Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 466 Films to Buy & Rent
Melissa P. (2006)
- Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Marcello Mazzarella, Maria Valverde
- Saucy, if ultimately restrained memoir of sexual adolescence, concerning a promiscuous teenage girl who seeks solace from her troubled life by…
Save The Last Dance 2 (2006)
- Dir. David Petrarca
Feat. Izabella Miko, Jacqueline Bisset
- Not the last dance, but a sequel reprising the aspirations of Sarah (now played by Izabella Miko), here on the verge of attending prestigious…
State's Evidence (2006)
- Dir. Benjamin Louis
Feat. Alexa Vega, Douglas Smith, Majandra Delfino…
- Six high school students make a suicide pact which goes nastily awry, in this prurient youth drama clearly influenced by cinema provocateurs Larry…
Step Up (2006)
- Dir. Anne Fletcher
Feat. Channing Tatum, Rachel Griffiths
- Rigidly adhering to the dance movie formula, two prodigious dancers from the wrong sides of the track become unlikely partners, dancing up a storm at…
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
- Dir. Paul Goldman
Feat. Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes…
- NZ's Emily Barclay crashes this trailer–trash satire of murderous alpha–males and vindictive females set in the god–awful 'burbs of…
This is England (2006)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley…
- Utterly authentic, hard–hitting memoir from the dir. of A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, about a boy’s coming–of–age as a skinhead during…
Times and Winds (Bes Vakit) (2006)
- Dir. Reha Erdem
Feat. Ozkan Ozen, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan
- Set in a remote Turkish village three friends on the cusp of adolescence struggle with both with their changing emotions and growing resentment of…
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
- Dir. Stewart Main
Feat. Rima Te Wiata
- Rural New Zealand forms a stylised background to this unusual rites–of–passage drama which combines whimsy, pathos and cruelty for a…
Actress, The (2005)
- Dir. Zak Hilditch
Feat. Matt Hardie, Catlin Higgins, Steve Mccall…
- An observational black comedy centering on a Perth household of three sex–starved 20–somethings who invite a seductive actress to be…
Chumscrubber, The (2005)
- Dir. Arie Posin
Feat. Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Glenn Close…
- A sadsack teenager (Bell) living in a sterile new suburb in Southern California discovers his best friend has committed suicide, an event which seems…