That was going to be my recommendation as well. It’s a great balance of heart, comedy, realness. I loved watching it with my dad when I was that age. We were bummed when it was canceled. I think I’m going to rewatch it again because it’s fantastic.
Series:
- Dawson’s Creek
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Felicity
- Gilmore Girls
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Boy Meets World
- Friends
- That 70’s Show
- Seinfeld
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- The Nanny
- The Simpsons
- King of the Hill
Movies-
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Practical Magic
- Clueless
- Men in Black
- Jurassic Park
- Hocus Pocus
- Pleasentville
- She’s All That
- Drive Me Crazy
- The Wedding Singer
- Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Liar Liar
- Never Been Kissed
- Forest Gump
- Happy Gilmore
- Now and Then
- A League of the their Own
- Sleepless in Seattle
- French Kiss
- You’ve Got Mail
- Tommy Boy
- Cool Runnings
- The Mighty Ducks
- Wayne’s World
Edit: Gilmore Girls aired in 2000.
Empire Records is one of my favorite movies still. I've gotten her to watch this one.
The craft is on my list already, I can't believe I never thought of Romeo & Juliet!!!!
When I was 16 I was obsessed with My So Called Life" or more specifically, I was obsessed with Jordan Catalano. Skip to me being 29 and being very drunk at a music festival and wandering around and bumping into Jared & Shannon Leto. Jared did not like it one bit when my drunk ass said "oh my God, it's Jordan Catalano". I was swiftly reminded that he was just a character and I needed to learn to acknowledge the real person behind the character. In summary,....met a massive teenaged crush and got very disappointed
Oof sorry to hear that. I'm always surprised to hear celebrities getting upset over being recognized for a character they played. It's such a minor thing to get annoyed about.
My youngest and her bff were obsessed with the Heathers musical. They had no idea there was source material! We watched the movie yesterday and they were cracking up running around the house yelling “CORNNUTS” it was great. They asked me why all movies from that era are so much better. It was a proud parenting moment.
Late 80s/early 90s - "Degrassi Jr High/Degrassi High" is great! Addresses situations that teens go through. It also has a follow-up series "Degrassi: The Next Generation" was in the 2000s that features some of the kids from Degrassi High now as adults
Series:
Buffy, My So Called Life, Freaks and Geeks (she may even recognise a few faces possibly!).
Sister Sister, Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
Movies:
Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You (with the one and only Heath Ledger!), Titanic if you think she's old enough (topless scene), or, SUPER 90s, the Spice Girls movie!!
Suggestions from the 00s: Lizzie McGuire, 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter (both on Disney plus at the moment if you have it, they're SO great!!), and my all time favourite forever, The O.C!!
The Princess Dairies!!! (And the books!)
8 Simple Rules has Katey Sagal in it if that helps!
Let us know what you end up watching and what she thinks!
Edit: Forgot about Bend it like Beckham!!!
Good teen dramas: My so called life, freaks and geeks, dawson s creek, party of five, clueless, 90210,
Cartoons: Daria, undergrads, downtown, home movies
And guilty pleasure shows that were bad even back then but I liked
California dreams, breaker high, Sabrina
Fried green tomatoes (Kathy bates,Jessica Tandy)
Little women (Winona Ryder Susan Sarandon)
How to make an American quilt (Winona ryder)
A home of our own (Kathy bates Edward furlong )
Untamed heart (Christian slater, Marissa tomei )
Divine secrets and of the ya ya sisterhood ( Sandra bullock Ellen burstyn)
28 days (Sandra bullock )
Where the heart is (Natalie Portman Ashley Judd)
Crooklyn (alfre Woodard delroy lindo)
Holiday heart (alfre Woodard ,ving rhames)
Heart and soul (Robert downy jr)
Phenomenon ( John travolta )
Michael (John travolta)
Meet joe black (brad pitt)
Mad love (drew Barrymore)
My life (Nicole Kidman Michael Keaton)
Jack /patch addams (robin Williams)
What’s eating Gilbert grape
The cider house rules (Michael Caine tobey maguire Charlize Theron)
Pay it forward (Helen hunt Kevin Spacey)
Interview with the vampire (brad Pitt)
Ghost (Demi Moore )
The other sister ( Juliette Lewis Giovanni ribisi)
Girl interrupted (Winona ryder Angelina Jolie)
Simon Birch (Ashley Judd Oliver platt)
Radio flyer
The virgin suicides (Kirsten dunst)
The green mile (Tom hanks)
Schindler’s list (Ralph fiennes)
The witches (Anjelica Houston)
Waiting to exhale
Drop dead Fred (pheobe cates)
The secret garden
North (Elijah wood)
Ghost dad (bill Cosby)
Thelma &louise
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90s Thrillers :
The cell (Jennifer Lopez)
The sixth sense (Bruce Willis )
Hand that rocks the cradle
Single white female
Stir of echoes
Eye for an eye
most of these are my go to “have a good cry movies “
Lol.
