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Subgenre Sampler
Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper… - Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
Diner (1982)- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon… - Endearing, and enduring, tale of college friends growing up in the 1950s Baltimore was a box–office flop but soon found an enthusiastic…
Smithereens (1982)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Richard Hell - Hanging out on the lower rung of the gritty New York music scene in the early 80s, a flaky adolescent girl struggles to make her mark or find…
Tex (1982)- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly… - Arguably the best adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s teen fictions (THE OUTSIDERS etc.), with Matt Dillon giving an early, heartbreaking performance as a…
Endless Love (1981)- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Brooke Shields - Brooke Shields is the saving grace of this fiasco made of Scott Spencer's acclaimed novel about an obsessive teenage romance.
Gregory's Girl (1981)- Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn - An affectionate and entertaining Scottish comedy about a shy and awkward school footballer's infatuation with a female team–member.
Puberty Blues (1981)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja - Affecting teenage odyssey with Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja as surfing–groupies, learning to fit into a sex’n’drugs beach–scene.
Foxes (1980)- Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman… - Four teenage loose cannons speed towards self–destruction in this frank, impressionistic portrait of L.A. teen culture. A young Jodie Foster…
Rude Boy (1980)- Dir. Hazan, Mingay
Feat. Jimmy Pursey, Johnny Green - Semi–doco in which a teenage punk is forced to choose political allegiances while scamming a roadie job with the Clash. Features nine Clash…
Times Square (1980)- Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Robin Johnson, Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry - An NYC youth drama inspired by the "new wave" music and fashions of the time that follows the mildly anarchic wanderings of a pair of runaway…
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