Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Hush-A-Bye-Baby (1989)
- Dir. Margo Harkin
Feat. Seamus Ball, Rosina Brown, Sean Carlin…
- Excellent portrayal, using 'workshop' methods, of the tribulations of four teenage girls in Northern Ireland, as they negotiate the local facts of…
Matter of Degrees, A (1989)
- Dir. W.T. Morgan
Feat. Arye Gross, Sarah Bork
- Student life on a Long Island university campus, centering around the imminent commercialisation of their beloved radio station. Well–made…
Metropolitan (1989)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
- Sundance–winning arthouse hit focuses on the disappearing Manhattan debutante scene. An unknown ensemble play upper–class adolescents who…
Press Gang (TV Series) (1989-1993)
- Feat. Julia Sawalha, Dexter Fletcher
- Much–loved British TV series follows the fortunes of a newspaper, the 'Junior Gazette', run by a troublesome crowd of teenage students in North…
Saved By The Bell (TV Series) (1989)
- After–school teen sit–com that helped "launch" the careers of Dustin "Screech" Diamond and 90210 vixen Tiffani–Amber Thiessen.…
Say Anything (1989)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney
- Fresh light is cast on the East–end boy meets West–end girl scenario. Satisfying teen fare.
1969 (1988)
- Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Keifer Sutherland and Winona Ryder lead a brat–pack of sensitive anti–war youths in the summer of '69.
American Gothic (1988)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Sarah Torgov
- Creepy psychos living on a remote isle make life hell for holiday–making teens. Sound familiar? It is, but done with a certain inventive…
Celia (1988)
- Dir. Ann Turner
Feat. Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie
- Fans of Jane Campion should enjoy this eerie antipodean tale of a 9–year–old girl who surrenders to her nightmarish fantasies when her…
First of the Summer Wine (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. David Fenwick, Paul Oldham, Paul Wyett…
- Good–natured prequel to the longest running sitcom shows heroes Clegg and Compo's youth leading up to the second World War.