Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 898 Films to Buy & Rent
- Foxfire (2012)
- Dir. Laurent Cantet
Feat. Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni
- From a Joyce Carol Oates story, Laurent Cantet (THE CLASS) directs this plucky period drama of a girl gang who rally against male oppression in 1950s…
- Ginger & Rosa (Ginger and Rosa) (2012)
- Dir. Sally Potter
Feat. Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks…
- Two London teenagers explore rebellion, activism, and the limits of their friendship in this evocative coming–of–age drama from dir.…
- Girl In Progress (2012)
- Dir. Patricia Riggen
Feat. Eva Mendes, Matthew Modine, Cierra Ramirez
- Comedy following a Hispanic single mother (Eva Mendes) raising a precocious teenager who wants to grow up fast, and decides to tick off all the…
- Hunger Games, The (2012)
- Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth…
- A 16–year–old girl must compete in a televised tournament in which 24 teenagers from a post–apocalyptic society fight to the death…
- LOL (2012)
- Dir. Lisa Azuelos
Feat. Miley Cyrus, Demi Moore, Jean-Luc Bilodeau…
- Perfunctory remake of the hit French teen comedy casts Demi Moore and Miley Cyrus as lovelorn mother and daughter in the social media age.
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis…
- Wes Anderson's latest exquisite comedy, about two 12–year–olds in 1960s New England who consummate their adolescent romance by running…
- Perks of Being a Wallflower, The (2012)
- Dir. Stephen Chbosky
Feat. Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller…
- An introverted teen with a troubled past is embraced by an eccentric clique of friends in this deeply–felt coming–of–age drama,…
- Project X (2012)
- Dir. Nima Nourizadeh
Feat. Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown
- Teen hedonism is taken to its mindless extreme in this unredeemable 'comedy' about an epic house party gone too far.
Those expecting the endearing…
- Puberty Blues (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Claudia Karvan, Ashleigh Cummings, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
- Two inseparable teenage girls growing up on the beaches of Cronulla come of age in this acclaimed TV adaptation of the seminal late 70s Australian…
- Spring Breakers (2012)
- Dir. Harmony Korine
Feat. Selena Gomez, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Benson…
- "Disney Gone Wild" is the catchall for this fleshy coed drama from enfant terrible Harmony Korine, about four spring–breaking girls who become…