Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
S.F.W. (1995)
- Dir. Jefery Levy
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon
- Based on a significant Gen–X novel, Stephen Dorff plays Cliff Spab, a teenage loser who garners a major cult following as a hostage in a…
Death of a Cheerleader (A Friend to Die For) (1994)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Tori Spelling, Valerie Harper, Kellie Martin
- Enjoyably trashy true story in which a mousy Catholic girl transfers to a public school and desperately attempts to befriend the most popular girl in…
Fun (1994)
- Dir. Rafal Zielinski
Feat. Renee Humphrey, Alicia Witt
- Two teenage girls just want to have fun, but their obsessive pursuit of it leads them to murder an old lady for no other reason.
This remarkable…
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
- Dir. Anthony Drazan
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Kelly Lynch, Fairuza Balk…
- Con–man Harvey Keitel attempts to raise two daughters after their mother dies, and struggles to reconcile the demands of parenthood with his…
Metal Skin (1994)
- Dir. Geoffrey Wright
Feat. Aiden Young, Tara Morice, Ben Mendelsohn
- A petrol–soaked, despairing love story from the director of ROMPER STOMPER, who takes another look at Australian youth counter–culture…