Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
- The TWILIGHT zeitgeist is vamped up as a 90210–style serial in this melodramatic teen soap, about a troubled girl torn between her brooding…
Whatever! The Science Of Teens (2009)
- Dir. Anne Delaney
- Enlightening doco series examining teenagers and their odd behaviour through observation and scientific testing. Often hilarious, this requires you…
Youth in Revolt (2009)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis…
- Perfectly typecast, Michael Cera plays an adorable, sexually–frustrated "nice guy" who invents a trouble–making alter ego –…
5 Centimetres Per Second (Five Centimetres Per Second) (2008)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- Sublimely romantic animated feature divided into three separate episodes tracing the emotional journey of a teenage boy through to manhood, and the…
90210 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Rob Estes, Shenae Grimes, AnnaLynne McCord…
- This updating of the popular '90's show brings the bling as more photogenic rich kids contend with regular problems.
Adulthood (2008)
- Dir. Noel Clarke
Feat. Noel Clarke
- Unimaginatively titled, so–so sequel to KIDULTHOOD taking place six years on from the first film with our main protagonist Sam Peel released…
Afterschool (2008)
- Dir. Antonio Campos
Feat. Ezra Miller, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jeremy Allen White…
- Ezra Miller (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN) plays a closed–off teenager whose difficult high school experience is complicated when he captures…
American Mall (2008)
- Dir. Shawn Ku
Feat. Nina Dobrey, Autumn Reeser, Rob Mayes
- Fluffy teen pop–fest set in a mall concerns the budding romance between two mall denizens – an aspiring singer/songwriter and a janitor…
American Teen (2008)
- Dir. Nanette Burstein
Feat. Hannah Bailey, Colin Clemens, Geoff Haase…
- An intimate and often hilarious doco that was a surprise Sundance Festival hit that follows four high school seniors – 'the jock', 'the arsty…
Assassination Of A High School President (2008)
- Dir. Brett Simon
Feat. Mischa Barton, Reece Thompson, Bruce Willis…
- A high–school reporter investigating the disappearance of missing exam papers uncovers a wider conspiracy in this smart, teen riff on CHINATOWN.