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What were your favorite movies when you were growing up?  I am particularly interested in the ones that stuck with you in your teenage years.

I am 38 and my teenage years occurred in the 1980's, so some of my favorite movies that are "cult" classics today were pretty much ANY John Hughes films! I absolutely loved The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles.  I was ALL about the "Brat Pack":  Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore.  I also loved The Outsiders which came out in the early 1980's, I believe.  I remember loving Matt Dillon's character, Dally.  Another one that is awesome is Say Anything with Ione Skye and John Cusack.  The scene when he tells Ione Skye that she has just described every major success story (after she says that everyone thinks they won't make it) is classic!

I would agree with all of the ones listed above, most vehemently!  The Outsiders was a particular favorite.  I was also then - and still am now - a huge fan of The Goonies:

Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here.  (tear, sniff)

In reply to #3:  Awesome addition.  That was a great flick.  Corey Feldman and Sean Astin were too freaking cute in that movie!  Loved it.

Oldies, oldies, oldies. I was born in 1960--before cable, even before color TV. Back then, certain movies were events. You made sure supper was done and the dishes washed early so you could gather with the family to watch "The Ten Commandments" at Easter, "The Wizard of Oz" sometime in the fall, "The Sound of Music" in the spring, and other movies. My favorite was not a movie, but it was one of those big events: "Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella," with Leslie Ann Warren. I can remember the words to the songs even now!

My oldies are older than some of yours! When I came home from school every day, I could watch an old movie on the local TV station. My favorites included "How Green Was My Valley," "The Yearling," all the Shirley Temple movies, the "Tammy" movies, and anything with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. I think my first exposure to classical music came from the scores to some of these old movies. My all-time favorite movie is "The Wizard of Oz." 

I remember those afternoon movies too. I think I learned more about Greek mythology from watching the old Hercules movies than from reading. I love the old Kirk Douglas version of "The Odyssey." I think the movie is called "Ulysses." Where I live, the Shirley Temple movies aired on Sunday mornings. Today's kids don't know what they're missing!!

I also love the Wizard of Oz, but for me, my youth, which occurred in the 60s would have to be Abbott and Costello movies which were on back then every Sunday morning.  My particular favorites: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and The Time of Their Lives, where Lou plays a Revolutionary War Period ghost trapped on earth because he was mistakenly taken for a traitor to the cause during the war.  I must have seen it 25 times, yet I can watch it over and over.

I also love the old movies from the 1940s, I am a fan of Cary Grant and Gary Cooper from those old movies.

There was a certain purity of expression in these films, they didn't need overt sex, vulgarity, obscene language, or nudity to capture the interest of the viewer.  It was all about the story!!!!

The Wizard of Oz, John Wayne westerns and war films, Elvis Presley films, and Mommy Dearest...what a scary one for little girls!

My favorite movies were Jim Henson movies. Anything he ever did really. The Labrynth and The Dark Crystal come to mind.