Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Beat Street (1984)
- Dir. Stan Lathan
Feat. Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis
- Key film in the history of hip–hop culture, this urban musical may show its age and derivation (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER), but still comprises an…
Breakdance - The Movie (Breakin’) (1984)
- Dir. Joel Silberg
Feat. Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers
- The excellent, highly athletic breakdance performances will be the prime value to hiphop enthusiasts in this FLASHDANCE–clone, which now has a…
Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo (Breakin' 2) (1984)
- Dir. Sam Firstenberg
Feat. Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers
- Less–hokey sequel to BREAKDANCE, with a storyline centred on a group of teens and dancers who try to save a community rec–centre from a…
Fast Talking (1984)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Rod Zuanic, Steve Bisley
- A teenage drug dealer meets an ex–convict junkyard owner who helps him rebuild an old motorbike.
Dir. Ken Cameron takes inspiration from…
Flamingo Kid, The (1984)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Matt Dillon
- Amiable teen vehicle for Matt Dillon set at a 1950s holiday resort.
Initiation, The (1984)
- Dir. Larry Stewart
Feat. Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager…
- A department store–set 80's slasher flick starring Daphne Zuniga (BEVERLY HILLS 90210) as an amnesiac sorority member plagued by a recurring…
John Hughes Box Set (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science) (1984-1986)
- Three classic 80s teen–flicks from the mastermind of writer/director John Hughes.
Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp…
- The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
Racing with the Moon (1984)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage…
- A well–observed and resonant drama, about the last few days of boyhood for a couple of inductees into the US Marines in 1942. The cast all…
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards
- Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…