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L'Enfance-NueL'Enfance-Nue (Naked Childhood) (1968) Recommended
Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Michel Terrazon
Astonishingly sober coming–of–age tale represents Pialat at his most profoundly unsentimental. The director brilliantly blends naturalism…
MouchetteMouchette (1967)
Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal
An impoverished young girl in rural France bears the brunt of hard times in this perfectly formed study, taken from the novel by George Bernanos.…
To Sir with LoveTo Sir with Love (1966) Recommended
Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu
Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.
RaptureRapture (1965) Recommended
Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Drama based on the 1954 novel "Rapture in My Rags" about a lonely teenage girl living with her widower father, who develops an attraction to an…
My Way HomeMy Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)
Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe
In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Live it Up!Live it Up! (Sing and Swing) (1963)
Dir. Lance Comfort
Feat. David Hemmings
Low–budget, but historically fascinating musical wraps some great mid–60s pop music around its slender plot. Hemmings plays a…
That Kind of GirlThat Kind of Girl (1963) Recommended
Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe
Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
Splendour in the GrassSplendour in the Grass (1961)
Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Smitten teens work up considerable sexual frenzy when their respective families won't let them be together. Appropriately, it's the lurid scenes…
Platinum High SchoolPlatinum High School (1960)
Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea
Mickey Rooney overheats in investigating his son's death at a military academy. Casting quirks includes singer Conway Twitty.
400 Blows, The400 Blows, The (1959) Recommended
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy
Truffaut's first film rocketed him to fame as some kind of New Wave radical, but at a second glance this story of a teenage delinquent thrown in and…

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