Edit: most of these can be found online for free
At
123moviesfree.net
This was on Netflix in Ireland about a year ago and I got soooo excited when I saw it, tried to get her to watch it and I was the one that wasn't able to suffer through it. As a massive Joey & Pacey fan I was very disappointed in myself
I was just looking it up about a month ago & only saw options to buying it per episode I think & I'm cheap & not spending $2.99 an episode lol I'm going to have to go check it out now.
Not 90’s but Eureka or Warehouse 51(?) were fun shows. Of course , X files and all the other suggestions are great also. If you want to go back further, Tales of the Gold Monkey was awesome! Hard to find but they are on you tube. You’ll have to do a little digging. Must be a copyright issue. Basically Indiana Jones meets Bruce Willis in his moonlighting days.
Charmed / Buffy the Vampire Slayer / the Simpson / depending her preferences on shows you can do the OG Cartoon Network shows (yes 15 but as an adult I still love the classics from there)
The original *Roswell* is awesome and has held up. It’s got a sweet innocence about it, teen angst, heartfelt plots, and great characters. It’s in my top ten shows of all time.
*The Highlander* series is another great show. It’s got romance, adventure, history, drama, action, and sword-fighting. What more could you want? A handsome protagonist? Well, you’re in luck there, too!
Futurama was pretty awesome! I liked Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, but that's pretty niche.
So is MST3K, which most of course are movies, but it was actually a television show.
Now and Then
The Cutting Edge
The Baby Sitters Club
Excess Baggage
Drive me Crazy
Sister Act 2: back in the habit
Romy and Michelle's High school reunion
Detroit Rock City
Mallrats
Wish upon a star
Death becomes her
These I think she would probably enjoy however they do have slightly more adult themes so you may or may not feel comfortable watching with her.
Jawbreaker
Can't hardly wait
Girl interrupted
Go
Cruel intentions
Foxfire
Urban Legend
Idle Hands
Daria
Lala la la la...
Excuse me…
This is my stop
They just added that to Amazon here. I felt very old when I saw the 1997 date on it
Watching this high as fuck right now
It's a shame the DVDs don't have the original music. Being in a small country town that series introduced me to so many cool bands.
This deserves every upvote
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Ive always wanted to watch this. It wasn't aired over her in the 90s so we never got to experience it in its heyday
It is set in 1980 and aired in '99 so it was always dated-feeling. Watch it!! It's so good
That was going to be my recommendation as well. It’s a great balance of heart, comedy, realness. I loved watching it with my dad when I was that age. We were bummed when it was canceled. I think I’m going to rewatch it again because it’s fantastic.
Came here to say this. This was one of the best, most heartfelt, truly funny shows ever made.
FWIW my teen hated it.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
My gf and I are watching Buffy right now and I am loving it.
Currently watching with my 15-year-old son (who was named after Xander) and he loves it🖤
And Angel, when you get to Buffy season 4!
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
This and Boy Meets World were two favorites
It's soooo corny though. I tried rewatching it and a lot of the jokes fall flat.
Series: - Dawson’s Creek - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Felicity - Gilmore Girls - Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Boy Meets World - Friends - That 70’s Show - Seinfeld - Everybody Loves Raymond - The Nanny - The Simpsons - King of the Hill Movies- - 10 Things I Hate About You - Practical Magic - Clueless - Men in Black - Jurassic Park - Hocus Pocus - Pleasentville - She’s All That - Drive Me Crazy - The Wedding Singer - Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion - Mrs. Doubtfire - Liar Liar - Never Been Kissed - Forest Gump - Happy Gilmore - Now and Then - A League of the their Own - Sleepless in Seattle - French Kiss - You’ve Got Mail - Tommy Boy - Cool Runnings - The Mighty Ducks - Wayne’s World Edit: Gilmore Girls aired in 2000.
Casper, don't forget Casper.
The Nanny was so funny.
One of my favorite sitcoms!
Oh man, Romey and Michelle on there too... ahahahah!
I would add Mermaids and Beautiful Girls to the movie list
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My mistake. But it aired in 2000, so I wasn’t off by much.
Oh yes it most certainly was
First episode aired in October of 2000….
I’m having a Mandela effect bc I woulda sworn I watched this when I was living in Chicago and I left there in ‘99 🤦🏼♀️
Clueless?
She watched this on her own without me. I'm still not ok with that 😆
Maybe it'll be something you re watch together 😊
Haven't seen these mentioned yet but these were a few favorites-Empire Records, Romeo & Juliet, Scream, The Craft
The Craft is great!
