Over 75 Movies for Tweens that you can enjoy

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I am so excited for summer!! I love later bedtimes and sleeping in and that there’s no baseball, soccer, football, and lacrosse practice. It’s so nice to be unscheduled and can just chill!  

I love finding movies for tweens to show my 2 boys who are 11 and 13.   I love to see their faces when a good story comes on and not just a silly cartoon.

Now that my kids are getting older, movie night is much more fun! We love watching movies and we’re always streaming TV shows.

I’ve recently starting updating the DVD’s in my car to more age appropriate movies- out with the cartoons and in with some live action!

I tried to come up with some movies both girls and boys would like.  My daughter is 9 so I had a harder time with those and tried to think back at the movies I liked! 🙂

We took a break from movies for a couple of weeks and streamed Stranger Things.  Both my boys loved this show and recommend it to your family.  We can’t wait for season 3!

Before you get to the list, I want you to see our new favorite movie popcorn!  It’s so good.  We’ve been having it all summer. It’s honey cinnamon and so EASY!  It’s a nice change from regular popcorn and perfect if you have a sweet tooth.

OVER 75 Movies for Tweens

Here are some of the movies that are in my queue to watch this summer!

• Forrest Gump
• Harry and the Henderson’s
• Cloak and Dagger
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Better Off Dead
• Secretariat
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• Dead Poets Society
• The Princess Bride
• Short Circuit
• The Parent Trap
• Happy Gilmore
• The Black Stallion

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• Pirates of the Caribbean
• The Perfect Game
• Holes
• High School Musical
• The Dark Crystal
• The NeverEnding Story
• Bend it Like Beckham
• Newsies
• Labyrinth
• Jumanji
• The NEW Jumanji
• Ghostbusters
• The Great Outdoors
• School of Rock

Here are more…

• Space Balls
• The Outsiders
• The Perks for Being a Wallflower
• A League of Their Own
• Clueless
• Groundhog Day
• All the Karate Kid movies
• One Crazy Summer
• Grease
• 13 Going on 30
• Hairspray
• Adventures in Babysitting
• Father of the Bride
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• War Games

and more

• Rudy
• Edward Scissorhands
• Ever After
• Jaws
• Stand By Me (This is rated R, but their ages are around 12 years old.  We let my older son watch it and he enjoyed it.)
• Twilight series
• Sully
• Weekend at Bernie’s
• Dumb and Dumber
• Dodgeball
• Back to the Future Series
• Percy Jackson
• Waterboy
• Hunger Games

and more…

• Like Mike
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Harry Potter
• Hidden Figures
• The Rookie
• Arrival
• Jurassic Park
• Undefeated
• Little Women
• The Blindside
• Remember the Titans
• Titanic
• The Hobbit
• Never Been Kissed
• Narnia

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• The Maze Runner Trilogy
• Independence Day
• The NEW Independence Day
• Overboard- Old version and NEW version
• Apollo 13
• Cool Runnings
• Rocky
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• National Treasure
• Wonder

You can get a lot of these movies on Amazon Prime too!  Consider signing up for that to get movies, if you aren’t already signed up for that.  It’s a good deal.

Am I missing something?  I could keep going and going, but I made myself stop!  When I see a movie that we’ve watched or a new one I come back here to see if it’s on the list.  Let me know if there is one I need to add.

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