The Mexican telenovela Quinceañera was first broadcast in 1987.
Produced by Televisa, the series starred Adela Noriega, Thalía, Ernesto Laguardia, and Rafael Rojas. Its story centers on teenage characters and the social pressures surrounding adolescence, romance, family expectations, and the transition symbolized by a quinceañera.
The program is remembered as one of the notable Mexican teen-oriented telenovelas of its period. Its title connects the drama to the fifteenth-birthday tradition, but the series is a scripted television production rather than a documentary about actual celebrations.
The title can cause confusion because Quinceañera is also the name of a 2006 independent American film. The telenovela and the film are separate works, produced in different countries and decades.