Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 898 Films to Buy & Rent
- Transfiguration, The (2017)
- Dir. Michael O’Shea
Feat. Eric Ruffin
- An elevated genre film dealing with love and loss about a troubled teen with a vampire lore fascination who meets an equally alienated young woman…
- Allegiant (2016)
- Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels…
- Third in the Divergent series sees Shailene Woodley's Tris trying frantically to escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally…
- American Honey (2016)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough…
- Esteemed British director Andrea Arnold changes pace in her American debut, taking a cast of mostly non–actors through a poetically…
- Edge of Seventeen (2016)
- Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
Feat. Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner…
- Candid and humourous coming–of–age drama where an awkward seventeen year old comes to terms with her all–star older brother dating…
- Emo the Musical (2016)
- Dir. Neil Triffett
Feat. Benson Jack Anthony
- Unashamedly cliched adolescent angst musical, developed from Australian writer–director Neil Triffitt's 16–minute short. A suicidal emo…
- Handsome Devil (2016)
- Dir. John Butler
Feat. Fionn O’Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott
- This sweet and amiable Irish coming–of–age story in which a loner and the star athlete at a rugby–mad boarding school become…
- Jasper Jones (2016)
- Dir. Rachel Perkins
Feat. Levi Miller, Aaron L. McGrath, Angourie Rice…
- A nostalgic portrait of Australian childhood in the summer of '69 that tells the story of a bookish boy who finds himself caught up in a local murder…
- Land of the Enlightened, The (2016)
- Dir. Pieter-Jan de Pue
- A creative documentary hybrid, which stages facts and fantasy side by side to reveal an intimate and poetic portrait of Afghanistan. Reminiscent of…
- Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
- Dir. Steve Carr
Feat. Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Alexa Nisenson
- Spirited comedy about a semi–introverted, imaginative teen who takes glorious revenge on the draconian school system by attempting to break…
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson…
- Tim Burton's spectacular adaptation of the young adult fantasy novel about a teenager who discovers a portal to a different time in coastal Wales…