Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 903 Films to Buy & Rent
- Spectacular! (2009)
- Dir. Robert Iscove
Feat. Nolan Gerard Funk, Tammin Sursok, Victoria Justice
- Hardly spectacular but decent showbiz musical based around a high school 'show choir' who recruit a reluctant wannabe rocker to help them win a…
- Trouble is My Business (2009)
- Dir. Juliette Veber
- Keenly observational documentary about an empathetic assistant principal (Gary Peach) who battles to keep his students in school and out of trouble…
- Twilight: New Moon (2009)
- Dir. Chris Weitz
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson…
- Succulent second helping of the Stephanie Meyer vampire saga finds pasty Edward no longer able to protect his beloved Bella, fleeing the country and…
- Vampire Diaries, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
- The TWILIGHT zeitgeist is vamped up as a 90210–style serial in this melodramatic teen soap, about a troubled girl torn between her brooding…
- Whatever! The Science Of Teens (2009)
- Dir. Anne Delaney
- Enlightening doco series examining teenagers and their odd behaviour through observation and scientific testing. Often hilarious, this requires you…
- Youth in Revolt (2009)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis…
- Perfectly typecast, Michael Cera plays an adorable, sexually–frustrated "nice guy" who invents a trouble–making alter ego –…
- 5 Centimetres Per Second (Five Centimetres Per Second) (2008)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- Sublimely romantic animated feature divided into three separate episodes tracing the emotional journey of a teenage boy through to manhood, and the…
- 90210 (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Rob Estes, Shenae Grimes, AnnaLynne McCord…
- This updating of the popular '90's show brings the bling as more photogenic rich kids contend with regular problems.
- Adulthood (2008)
- Dir. Noel Clarke
Feat. Noel Clarke
- Unimaginatively titled, so–so sequel to KIDULTHOOD taking place six years on from the first film with our main protagonist Sam Peel released…
- Afterschool (2008)
- Dir. Antonio Campos
Feat. Ezra Miller, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jeremy Allen White…
- Ezra Miller (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN) plays a closed–off teenager whose difficult high school experience is complicated when he captures…