Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Youth: 36 Films to Rent on VHS
- Hurricane Streets (1997)
- Dir. Morgan J. Freeman
Feat. Brendon Sexton III, Antoine McLean
- The excellent Brendan Sexton III (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) does a sympathetic about–turn for this unflashy take on teenage delinquency.
It…
- Slab Boys, The (1997)
- Dir. John Byrne
Feat. Russell Barr, Bill Gardiner, Robin Laing…
- A quiff–headed rites–of–passage in dead–end 1950s Scotland, follows three apprentice dripheads at a carpet factory and their…
- Suburbia (1997)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn…
- Dir. Linklater returns to his favourite milieu – the teen angst movie – only this time working from someone else's material, a play by…
- Sugar Factory, The (1997)
- Dir. Robert Carter
Feat. Matt Day
- The director adapts his novel about a disturbed Aussie teenager (Matt Day) searching for love and meaning in his life after a string of traumatic…
- True Love and Chaos (1997)
- Dir. Stavros Andonis Efthymiou
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto
- A half–baked script straight out of the same Melbourne film school that produced LOVE & OTHER CATASTROPHES leaves an Aussie brat–pack…
- Boys (1996)
- Dir. Stacy Cochran
Feat. Lukas Haas, Winona Ryder
- Downbeat, murky tale of adolescent intrigues has high scholar Lukas Haas becoming entangled in the mysterious past of accident victim Winona Ryder.
- Loaded (1996)
- Dir. Anna Campion
Feat. Oliver Milburn, Dearbhla Molloy, Danny Cunningham…
- Fans of Trainspotting will connect with this compelling snapshot of the E–generation – an acid–inflected psychodrama that unfolds…
- Delinquent (1995)
- Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Desmond Devenish, Shawn Batten, Jeff Paul
- The dysfunctional initiation into adulthood of a 15–year–old in a rural East Coast backwater. Atmospheric, with a groovy soundtrack by…
- S.F.W. (1995)
- Dir. Jefery Levy
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon
- Based on a significant Gen–X novel, Stephen Dorff plays Cliff Spab, a teenage loser who garners a major cult following as a hostage in a…
- Fun (1994)
- Dir. Rafal Zielinski
Feat. Renee Humphrey, Alicia Witt
- Two teenage girls just want to have fun, but their obsessive pursuit of it leads them to murder an old lady for no other reason.
This remarkable…