Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
- Dir. Robert Luketic
Feat. Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace…
- Quality fluff, with Bosworth playing a smalltown girl who wins the titular date, expecting a one–off evening, but gaining an ardent…
You Got Served (2004)
- Dir. Christopher B. Stokes
Feat. Marques Houston, Omari Granberry
- Hiphop melodrama in which rival 'crews' battle it out for supremacy in the arena of break–dancing.
Renowned for the exceptional dance…
Youth, The (Yuva) (2004)
- Dir. Mani Ratnam
Feat. Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgan
- A Bollywood epic with debts to the likes of PULP FICTION and AMORES PERROS, structuring the storylines of three contrasting young men around a…
15 (2003)
- Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
- Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
American Pie 3 (American Wedding) (2003)
- Dir. Jesse Dylan
Feat. Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott
- Third in the series of raunchy–on–top comedies, this offers little that's new, but does manage to be better than expected.
With two of…
Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
Best of Youth, The (La Meglio gioventù) (2003)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Sprawling and heady Italian saga tracks the lives of two brothers through the idealistic dreams of the 1960s and the long messy aftermath of…
Bookies (2003)
- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
Bright Young Things (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Fry
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd…
- Set among the aspirant youth of 1930s Britain, this fresh satirical comedy marks a promising debut for dir. Fry, even if the drama is sliced a little…
Cafe Lumiere (Kôhî jikô) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Yo Hitoto
- Luminous tribute to Japanese dir. Yasujiro Ozu from a Taiwanese admirer, which honours Ozu's aesthetic in a minimalist study of personal…