Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 920 Films to Buy & Rent
Just for the Hell of it / Blast Off Girls (1967-1968)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager
- A Drive–In Double Bill of delinquency dramas from gore–king Herschell Gordon Lewis, who here keeps a lid on the red paint.
JUST FOR…
Mouchette (1967)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal
- An impoverished young girl in rural France bears the brunt of hard times in this perfectly formed study, taken from the novel by George Bernanos.…
Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)
- Dir. Arthur Dreifuss
Feat. Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer
- Restless hippy kids cause headaches for parents and police as violence and recreational drugs take root in affluent Hollywood. The fashions and…
Monkees, The (TV Series) (1966)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Michael Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork…
- Relive classic "Monkeemania" with the irrepressibly cheerful and zany 60's pop group's TV series, initially inspired by The Beatles' "Hard Day's…
To Sir with Love (1966)
- Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu
- Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Paul Lynde, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello…
- Most successful and best known of the ‘Beach Party’ movies, though it shows signs of being fifth in a series by straying quite a way from the…
Gidget (TV Series) (1965-1966)
- Feat. Sally Field, Don Porter, Betty Conner
- Truly likeable television spinoff series of the 1959 movie, about a spunky young surfer girl (Field) who comes of age around her friends, solo Dad…
Rapture (1965)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell…
- Drama based on the 1954 novel "Rapture in My Rags" about a lonely teenage girl living with her widower father, who develops an attraction to an…
Village of the Giants (1965)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. Ron Howard, Beau Bridges
- From the brainchild of Bert I. Gordon, an atomic monster and ‘giant’ movie specialist who did a lot of his own special effects, comes this gaudy…
Bikini Beach (1964)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Keenan Wynn…
- The third of the "Beach Party" movies starring peaches 'n' cream teens Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, this is arguably an improvement on both…