Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
What Richard Did (2012)
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Sam Keeley…
- Understated but highly compelling moral drama in which an exemplary teenager experiences a fall from grace after an impulsive incident at a college…
Art of Getting By, The (2011)
- Dir. Gavin Wiesen
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano…
- A sensitive and even–handed coming–of–age tale about a teenage fatalist and his blooming friendship with the popular…
Attack the Block (2011)
- Dir. Joe Cornish
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail…
- A gang of teenage delinquents rally to defend their tower block from alien invaders in this quick–witted urban sci–fi comedy that…
Awkward (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Ashley Rickards, Beau Mirchoff, Nikki Deloach
- An unpopular 15 year old gains immediate, yet unwanted, popularity at her high school when the student body mistakes an accident she has for a…
Back to Stay (2011)
- Dir. Milagros Mumenthaler
Feat. María Canale, Martina Juncadella , Ailín Salas…
- A spare, melancholic film that languidly reveals its narrative secrets as three bickering sisters clash in their neglected Buenos Aires family…
Bombay Beach (2011)
- Dir. Alma Har’el
- Hypnotic and highly innovative documentary about a ghost town on the Salton Sea in Southern California, which is home to a failed 1950's development…
Bully (2011)
- Dir. Lee Hirsch
- A shattering documentary on the difficult social problem of bullying, which gives a voice to the victims who suffer repeated physical and verbal…
Fades, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Iain de Caestecker, Joe Dempsie, Natalie Dormer…
- Adventurous BBC supernatural thriller concerns the apocalyptic visions of an English teenager, who comes to learn that the dead spirits only he can…
Geek Charming (2011)
- Dir. Jeffrey Hornaday
Feat. Sarah Hyland, Matt Prokop
- Glossy Disney comedy based on the novel by Robin Palmer in which a film nerd makes a documentary about the life of his classmate, the school diva.
Giants, The (2011)
- Dir. Bouli Lanners
Feat. Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel
- The misadventures of two teenage brothers and a local misfit are engagingly recounted in this balmy Belgium picaresque.