Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Prom Night (1980)- Dir. Paul Lynch
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen - 'Halloween' stalk'n'slash protege with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as one of a group of teens with a guilty secret menaced by the ubiquitous masked…
Rude Boy (1980)
- Dir. Hazan, Mingay
Feat. Jimmy Pursey, Johnny Green - Semi–doco in which a teenage punk is forced to choose political allegiances while scamming a roadie job with the Clash. Features nine Clash…
Storm Boy (1980)- Dir. Henri Safran
Feat. Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil - Minor Australian classic set in the beautiful, windswept wilds of South Australia, where a young boy leads an isolated existence with his father and…
Terror Train (1980)- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner… - Fresh from HALLOWEEN, Jamie Lee Curtis reprises a 'scream queen' for this teen slasher pic set aboard a chartered locomotive. A gamut of masquerade…
Times Square (1980)- Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Robin Johnson, Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry - An NYC youth drama inspired by the "new wave" music and fashions of the time that follows the mildly anarchic wanderings of a pair of runaway…
Up The Academy (1980)- Dir. Robert Downey Snr.
Feat. Ron Leibman, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston… - Mad Magazine jump on the "National Lampoon" bandwagon with this ANIMAL HOUSE cash–in about the outrageous antics of a group of teenage misfits…
Little Romance, A (1979)- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Arthur Hill… - Sweet minor comedy in which aged charmer Olivier persuades two teenage lovers – American boy, French girl – to run off together.…
Meatballs (1979)- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray - A laidback Bill Murray injects some meat into the summer camp cliche, here playing a trainee counselor in charge of a group of misfit stereotypes:…
Over the Edge (1979)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Matt Dillon, Harry Northrup - One of the best portraits of delinquency yet committed to the screen, Matt Dillon, in his acting debut, is just one of the aimless youths who erupt…
Passe ton Bac d'abord (Graduate First) (1979)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczak… - Dir. Pialat’s matter–of–fact realism and blasé cast of young actors conveys all the aimlessness and uncertainty of youth in this…
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