Subgenre Sampler
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…
You Are Not Alone (Du er ikke alene) (1978)- Dir. Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Feat. Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg - Beautifully evocative Danish coming–of–age story set in an all–boys boarding school, which confronts themes of homosexuality and…
FJ Holden, The (1977)- Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Paul Couzens, Carl Stever, Sigrid Thornton - Low–budget youth drama that follows the travails of two smalltime Holden–driving hoons in the West Sydney suburb of Bankstown. Both…
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