Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Youth: 447 Films to Rent
- December Boys (2007)
- Dir. Rod Hardy
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Thompson, Kris McQuade…
- Sunbaked, nostalgic Aussie coming–of–age drama centred on four teenage orphans whose tight friendships are tested when a family looks…
- Education of Charlie Banks, The (2007)
- Dir. Fred Durst
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Eva Amurri
- Modest drama set in the seventies concerning the tentative friendship between bookish Eisenberg and thug for hire Ritter.
Surprisingly solid…
- Freedom Writers (2007)
- Dir. Richard LaGravenese
Feat. Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Imelda Staunton
- Hilary Swank guides a classroom of problem students through the quagmire of racial and political divide in this uplifting paean to…
- Gossip Girl (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen, Leighton Meester
- Flashy teen series centred on a group of well–heeled New York prep school kids whose main focus in life is a blog written by 'Gossip Girl'…
- How She Move (2007)
- Dir. Ian Iqbal Rashid
Feat. Rutina Wesley, DeRay Davis
- Energised yet predictable street drama of a young woman who uses her mean dance moves to rise above a bleak existence and achieve her dreams.
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- Into the Wild (2007)
- Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt…
- With his trademark earnestness, Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book about a 22–year–old who dropped out of society in the…
- Paranoid Park (2007)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Taylor Momsen
- Gus Van Sant shoots Blake Nelson’s coming–of–age novella, about a young skateboarder’s complicity in the death of a security guard,…
- Rocket Science (2007)
- Dir. Jeffrey Blitz
Feat. Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Denis O'Hare…
- Pointy–headed comedy from the dir. of the documentary SPELLBOUND that switches the subject to high–school debating, and the travails of…
- September (2007)
- Dir. Peter Carstairs
Feat. Kelton Pell, Xavier Samuel, Clarence John Ryan…
- Quiet coming–of–age drama about the changing mateship between two boys – one black, one white – set in rural Australia in…
- Skins (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Kaya Scodelario
- A worthy, mildly refreshing addition to the youth angst genre, concerning a clique of present–day Bristol teens negotiating the pitfalls of…