I want to watch a serious teen drama...know anything good?

Question

Something like...
Thirteen
The Truth About Jane
Pretty Persuasion
Kids

Something like that...

Answer 1

"Odd Girl Out"

"Gracie's Choice" (based on a true story)

"Homeless to Harvard" (also based on a true story)

Older movies:

"Gumbo"

"Trainspotting"

"Go Ask Alice" based on a true story of a 17 year old girl's diary after she died from an overdose.

Answer 2

Over the Edge (1979)

This film gave Matt Dillon and Vincent Spano their starts. It's based on a real-life incident in which teens basically declare war on the adults in their community. From what I recall, it still should come across as a powerful film. Here's a bit about it:
"New Grenada is a planned community set in the desert where there is nothing for the kids to do, save for a rec center - which closes at 6 PM. The parents, in their zeal to attract industry to their town, have all but neglected their children. As a result, the kids begin to create their own entertainment, which involves vandalism, theft, and general hooliganism. During an incident when one of the kids brandishes an unloaded gun at town cop Ed Doberman, he is shot and killed. When the parents gather the next night to discuss the killing and the level of lawlessness among the youth, they soon find out that their kids have had all they can take."

I agree about The Outsiders and Tex. You could go with a whole set of S.E. Hinton by adding That Was Then, This Is Now and Rumble Fish.

Answer 3

Reckless: a film from 1984 starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn.

Answer 4

Degrassi, South of Nowhere, & Beyond the Break are all pretty good & they're all on a channel called "the N" (basically Noggin at night)

Answer 5

The Outsiders come to mind, and what about Tex

Answer 6

plenty here to choose from
http://www.watch-movies.net/