Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 459 Films to Buy & Rent
Long Day Closes, The (1992)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson
- The director follows up DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES with a more optimistic but just as dream–like portrait of working–class life in '50s…
Midnight Clear, A (1992)
- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross…
- A provocative, suspenseful anti–war parable about a fresh–faced American platoon assigned to an abandoned chateau near the German border…
Mima (1992)
- Dir. Philomene Esposito
Feat. Nino Manfredi, Margarita Lozano, Virginie Ledoyen
- The first–time director captures the nuance and feeling of her own experience as a young girl who witnesses the mysterious disappearance of her…
Nostradamus Kid, The (1992)
- Dir. Bob Ellis
Feat. Noah Taylor
- Noah Taylor, the charismatic geek from THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE and FLIRTING comes of age yet again, this time at the height of atomic–age…
School Ties (1992)
- Dir. Robert Mandel
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell…
- A working–class teen hides that he is Jewish when he is awarded a scholarship to an exclusive prep school.
Untamed Heart (1992)
- Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei
- A fairy–tale romance kindles between a perky waitress and a kitchen–hand with a special condition. Does wonders for Christian Slater's…
Waterland (1992)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Lena Headey…
- Jeremy Irons plays a history teacher in America who recounts his own suppressed coming of age to his cynical students. Adapted from Graham Swift's…
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Jr. Gooding, Ice-Cube
- Sincere and authentic street gang fable focuses on a group of friends living in a black, working–class neighbourhood in South Central L.A. A…
Brighter Summer Day, A (1991)
- Dir. Edward Yang
Feat. Chen Chang
- Sublime ode to adolescence set in early 1960's Taiwan, Edward Yang's sprawling, novelistic narrative reflects the personal and political turmoil of…
Commitments, The (1991)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Colm Meaney
- Surprise hit simply chronicles the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band, formed by a group of teens with naught better to do. Unashamedly light fare,…