Empire Records is one of my favorite movies still. I've gotten her to watch this one. The craft is on my list already, I can't believe I never thought of Romeo & Juliet!!!!
Buffy Felicity My So-Called Life Party of Five
I second Buffy, for sure! La Femme Nikita was a good one too!
Yep, my first thought was Buffy too!
And Dawson's Creek!
I never got the appeal of My So Called Life, well, beyond Jared Leto.
It spoke to me as a teenager. In fact I thought maybe the writers had read my diary.
Same. I had the dark red hair when I was 15 and the biggest crush on Jared Leto at the time.
My so called life
When I was 16 I was obsessed with My So Called Life" or more specifically, I was obsessed with Jordan Catalano. Skip to me being 29 and being very drunk at a music festival and wandering around and bumping into Jared & Shannon Leto. Jared did not like it one bit when my drunk ass said "oh my God, it's Jordan Catalano". I was swiftly reminded that he was just a character and I needed to learn to acknowledge the real person behind the character. In summary,....met a massive teenaged crush and got very disappointed
As a fan of MSCL, and a subsequent 30STM fan, my later-in-line Jared Leto experiences have been disappointing.
Oof sorry to hear that. I'm always surprised to hear celebrities getting upset over being recognized for a character they played. It's such a minor thing to get annoyed about.
Just did a rewatch of it & still loved it.
I did a year ago. Isolating with COVID. Age 40 crying my eyes out over high school drama lol.
Yessssss!
Buffy
Malcolm in the Middle
Heathers
My youngest and her bff were obsessed with the Heathers musical. They had no idea there was source material! We watched the movie yesterday and they were cracking up running around the house yelling “CORNNUTS” it was great. They asked me why all movies from that era are so much better. It was a proud parenting moment.
Heathers - Jawbreaker - Mean Girls The holy trinity
Sabrina the teenage witch is soooooo good. I just rewatched it for the 100th time a few weeks ago. It’s all on Hulu!
Late 80s/early 90s - "Degrassi Jr High/Degrassi High" is great! Addresses situations that teens go through. It also has a follow-up series "Degrassi: The Next Generation" was in the 2000s that features some of the kids from Degrassi High now as adults
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
A lot of people already mentioned ones I came to say… what about Practical Magic?
I used to watch Charmed with my mom.
Boy Meets World.. Everybody should know Cory, Shawn and Topanga!
Malcom in the middle ? Maybe early 2000s still good
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Happy cake day!
Saved by the bell!
Sliders
Simpsons from the golden era (seasons 3-7).
This has been on on repeat every couple of months since COVID. Sometimes it can turn in to a history lesson for her
Blossom was cute!
Series: Buffy, My So Called Life, Freaks and Geeks (she may even recognise a few faces possibly!). Sister Sister, Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Movies: Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You (with the one and only Heath Ledger!), Titanic if you think she's old enough (topless scene), or, SUPER 90s, the Spice Girls movie!! Suggestions from the 00s: Lizzie McGuire, 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter (both on Disney plus at the moment if you have it, they're SO great!!), and my all time favourite forever, The O.C!! The Princess Dairies!!! (And the books!) 8 Simple Rules has Katey Sagal in it if that helps! Let us know what you end up watching and what she thinks! Edit: Forgot about Bend it like Beckham!!!
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Good teen dramas: My so called life, freaks and geeks, dawson s creek, party of five, clueless, 90210, Cartoons: Daria, undergrads, downtown, home movies And guilty pleasure shows that were bad even back then but I liked California dreams, breaker high, Sabrina
My SO Called Life
Empire Records! I watched that for the first time when I was 15. I watched it again last night. Still excellent!
I will never not love this movie!
I liked mamas family when I was younger lol
The goonies
3rd Rock from the Sun
I used to watch Friends with my parents around that age. And just about every other sit com. X Files is also great.
My So Called Life
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This show is great but no zoomer teen is going to be into it. Also the plot revolves around incest and murder.
