Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Youth: 454 Films to Rent
This Life (TV Series) (1996-1997)
- Feat. Jack Davenport, Ramon Tikaram
- Subdued but truthful drama set around the 1990s conflicts, problems, successes and romances of a crowd of young London urbanites – mainly…
To Sir With Love 2 (1996)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu , Judy Geeson
- Sequel to the 1967 classic, with Sidney Poitier returning as the teacher dealing with unruly and disadvantaged students, this time in a…
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis
- Winner of the grand prize at Sundance '96, this is a blackly comic portrait of a dreaded kind of coming–of–age. Teenage persecution and…
Basketball Diaries, The (1995)
- Dir. Scott Calvert
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis…
- Leonardo DiCaprio excels as a young Jim Carroll, an infamous New York poet/musician/junkie who maintained a personal journal through a…
Circle of Friends (1995)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell
- Catholicism and blossoming sexuality come into conflict when ugly–duckling Minnie Driver goes gooey over preppie Chris O'Donnell and chooses to…
Cure, The (1995)
- Dir. Peter Horton
Feat. Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra…
- A touching story about two pre–teen boys, one of whom has AIDS, who venture to New Orleans on a raft to track down a miracle cure they read…
Dangerous Minds (1995)
- Dir. John N. Smith
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer
- Every generation needs a teacher–transforms–the–juvenile–delinquent chestnut, and consequently this film will appeal to those…
Delinquent (1995)
- Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Desmond Devenish, Shawn Batten, Jeff Paul
- The dysfunctional initiation into adulthood of a 15–year–old in a rural East Coast backwater. Atmospheric, with a groovy soundtrack by…
Flight of the Albatross (1995)
- Dir. Werner Meyer
Feat. Julia Brendler, Jack Thompson
- Teenager Julia Brendler migrates from Germany to New Zealand to renuite with her mother, a scientist studying the albatross colony on a remote island.
Fresh (1995)
- Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson
- The best, and dare we say it, freshest, of the Black–American street fables to emerge in recent years, a fascinating story evolves from a young…