Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 459 Films to Buy & Rent
Regular Lovers (Les Amants réguliers) (2005)
- Dir. Philippe Garrel
Feat. Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme
- A richly photographed, Nouvelle Vague–styled homage to the revolutionary spirit of protesters in 1968 Paris, dir. Garrel offers a lucid, at…
Rent (2005)
- Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Anthony Rapp
- An ambitious and mostly comfortable adaptation of the 1990s Broadway update of Puccini's LA BOHEME, in which a multi–racial mixture of New York…
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, The (2005)
- Dir. Ken Kwapis
Feat. America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn…
- A snappy adolescent drama concerning four teenage girlfriends spending their first summer apart, and sending a pair of magically–fitting jeans…
Standing Still (2005)
- Dir. Matthew Cole Weiss
Feat. Adam Garcia, Amy Adams, Melissa Sagemiller…
- Stacked American indie gathers an attractive ensemble of twenty–somethings around a wedding doubling as a long–overdue reunion of college…
Tsotsi (2005)
- Dir. Gavin Hood
Feat. Presley Chweneyagae
- Deserved winner of the 2006 Foreign Language Oscar, this gripping tale of a young homicidal street–thug ('tsotsi') in post–apartheid…
Twelve and Holding (12 and Holding) (2005)
- Dir. Michael Cuesta
Feat. Jeremy Renner, Zoe Weizenbaum, Conor Donovan…
- A dark yet heart–rending coming–of–age indie drama concerning a group of pre–teens coping with life in the aftermath of a…
Wassup Rockers (2005)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez
- Teen–centric misanthropist Larry Clark offers a shockingly enthusiastic view of contemporary youth in this story of Latino…
Bullet Boy (2004)
- Dir. Saul Dibb
Feat. Ashley Walters
- Tough expose of London's violent East End tracks the spiralling events and dire consequences which follow the release of a young black man (Walters)…
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Crazy) (2004)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Michel Côté
- Rockin' and colourful rites–of–passage drama evolves out an adolescent boy's (Grondin) experiences as part of an unusual family during…
Edukators, The (The Educators) (2004)
- Dir. Hans Weingartner
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg
- A compulsive slice of German youth angst about rebels struggling with their cause, this arthouse smash–hit concerns a trio of youthful…