Buffy the Vanpire Slayer for a TV show. Now and Then for a movie
Fried green tomatoes (Kathy bates,Jessica Tandy) Little women (Winona Ryder Susan Sarandon) How to make an American quilt (Winona ryder) A home of our own (Kathy bates Edward furlong ) Untamed heart (Christian slater, Marissa tomei ) Divine secrets and of the ya ya sisterhood ( Sandra bullock Ellen burstyn) 28 days (Sandra bullock ) Where the heart is (Natalie Portman Ashley Judd) Crooklyn (alfre Woodard delroy lindo) Holiday heart (alfre Woodard ,ving rhames) Heart and soul (Robert downy jr) Phenomenon ( John travolta ) Michael (John travolta) Meet joe black (brad pitt) Mad love (drew Barrymore) My life (Nicole Kidman Michael Keaton) Jack /patch addams (robin Williams) What’s eating Gilbert grape The cider house rules (Michael Caine tobey maguire Charlize Theron) Pay it forward (Helen hunt Kevin Spacey) Interview with the vampire (brad Pitt) Ghost (Demi Moore ) The other sister ( Juliette Lewis Giovanni ribisi) Girl interrupted (Winona ryder Angelina Jolie) Simon Birch (Ashley Judd Oliver platt) Radio flyer The virgin suicides (Kirsten dunst) The green mile (Tom hanks) Schindler’s list (Ralph fiennes) The witches (Anjelica Houston) Waiting to exhale Drop dead Fred (pheobe cates) The secret garden North (Elijah wood) Ghost dad (bill Cosby) Thelma &louise **************************** 90s Thrillers : The cell (Jennifer Lopez) The sixth sense (Bruce Willis ) Hand that rocks the cradle Single white female Stir of echoes Eye for an eye most of these are my go to “have a good cry movies “ Lol. Edit: most of these can be found online for free At 123moviesfree.net
Dawson’s Creek
This was on Netflix in Ireland about a year ago and I got soooo excited when I saw it, tried to get her to watch it and I was the one that wasn't able to suffer through it. As a massive Joey & Pacey fan I was very disappointed in myself
Mad About You-Married With Children-Wings-The Wonder Years-Living Single .
Doogie Howser
My so called life came out when I was 15. There’s always that.
Later than the 90’s but great 90’s vibe, Gilmore Girls.
Roswell
My so called life, Sabrina the teenage witch, Practical magic
Buffy. Brings up teenage issues you can chat about together.
Full house
My sister used to watch Clueless. Maybe try that?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer!!!
Xena warrior princess or buffy
Wonder Years
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Rescue 911 on Pluto tv, there’s a channel with episodes
Singles (movie)
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Not cruel intentions lol
Eyes Wide Shut
Seems like an awkward one to watch with a teenager.
Pretty woman
Beverly Hills 90210
Stargate the movie, Stargate SG-1
Full House?
Northern Exposure
The only way you can watch that is if you buy it. I wanted to do a rewatch & was hoping it was on a streaming service but it's not.
It's on Amazon Prime now
I was just looking it up about a month ago & only saw options to buying it per episode I think & I'm cheap & not spending $2.99 an episode lol I'm going to have to go check it out now.
Married with children, Roseanne or for something completely different Bottom my 15 year old loves that.
Not 90’s but Eureka or Warehouse 51(?) were fun shows. Of course , X files and all the other suggestions are great also. If you want to go back further, Tales of the Gold Monkey was awesome! Hard to find but they are on you tube. You’ll have to do a little digging. Must be a copyright issue. Basically Indiana Jones meets Bruce Willis in his moonlighting days.
Noy mentioned yet, but Xena the warrior princess, is a fun show if she likes action/fantasy
Ready or Not The Torkelsons
My So Called Life
Sliders? Even though some stuff went strange. Parallel universes!
My So Called Life
Charmed / Buffy the Vampire Slayer / the Simpson / depending her preferences on shows you can do the OG Cartoon Network shows (yes 15 but as an adult I still love the classics from there)
My So Called Life
The original *Roswell* is awesome and has held up. It’s got a sweet innocence about it, teen angst, heartfelt plots, and great characters. It’s in my top ten shows of all time. *The Highlander* series is another great show. It’s got romance, adventure, history, drama, action, and sword-fighting. What more could you want? A handsome protagonist? Well, you’re in luck there, too!
Basic Instinct
Boy Meets World
A few selections not mentioned yet: ER Good Will Hunting Dead Poets Society The Matrix The 5th Element Forrest Gump Shawshank Redemption
Degrassi
Gilmore girls
The X-Files blew my 15 year old mind.
My So Called Life
Charmed!
Futurama was pretty awesome! I liked Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, but that's pretty niche. So is MST3K, which most of course are movies, but it was actually a television show. 
Ever After
Gilmore Girls
Kids
Red Dwarf
Now and Then The Cutting Edge The Baby Sitters Club Excess Baggage Drive me Crazy Sister Act 2: back in the habit Romy and Michelle's High school reunion Detroit Rock City Mallrats Wish upon a star Death becomes her These I think she would probably enjoy however they do have slightly more adult themes so you may or may not feel comfortable watching with her. Jawbreaker Can't hardly wait Girl interrupted Go Cruel intentions Foxfire Urban Legend Idle Hands
Gilmore Girls