8 Movies Starring Vanessa Hudgens

Thirteen

Thirteen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-09-19

Languages:

English, Spanish, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (63732 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Catherine Hardwicke

Nikki Reed

Fullplot:

At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends.

High School Musical

High School Musical

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-20

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

TV-G

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (54343 Reviews)

Director:

Kenny Ortega

Fullplot:

Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez are two totally different teenagers who meet at a party while singing karaoke on New Year's Eve. One week later Troy goes back to his high school, East High, in New Mexico to find that Gabriella is a new student there. They quickly become close friends and accidentally audition for the school musical. After getting a callback, drama queen Sharpay Evans and her sidekick brother Ryan are furious. Then Chad, Troy's best friend and basketball teammate, and Taylor, Gabriella's new friend on the decathlon team, must find out a way to make Gabriella hate Troy.

High School Musical 2

High School Musical 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-08-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

TV-G

IMDB Ratings:

4.7 (36071 Reviews)

Director:

Kenny Ortega

Fullplot:

Troy is offered a job at Ryan & Sharpay's country club and ends up landing jobs for Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Kelsi, Jason, Martha and Zeke. He is then introduced to Sharpay's parents and realizes that Sharpay can land him many opportunities and even a basketball scholarship. Meanwhile, while Troy starts hanging out with the rich folk, Chad is worried that Troy will forget his friends. Gabriella feels as though she is losing Troy to Sharpay. In the end, Troy will have to learn how to think about his scholarship without losing his friends.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

4.4 (40102 Reviews)

Director:

Kenny Ortega

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Barsocchini

Peter Barsocchini (characters)

Fullplot:

Troy and the gang of East High School are going through their senior year, facing graduating and going their separate ways. Coming to terms with the reality of it all, Troy wants to attend the nearby University of Albuquerque next year on a basketball scholarship, but Gabriella wants to attend Stanford University in California. Meanwhile, Sharpay, the school's shallow and spoiled rich girl, plots to go all out planning the school's final musical show with the idea to add music to her hopes and fears about the future. While Sharpay takes an up-and-coming British exchange student under her wing, her flamboyant fraternal twin brother, Ryan, has his sights set on something different after school. In addition, Troy's best friend and basketball teammate Chad, and Garbiella's best friend Taylor, all have their sights set on their plans after high school and come to terms with the reality of the real world.

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-03-25

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (184839 Reviews)

Director:

Zack Snyder

Cast:

Writer:

Zack Snyder (screenplay)

Steve Shibuya (screenplay)

Zack Snyder (story)

Fullplot:

A young girl (Baby Doll) is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days' time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum, plot to escape the facility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions, as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it's too late...

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (5609 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Krauss

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

16 year old street-wise Apple (Vanessa Hudgens) has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey (Rosario Dawson), is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 when he got Apple's mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick (Brendan Fraser), to take her in. In the few days under her father's care, she learns she's become pregnant by a kid from the streets she met on the train, who now wants nothing to do with her. She is forced to leave her father's home because of her choice to give birth to the baby she is carrying. Apple runs away again, and is eventually taken under the wing of Father McCarthy (James Earl Jones), the chaplain of the local hospital after almost getting herself killed. He offers to let Apple live at a shelter for pregnant young women run by a spiritual woman named Kathy (Ann Dowd). It is here that Apple begins to tentatively interact with the other girls who are in the same predicament as she and gradually begins to make a family for herself.

The Frozen Ground

The Frozen Ground

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-07-11

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (40121 Reviews)

Director:

Scott Walker

Fullplot:

Alaska Trooper Jack Holcombe believes Robert Hansen is a serial killer who abducts young girls, tortures and sexually assaults them, then kills them. But Holcombe doesn't have enough evidence to get a search warrant for Hansen's premises. Holcombe knows that one victim, Cyndy Paulsen, somehow survived, so he decides to seek her help, but he finds that she's now a junkie with trust issues. Holcombe has to earn her trust; meanwhile, Hansen is still hunting and killing girls.

Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-03-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (99713 Reviews)

Director:

Harmony Korine

Fullplot:

Brit, Candy, Cotty, and Faith have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper "Alien" promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget.

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