Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
13 Going on 30 (2004)
- Dir. Gary Winick
Feat. Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Serkis…
- A winning variation on the "body swaparoo", with an unhappy teenager waking from her 13th birthday to find time fast–forwarded and herself a…
6 AM (2004)
- Dir. Adrian Kwan
Feat. Kenny Kwan, Steven Cheung, Charlene Choi…
- Popular Canto–pop duo ‘The Boy’z’ star in this absurdist gangster tale, playing high school slackers ‘Bowl’ and ‘Noodle’ who…
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…
Cinderella Story, A (2004)
- Dir. Mark Rosman
Feat. Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray
- A bubbly updating of the 'Cinderella' fairytale, with Hilary Duff (LIZZIE MAGUIRE) playing a put–upon modernday teenager who must slave away…
Death in Gaza (2004)
- Dir. James Miller
- A powerful, if not devastating, study of two children and a teenager growing up in the fractious and perilous Gaza Strip, where attacks by Israel and…
Duck Season (2004)
- Dir. Fernando Eimbcke
Feat. Enrique Arreola, Diego Cataño, Danny Miranda…
- Two videogame–mad teens find their lazy Sunday hijacked by a nosey neighbour and stubborn pizza delivery man in this breezy, flavoursome…
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…
Eurotrip (2004)
- Dir. Jeff Schaffer
Feat. Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg…
- The makers of ROADTRIP detour into the (moderately) 'bad taste' potential of a European holiday, as an American student attempts to track down a…