Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Tale of Two Sisters, A (Janghwa Hongryeon) (2003)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim…
- A further revelation of the K–horror genre, this enters the forboding world of two devoted sisters who endure the lakeside household of their…
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…
Ali G In Da House (2002)
- Dir. Mark Mylod
Feat. Sacha Baron Cohen
- Sacha Baron Cohen and his wildly successfully small–screen alter–ego take to the feature film narrative like a duck to water in this…
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…
Backyard, The (2002)
- Dir. Paul Hough
- A cringe–inducing glimpse into the American subculture of backyard amateur wrestling, in which contestants up the ante with barbed wire,…
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…
Blurred (2002)
- Dir. Evan Clarry
Feat. Matthew Newton, Craig Homer, Kristian Schmid…
- Teen comedy follows a group of 'schoolies' – teenagers on a summer bender in Queensland, Australia – as they drink, root, carouse and…