotional yet numbing movie and i loved the experience of watching it.

on the outside, beth seems to have a pretty normal teenage life. she is popular in school, has loving parents, does well academically, and is good at ballet. however, her reality is not as it seems. beth struggles with living up to all these expectations, especially while having to deal with her parents' divorce, and turns to eating disorders as a way to feel in control of her life.

here we have miss alison lohan the queen of troubled teen girl movies again!!!!! i think this movie does a good job showing how eating disorders can affect someone's life, and how situations in life can lead to eating disorders. there were some very impactful moments as well, such as when her mom sees her purging, that really made me cry. i was also impacted by when beth yells "it's not about u. why can't anything be about me" at her mom when talking about her eating disorders. the amount of scenes where she purges feel a bit much though. overall i just really love alison's acting, and there are some pretty great scenes cinematography wise, particularly there is this one scene where beth is at a park surrounded by flowers and i think it is so beautiful. i also love the outfits she wears throughout the movie

after attending a school synchronised swimming competition in which her best friend participates, a 15 year old french girl named marie becomes interested in another girl from the more advanced team, floriane, who has the reputation of being a slut by the other girls. marie and floriane then begin a friendship that slowly and at times a bit unsurely develops into something else. as the movie progresses, we can see the two, and also marie's best friend anne, explore their sexualities as teenage girls.

this movie is definitely not as depressing as the other ones, i don't particularly remember crying at any scene, i watched it kind of a long time ago though so it's a bit hard for me to remember lol, but i think it still fits in the troubled teen girl movie category and is worth mentioning. i definitely think it is worth watching if u r also sapphic hehe i could relate to marie at times and i think the way her feelings for floriane are portrayed is very pure and beautiful. i also love love love the cinematography, there are some very pretty shots in this movie, i felt particularly in awe by the scene when marie and anne are at the indoors swimming pool at night. my only critic to this movie is that the nsfw scenes feel very unnecessary, especially because the actresses were minors.