Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 457 Films to Buy & Rent
- Way of Life, A (2004)
- Dir. Amma Asante
Feat. Stephanie James, Brenda Blethyn
- Emotionally brutal yet skillful 'kitchen sink' drama from first–time dir. Asante, about a single teenage mum giving and taking the hard knocks…
- You Got Served (2004)
- Dir. Christopher B. Stokes
Feat. Marques Houston, Omari Granberry
- Hiphop melodrama in which rival 'crews' battle it out for supremacy in the arena of break–dancing.
Renowned for the exceptional dance…
- 15 (2003)
- Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
- Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
- Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
- Best of Youth, The (La Meglio gioventù) (2003)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Sprawling and heady Italian saga tracks the lives of two brothers through the idealistic dreams of the 1960s and the long messy aftermath of…
- Bright Young Things (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Fry
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd…
- Set among the aspirant youth of 1930s Britain, this fresh satirical comedy marks a promising debut for dir. Fry, even if the drama is sliced a little…
- Cafe Lumiere (Kôhî jikô) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Yo Hitoto
- Luminous tribute to Japanese dir. Yasujiro Ozu from a Taiwanese admirer, which honours Ozu's aesthetic in a minimalist study of personal…
- Dreamers, The (2003)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel
- Decadent youth drama set in politically turbulent Paris of 1968, in which a young American film–buff is drawn into an intense, peculiar…
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Classics: From 1983 to 1986 (The Boys From Fengkuei; A Summer at Grandpa's; A Time to Live, A Time to Die; Dust in the Wind) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- A collection of four of the early films from director Hou Hsiao–Hsien, who is a leading figure in the Taiwanese New Wave.
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- Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
- Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
- Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…