Before having a crush could be simple, Beautiful Creatures gave us forbidden romance, family secrets, supernatural powers, and one very important 16th birthday. The YA supernatural romance is streaming free on Tubi.
Watch NowThere was a time when having a crush in a YA movie was simply not enough. Your crush needed a secret. Preferably supernatural. Their family needed several generations of lore. Somebody had to warn you to stay away. You would not stay away. Obviously.
Beautiful Creatures understood the assignment. Ethan Wate is desperate for something interesting to happen in his small South Carolina town when Lena Duchannes arrives carrying exactly the kind of mystery he probably should've left alone. She's a Caster approaching her 16th birthday, when she'll be claimed for either Light or Dark, and getting close to Ethan makes an already complicated supernatural future even messier.
But the reason to revisit Beautiful Creatures isn't simply finding out which side claims Lena. It's watching a movie go all in on the kind of YA sincerity that once made supernatural romance an entire cultural event. The feelings are enormous. The family history goes back generations. A teenage crush can interfere with destiny itself. Nobody is embarrassed about any of it.
Tubi's The YA Edit has plenty more big feelings waiting once you're ready to make your watchlist unnecessarily complicated. Once Gatlin has delivered enough supernatural drama, 10 of the best YA movies on Tubi can introduce your watchlist to several completely different kinds of teenage chaos.
Your crush has baggage. Lena's has generations of it.
Small-town boredom has Ethan ready for anything different, and Ehrenreich gives that restlessness an earnest enthusiasm once Lena enters his life. His curiosity makes Ethan an unusually willing participant in supernatural chaos; warnings that would send somebody else running mostly convince him there must be something worth understanding.
Everyone around Lena seems to have an opinion about what she is, which gives Englert plenty to hold underneath the character's guarded exterior. She lets Lena be wary of Ethan's attention without making her emotionally distant, balancing the excitement of finally connecting with someone against the very real fear that her approaching birthday could change who she's allowed to become.
Long before Ethan understands what he's walked into, Amma already knows exactly how deep Gatlin's supernatural history runs. Davis gives the character a grounded authority that helps anchor all the mythology around her, making Amma's knowledge feel earned rather than like she's simply there to explain the rules when the teenagers need them.
“Fall in love if you dare. This town keeps receipts and secrets.”
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