Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 459 Films to Buy & Rent
Thirteen (2003)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed
- Startling depiction of a young teenager who spins out of control as she falls in with the wrong crowd and beyond the reach of her struggling…
Travelling Light (2003)
- Dir. Kathyrn Millard
Feat. Pia Miranda, Sacha Horler, Marshall Napier
- A lightly enjoyable coming–of–age drama set in 1970s Adelaide, with Miranda playing an artistically precocious young woman seeking to…
United States of Leland, The (2003)
- Dir. Matthew Ryan Hoge
Feat. Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein…
- Solid indie drama that plumbs the soul of a youthful murderer (Gosling) and his web of life–connections after he stabs a retarded boy to…
Zero Day (2003)
- Dir. Ben Coccio
Feat. Andre Keuck, Calvin Robertson
- A confronting, fictionalized insight into the nihilistic mind–set of two alienated students who plotted and carried out a violent massacre at…
Antwone Fisher (2002)
- Dir. Denzel Washington
Feat. Denzel Washington, Derek Luke
- From a uniquely autobiographical screenplay by the real Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington takes the helm and stars as a US Navy psychiatrist who…
Blue Car (2002)
- Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn
- A rites–of–passage drama of distinction, this is realistic and affecting in its account of a high–school student whose flair for…
Bomb the System (2002)
- Dir. Adam Bhala Lough
Feat. Mark Webber
- A tale of alienated youth in New York City, set around a teenager's (Webber) nocturnal activities spraying graffiti around the city streets with a…
Confessions of an American Girl (American Girl) (2002)
- Dir. Jordan Brady
Feat. Jena Malone, Brad Renfro, Alicia Witt…
- Black comedy set around a trailer family's visit to their imprisoned father on the annual 'prison picnic' day. Over the course of this his teenage…
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The (2002)
- Dir. Peter Care
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Vincent D'Onofrio…
- A quietly sobering, yet refreshingly humorous memoir of hormonal and delinquent adolescence under the arches of a strict Catholic high school, with…
Drumline (2002)
- Dir. Charles Stone III
Feat. Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
- Depicting the journey of a talented street drummer from Harlem into the world of big–time stadium marching bands, this is short on story moves,…