Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Dangerous Minds (1995)
- Dir. John N. Smith
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer
- Every generation needs a teacher–transforms–the–juvenile–delinquent chestnut, and consequently this film will appeal to those…
Delinquent (1995)
- Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Desmond Devenish, Shawn Batten, Jeff Paul
- The dysfunctional initiation into adulthood of a 15–year–old in a rural East Coast backwater. Atmospheric, with a groovy soundtrack by…
Doom Generation, The (1995)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech
- The boundaries of good taste are demolished in this white–trash road movie obsessed with teenage sex and scatology. The joke turns cruel in the…
Empire Records (1995)
- Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Liv Tyler, Robin Tunney, Rory Cochrane
- Multiple crises present themselves for the teenage staff of a swanky independent record store about to be consumed by a corporate chain. Utterly…
Flight of the Albatross (1995)
- Dir. Werner Meyer
Feat. Julia Brendler, Jack Thompson
- Teenager Julia Brendler migrates from Germany to New Zealand to renuite with her mother, a scientist studying the albatross colony on a remote island.
Fresh (1995)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson
- The best, and dare we say it, freshest, of the Black–American street fables to emerge in recent years, a fascinating story evolves from a young…
Hackers (1995)
- Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford…
- Cyber–thriller accesses the Gen–X mindframe, with bluff Web–babble, Internet–criminals and environmentalism, all blended to a…
Kids (1995)
- Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce…
- Cult photographer Larry Clark's debut, 24hrs of New York streetkid life, attracted immediate controversy. The unblinking depictions of sex, drugs and…
La Haine (Hate) (1995)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui…
- A distinctive French urban crime drama in which the idle hands of male youth form fisticuffs on mean urban streets. A whole lot punchier, intelligent…
Powder (1995)
- Dir. Victor Salva
Feat. Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flannery, Lance Henriksen
- Teenage alienation is given a supernatural charge in this story of a terminally–isolated, albino–like youth with metaphysical…