Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 913 Films to Buy & Rent
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2, The (2008)
- Dir. Sanaa Hamri
Feat. America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn…
- Solid follow–up drama revisits the lives of the four childhood gal pals from SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS three years later as they adapt…
Somers Town (2008)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson…
- A gentle, winsome offering from dir. Shane Meadows, centred on an unlikely friendship between a shy Polish teen, and a knockabout runaway from the…
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
- Dir. Jon Chu
Feat. Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani…
- Sequel to the hip–hop dance hit flick following a group of young street dancers battling for supremacy. Well–orchestrated…
Strange Wilderness (2008)
- Dir. Fred Wolf
Feat. Steve Zahn, Jonah Hill, Justin Long
- Unremittingly stupid stoner comedy about a bunch of losers who go on a search to find Bigfoot in order to save their abysmally–rated wildlife…
Twilight (2008)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke…
- The first installment of the uber–popular book franchise (by Stephanie Meyer) sees lonely teenage girl Bella fall in love with Edward, a…
Wild Child (2008)
- Dir. Nick Moore
Feat. Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson…
- Fluffy teen comedy focused on a pampered American highschooler shipped off to an English boarding school after maxing out daddy's credit card one too…
Acting Out (2007)
- Dir. Danny Merton
Feat. Lara Cox
- Girl–centric Australian 'indie' in which a high–schooler grapples with various issues of intimacy and relationships.
Suspended from…
Ben X (2007)
- Dir. Nic Balthazar
Feat. Greg Timmermans, Marijke Pinoy, Laura Verlinden
- A provocative Dutch drama of 21st century teen angst, centred on an Asperger’s Syndrome–afflicted gamer whose addiction to online…
Boy A (2007)
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Siobhan Finneran
- Celebrated British drama following a young man's struggle to adjust to everyday life in Manchester after spending most of his teenagehood in…
Chaotic Ana (Caótica Ana) (2007)
- Dir. Julio Medem
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Gerrit Graham, Manuela Vellés
- Spanish auteur Julio Medem (SEX AND LUCIA) returns with this abstractly ambitious, idiosyncratic undertaking, meshing the self–exploration of a…