The Breakfast Club

One Saturday of detention, five very different students are locked in the high school library: the athlete, the princess, the brain, the outcast, and the weird girl. John Hughes portrays teenage angst, the labels imposed on us, and the realization that we are more complex than any category, with precision and tenderness. A film that decades later still captures something true about growing up and being judged.

The definitive film about adolescence. Hughes understood young people better than any other director of his time. Timeless.