Subgenre Sampler
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…
Quadrophenia (1979)- Dir. Franc Roddam
Feat. Phil Daniels, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone… - Brilliant portrait of alienated youth, inspired by The Who's concept album, focuses on a young Mod's personal crises and his gang's violent agenda…
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)- Dir. Alan Arkush
Feat. P.J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, Clint Howard… - Pop–crazy student and 'Ramones' no. 1 fan, Riff Randell (PJ Soles) fights for her right to party against dragonlady principal Togar (Mary…
Wanderers, The (1979)- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Linda Manz - Bittersweet throw back to life in a Bronx high school in 1963, focused on Italian gang 'The Wanderers', who fumble their way through romance and…
When a Stranger Calls (1979)- Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst… - "Have you checked the children?". This line and the opening twenty minutes of this film (later parodied in SCREAM) preyed on babysitters' fears the…
Big Wednesday (1978)- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Jan-Michael Vincent, Gary Busey, William Katt - Resonant, underrated youth movie about three red–blooded American boys who catch waves in mid–60s California but face the winds of change…
Grange Hill (TV Series) (1978-2008)- Candid British kids series following the exploits of a group of school misfits dealing with the day–to–day struggles of life in a…
Scared Straight! (1978)- Dir. Alan Shapiro
Feat. Peter Falk, Danny Glover - A famous, Oscar–winning documentary in which a group of 17 budding teenage crims are shown the harsh realities of prison life, chiefly being…
Tattooed Tears (1978)- Dir. Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
- Early Nick Broomfield doco eschews his later interactive style for an unrelenting examination of the life of four youths in a prison for young…
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