Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Yolngu Boy (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Johnson
Feat. Jack Thompson
- Three contrasting aboriginal boys from Arnhem Land, North Australia undertake a harsh journey out of loyalty when the petrol–sniffing habits of…
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
- Dir. Gil Junger
Feat. Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles
- Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is shrink–wrapped as '90s high–school hi–jinks.
A protective Dad forbids his nubile daughter…
Attack the Gas Station (1999)
- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang…
- Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea.
Gleefully tearing apart…
Beach, The (1999)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton
- Tapping the moods of young travellers of today and their restless wanderlust, this adaptation of Alex Garland's Gen–X novel is both…
Best Laid Plans (1999)
- Dir. Mike Barker
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Alessandro Nivoli, Josh Brolin
- A chain of outrageous twists carry out from a questionable set up – a one night stand that ends with accusations of date rape for a…
Black and White (1999)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Brooke Shields, Wu Tang Clan…
- Risk–taking ensemble drama from the maverick dir. of TWO GUYS AND A GIRL and FINGERS, set in a Manhattan where rich white kids clash with the…
Blair Witch Project, The (1999)
- Dir. Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. Heather Donahue, Michael C Williams, Joshua Leonard
- The most profitable film in history on a cost–to–gross basis, this handycam horror struck paydirt thanks to a swag of resourcefulness and…
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
- Dir. Kimberly Peirce
Feat. Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Brendon Sexton III
- Widely touted dramatisation of the true–life 'Brandon Teena' tragedy set in the grim badlands of America's Midwest, where a teenage girl…
Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The (1999)
- Dir. Martin Duffy
Feat. Elijah Wood, Janeane Garofalo, Rachael Leigh Cook
- Romantic coming–of–age drama of a teen suffering from amnesia attempting to piece his life back together with the help of his fellow…
Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) (1999)
- Dir. Jose Luis Cuerda
Feat. Fernando Fernan Gomez, Manuel Lozano
- Heartwarming Spanish coming–of–age drama set in Galicia in 1936.
Against the backdrop of the encroaching Spanish Civil War, a shy…