Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
That Kind of Girl (1963)
- 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 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 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, The (1959)- 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…
Delinquents, The (1957)- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Dick Bakalyan - Future luminary Robert Altman's debut feature, an "expose" of juvenile delinquency in the rock'n'roll era. Filmed in Kansas City in a…
Crazed Fruit (1956)- Dir. Ko Nakahira
Feat. Yujiro Ishihara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara - Two hedonistic brothers chase the skirt of a voracious young temptress in this scorching, jazz–infused statement on reckless youth. A seminal…
Apu Trilogy, The (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar) (1955-1959)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
- Ray’s trilogy follows one indelible character, a free–spirited child in rural poverty who matures into an adolescent urban student and,…
Blackboard Jungle, The (1955)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow - Famously controversial on release and first of the 'Rock–n–roll' films, this lifted the lid on the heated youth tensions in 50s America.…
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo - James Dean's intense portayal of an alienated youth from a wealthy family opened the eyes of a generation and catapulted him to stardom. One of the…
Final Test, The (1953)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph… - Gentle comedy of values has a famed cricketer making his way to the middle for one last innings. Meanwhile is son is torn between seeing dad bat one…
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