Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Grease (1977)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing…
- Musical sensation set in a 1950s high–school was a box–office phenomenon, now an enduring classic. John Travolta, Olivia…
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin
- Teen dreamboats Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson teamed up as the dogged Hardy Boys in this popular seventies serialization of the paperback…
Skateboard (1977)
- Dir. George Gage
Feat. Leif Garrett, Allen Garfield, Kathleen Lloyd
- Teen idol Leif Garrett is barely out of huggies to star in this quite entertaining cash–in on the first wave of the skateboard craze in the…
The Devil, Probably (Le diable probablement) (1977)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc…
- Distinctive late–period inclusion into the incredible canon of films from director Robert Bresson (DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST), following a…
Bugsy Malone (1976)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, John Cassini
- Alan Parker's directing debut was this startlingly original feature debut reinvents the gangster movie as a musical pastiche cast entirely with…
Carrie (1976)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Sissy Spacek, John Travolta
- One of the best screen adaptations of any Stephen King novel, and also one of dir. De Palma's best, this is the frightening story of a persecuted…
Massacre at Central High (1976)
- Dir. Renee Daalder
Feat. Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine
- An estranged new student uses his homicidal tendencies for the public good, by eliminating trouble–makers in imaginative ways. The superior…
Conrack (1974)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Hume Cronyn
- Based on the true experiences of a teacher in a sunlit backwater of South Carolina, Jon Voight gives one of his best performances, trying to rouse…