Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Silent One, The (1984)
- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. George Henare, Pat Evison, Teraki Tokorangi
- An endearing and visually striking tale of a gifted young mute boy who becomes ostracised by his isolated Pacific community, but finds solace in the…
Sixteen Candles (1984)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling…
- Molly Ringwald became a star in this first of John Hughes' hip and eminently enjoyable movies about adolescence in the 1980s.
À Nos Amours (To Our Loves) (1983)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard
- One of dir. Pialat's most satisfying dramas, this concerns a journey of a teenage girl (Bonnaire, in a stunning debut) when her family life turns…
Christine (1983)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
- A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Meantime (1983)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris…
- Mike Leigh's skewed sense of humour takes on the doledrums of Thatcher's London. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are unrecognisably awkward in a…
Outsiders, The (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio…
- Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
Risky Business (1983)
- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
- A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper…
- Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
Suburbia (Rebel Street's aka: Wild Side) (1983)
- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Flea
- Low key yet definitive dramatic portrait of the American punk scene, staged with non–actors as the "T.R. gang" who set up camp in a scuzzy L.A.…
Sweet Sixteen (1983)
- Dir. Jim Sotos
Feat. Aleisa Shirley, Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg…
- Forgotten slasher from the 80's that instead slashes the boys instead of the girls, when a soon–to–be sixteen–year–old girl…