Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 900 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Step Up 4: Miami Heat (Step Up Revolution) (2012)
- Dir. Scott Speer
Feat. Ryan Guzman, Cleopatra Coleman
- The latest step down sees a young couple, who lead a dance crew in elaborate flash mobs "turn their performance art into protest art" when a wealthy…
- Tiger Eyes (2012)
- Dir. Lawrence Blume
Feat. Willa Holland, Cynthia Stevenson, Tatanka Means…
- This sensitively observed teen drama – the first ever screen adaptation of a Judy Blume novel – centres on a 17–year–old girl…
- Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner…
- Finally, the colossal vampire franchise meets its maker with this concluding chapter, with Bella and Edward fighting to protect their daughter from…
- Wadjda (2012)
- Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Feat. Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah
- This humanist triumph is the first ever feature to be shot in Saudi Arabia, centering on a plucky young girl who attempts to raise money for a…
- We and the I, The (2012)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado
- Michel Gondry masters the docu–drama narrative with surprising ease, here directing an affecting and unsentimental look at a bus full of Bronx…
- What Richard Did (2012)
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Sam Keeley…
- Understated but highly compelling moral drama in which an exemplary teenager experiences a fall from grace after an impulsive incident at a college…
- Art of Getting By, The (2011)
- Dir. Gavin Wiesen
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano…
- A sensitive and even–handed coming–of–age tale about a teenage fatalist and his blooming friendship with the popular…
- Attack the Block (2011)
- Dir. Joe Cornish
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail…
- A gang of teenage delinquents rally to defend their tower block from alien invaders in this quick–witted urban sci–fi comedy that…
- Awkward (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Ashley Rickards, Beau Mirchoff, Nikki Deloach
- An unpopular 15 year old gains immediate, yet unwanted, popularity at her high school when the student body mistakes an accident she has for a…