The best ‘something for every-teen’ films for parties

After refusing to sit through another screening of a cliche-packed ‘teen flick’ at parties, here’s a list of films that can be enjoyed by everyteen, from the chick-flick cliques to the marvel geeks (and that won’t make cinephiles want to claw their eyes out).

1. Baby Driver

Yeah baby, first place goes to Edgar Wright’s most thrilling cinematic romp.

There really is something for every teen here: rip-roaring chase sequences; a classic romance storyline; successful heist genre tropes. With killer music from the sixties to the naughties, it even has space for a good sing-along.

2. Bodies Bodies Bodies

It’s the typical set up: a group of friends meet in a mansion in the countryside and during a drunken night, someone is killed.

But where you might expect to find some twizzly-moustached suspects, instead there are tiktoking, snowflaky Gen Zers. And rather than a dramatic monologue summarising the suspects and set-up, a whole lot of hissy fits.

Bodies Bodies Bodies never bothers to scrape even an acrylic nail beneath the surface-level superficiality of the cheap whodunnit tropes and self referential jokes, but the scream-filled slasher moments are amusingly nihilistic and perfect for a teen party.

3. Booksmart

Next: a joyous movie which is centred around a teenage party itself (how very meta).

It follows the inseparable and witty Molly (Beany Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), best friends who have spent high school buried in books, completing their finals with top grades.

The film sees the two shake off their reputation as stuffy bookworms, while embracing their most wonderful naivity and nerdiness, in their strive to arrive at the biggest graduation house party by the end of the night.

Booksmart is a funny, fast paced and refreshingly feminist film where you can enjoy your own party vicariously through the whimsical adventures of Amy and Molly.

4. Knives Out

This playful and cheekily self-aware comedy-whodunnit is certainly more Agatha Christie-esque that Bodies Bodies Bodies, but its characters are just as deliciously unlikeable.

Dancing between genres, it follows the conflicts of a satirical, imperious and money grasping family whose at times ‘larger-than-life’ characters never quite tip into caricature.

It’s not a heavy piece of cinema, but one that fills its running time with fast-paced, dead pan detective excellence.

5. Misbehaviour

This fictionalised version of an inspiring true story follows Kiera Knightly’s Sally, a no-nonsense university student, who collides with Jessie Buckley’s rambunctious and outrageous Jo, and is thrown into the Women’s Liberation movement in London.

She soon becomes the media representative of the movement in the lead up to protests at the nauseatingly misogynistic Miss World competition.

With a relevant social message (the objectification of women’s bodies is hardly a thing of the past) and infinite warmth, this buoyant film has both laughs and tension throughout.

6. Rocketman

This entertaining biopic bursts with energy and emotional depth, with an excellent central performance from Taron Edgerton.

Its impressive and colourful set pieces have a ‘70s charm which is reflected in the costume as well as the wider atmosphere of the film.

Its an uplifting film, filled with fun sing-along sequences to all of Elton John’s great classics.

7. Jaws

This riveting, anxiety-inducing 80s gem doesn’t get old.

Spielberg's tension-cultivating methods throughout the film are failsafe. The shark is spoken of more than it is seen, and seen more through its terrifying and bloody actions than in the flesh, building up a monstrous mental image and enhancing apprehension.

The appearance of the shark still doesn’t disappoint: the model is brilliantly scary…and comically rubbery (but perhaps this just adds to the fun).