Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 924 Films to Buy & Rent
Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton
- Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.
River's Edge (1986)
- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye…
- Terrifying drama about a group of school friends who discover that one of them has murdered a classmate. Major cult film from the '80s with its lurid…
Soul Man (1986)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross…
- A privileged white student disguises himself as a black man in order to win a Harvard Law School scholarship, in this disappointing "blackface"…
Space Camp (1986)
- Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…
- Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
Surf Nazis Must Die (1986)
- Dir. Peter George
Feat. Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner
- Gory battles for the beaches and waves, Troma–style. The T–shirt is better than the movie.
Weird Science (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Bill Paxton…
- Two computer nerds generate their fantasy woman in the form of Kelly Le Brock. Innocuous teen fun.
Windrider (1986)
- Dir. Vincent Monton
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Tom Burlinson
- A fresh–faced Nicole Kidman ditches her BMX Bandits for a buff windsurfer in this breezy teen romance.
Wraith, The (1986)
- Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn…
- Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
Youngblood (1986)
- Dir. Peter Markle
Feat. Rob Lowe, Cynthia Gibb, Ed Lauter…
- Brat–packer Rob Lowe stars as a pro–hockey hopeful toughing it out during a stay in a Canadian minor hockey town, while engaging in a…
All American High (All American High Revisited) (1985-2014)
- Dir. Keva Rosenfeld
- Excellent 'time–capsule' account of a year at an affluent American High School in Los Angeles, California in 1984.
The film's key character…